Mike Grannell
Teaching
Research students
Since
joining the OU, I have co-supervised four part-time research
students.
The first of these, J. P. Murphy, was registered at the
University of
Central Lancashire and obtained his Ph.D. from there in May
1999. The
second, G. K. Bennett, obtained his Ph.D. from the OU in May
2004. The
third, A. D. Forbes, obtained his Ph.D. from the OU in December
2006.
The fourth, G. J. Lovegrove, obtained his Ph.D. from the OU in
March
2009. The details are as follows:- John Murphy, Steiner triple systems and cycle structure, co-supervised with Terry Griggs.
- Geoff Bennett, Some investigations in Steiner triple systems and related designs, co-supervised with Terry Griggs and Bridget Webb.
- Tony Forbes, Configurations and colouring problems in block designs, co-supervised with Terry Griggs.
- Graham Lovegrove, Combinatorial designs and their automorphism groups, co-supervised with Terry Griggs and Kathleen Quinn.
Curriculum connections
M836 Coding Theory
Terry Griggs and I originally wrote the module notes for this
30 point M.Sc. module.
It was presented for the first time in 2002, since when I have
continued to maintain the module and produce the
assessment materials. The module, which Jozef Siran and I revised in 2020,
has been very successful, popular with students, and has good
retention and pass rates.Generally
Research activity in combinatorics informs our curriculum
through modules such as M836 and the undergraduate module
MT365 (Graphs, Networks and Design)
which is also popular with students and has good retention and
pass rates. Our students, who form the majority of part-time
mathematics students in the UK at both undergraduate and postgraduate
levels, would become progressively disadvantaged were this link to be weakened
or severed.
Contact: Mike Grannell mike.grannell@open.ac.uk