Meet the people who make up STEM Faculty.
Senior Lecturer In Computing And Communications
I'm a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing and Communications. I joined the OU as a part time tutor in 2006 and joined as a full time researcher in the Institute of Educational Technology in 2008, becoming a Lecturer/Staff Tutor in 2010. I am currently module chair of TM354 Software Engineering.
Before working at the OU, I worked as a a professional software developer for a small company that designed and manufactured products for engineering education. Prior to this, worked as a Research Officer at the University of Brighton.
I have studied Social Sciences and Education at the OU, I hold a doctorate in Computation from the University of Manchester (UMIST), and a MSc from the University of Essex. I studied Computer Science at Salford University.
I have also tutored the following modules:
I also support the OU's Digital Technology Solutions degree apprenticeship programme.
I regularly update my work blog, where I write about computing, OU study and distance learning. I am a member of the editorial board of Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning, having been an editor for 8 years.
