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PREVIOUS POSITIONS (CONTINUED) 2006 April-‐ October E-Learning Developer National College for Leadership of Schools and Children’s Services, Nottingham Member of Learning Gateway technical team, responsible for supporting and maintaining the College’s learning management system, including 2 nd line telephone & email support dealing with programme participants, building web pages to support programme administration, database administration and maintenance (MS SQL Server) and developing new solutions for delivery of online materials. 2005-‐2006 Research Fellow University of Birmingham, School of Computer Science Researcher on EU Kaleidoscope-‐funded project reviewing use of mobile technologies for informal science learning. Worked on literature review of relevant research and studies, organised workshops, developed grant proposals, and contributed to teaching of CS. Teaching responsibilities: • Developed and delivered lectures on Java Servlets and Web Services (Level 2) • Developed and delivered module on Human-‐Computer Interaction (Level 2) 2002-‐2005 Research Fellow University of Birmingham, Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering Centre for Educational Technology and Distance Learning Researcher/developer on FP5 EU project MOBIlearn, exploring next-‐generation tools, techniques, and evaluation for mobile learning systems. Developed a generic context-‐awareness architecture that provided context-‐sensitive content selection for a bespoke mobile learning delivery platform developed by EU project partners. Work included design and implementation of software system in Java, interacting with components written for other platforms using Web Services, and user studies testing the system in the field with location-‐tracking technologies. Teaching responsibilities: • Lab demonstrator on POP-‐11 Artificial Intelligence programming module (Level 2) • Lectured on Human-‐Computer Interaction (Level 2) 2000-‐2002 Research Assistant University of Nottingham, School of Psychology Researcher on EU FP5 project Eye-2-Eye, running empirical trials to evaluate a range of real-‐time communication technologies. Work included designing, running, and writing up user studies of communication systems using task-‐based evaluation methods. Teaching responsibilities: • Tutor for Artificial Intelligence (Level 1) • Tutor for Cognitive Psychology (Level 1) • Demonstrator for Cognitive Ergonomics (Level 1)
EDUCATION 2006-‐2010 PhD Educational Technology University of Nottingham, Learning Sciences Research Institute (viva completed March 2010, corrections submitted Jan 2011, award pending) Thesis: “Design and evaluation of mobile games to support active and reflective learning outdoors” Research comprised design and development of software platform for creating & deploying mobile games to handheld devices, followed by field-‐based evaluation of games designed using the software platform, using a grounded theory approach. Examiners: Professor Angela McFarlane, School of Education, University of Bristol, Professor Steve Benford, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham. Supervisor: Professor Mike Sharples, School of Education. 1998-‐1999 MSc Intelligent Systems University of Nottingham, School of Psychology Included programming cognitive models using the Soar cognitive modelling architecture and Tcl/Tk for user interface interaction and design, also POP-‐11 for natural language processing and CLIPS for expert system development. Thesis: “Soar/Tcl-‐PM: Extending the Soar architecture to include a widely applicable virtual eye and hand” 1994-‐1998 BSc Psychology (Hons: 2:1) University of Edinburgh AWARDS & GRANTS Included two years of Artificial Intelligence including AI techniques, algorithms, and programming in Prolog and CLIPS. Thesis: “Comparing the development of user mental models of system operation with differential training materials” 2010 Awarded Teaching Innovation grant of £600 by Learning Development Unit, Keele University, for project exploring use of text messaging to enhance communications with students and develop interactive learning activities. 2006 Awarded PhD studentship at Learning Sciences Research Institute, University of Nottingham: full fees plus stipend of £12000 for two years. 1999 Awarded MSc studentship at School of Psychology, University of Nottingham: full fees plus stipend of £5000 for one year.
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