RSS feed for IWMW Workshop Facilitators: 2000-2010. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=06926abed4f52818754ba4e301548b1e Mon, 31 May 2010 16:02:28 +0000 http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#winn Joss Winn focusses on how technology can be used in Higher Education; working with both staff and students on the use of technology for research, teaching and learning. Currently, his time is spent running JISC-funded projects, supporting the use of WordPress at the university and running the Lincoln Academic Commons, a hub for open source and open access related projects. His research interests include the idea of the 'Commons' and the impacts of an energy crisis and carbon reduction legislation on Higher Education Institutions. Joss will facilitate a parallel session entitled "Wordpress beyond Blogging" with Chris Goddard. http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#winn Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 53.228029 -0.545025 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#wilson Scott Wilson works for CETIS. He was initially responsible for turning the CETIS site into THE portal for learning technology standards. Scott is an Assistant Director of CETIS, and has a special interest in standards for infrastructure and enterprise integration. Scott will facilitate a parallel session entitled "Course advertising and XCRI" with Erika Jones. http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#wilson Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 53.573703 -2.446346 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#stephens Owen Stephens has 15 years experience working in Library and IT services within the Higher Education sector. As well as a strong technical background, he has been on the management team of the library services of two leading UK Universities (Royal Holloway, University of London and Imperial College London), and has been responsible for a number of innovative projects at both and institutional and national levels. Owen founded the 'Mashed Library' events in the UK "bringing together interested people and doing interesting stuff with libraries and technology". Owen will facilitate a parallel session entitled "FlashMash". http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#stephens Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#stanley Dave Stanley is Web Marketing Manager at the University of Sheffield. Dave will facilitate a parallel session entitled "Sheffield Made Us - using social media to engage students in the university brand". http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#stanley Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 53.383994 -1.488647 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#sargan Helen Sargan has been slogging away at the Web in Cambridge for as long as it has been around. She has a lively time managing the Web requirements of both the Computing Service and the wider University, and acting as a hub for advice for the other Web managers in the University (which amounts to several hundreds). Helen will facilitate a parallel session entitled "Stylesheets for mobile/smartphones". http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#sargan Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 52.205371 0.129561 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#ramsden Andy Ramsden took up the role of head of e-learning in February 2008, after being the VLE Operational Manager and Learning Technology Advisor at the University of Bristol. His current interests lie in re-visiting how technology can be effectively used to enhance the learning experience in face to face teaching, factoring in the mobile dimension, and personal learning environments. At the same time re-thinking the staff development model to ensure the introduction of technology enhanced learning initiatives is effective and sustainable. This includes understanding how we might use technology to enhance our staff development models. Andy will facilitate a parallel session entitled "Designing, developing and testing a location aware learning activity using QR Codes ". http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#ramsden Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#paull Alan Paull is an information management consultant for APS Ltd. He works with education providers and course information collecting organisations across the country, advising on XCRI implementation, in addition to briefing DCSF and other partners. Alan will facilitate a parallel session entitled "Course advertising and XCRI" with Scott Wilson. http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#paull Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#kelly Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus - a post funded by the JISC which provides advice and support to the UK Higher and Further Education communities and the museums, libraries and archives sector on Web issues. Brian is based at UKOLN. Brian's interests include Web standards, Web accessibility, quality assurance for Web services and innovative Web developments, including collaborative Web tools. Brian is co-chair of the event and will give the welcome with Marieke Guy. He will also facilitate a parallel session entitled "Engagement, Impact, Value: Measuring and Maximising Impact Using the Social Web". http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#kelly Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#hoskins Matthew Hoskins is Web Content Management Project Officer in the Web Team at the University of Leeds. He has had a long career in content publishing to drive a determination to bring what might be seen as 'traditional' discipline to the Web and welcomes the increasing professionalization of web content editorial practices. He is a Librarian and finds this to be complementary with his current duties. He has been based at Leeds for 5 years and previously was in Learning Resources at the University of Bedfordshire for 10 years. Matthew will facilitate a parallel session entitled "Taxonomy: Creating structure across content using metadata". http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#hoskins Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 53.814893 -1.553106 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#gutteridge Chris Gutteridge has been running the Web Systems for the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, since 1997 and still isn't bored. He is also lead developer of the award winning EPrints repository software, used by hundreds of organisations. He strongly believes that tedious work should be done by computers, not people. Chris will facilitate a parallel session entitled "Looking at Linked Data". http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#gutteridge Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 50.934416 -1.396294 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#goddard Chris Goddard is Corporate Website Manager for the University of Lincoln. One of his current interests is the role of institutions and non-human actants in website design and management. He recently completed an MRes using this as a research topic. Chris will facilitate a parallel session entitled "Wordpress beyond Blogging" with Joss Winn. http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#goddard Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 53.228029 -0.545025 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#ennew John Ennew is a Software Developer and Chartered Engineer working in the University of Kent Technical Services team. Since completing a Masters degree in systems engineering from Warwick in 2004 he has spent time working in both the public and private sectors developing technologies for the UK education sector. Project's he has also developed at Kent include the University's virtual learning environment, Moodle, and is currently working on integrating Kent's other systems into it. Outside of work, John is an enthusiastic advocate of continuing professional development and organises events and activities for the Kent network of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. John will facilitate a parallel session entitled "Inside the Pantheon: A Dreamweaver framework for managing dynamic content". http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#ennew Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 51.399206 0.54657 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#doyle Keith Doyle worked in further and higher education for a total of 13 years. He has been Web Content Architect at the University of Salford and Web Master at Manchester College of Arts and Technology (now The Manchester College). Since leaving Salford in 2008, Keith has worked in the private sector, and is currently in the process of becoming self-employed. He has experience of working in a local authority, the banking sector, industry, of working as a contractor, and of setting up a VAT-registered limited company. Keith's technical interests are in user experience - in particular in website navigation, information architecture and live user testing. Outside work, Keith spends time with his family, walking in the North York Moors, and enjoying music. Keith will facilitate a parallel session entitled "Developing Your Personal Contingency Plan: Beat The Panic". http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#doyle Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#doherty Anthony Doherty has been part of the Web Team at LJMU since 2001, helping to maintain and develop all aspects of web-based content provision. A programmer with a background in multimedia design, he is interested in all aspects of web-application development, as well as combining technologies to bring user-experience improvements to existing systems - from content management to online collaboration. Most recently he has been examining Mobile Web development and ways to bring data from a range of sources to small-scale devices. Anthony will facilitate a parallel session entitled "Mobile Apps vs Mobile Web". http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#doherty Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 53.400731 -2.901764 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#stevenson Adrian Stevenson is a project manager and technical researcher at UKOLN. He has managed the highly successful SWORD project since May 2008 and also manages the JISC Information Environment Technical Review project. Adrian represents UKOLN and JISC on various activities including Linked Data and the Semantic Web, and standards such as OAI-ORE and SWORD. Adrian has a long-standing interest in Linked Data, having presented on the subject on many occasions. Adrian has also worked for the Learning Technology Services Team at the University of Manchester, and MIMAS, a national data centre based at the University of Manchester, on the JISC-funded JORUM project (2002-2005). Prior to this he was a Web Developer for Multimedia Services at Leeds Metropolitan University (2001-2002) and the Web Editor at King's College London (2000-2001). Adrian first studied Economics and later Continental Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Following this he became a professional guitarist in a number of bands based in London, as well as a Sound Engineer for a number of independent artists including My Bloody Valentine. Adrian will facilitate a parallel session entitled "RDFa from theory to practice" with Thom Bunting and Mark Dewey. http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#stevenson Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#kirk Rich Kirk has worked in online marketing since 2006, starting out at companies in the FMCG and finance sectors before moving to Chameleon Net in December 2008. Chameleon Net is a leading digital agency based in Smithfield, London, core client areas cover NGOs, Universities and other HE centres. Rich has worked on numerous search and social marketing / online PR projects for Chameleon Net's clients, including Sense, RNID, Friends of the Earth, The University of East Anglia, Queen Mary University of London and more. He has also been instrumental in helping Chameleon Net develop its paid search advertising, insight management, and multivariate testing offerings. Rich has a BA (Hons) degree in History from Durham University, holds the CIM Professional Diploma and is both Google Adwords and Analytics accredited. Rich will facilitate a parallel session entitled "Getting Awesome Results from Data Visualisation". http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#kirk Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#king Murray King is a is an experienced Java and C# developer with 15 years experience in object orientated design and development. He has programmed for a wide variety of business domains (scientific, engineering, retail, e-commerce, banking, healthcare) for both blue chip and small company clients. Murray was principal developer for the JISC 'Digimap mobile scoping' project and has previous experience developing location based mobile applications for the commercial market. Murray will facilitate a parallel session entitled "Location Based Services Without the Cocoa" with Ben Butchart. http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#king Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#jukes Matt Jukes is a Programme Manager in the JISC Information Environment team. He is responsible for the Repositories Support Project (RSP) and and some of the Repositories Start-up and Enhancement projects. He also oversees the JISC IE Repository based at UKOLN and has a watching brief on IPR and Creative Commons for the team. He was previously a member of the JISC Communications team for almost five years and has also worked at ESRC and HEFCE in various digital manager roles (and briefly at Becta). He also spent a year as Head of Product Management at a Bristol based web start-up. You can see more information on his staff page or his personal page. Matt will facilitate a parallel session entitled "A Little Project Management Can Save a Lot of Fan Cleaning" with Peter Barnes. http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#jukes Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#dewey Mark Dewey is a Systems Developer in the Software and Systems Team at UKOLN. Mark will facilitate a parallel session entitled "RDFa from theory to practice" with Adrian Stevenson and Thom Bunting. http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#dewey Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#church Stuart Church is a user experience consultant based in Bristol, UK. His consultancy, Pure Usability, has provided user research, design, training and strategy services for numerous public and private sector clients. These include JISC, HEFCE, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, The University of Bristol, the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency, Marks and Spencer, E3 Media, Process Management International and Zircadian. In 2005, Stuart helped to set up and organise the Cambridge Usability Group before relocating to Bristol, where he is now helps to run the Bristol Usability Group. Stuart will facilitate a parallel session entitled "Usability and User Experience on a Shoestring". http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#church Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#butchart Ben Butchart is a senior software engineer with 12 years experience of Web and distributed application development in both commercial and academic (research) environments. For the last 2 years Ben has worked for EDINA, where he heads up a team of 15 software engineers delivering geo spatial services for the HE/FE community. Recently, Ben lead the JISC 'Digimap mobile scoping' project, evaluating current trends and technologies relevant to delivering location based services with the Digimap platform. Ben will facilitate a parallel session entitled "Location Based Services Without the Cocoa" with Murray King. http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#butchart Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 55.936342 -3.180799 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#bunting Dr Thom Bunting works as Web Manager (e-Framework / Information Environment Technical Foundations) in the Software and Systems team at UKOLN. In this role he researches and evaluates innovative content management technologies, including the recent integration of RDFa within Drupal versions 6 and 7. Previously his work has included extensive leading-edge web management experience, within commercial and academic contexts. Thom will facilitate a parallel session entitled "RDFa from theory to practice" with Adrian Stevenson and Mark Dewey. http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#bunting Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#blackburn Joanna Blackburn is the Web Marketing Manager for the University of Salford. Along with a small web and digital team, she is responsible for the management of the University's website and provides advice and guidance to over 200 Salford University web authors. Joanna is also responsible for driving the institution's web and digital communications strategy forward. An advocate of using social media for corporate communications, she introduced the use of social media in her previous role at Manchester Metropolitan University, and is now building on her experience to demonstrate how these tools can be effectively used in a variety of areas within the University of Salford. Joanna will facilitate a parallel session entitled "'Follow us on Twitter' ... 'Join our Facebook group'". http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#blackburn Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 53.228029 -0.545025 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#barnes Peter Barnes is an analyst programmer working for It Services at the University of Reading. His main focus is introducing new web based systems, such as the recently launched institutional research repository: http://centaur.reading.ac.uk. Prior to working as a web developer he was an academic librarian based at Senate House, University of Reading and remains a key IT liaison and advisor for information managers and museum service staff at the University of Reading. Peter blogs at The Scruffian's Tech Blog. Peter will facilitate a parallel session entitled "A Little Project Management Can Save a Lot of Fan Cleaning" with Matt Jukes. http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#barnes Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 51.444218 -0.949888 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#annett-baker Relly Annett-Baker lives in Brighton with her husband and two small sons. As a result, she thrives on the sea air and can be guaranteed to stand on Lego at least once a day. As well as being the Content Strategist for Headscape, she is employed as live-in domestic staff by two cats who make editorial suggestions such as 'I think it's dinner time'. In between opening cans of Whiskas and writing for clients she frequently pens articles, argues on the Boagworld podcast and reads Japanese manga. Relly will facilitate a parallel session entitled "My superpower is content curation. What's yours?". http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#annett-baker Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#richwalsky Mike Richwalsky is assistant director of public affairs at Allegheny College, a private, liberal-arts college in the US. Mike came to Allegheny in 2002 and is responsible for all web development and many web applications at Allegheny, and has led the college to the forefront of schools using Facebook, Twitter and other social media. He is also a Technology Fellow with the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, where he does research and teaching on cloud computing. Mike has presented at higher education conferences in the US, including HighEdWeb, EduWeb, Coalition for Networked Information and the Carnegie Mellon University Digital Libraries Colloqium. Mike facilitated a parallel session entitled "Using Amazon Web Services (AWS). http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#richwalsky Mon, 31 May 2010 20:09:00 +0000 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#taylor Stephanie Taylor has over fourteen years experience as an information professional. She is currently working on the JISC-funded Repository Support Project (RSP) which aims to assist academic institutions to develop a deployed network of inter-operable repositories for academic papers, learning materials and research data across the UK. The RSP delivers practical advice to English and Welsh HEI's regarding development, implementation and management of these repositories. Stephanie's experience in the library and information sector has included a grounding in academic libraries at the John Rylands University Library Manchester, before progressing to work on projects delivering electronic document delivery solutions to academic libraries throughout the UK. Stephanie is a founder director of Critical Eye Communications (CEC). As well as running seminars on core library skills, CEC's aim is to help people use the latest internet and collaborative technologies in the working environment to their best effect. The bespoke courses and seminars are practically based with the emphasis on getting people to use these tools to make their working lives more efficient. CEC enables people to use simple tools effectively. Stephanie facilitated a parallel session entitled "The Invisible Repository". http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#taylor Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#steeples Sharon Steeples started work in the Web and Learning Technology office at the University of Essex in 2001. Working as part of a team, her responsibilities included maintenance and development of the University corporate pages, Web site design, Web support and Web related training for staff. Currently, Sharon is on secondment to the "Dark Side", (a.k.a. Management Information Systems), and therefore has a unique perspective on the opportunities of MIS/Web team collaborative working. Sharon is addicted to gadgets and kittens, and was a professional London theatre director before settling down to her life in Essex. Sharon facilitated a parallel session entitled "The Mobile Web: keep up if you can!". http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#steeples Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 51.889842 0.91753 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#powell Andy Powell is Andy Powell is Research Programme Director at Eduserv, a Bath-based not-for-profit IT services organisation with a charitable mission to realise the benefits of ICT for learners and researchers. As a member of Bath University Computing Services he was the first 'webmaster' at the University of Bath, moving in 1996 to UKOLN where he was involved in a number of European and JISC funded 'digital library' projects. More recently, Andy has liaised closely with the JISC, advising them on the standards and protocols needed to support e-learning and e-research, notably through the development of the JISC Information Environment and the e-Framework for Education and Research.. Andy facilitated a parallel session entitled "Care in the community... how do you manage your Web content?". http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#powell Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#hirst Tony Hirst is an itinerant academic in the Department of Communication and Systems, and member of the Socialearn core project team. He blogs regularly about educational Web technologies and RSS feed powered mashups at http://ouseful.info (although most of his readers would being admit to being confused by most of the posts, most of the time). Tony facilitated a parallel session entitled "Mashups Round the Edges" with Mike Ellis. http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#hirst Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 52.044041 -0.69957 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#ellis Mike Ellis worked for 7 years as Head of Web for the National Museum of Science and Industry, UK, which comprises the Science Museum in London, Media Museum in Bradford and Railway Museum in York. He now works for Eduserv, a Bath-based not-for-profit IT services organisation with a charitable mission to realise the benefits of ICT for learners and researchers. Mike's interests are in UX, user generated content, ubiquitous computing and innovation and how to lever these for maximum benefit in cultural institutions. Mike facilitated a parallel session entitled "Mashups Round the Edges" with Tony Hirst. http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#ellis Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#cornelius Barry Cornelius has been with Computing Services at the University of Oxford since March 2005. He works for the Information Services team of OUCS (which is led by Sebastian Rahtz). He is mainly involved in supporting various web applications for OUCS and for developing OXITEMS, a newsfeed system for Oxford University. He was the technical brains behind the successful launch of Oxford's site in iTunes U. Barry facilitated a parallel session entitled "Time for iTunes U". http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#cornelius Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 51.783984 -1.196823 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#speller Jeremy Speller has been involved with the UCL Web presence since 1995. Having headed UCL Web Services for a number of years, Jeremy is now Director of Media Services which, along with the Web, covers AV, illustration, multimedia and photography. Prior to becoming a full-time Web "operative", Jeremy's background was in planning and statistics at UCL and previously at the University of Birmingham. Way back when he ran the Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme at what was then CVCP. Jeremy facilitated a parallel session entitled "The Anti-Portal: mashup and forget it" with Russell Allen. http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#speller Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 51.530319 -0.126343 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#rahtz Sebastian Rahtz in Information Manager at Oxford University Computing Services, where he continues to evangelize for XML content on the web using a decent schema. Given that he is heavily involved in the Text Encoding Initiative, it is no surprise that he produces Web pages written in TEI XML. Before taking up his current post he was director of OSS Watch, JISC's Open Source Advisory Service, and remains an open source evangelist. Sebastian facilitated a parallel session entitled ""Where's the University?": building an institutional geolocation service" with Janet McKnight. http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#rahtz Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 51.783984 -1.196823 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#mcknight Janet McKnight is a Web developer at Oxford University Computing Services. She is one of the core team working on the Erewhon project, and was one of the creators of the OXPOINTS mapping service which preceded Erewhon. Janet facilitated a parallel session entitled ""Where's the University?": building an institutional geolocation service" with Sebastian Rahtz. http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#mcknight Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 51.783984 -1.196823 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#male Andrew Male is the Web Development Manager in Web Services at the University of Bath. Over the last 3 years he has managed the formation of the development capabilities of Web Services. Andrew is interested in personal and team productivity, which has led to the introduction the Scrum development framework in Web Services. Andrew facilitated a parallel session entitled "Using Scrum: Sprints not Marathons. http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#male Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#walker ete Walker is an IT professional with 20 years experience in the IT industry - in local government, two software houses and for the past 8 years with the University of Bristol. He leads a team in the Institute of Learning and Research Technology (ILRT) who specialize in the commercial development of Web sites and Web applications. He directs the Bristol Online Survey (BOS) service. He is also a member of the management team within the University's Information Services and sits on the University's e-learning systems, ICT and Positive Working Environment boards. Pete also project-manages the Careers in Research Online Survey (CROS) project - a UK-wide collaborative survey that has involved over 60 UK Universities issuing a common survey within a bench-marking club. CROS led to the formation of BOS as a commercial service which in turn enabled the deployment of further national benchmarking surveys: the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) and the Athena Survey of Science Engineering and Technology (ASSET) survey. Pete facilitated a parallel session entitled "Who does what on the Web and how?". http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#walker Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 51.45866 -2.603545 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#tonkin Emma Tonkin is a Research Officer in the Software and Systems Team at UKOLN. Emma facilitated a parallel session entitled "Hands-on prototyping for (meta)data structures" with Talat Chaudhri. http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#tonkin Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#strelnikov Alexey Strelnikov works part-time at UKOLN, University of Bath. Since 2004 he has also worked for TT Design (a web design studio) and for Accenture, an international software house, where his jobs have included web application development, Java middleware server development and maintenance and Siebel 7.8 configuration among others. In his current role as research assistant, Alexey is developing a Java desktop application for multi-platform environments, contributing towards project dissemination and taking part in various project management tasks. These duties combine with his special interest in sophisticated software applications running under Linux, like automated metadata extraction and machine learning. When not working, Alexey enjoys Tai Chi. Alexey will be facilitating a parallel session entitled "Hands-on prototyping for (meta)data structures" with Emma Tonkin and Talat Chaudhri. http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#strelnikov Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#sargan Helen Sargan has been slogging away at the Web in Cambridge for as long as it has been around. She has a lively time managing the Web requirements of both the Computing Service and the wider University, and acting as a hub for advice for the other Web managers in the University (which amounts to several hundreds). Content management seems to have reared its head and refuses to put it down again, so time to get to grips with it (again). Helen facilitated a parallel session entitled "Another step closer to a CMS - dallying with Plone". http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#sargan Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 52.205371 0.129561 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#ramsden Andy Ramsden has recently started as the Head of e-Learning at the University of Bath. In this capacity he is charged with contributing to both the strategic and operational aspects of elearning development at the Institution. In terms of his own research, his interests are in the effective uses of emergent technologies for teaching and learning. In particular, the use of Web 2.0 and mobile technologies on the learning and teaching landscape. He regularly presents and facilitates workshops on this and other topics with the UK. He also sits on the Steering Group of the nationally funded Podcasting for Pedagogical Purposes SIG. Many of his findings and reflections on the use of emergent technologies within Higher Education can be found on his mobile-learning blog. Andy facilitated a parallel session entitled "Are QR Codes simply a fad or do they add value to the mobile user?". http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#ramsden Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#jackson Dan Jackson is the Web Team Leader at City University London. He is part of a small team responsible for the maintenance and development of the University Web site, CMS and related systems and applications. During his time at the University Dan has overseen a site redesign and an accessibility audit. He has over 7 years experience in Web development, and his interests include Web standards, usability, accessibility, client-side coding and PHP. Dan facilitated a parallel session entitled "An Introduction to WAI-ARIA". http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#jackson Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 51.515793 -0.121536 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#gibbons Claire Gibbons is now the Web Manager for the University of Bradford (previously the Web Officer since September 2000), working within the department of Marketing and Communications, and responsible for the management of the University's new Web Team and the new content management system - TerminalFour's SiteManager. Claire is responsible for the University's 'corporate Web' and works closely with departments and Schools to ensure consistency of University brand and message as well as compliance with standards and legislation, such as SENDA and the University's own Code of Practice for Web Based Materials. Claire has recently completed the Chartered Management Institute Diploma in Management - which sparked her slightly obsessive interest in organisational culture, change management and 'people' and 'behaviours'. Claire has been a member of the Web CMS Project core team since the inception of the project in October 2005. Claire facilitated a parallel session entitled "Exposition, Cliffhanger, Resolution" with Russell Allen. http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#gibbons Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 53.796595 -1.762061 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#davis Richard Davis is Development Manager in the Digital Archives Department at the University of London Computer Centre. Since joining ULCC in 1997, he has contributed to a wide range of Web-based preservation and repository projects for the University and the JISC, as well as external clients. Projects include JISC-PoWR (Preservation of Web Resources), SNEEP (Social Networking Extensions for EPrints), CLASM (Copyright Licensing Applications with SWORD for Moodle), NDAD (National Digital Archive of Datasets) and Linnean Online. Richard also set up a departmental blog in 2007, and is working with colleagues to develop social networking features for the Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP). Before joining ULCC, Richard had a varied IT career at the Metropolitan Police, ICL and the Forensic Science Service as mainframe database developer, helpdesk manager, and Web developer. It was at the FSS in 1996 that he first set up a pilot intranet, and developed Web-based library and information systems. Richard is currently studying part time on the MSc E-learning programme at Edinburgh University, and is actively interested in the myriad educational possibilities of Web 2.0 and Social Networking, while ever mindful of the preservation issues too. Richard facilitated a parallel session entitled "Practical blog Preservation". http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#davis Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 51.537153 -0.111237 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#chaudhri Talat Chaudhri is a Research Officer in the Research and Development Team at UKOLN. He is responsible for the Application Profiles Support project, which seeks to support and co-ordinate the development and implementation of the Dublin Core Application Profiles funded by JISC. These are SWAP, GAP, IAP, TBMAP, LMAP and SDAP. The project is currently focussed on developing methodologies for the evaluation of these application profiles, particularly through practical user testing in collaboration with the IEMSR and IE Demonstrator projects. Talat facilitated a parallel session entitled "Hands-on prototyping for (meta)data structures" with Emma Tonkin. http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#chaudhri Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#allen Russell Allen is the Project Manager for the University of Bradford's Portal and Web CMS projects. Russell has spent the last sixteen years as a project manager delivering non-succession funded IT innovation and development projects in both public and private sector organisations. Projects have included implementing the University of Sheffield's career management skills Web site, on-line remote training for under-employed graduates in recruitment agencies, setting up community IT resources via the government's UK Online programme and developing community engagement projects via the e-citizen and e-government programs. Funders have included HEFC, DFES, ESF, SRB and lottery funding. His current job at the University of Bradford is to deliver a Web CMS, amongst other things, as part of the University's e-strategy. Russell facilitated a parallel session entitled "Exposition, Cliffhanger, Resolution" with Claire Gibbons and a parallel session entitled "The Anti-Portal: mashup and forget it" with Jeremy Speller. http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/# Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 53.796595 -1.762061 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/wilson/ Phil Wilson is a Web Developer working at the University of Bath. He has been writing enterprise Java applications for the past five years and has previously delivered talks on Microformats, Wikis and extreme programming. In his free time he writes code for distributed syndication tools and exploring and sharing the social graph. His blog is philwilson.org: a geek commodity. Phil facilitated a workshop on "What's the Point of having Developers in a Web 2.0 World?" with Tom Natt. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/wilson/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/watson/ Nicholas Watson is the media account manager for Corporate Projects for Learning and Teaching Solutions (LTS) - the media production arm of the Open University (OU). He is responsible for production of Open Educational Resources such as OpenLearn, iTunes U and YouTube. Nicholas facilitated a workshop on "Podcasting and iTunes U: Institutional Approaches to Scaleable Service" with Jeremy Speller. Nicholas can be contacted at n.watson@open.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/watson/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 51.530319 -0.126343 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/speller/ Jeremy Speller has been involved with the UCL Web presence since 1995. Having headed UCL Web Services for a number of years, Jeremy is now Head of Media Services which, along with the Web, covers AV, illustration, multimedia and photography. He is currently working integrating the new department to provide rich media services for UCL customers. Jeremy is at present directing a major project to deliver podcasting production and delivery at the institutional level. Prior to becoming a full-time Web "operative", Jeremy's background was in planning and statistics at UCL and previously at the University of Birmingham. Way back when he ran the Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme at what was then CVCP. Jeremy facilitated a workshop on "Top-down Bottom-up Podcasting: Institutional Approaches to Scaleable Service" with Nicholas Watson. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/speller/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 51.530319 -0.126343 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/poulter/ Martin Poulter is the ICT Manager of the Economics Network, a Subject Centre of the HE Academy. Based at the University of Bristol, Martin runs Web sites aimed at Economics teaching staff, students and prospective students. He also runs the Ancient Geeks community blog . His academic interests are Philosophy and Psychology. Martin facilitated a workshop on "The Real Information Environment" with Kwansuree Jiamton. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/poulter/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 51.45866 -2.603545 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/nicholson/ Debbie Nicholson has worked in the Web Support Unit (WSU) at the University of Essex for 6 years. As well as working as part of the Web Design Team, responsible for the maintenance and development of the University corporate pages, Web site design and Web related support and training for staff, Debbie is currently working as a project manager for the Unit. Debbie has just project managed the rebuild of the new University Web site, and is busy planning phase 2 which will look at delivery of web information from departments and sections and the introduction of new Faculties. Debbie facilitated a workshop on "Hands Up if You Haven't done Yours Yet..." with Keith Brooke. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/nicholson/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 51.889842 0.91753 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/natt/ Tom Natt is a Web Developer working at the University of Bath. He has worked on a selection of institutional projects including wiki and instant messaging software and is currently looking at institutional repositories. In his free time he working on a selection of Web related open source projects. Tom facilitated a workshop on "What's the Point of having Developers in a Web 2.0 World?" with Phil Wilson. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/natt/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/jiamton/ Kwansuree Jiamton is the ICT Manager at the Health Sciences and Practice Subject Centre; part of the HE Academy. Working at King's College London since 2000, she has an active role in Web site development and interoperability, e-learning projects and strategic planning. Kwansuree facilitated a workshop on "The Real Information Environment" with Martin Poulter. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/jiamton/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 51.51793 -0.118446 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/gibbons/ Claire Gibbons is now the Web Manager for the University of Bradford (previously the Web Officer since September 2000), working within the department of Marketing and Communications, and responsible for the management of the University's new Web Team. Claire is responsible for the University's 'corporate Web' and works closely with departments and Schools to ensure consistency of University brand and message as well as compliance with standards and legislation, such as SENDA and the University's own Code of Practice for Web Based Materials. Claire is nearing the end of the Chartered Management Institute Diploma in Management - which has sparked her recent (and slightly obsessive) interest in organisational culture, 'people' and 'behaviours'. Claire has been a member of the Web CMS Project core team since October 2005. Claire facilitated a workshop on "Web CMS and University Web Teams Part II - the Never Ending Story?" with Russell Allen. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/gibbons/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 53.796595 -1.762061 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/emmott/ Stephen Emmott is the Head of Web Services at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He previously worked as the Editor of the King's Information Service at King's College London (1997 to 2000). Stephen facilitated a workshop on "Tactics to Strategy, and Back Again". http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/emmott/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 51.536513 -0.126343 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/ellis/ Mike Ellis has just emerged from 7 years working as Head of Web for the National Museum of Science and Industry, UK, which comprises the Science Museum in London, Media Museum in Bradford and Railway Museum in York. Mike is now working for a Bath-based company called Eduserv who are a not for profit IT services group. Mike's interests are in user generated content, Web 2.0, ubiquitous computing and innovation and how to lever these for maximum benefit in cultural institutions. Mike facilitated a workshop on "Mashups: More than Maps". http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/ellis/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 51.383379 -2.357469 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/brooke/ Keith Brooke has worked for the University of Essex since 1998, first as Web Officer and since 2001 as Web Support Manager. He is currently responsible for a team of ten covering Web development, training, support and learning technology. As if that wasn't enough, he also teaches creative writing in the University's Literature department, using a mix of traditional classroom work, workshopping, e-mail, online resources and Facebook silliness. Keith facilitated a workshop on "Hands Up if You Haven't done Yours Yet..." with Debbie Nicholson. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/brooke/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 51.889842 0.91753 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/boag/ Paul Boag describes himself as a user experience designer. He is a founding partner of Web design agency Headscape, runs the boagworld.com community for people who run Web sites, and is the author of many articles (for the likes of .net magazine and Think Vitamin). Paul is a charismatic and entertaining speaker (e.g. .net magazine podcast, Refresh06 and Web2Live). Paul has worked extensively in the higher education sector for clients such as; City University, Brunel University, JISC and the Universities of Portsmouth, Brighton, Southampton and Lancaster. Paul also has significant experience in running online communities and has done so as far back as 1995 when he was one of the original community leaders of geocities. He wrote his dissertation on virtual communities and the disabled back in 1994. Paul facilitated a workshop on "Battling Bureaucracy". http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/boag/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/allen/ Russell Allen is the Project Manager for the University of Bradford's Portal and Web CMS projects. Russell has spent the last sixteen years as a project manager delivering non-succession funded IT innovation and development projects in both public and private sector organisations. Projects have included implementing the University of Sheffield's career management skills Web site, on-line remote training for under-employed graduates in recruitment agencies, setting up community IT resources via the government's UK Online programme and developing community engagement projects via the e-citizen and e-government programs. Funders have included HEFC, DFES, ESF, SRB and lottery funding. His current job at the University of Bradford is to deliver a Web CMS, amongst other things, as part of the University's e-strategy. Russell facilitated a workshop on "Web CMS and University Web Teams Part II - the Never Ending Story? with Claire Gibbons. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/allen/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 53.796595 -1.762061 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/sloan/ David Sloan is Project lead of the University of Dundee's Digital Media Access Group, a research and consultancy unit specialising in accessibility of ICT to disabled and older people. He also runs the University's Web Accessibility Support Service, and has carried out several accessibility reviews of web authoring tools, including a content management system, VLE and e-assessment software. David facilitated a workshop on "The 'other' Accessibility Guidelines - the Importance of Authoring Tool Accessibility Evaluation in a Web 2.0 World". http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/sloan/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 56.458175 -2.978582 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/saunders/ The Revd Gareth Saunders interests lie primarily in information architecture, XHTML, CSS, accessibility, usability and helping to make sure that people can find the information they are looking for. Gareth studied Divinity (Practical Theology and Christian Ethics) at St Mary's College, University of St Andrews; he then had jobs in a Borders textile mill and with homeless young people in London before returning to Scotland to complete a Masters at New College, University of Edinburgh and work as a Scottish Episcopalian priest in Inverness and Edinburgh. In 2006 Gareth made the seamless transition from full-time parish ministry to focus on the Web and Information Architecture: having pastoral care for Web users, if you like. He is a member of the Information Architecture Institute and is a regular blogger. Gareth facilitated a workshop on "Mind Mapping for Effective Content Management" with Stephen Evans. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/saunders/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 56.340521 -2.803059 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/ramsden/ Andy Ramsden has recently started as the Head of e-Learning at the University of Bath. In this capacity he is charged with contributing to both the strategic and operational aspects of elearning development at the Institution. In terms of his own research, his interests are in the effective uses of emergent technologies for teaching and learning. In particular, the use of Web 2.0 and mobile technologies on the learning and teaching landscape. He regularly presents and facilitates workshops on this and other topics with the UK. He also sits on the Steering Group of the nationally funded Podcasting for Pedagogical Purposes SIG. Many of his findings and reflections on the use of emergent technologies within Higher Education can be found on his mobile-learning blog. Andy facilitated a workshop on "Embracing Web 2.0 Technologies to Grease the Wheels of Team Cohesion" with Marieke Guy. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/ramsden/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/nolan/ Mike Nolan is is Web Applications Project Manager at Edge Hill University where he leads the development team. Recent projects include a revamped corporate Web site and the university portal. Michael regularly posts about HE Web development topics on the Edge Hill Web Services blog. Mike facilitated a workshop on "Stuff what We're doing at Edge Hill University". http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/nolan/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 53.561597 -2.872624 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/jackson/ Dan Jackson is the Web Team Leader at City University London. He is part of a small team responsible for the maintenance and development of the University Web site, CMS and related systems and applications. During his time at the University Dan has overseen a site redesign and an accessibility audit. He has over 7 years experience in Web development, and his interests include Web standards, usability, accessibility, client-side coding and PHP. Dan facilitated a workshop on "Coping with Forms: Implementing a Web Form Management Application". http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/jackson/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 51.515793 -0.121536 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/hirst/ Tony Hirst is an itinerant academic in the Department of Communication and Systems, and member of the Socialearn core project team. He blogs regularly about educational Web technologies and RSS feed powered mashups at http://ouseful.info/ (although most of his readers would being admit to being confused by most of the posts, most of the time). Tony will be facilitating a workshop on "Introducing Socialearn". http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/hirst/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 52.044041 -0.69957 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/guy/ Marieke Guy is currently a member of the Interoperability Focus team at UKOLN. Interoperability Focus is a national activity, jointly funded by JISC of the Further and Higher Education Funding Councils and the MLA. Marieke is based at UKOLN. Marieke's previous roles at UKOLN have included Project Manager for the Subject Portals Project and ePrints UK Projects, NOF-digitise Advisor and editor of Cultivate Interactive, Exploit Interactive and Ariadne Web Magazines. Marieke has attended and presented at a number of the Institutional Web Management Workshops and was chair of the 2006 workshop, organised the IWMW 2007 workshop and then went off on maternity leave! She has recently become a remote worker and is enjoying tackling the challenges it presents! Marieke is a member of the IWMW 2008 organising commitee and co-facilitated a workshop on "Embracing Web 2.0 Technologies to Grease the Wheels of Team Cohesion" with Andy Ramsden and a workshop on "Approaches To Web Resource Preservation" with Brian Kelly. She also chaired the first afternoon session on Thursday 22nd July on "A Vision For The Future". Marieke can be contacted at m.guy@ukoln.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/guy/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 51.366074 -2.329445 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/evans/ Prior to becoming the University of St Andrews Web Manager, Stephen Evans was an IT manager and research scientist at Cambridge University, where he developed intranet and Web database applications for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) laboratory. During his research career he imaged the inside of a wide variety of objects including melons, strawberries and knees! While MRI was a fascinating technique, he gained more satisfaction from developing Web-based solutions to help others with their research. Steve is now responsible for the management and development of the University of St Andrews Web site. This includes managing the University's content management system. In addition, his role includes supporting and assisting all service Units and Schools with any Web related matters. His main interests are information architecture and developing solutions to enhance the ways the Web is used to organise and disseminate information. Stephen facilitated a workshop on "Mind Mapping for Effective Content Management" with Gareth Saunders. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/evans/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 56.340521 -2.803059 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#wilson Scott Wilson works for CETIS. He was initially responsible for turning the CETIS site into THE portal for learning technology standards. Scott is an Assistant Director of CETIS, and has a special interest in standards for infrastructure and enterprise integration. Scott facilitated a workshop session on "XCRI: Syndicating the Online Prospectus" with Ben Ryan. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#wilson Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 53.577984 -2.430124 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#warburton Steven Warburton is an e-learning ICT manager at King's College London with a wealth of experience in the implementation and evaluation of learning technology within a variety of educational settings. He has managed both technical and pedagogically driven e-learning projects that have included work on personal publishing tools, social software, virtual learning environments, and the development of blended teaching programmes. He provides consultancy both within/out the University specialising in the support of distributed/distance learners. His research interests have been eclectic having moved from neuroscience through to computing and now focussing on questions of online learner identity, social networking and the notion of learner communities. This current research focus has been reflected in recent presentations that have covered the topics of social computing, the collaborative aspects of blogs and wikis, actor network theory and communities of practice.--> Steven gave a plenary talk on "What does 'Community of Practice' Mean for Institutional Web Managers?" and was scheduled to facilitate a workshop session on "Building The Web Management Community" with Brian Kelly. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#warburton Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 51.512455 -0.120163 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#walker Peter Walker leads the Web development and consultancy team at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology (ILRT) within the University of Bristol. He is project manager for, amongst others things, the University's Content Management System and the EELS e-learning project. Pete has lead the development of the Bristol Online Survey (BOS) service since its inception in 2001. Pete has a BA in History/Politics and an MSc in Information Technology. He is also a certified Prince2 practitioner. Despite being in IT since 1989 he would still describe himself as a techno-phobe and likes to keep things simple! Peter facilitated a workshop session on "Your Web site: a Better User Experience" with Stuart Church. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#walker Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 51.460264 -2.602515 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#thrower Matt Thrower is a Systems Support Co-ordinator in the Software and Systems Team in UKOLN. Matt facilitated a workshop session on "Thieves in the Night: Hidden Problems in Web site Redesign". http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#thrower Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 51.366074 -2.329445 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#smith Stuart Smith is currently investigating the use of mobile technologies as part of his work for MIMAS, a national data centre based at the University of Manchester. MIMAS hosts large and varied data sets including repositories of learning materials. Stuart is involved in giving usability advice to colleagues delivering learning materials in both the Higher and Further Education sectors and views mobile technologies as highly significant in the future of learning. Stuart has 10 years experience in Web development and has published papers on Accessibility. As well as working in the academic sector he has experience in information management and public relations for a national charity and has worked in the mobile phone sector. Stuart facilitated a workshop session on "Portable Devices for Learning: A Whistlestop Tour". http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#smith Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 53.469785 -2.228251 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#smith2 Dan Smith has been the lead CMS developer for the University of Southampton for four years, initially leading the University's CMS pilot and procurement projects. For the last three years, Dan has lead the implementation of the University's strategic CMS, Interwoven TeamSite. Prior to joining the University of Southampton, Dan was a CMS developer at Ordnance Survey. Dan facilitated a workshop session on "Implementing a Content Management System: Can you Avoid the Pain?". http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#smith2 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 50.93539 -1.399727 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#sloan David Sloan is project lead of the Digital Media Access Group (DMAG), a research and consultancy unit based in the University of Dundee's School of Computing, and specialising in inclusive design and accessible ICT. David is involved in a number of academic research projects focusing on accessibility and user-centred design, completing a PhD in the area of Web accessibility in 2006; he has also advised many commercial clients and currently co-ordinates the university's Web Accessibility Service, providing practical and strategic advice to staff on web accessibility issues. David facilitated a workshop session on "Contextual Accessibility in Institutional Web Accessibility Policies" with Simon Ball. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#sloan Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 56.459811 -2.97987 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#sargan Helen Sargan works for the University Computing Service and has been looking after the Web in Cambridge since 1994. Helen facilitated a workshop session on "Just say No to Powerpoint: Web Alternatives for Slides and Presentations" and chaired the first morning session on Tuesday 17 July: Getting Technical. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#sargan Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 52.206476 0.125356 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#kelly2 Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus - a post funded by the JISC and MLA which provides advice and support to the UK Higher and Further Education communities and the museums, libraries and archives sector on Web issues. Brian is based at UKOLN. Brian's interests include Web standards, Web accessibility, quality assurance for Web services and innovative Web developments, including collaborative Web tools. Brian participated in the panel session on "Dealing with the Commercial World: Saviour or Satan?" and facilitated a workshop session on "Building The Web Management Community" with Steven Warburton. Brian can be contacted at b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#kelly2 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 51.366074 -2.329445 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#gibbons Claire Gibbons is the Web Officer for the University of Bradford, working within the department of Marketing and Communications. Claire is responsible for the external face of the University's web presence and works closely with departments and Schools to ensure consistency of University brand and message as well as compliance with standards and legislation, such as SENDA. Claire is also studying for the Chartered Management Institute Diploma in Management - which has sparked her current (and slightly obsessive) interest in organisational culture. Claire is also working on the new University visual identity roll-out for the University of Bradford and the Content Management System Project. Claire facilitated a workshop session on "People, Processes and Projects - How the Culture of an Organisation can Impact on Technical System Implementation" with Russell Allen. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#gibbons Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 53.792235 -1.76206 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#church Stuart Church is a user experience consultant based in Bristol, UK. He runs his own business, Pure Usability, and has worked on a variety of usability, accessibility and information architecture projects for clients such as JISC, The University of Bristol, Microsoft, BOC, Bayer, Lexus, The University of Cambridge, The Tribal Group, Process Management International, the Office for Fair Access, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, Futurelab and Becta. In 2005, he helped to set up and organise the Cambridge Usability Group, before relocating to Bristol. In addition to his consultancy work, Stuart teaches user-centred design on the Diploma in Web Design and Development course at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also a member of the Usability Professionals Association. In his previous life, Stuart was a lecturer and research fellow in Animal Behaviour, Visual Ecology and Biostatistics at the Universities of Bristol and Southampton. He has a degree in Zoology from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Animal Behaviour from the University of Southampton. Stuart facilitated a workshop session on "Your Web site: a Better User Experience" with Peter Walker. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#church Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#ball Simon Ball is a Senior Advisor at Techdis. Simon now leads the work of TechDis in Higher Education, in addition to leading on E-Assessment across the sectors. Over the coming months Simon will be developing and putting into operation a new operating plan for the TechDis Higher Education work, including directing specific messages to senior managers, exploring the area of inclusion funding, and further developing the TechDis range of staff development and instructional materials to raise the base level of inclusion provision across HE. Simon facilitated a workshop session on "Contextual Accessibility in Institutional Web Accessibility Policies" with David Sloan. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#ball Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 53.9575 -1.072884 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#allen Russell Allen is the Project Manager for the University of Bradford's Portal and CMS projects. Russell has spent the last fifteen years as a project manager delivering non-succession funded IT innovation and development projects in both public and private sector organisations. Projects have included implementing the University of Sheffield's career management skills web site, on-line remote training for under-employed graduates in recruitment agencies, setting up community IT resources via the government's UK Online programme and developing community engagement projects via the e-citizen and e-government programs. Funders have included HEFC, DFES, ESF, SRB and lottery funding. His current job at the University of Bradford is to deliver a CMS and Portal as part of the University's e-strategy. Russell facilitated a workshop session on "People, Processes and Projects - How the Culture of an Organisation can Impact on Technical System Implementation" with Claire Gibbons. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#allen Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 53.792235 -1.76206 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#wilson2 Phil Wilson is a Web Software Developer for the University of Bath where he develops n-tier J2EE web applications, and has been doing this for various companies for five years. Phil's interests include web standards, Web usability, collaborative Web tools, Firefox hacking and the Semantic Web. Phil facilitated a workshop sessions on "The Eternal Beta - Can it Work in an Institution?". http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#wilson2 Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 51.366074 -2.329445 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#tonkin Emma Tonkin is an Interoperability Focus Officer at UKOLN, based at the University of Bath, England. Following a postgraduate degree in HCI, she is currently pursuing a PhD with the Mobile and Wearable Computing group at the University of Bristol, England. Her research interests include collaborative classification, automated classification and mobile and ubiquitous computing. Emma facilitated a workshop session on "Usability testing for the WWW". http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#tonkin Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 51.366074 -2.329445 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#stevenson Adrian Stevenson works for the Learning Technology Services Team which is part of Internet Services at the University of Manchester. He is responsible for investigating and assessing emerging Web and elearning technologies and is the organiser of the University's eLearning Technologies Group. His experience is in Web-based systems design and development using HTML, XML and Web Service technologies. Adrian has also worked for MIMAS, a national data centre based at the University of Manchester, on the JISC-funded JORUM project (2002-2005). Prior to this he was a Web Developer for Multimedia Services at Leeds Metropolitan University (2001-2002) and the Web Editor at King's College London (2000-2001). Adrian first studied Economics and later Continental Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Following this he became a professional guitarist in a number of bands based in London, as well as a Sound Engineer for a number of independent artists including My Bloody Valentine. Adrian facilitated a workshop session on "Know Me Knowing YouTube". http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#stevenson Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 53.469785 -2.228251 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#speller Jeremy Speller has been involved with the UCL Web presence since 1995 and is now Head of Web Services. He is currently working on the migration of UCL's central materials to a Zope/Silva-based CMS and is taking forward development of an enterprise portal. Jeremy is also involved with development of services to provide the student experience of the future and has particular interest in the use of handheld and mobile devices. Prior to becoming a full-time Web "operative", Jeremy's background was in planning and statistics at UCL and previously at the University of Birmingham. Way back when he ran the Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme at what was then CVCP. Jeremy chaired the second morning session on Tuesday 17 July: Getting Technical. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#speller Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 51.523223 -0.133223 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#savory Andrew Savory has been developing web applications commercially for the last decade and is Managing Director of Sourcesense UK, the leading open source software solutions provider. He's a committer on the Apache Cocoon project. Andrew facilitated a workshop session on "Sustainable Services: Solidity based on Openness?" with Ross Gardler. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#savory Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#ryan Ben facilitated a workshop session on "XCRI: Syndicating the Online Prospectus" with Scott Wilson. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#ryan Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#rahtz Sebastian Rahtz is Information Manager at Oxford University Computing Services, where he continues to evangelize for XML content on the web using a decent schema. Given that he is heavily involved in the Text Encoding Initiative, it is no surprise that he produces Web pages written in TEI XML. Until recently he was director of OSS Watch, JISC's Open Source Advisory Service, and remains an open source evangelist. Sebastian facilitated a workshop session on "Geolinked Institutional Web Content" with Patrick Lauke and Nigel Bradley. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#rahtz Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 51.755329 -1.261454 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#powell Andy Powell is Head of Development at the Eduserv Foundation, a Bath-based charity that supports the effective use of ICT in education. As a member of Bath University Computing Services he was the first 'webmaster' at the University of Bath, moving in 1996 to UKOLN where he was involved in a number of European and JISC-funded 'digital library' projects. More recently, Andy has liaised closely with the JISC, advising them on the standards and protocols needed to support e-learning and e-research, notably through the development of the JISC Information Environment and the e-Framework for Education and Research. Andy facilitated a workshop session on "Athens, Shibboleth, the UK Access Management Federation, OpenID, CardSpace and all that - single sign-on for your Web site" with Andrew Cormack and Richard Dunning. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#powell Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 51.385415 -2.364764 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#nicholson Debbie Nicholson has worked at the University of Essex for 13 years. Having previously worked in the Timetable Office and Systems Administration, she now works in the Web Support Unit (WSU) and has been there for 5 years. She is part of a team of 6 people who are responsible for the maintenance and development of the University corporate pages, the University Web site design service, Web support across the University and Web related training for staff. Debbie facilitated a workshop session on "So, What Would You Do With 45 Sixteen Year Olds?". http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#nicholson Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 51.878902 0.946712 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#mackintosh William (Bill) Mackintosh is Web Manager at the University of York. A Web CMS selection process is underway before the introduction of an Institutional Portal. William facilitated a workshop session on "Web Usage Statistics in the University Environment" with Paul Kelly. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#mackintosh Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 53.9484 -1.0536 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#lauke Patrick Lauke currently works as Web Editor for the University of Salford, where he heads a small central Web team. In 2003 he implemented one of the first Web standards based XHTML/CSS driven UK university sites. He has been engaged in the discourse on accessibility since early 2001, regularly contributing to a variety of Web development and accessibility related mailing lists and forums. He also takes an active role in the running of Accessify.com, moderates the Accessify forum, and is co-lead of the Web Standards Project Accessibility Task Force (WaSP ATF), which he joined in June 2005. An outspoken accessibility and standards advocate, Patrick favours a pragmatic hands-on approach to Web accessibility over purely theoretical, high-level discussions. "I'm an idealist by nature, but a pragmatist by trade. I'd never class myself as an expert and I certainly don't have all the answers...I'm just an opinionated guy eager to find real world solutions 'where the rubber meets the road'." Published works include a chapter in Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance, released by Friends of Ed in 2006. In his spare time, Patrick pursues his passion for photography and runs a small Web/design consultancy. Patrick facilitated a workshop session on "Geolinked Institutional Web Content" with Sebastian Rahtz and Nigel Bradley. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#lauke Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 53.489322 -2.271166 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#kelly Paul Kelly is the Web Content and Design Officer at the University of York. Paul facilitated a workshop session on "Web Usage Statistics in the University Environment" with William Mackintosh. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#kelly Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 53.9484 -1.0536 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#gardler Ross Gardler works for the Open Source Software Advisory Service. In recent years Ross has been active in Computer Science research (UK and West Indies), has lectured in Computer Science and Management (West Indies) and has been a freelance contractor across the UK. He is active in a number of open source projects and is a member of the Apache Software Foundation. Ross is particularly interested in the development of a healthy community for open source projects. Ross facilitated a workshop session on "Sustainable Services: Solidity based on Openness?" with Andrew Savory. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#gardler Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 51.755329 -1.261454 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#emmott Stephen Emmott is the Head of Web Services at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) where he leads a team of 10 delivering the LSE's Web site, portal ("LSE for You") and document management services. Prior to this he was the Editor of Web Services at King's College London (1997 to 2000) and has worked a total of 9 years in higher education and 3 years in industry. His background is in cognitive science and he is currently leading an initiative to adopt PRINCE2 at LSE. Stephen chaired the morning session on Wednesday 18 July: Conclusions. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#emmott Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 51.517329 -0.116708 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#dunning Richard Dunning is on the Middleware Assisted Take-Up Service Team at Eduserv. Richard facilitated a workshop session on "Athens, Shibboleth, the UK Access Management Federation, OpenID, CardSpace and all that - single sign-on for your Web site" with Andrew Cormack and Andy Powell. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#dunning Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 51.385415 -2.364764 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#cormack Andrew Cormack joined JANET(UK) as Head of JANET-CERT in March 1999. In January 2002 he took up the new post of Chief Security Advisor, concentrating on the awareness, policy, legal and regulatory aspects of computer and network security. Andrew is active in promoting co-operation between organisations working on computer security in the UK and Europe. He is a partner with TERENA in the TRANSITS project to deliver training for Computer Security Incident Response Teams in Europe and, in cooperation with FIRST, the rest of the world. He is a member of TERENA's Technical Committee and of the Permanent Stakeholders Group of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA). He spends a lot of time talking to people about the problem of computer insecurity and what to do about it. In the past Andrew has worked for Cardiff University, where he looked after Web servers and caches as well as dealing with security incidents; the NERC's Research Vessel Services, running scientific computer systems on board ships with uncertain power supplies and moving floors; and Plessey Telecommunications. He has degrees in mathematics (Cambridge University) and law (Open University), and is a European Chartered Engineer. Andrew facilitated a workshop session on Athens, Shibboleth, the UK Access Management Federation, OpenID, CardSpace and all that - single sign-on for your Web site with Richard Dunning and Andy Powell. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#cormack Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 51.385415 -2.364764 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#bradley Nigel Bradley has been the Web Services Manager at Northumbria University for the past 6 years. Although not (web) technical he has led the way for Northumbria to always be amongst first to implement new technologies whether it be their CMS, their SITS integration, their Web stats or more recently their adaptation of the Google maps API for various projects. Nigel facilitated a workshop session on "Geolinked Institutional Web Content" with Patrick Lauke and Sebastian Rahtz. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#bradley Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 54.976088 -1.610048 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#young Chris Young is the Senior Consultant Trainer at Netskills and is one of the longest serving members of the team - with almost 10 years experience in designing and delivering Web development training for a variety of organisations. Chris has responsibility for both the accredited Web development and Netskills national workshop programmes and also teaches undergraduate and postgraduate degree students across a range of Web technologies. Chris facilitated a workshop session on 'Show us 'yer medals!' - Who needs Professional Development? with Paul Trueman. Chris can be contacted at Chris.Young@newcastle.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#young Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 54.98281 -1.61396 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#wilkinson Donna Wilkinson works in the Information and Knowledge Management team at the University of Abertay Dundee. Her focus is on the Information Architecture and usability of the University's Portal Project. She is also involved in Knowledge Management and the more traditional library activities of cataloguing and acquisitions. She has previously worked on the implementation of IA, Content Management and Knowledge Management in portal and intranet projects at organisations as diverse as Edinburgh City Council, ITI Scotland and a department of the Civil Service. Donna is a keen hillwalker and loves to cook and is especially passionate about chocolate. Donna facilitated a workshop session on FOUND IT! Using Information Architecture and Web Management to Help the User Succeed with Duncan Davidson. Donna can be contacted at d.wilkinson@abertay.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#wilkinson Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 56.46447 -2.97124 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#tonkin Emma Tonkin is an Interoperability Focus Officer at UKOLN, based at the University of Bath, England. Following a postgraduate degree in HCI, she is currently pursuing a Ph.D. with the Mobile and Wearable Computing group at the University of Bristol, England. Her research interests include collaborative classification, automated classification and mobile and ubiquitous computing. Emma facilitated a workshop session on User Testing on a Shoestring Budget with Adam Hardy. Emma can be contacted at e.tonkin@ukoln.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#tonkin Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 51.366074 -2.329445 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#stevenson Adrian Stevenson works for the Learning Technology Services Team which is part of Internet Services at the University of Manchester. He is currently the Project Manager and Technical Director for an internal project investigating service-oriented (SOA) approaches to e-learning resource discovery. His experience is in Web-based systems design and development using HTML, XML and Web Service technologies. Adrian has also worked for MIMAS, a national data centre based at the University of Manchester, on the JISC-funded JORUM project (2002-2005). Prior to this he was a Web Developer for Multimedia Services at Leeds Metropolitan University (2001-2002) and the Web Editor at King's College London (2000-2001). Adrian first studied Economics and later Continental Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Following this he became a professional guitarist in a number of bands based in London, as well as a Sound Engineer for a number of independent artists including My Bloody Valentine. Adrian facilitated a workshop session on Keep SMILing. Adrian can be contacted at adrian.stevenson@manchester.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#stevenson Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 53.469785 -2.228251 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#speller Jeremy Speller has been involved with the UCL Web presence since 1995 and is now Head of Web Services. He is currently working on the migration of UCL's central materials to a Zope/Silva-based CMS and is taking forward development of an enterprise portal. Jeremy is also involved with development of services to provide the student experience of the future and has particular interest in the use of handheld and mobile devices. Prior to becoming a full-time Web "operative", Jeremy's background was in planning and statistics at UCL and previously at the University of Birmingham. Way back when he ran the Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme at what was then CVCP. Jeremy chaired the opening session on Wednesday 14 June: Changing Times. Jeremy can be contacted at j.speller@ucl.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#speller Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 51.523223 -0.133223 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#richmond Lizzie Richmond is a University Archivist, Records Manager and FOI Co-ordinator for the University of Bath. Lizzie facilitated a workshop session on Archiving the Web: What can Institutions learn from National and International Web Archiving Initiatives with Michael Day and Maureen Pennock. Lizzie can be contacted at E.Richmond@bath.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#richmond Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 51.366074 -2.329445 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#querry Damon Querry is Senior Web Development Officer at Newcastle University. At Newcastle he has seen the Web grow from a niche plaything of the technological curious into a many tentacled organism that interacts with every single aspect of university business. This is still his first proper job, having previously been a student and a research assistant. His long standing love and passion for Doctor Who has seen him recently elevated to a new height, having previously spent a number of dark years being derided for his interest. Damon facilitated a workshop session on Search Technology within the University Environment with William Mackintosh. Damon can be contacted at damon.querry@ncl.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/# Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 54.98281 -1.61396 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#pennock Maureen Pennock is a Research Officer at UKOLN, based at the University of Bath. She works full time for the DCC, which was established to help solve the extensive challenges of digital preservation and to provide research, advice and support services to UK institutions. Prior to joining the DCC, Maureen lived in the Netherlands and worked on several Dutch and EC-funded projects, notably the Dutch government Digital Preservation Testbed research project that developed a series of preservation approaches for specific types of records and the ERPANET project. Maureen facilitated a workshop session on Archiving the Web: What can Institutions learn from National and International Web Archiving Initiatives with Michael Day and Lizzie Richmond. Maureen can be contacted at m.pennock@ukoln.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#pennock Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 51.366074 -2.329445 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#mahey Mahendra Mahey is a Support Officer for the JISC Digital Repositories Programme, a role which involves supporting the 25 projects within the Programme, providing advice and guidance, helping exploit synergies across the programme and beyond, synthesising project and programme outcomes, liaising with other national and international repositories activities, dissemination activities, scoping a repository reference model and collating project outputs, particularly scenarios, use cases and workflows, for use in scoping the repository landscape. Communication and dissemination across the Programme is facilitated through the support Wiki (DigiRep). The Digital Repositories Programme is a 4m JISC programme to enhance the implementation and development of digital repositories in the UK. Before joining UKOLN Mahendra was employed as an e-learning resources adviser for four years with the JISC Regional Support Centres in the West Midlands in England and the North and East Region of Scotland focusing on promoting and using electronic resources and implementing Information Communication Technologies effectively in teaching and learning in further and higher education, working closely with senior management, staff in learning centres, libraries, classrooms and over distances. Prior to that he worked for Birmingham City Council, on a project to develop their Grid for Learning, a schools web development project. He worked for ten years as a lecturer in English further education colleges (Psychology, English to Speakers of Other Languages, Information and Communication Technologies, commercial IT training, and Multimedia) and for almost three years in Warsaw, Poland teaching English as a Foreign Language. Mahendra facilitated a workshop session on The Rise and Rise of Digital Repositories: Communication and Quality with Julie allinson. Mahendra can be contacted at m.mahey@ukoln.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#mahey Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 51.366074 -2.329445 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#mackintosh William (Bill) Mackintosh is Web Manager at the University of York. Throughout his career working for UK universities, search software has been a continuous theme. At the University of Oxford, he implemented the Excite search engine, at City University, London, he evaluated Inktomi search software and at the University of York, as part of a successful project bid to revamp the University's Web presence, Google search technology will be purchased to replace ht://Dig. Apart from academia, Bill has worked in IT for IBM (UK), the healthcare and defence sectors. William facilitated a workshop session on Search Technology within the University Environment with Damon Querry. William can be contacted at wm5@york.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#mackintosh Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 53.9484 -1.0536 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#jukes Matt Jukes is the Communications and Marketing Production Manager for JISC with responsibility for the redevelopment of the JISC Web site amongst other things. He was a Web Editor at both JISC and the Economic and Social Research Council prior to his current role. Matt chaired the afternoon session on Thursday 15 June: Institutional Case Studies. Matt can be contacted at m.jukes@jisc.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#jukes Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#hardy Adam Hardy has 6 years experience as a web professional. He is the former Website Manager at Cancerbackup - one of Europe's leading cancer information charities - where he led the complete redevelopment of their large, high-traffic website. He is currently completing an MSc in Human Communication and Computing at the University of Bath. His research interests include novel user interfaces, information architecture and measuring user experience. Adam facilitated a workshop session on User Testing on a Shoestring Budget with Emma Tonkin. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#hardy Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 51.366074 -2.329445 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#emmott Stephen Emmott is the Head of Web Services at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) where he leads a team of 10 delivering the LSE's Web site, portal ("LSE for You") and document management services. Prior to this he was the Editor of Web Services at King's College London (1997 to 2000) and has worked a total of 9 years in higher education and 3 years in industry. His background is in cognitive science and he is currently leading an initiative to adopt PRINCE2 at LSE. Stephen chaired the morning session on Thursday 15 June: Quality Matters. Stephen can be contacted at stephen.emmott@lse.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#emmott Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 51.517329 -0.116708 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#doyle Keith Doyle is Web Content Architect at the University of Salford. He is also responsible for the intranet framework, and has direct involvement with the University intranet home pages. He is passionate about how intranets and portals can support administrative activities, and also about usability and information architecture issues. Keith facilitated a workshop session on Intranet Managers' Community Session. Keith can be contacted at K.Doyle1@salford.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#doyle Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 53.489322 -2.271166 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#day >Michael Day belongs to UKOLN's research and development team, primarily on projects concerning metadata, interoperability and digital preservation. His current projects are the eBank UK and ePrints UK projects (funded by the JISC), and the "What's New in Digital Preservation" bulletin (produced for the Digital Preservation Coalition). Former projects include the EU-funded Renardus, SCHEMAS, DESIRE and BIBLINK projects, and the JISC-funded Cedars and ROADS projects. Michael facilitated a workshop session on Archiving the Web: What can Institutions learn from National and International Web Archiving Initiatives with Maureen Pennock and Lizzie Richmond. Michael can be contacted at m.day@ukoln.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#day Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 51.366074 -2.329445 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#davidson Duncan Davidson is the manager of the Corporate Information & Web Services team at the University of Abertay Dundee. He is responsible for the University's Portal Project and is committed to using it to improve the user experience whilst improving internal processes. He is also interested in Institutional Repositories and is currently working on a project using DSpace. Duncan has previously worked as Web Manager at Aberdeen College where he was responsible for the development of an intranet which significantly reduced paper consumption. A small step in saving the planet! Before that he was Web Technologist at The Robert Gordon University on the VLS Project. The project was a partnership between The Robert Gordon Univeristy, University of Aberdeen and Aberdeen College. The project aimed to develop and share experiences of using C&IT in tertiary education and was funded as part of SHEFC's ScotCIT programme. Duncan is a Chartered Engineer and is passionate about all things French and tries to travel there as much as possible. Duncan facilitated a workshop session on FOUND IT! Using Information Architecture and Web Management to Help the User Succeed with Donna Wilkinson. Duncan can be contacted at d.davidson@abertay.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#davidson Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 56.46447 -2.97124 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#cornelius Barry Cornelius moved to Computing Services at the University of Oxford in March 2005. He spends half of his time working for the Information Services team of OUCS and the other half working for OSS Watch, the JISC-funded national advisory service for UK HE and FE institutions on free and open source software. In the last 15 months, he has been involved in supporting the introduction of the MoinMoin wiki to various teams in OUCS, performing a survey on the use of Linux at the University of Oxford, developing an institutional newsfeed system for the University, and managing a national survey on the use of open source software. Prior to moving to Oxford, he was a support person in the IT Service at the University of Durham. There he looked after Apache web servers, Apache tomcat, MySQL and OpenLDAP servers. Prior to this he was a lecturer in Computer Science. He has interests in XML, XSL, Java, C# and Web Services, and has produced books on Modula-2 and Java. Barry facilitated a workshop session on Making RSS work in your Institution. Barry can be contacted at barry.cornelius@oucs.ox.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#cornelius Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 51.759480 -1.260209 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#banbery Miles Banbery is the Web Editor at the University of Kent. Miles manages the University Web Team, a small group of people within Communications & Development at the University of Kent. Communications & Development's remit covers internal communications, corporate publications (largely student recruitment support), congregations (graduation ceremonies) and events, alumni relations, press and media relations and development and fund raising. Miles chaired the debate session on CMS Debate: Challenging the Consensus. Miles can be contacted at m.e.c.banbery@kent.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#banbery Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 51.298074 1.067605 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#wilson Philip Wilson is a Web Software Developer for the University of Bath where he develops n-tier J2EE web applications, and has been doing this for various companies for five years. Philip's interests include web standards, Web usability, collaborative Web tools, Firefox hacking and the semantic Web. Philip facilitated two workshop sessions on Sharing and Exploring Team Knowledge with Wikis and Exposing yourself on the Web with Microformats!. Philip can be contacted at p.g.wilson@bath.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#wilson Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 51.366074 -2.329445 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#trueman Paul Trueman is a Consultant Trainer employed by Netskills based at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Paul has over 15 years of experience working within the academic sector delivering a wide range of Web related programming topics. As a Sun Certified Java programmer Paul has a keen interest in the development of platform independent Web solutions to assist both commercial and educational users. Paul facilitated two workshop sessions on Using Web Services to Support e-Learning and 'Show us 'yer medals!' - Who needs Professional Development? with Chris Young. Paul can be contacted at Paul.Trueman@newcastle.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#trueman Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 54.98281 -1.61396 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#ramsden Andy Ramsden is a Learning Technology Advisor in the Learning Technology Support Service at the University of Bristol. An area of particular interest is mobile learning. He has authored and presented on this topic for many years, including a chapter in Mobile Learning (ed Kukulska-Hulme & Traxler), and his own mobile learning blog. He fell in with podcasting at a young age, thinking it offered a great opportunity as a learning technology. However, ever since he's been searching for that killer application. Andy facilitated a workshop session on Getting your Hands Dirty with Podcasting with Paul Ayres. Andy can be contacted at andy.ramsden@bristol.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#ramsden Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 51.460264 -2.602515 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#phipps Lawrie Phipps is the Programme Manager for Next Generation technology and practice and Personal e-Administration aspects of the JISC User Environments Programme. Formerly of the JISC TechDis Service, working on various technology and disability issues, Lawrie also worked in e-learning for several years at the University of Plymouth, developing materials for science learning and teaching (especially in the areas of field and lab work). Lawrie is a Registered Practitioner of the Higher Education Academy (Formerly the ILTHE) and is also an active member of the Staff and Educational Development Association executive committee. Lawrie chaired a panel session on Web 2.0 and facilitated a parallel session on Web 2.0: Addressing Institutional Barriers with Brian Kelly. Lawrie can be contacted at l.phipps@jisc.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#phipps Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#nicholson Debbie Nicholson has worked at the University of Essex for 12 years. Having previously worked in the Timetable Office and Systems Administration, she now works in the Web Support Unit (WSU) and has been there for 4 years. She is part of a team of 6 people who are responsible for the maintenance and development of the University corporate pages, the University Web site design service, Web support across the University and web related training for staff. Having had 18 years of experience working in Higher Education, Debbie likes to relieve the stress and tension that goes with that by regularly beating the living daylights out of a surdo drum as a member of the Suffolk School of Samba band. Debbie facilitated a workshop session on 'Not blue, a bit random, and not too Scottish': Designing a Web site the hard way.....?. Debbie can be contacted at debbie@essex.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#nicholson Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 51.878902 0.946712 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#matschak Tim Matschak is Web Manager at Cass Business School, which is part of City University, London. His background is in Science Communication and he started his Web-related career as a web writer for the Institute of Psychiatry. At Cass Business School he has been working extensively with the Marketing and Communications team on providing Web-friendly copy for Cass's site. Tim facilitated a workshop session on Writing for the Web. Tim can be contacted at T.Matschak@city.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#matschak Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 51.515793 -0.121536 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#lydon Many years ago Mark Lydon graduated in Law from the University of Leeds and since then has worked extensively in the area of purchasing and sales for large multi national companies. For the last 2 years Mark has worked for i2a Consulting specifically to develop sales of the inSORS Grid. In its consulting work i2a helps its clients to collaborate more effectively holding a core belief that that the right people collaborating effectively together can achieve exceptional results. The inSORS Grid provides the perfect collaborative environment for all types of organisations and enterprises and i2a aims to meld the theory of our consultancy with the pragmatism of the collaboration tool that is the inSORS Grid. Mark facilitated a workshop session on Access Grid Node - the What, How, and Why with Rob Bristow. Mark can be contacted at mark.lydon@i2action.com. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#lydon Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#kelly Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus - a post funded by the JISC and MLA which provides advice and support to the UK Higher and Further Education communities and the museums, libraries and archives sector on Web issues. Brian is based at UKOLN. Brian's interests include Web standards, Web accessibility, quality assurance for Web services and innovative Web developments, including collaborative Web tools. Brian gave a plenary talk on What Does Openness Mean to the Web Manager? with Randy Metcalfe and facilitated a parallel session on Web 2.0: Addressing Institutional Barriers with Lawrie Phipps. Brian can be contacted at b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#kelly Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 51.366074 -2.329445 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#guy Marieke Guy works for UKOLN as part of the Interoperability Focus team. Interoperability Focus is a national activity, jointly funded by the JISC and the MLA. The team publicises and mobilises the benefits and practice of effective interoperability across the library, information, education and cultural heritage communities. Marieke is chair of this year's Institutional Web Management Workshop. Brian Kelly will be a tough act to follow and Marieke has had to warm up by participating in weekly pub crawls covering notable real ale establishments! Marieke's previous roles at UKOLN have included Project Manager for the Subject Portals Project and ePrints UK Projects, NOF-digitise Advisor and editor of Cultivate Interactive, Exploit Interactive and Ariadne Web Magazines. Marieke facilitated a workshop session on Chatting with BK: What do Chatbots have to offer the Education Sector? with David Burden. Marieke can be contacted at m.guy@ukoln.co.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#guy Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 51.366074 -2.329445 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#burden David Burden started his career in army communications managing a range of mobile and wireless systems in a variety of challenging situations. After being "demobbed" in 1990, David joined Ascom, the Swiss telecoms company, and then Aseriti, the 70m pound turnover IT arm of Severn Trent plc. During this time David was involved in the operation and development of both conventional and web based mobile systems, before moving onto the commercial side, ultimately becoming the company's marketing Director. During the Dot Com boom David founded a wireless data company developing both WAP and Voice XML systems, as well as founding the Midlands chapter of the First Tuesday Networking organisation. David currently runs Daden Limited, and is involved in the development of innovative voice, AI, knowledge and wireless systems, as well as consulting on technical and marketing strategy. David is a Chartered Engineer and lives in Birmingham - where he sits on the regional development agency's ICT development board. Converjed is David's personal blog. David facilitated a workshop session on Chatting with BK: What do Chatbots have to offer the Education Sector? with Marieke Guy. David can be contacted at david.burden@daden.co.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#burden Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#bristow Rob Bristow is currently Information Services Manager for the Graduate School of Education at the University of Bristol, where for some of the time he looks at web management issues from the departmental point of view. At other times he works with collaborative ways of working and in particular the uses of the Access Grid for teaching and research. Rob came from a health care background, having been a Registered Osteopath for ten years and making the leap to working with the web for the Osteopathic profession following a seminal moment with a hyperlink. He then moved to be Web Manager at Cass Business School (part of City University), before moving to Bristol three years ago. Rob facilitated a workshop session on Access Grid Node - the What, How, and Why with Mark Lydon. Rob can be contacted at Rob.Bristow@bristol.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#bristow Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 51.460264 -2.602515 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#ayres Paul Ayres is a Research Officer for SOSIG, the Social Science Information Gateway, which is about to become Intute: Social Sciences. He is the Editor for the Economics and Education sections, as well as being responsible for the SOSIG blog and podcasting activities. He recently produced a series of podcasts called Social Science Voices, for ESRC Social Science week. They covered the potential applications of podcasting for the UK Social Science community. He is also responsible for the Economics in Action web site, that features podcast interviews with Economics researchers talking about their work. Paul facilitated a workshop session on Getting your Hands Dirty with Podcasting with Andy Ramsden. Paul can be contacted at paul.ayres@bristol.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#ayres Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 51.460264 -2.602515 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#allinson Julie Allinson is a Support Officer for the JISC Digital Repositories Programme, a role which involves supporting the 25 projects within the Programme, providing advice and guidance, helping exploit synergies across the programme and beyond, synthesising project and programme outcomes, liaising with other national and international repositories activities, scoping a repository reference model and collating project outputs, particularly scenarios, use cases and workflows, for use in scoping the repository landscape. The Digital Repositories Programme is a 4m JISC programme to enhance the implementation and development of digital repositories in the UK. Before joining UKOLN, Julie was employed as a Content Co-Ordinator for Artifact, the arts and creative industries hub of the RDN. Prior that she has worked on a number of funded cataloguing projects in the University of Liverpool Special Collections and Archives and was responsible for a two year project to improve access to the D.H. Lawrence Manuscripts Collection at the University of Nottingham. Julie facilitated a workshop session on The Rise and Rise of Digital Repositories: Communication and Quality with Mahendra Mahey. Julie can be contacted at j.allinson@ukoln.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#allinson Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 51.366074 -2.329445 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#de-la-flor Grace de la Flor is a usability engineer at the ILRT, University of Bristol where she works on systems analysis and development employing a user-centred methodological approach. This involves meeting with stakeholders and users to develop system requirements, developing user interface prototypes and refining systems based upon expert evaluation and user recommendations. Grace facilitaed a workshop session on Conducting User Needs Analysis: Tips On Gathering Requirements People May Have For The Systems You're Developing. Grace can be contacted at grace.de-la-flor AT bristol.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#de-la-flor Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000 51.460264 -2.602515 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#work Colin Work is the Information Services Manager for Information Systems Services at the University of Southampton. He has been involved with online information systems since well before the advent of the Web, but, despite changes in technology, finds that the underlying issues of information management stay more or less the same. Colin co-facilitated a workshop session with Julie Burrell on From the Ridiculous to the Sublime? Lessons from Implementing a Corporate CMS at the University of Southampton. Colin can be contacted at C.K.Work AT soton.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#work Thu, 07 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000 50.93539 -1.399727 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#williams Caroline Williams is the Resource Discovery Network (RDN) Executive Director. She is responsible for the strategic development of the RDN and manages the Executive based at MIMAS, University of Manchester. Her previous roles include Library Services Manager (Electronic Services Development Team) at Manchester Metropolitan University, Site Librarian of the Hollings Faculty, Manchester Metropolitan University and Subject Information Specialist Team Leader at the Open University Library, Milton Keynes. Caroline gave a talk about the RDN in the JISC Services and Vendor Presentations parallel session. Caroline can be contacted at caroline.williams AT manchester.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#williams Thu, 07 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000 53.469785 -2.228251 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#tribe Adrian Tribe: After spending 13 years as an Archaeological Conservator working for English Heritage, Adrian switched careers and became the Web Editor at Birkbeck College in January 1999. Since then he has seen the central Web team at Birkbeck grow from 1.5 to 6 and has been "up-titled" to Web Manager. He is currently overseeing the migration of School Web sites into a Zope content management system, reviews of the content and underlying technologies used in the student and staff intranets, and various other developments, including the piloting of Web/SMS interfaces for administrative and academic use. Adrian facilitated a workshop session on WHS WEB S IT NEWY? - Including Mobile Phone Users in the Loop. Adrian can be contacted at A.Tribe AT bbk.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/# Thu, 07 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000 51.525914 -0.130291 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#tonkin Emma Tonkin works for UKOLN at the University of Bath and is a member of the Interoperability Focus team. Interoperability Focus is a national activity, jointly funded by the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) of the Further and Higher Education Funding Councils and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA). The team publicises and mobilises the benefits and practice of effective interoperability across the library, information, education and cultural heritage communities. Emma facilitated a workshop session on Future-proofing for Collaborative Tools and co-facilitated a workshop session on Folksonomies: Metadata or Mess? with Marieke Guy. Emma can be contacted at E.Tonkin AT ukoln.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#tonkin Thu, 07 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#stevenson Adrian Stevenson is a Senior Technical Officer at MIMAS, currently working on the JISC-funded JORUM project which is an initiative run jointly by the two National Data Centres, MIMAS and EDINA. MIMAS is part of Manchester Computing at the University of Manchester. In May he will be joining the Manchester Computing Learning Technology Services Team. He is currently working on Web-based systems design and development implementing interoperability specifications using XML and Web Service technologies. Prior to this he was a Web Developer for Multimedia Services at Leeds Metropolitan University (2001-2002) and the Web Editor at King's College London (2000-2001). Adrian first studied Economics and later Continental Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Following this he went on to become a guitarist in a number of bands based in London, as well as a Sound Engineer for independent artists such My Bloody Valentine. Adrian facilitated a workshop session on How to Find a Needle in the Haystack. Adrian can be contacted at adrian.stevenson AT manchester.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#stevenson Thu, 07 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000 53.469785 -2.228251 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#stephens Owen Stephens has been E-Strategy Co-ordinator since 2003, adding to his existing role of Systems Librarian at RHUL, which he has held since 1998. At RHUL he is responsible for the delivery of a variety of Web-based services, including those delivered via the RHUL Institutional Portal, "Campus Connect". He has been blogging on and off since 2003, and is interested in exploiting blogs, RSS and related technologies in an educational context. Owen provided the Workshop Blog. Owen can be contacted at Owen.Stephens AT rhul.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#stephens Thu, 07 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#kelly-j John X Kelly is the Legal Information Officer with the JISC Legal Information Service. He is based in Learning Services at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. A qualified lawyer with a background in legal publishing John's interests include data protection compliance in universities and colleges Web publishing. John facilitated a workshop session on Avoiding the Legal Obstacles in Web Management. John can be contacted at john.kelly AT strath.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#kelly-j Thu, 07 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000 55.864524 -4.246645 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#kelly Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus - a post funded by the JISC and MLA which provides advice and support to the UK Higher and Further Education communities and the museums, libraries and archives sector on Web issues. Brian is based at UKOLN. Brian has been chair of the programme committee for the Institutional Web Management Workshop series since he established the event in 1997. Brian's interests include Web standards, Web accessibility, quality assurance for Web services and innovative Web developments, including collaborative Web tools. Brian facilitated a workshop session on RSS: Let's Clear The Confusion And Start Using!. Brian is also chair of the Programme Committee and a member of the Organising Committee. Brian can be contacted at b.kelly AT ukoln.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#kelly Thu, 07 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#guy Marieke Guy works for UKOLN at the University of Bath and is a member of the Interoperability Focus team. Interoperability Focus is a national activity, jointly funded by the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) of the Further and Higher Education Funding Councils and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA). The team publicises and mobilises the benefits and practice of effective interoperability across the library, information, education and cultural heritage communities. Marieke's previous roles at UKOLN have included Project Manager for the Subject Portals Project (SPP) and ePrints UK projects, NOF-digitise advisor and editor of the Cultivate Interactive, Exploit Interactive and Ariadne Web magazines. Marieke co-facilitated a workshop session with Emma Tonkin on Folksonomies: Metadata or Mess?. Marieke can be contacted at m.guy AT ukoln.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#guy Thu, 07 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#dowland Jon Dowland is Web Development Officer, Information Systems and Services, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Jon is also the project officer for the JISC-funded IAMSECT project. Jon facilitated a workshop session on Inter-institutional Authorisation using Shibboleth: Myths, Lies and the Truth. Jon can be contacted at Jon.Dowland AT newcastle.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#dowland Thu, 07 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000 54.98281 -1.61396 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#craven Jenny Craven is a Research Associate at the Centre for Research in Library and Information Management (CERLIM), Manchester Metropolitan University. She has worked on a number of research projects concerned with Web accessibility and library services for visually impaired people (see http://www.cerlim.ac.uk/projects/index-accessib). She has delivered conference papers and workshops in Europe, Central and South America, and Asia and has published widely. She is currently working on an EU-funded project: the European Internet Accessibility Observatory (further details at http://www.cerlim.ac.uk/projects/eiao/). Jenny facilitated a workshop session on Whose Web Do You Think It Is? Considering Web Accessibility And Usability From The Perspective Of Different User Groups. Jenny can be contacted at j.craven AT mmu.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#craven Thu, 07 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000 53.473437 -2.239494 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#couzin Gilles Couzin is a Senior Web Trainer and Consultant at the University of Bristol. Prior to this Gilles spent 10 years as a language teacher/programme coordinator at the University's Language Centre where he somehow learnt the ropes of Web design. In the past three years he has been supporting academic and administrative units to migrate their websites into a Zope based system implementing the new University corporate style. Gilles co-facilitated a workshop session with Urfan Ali on Democratising the Web: The Revenge Of The Non-Techie. Gilles can be contacted at Gilles.Couzin AT bristol.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#couzin Thu, 07 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000 51.460264 -2.602515 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#burrell Julie Burrell is a Senior Professional Specialist for Information Systems Services at the University of Southampton. For the past 10 years she has been a part of the Web team at Southampton, although her background is in Library and Information work. Currently, Julie is involved with the implementation of the corporate CMS throughout the University. Julie co-facilitated a workshop session with Colin Work on From the Ridiculous to the Sublime? Lessons from Implementing a Corporate CMS at the University of Southampton. Julie can be contacted at J.Burrell AT soton.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#burrell Thu, 07 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000 50.93539 -1.399727 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#ali Urfan Ali is the Web and New Media Manager at the University of Bristol and is based in the Public Relations Office. His responsibilities include the strategic and ongoing development of the University's 'corporate web' and the provision of web templates, guidelines and standards to University departments. He is currently working on various projects including the implementation of a Zope/Plone content management system. Before this Urfan worked in the commercial sector as a web and multimedia producer. He has been at the University of Bristol for just over 3 years and is still discovering the delights of the idiosyncratic working practices of a typical University. Urfan co-facilitated a workshop session with Gilles Couzin on Democratising the Web: The Revenge Of The Non-Techie. Urfan can be contacted at urfan.ali AT bristol.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#ali Thu, 07 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000 51.460264 -2.602515 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#savory Andrew Savory has seen Web development from both sides of the fence over the last decade: during the first half he worked and managed UEA's Web development; more recently, he has been managing an Internet applications company working primarily in the academic sector. Andrew is a committer on several Apache Software Foundation projects, Managing Director of Luminas, and an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of East Anglia. Andrew facilitated a workshop session on Whose Work Is It Anyway?. Andrew can be contacted at Andrew AT luminas.co.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#savory Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#mcconnell Mike McConnell is the Web Team Manager of the University of Aberdeen's Web Design Unit and currently manages a team of six staff who are responsible for the University's central Web presence, and the maintenance of certain departments and sections across the institution. Mike formerly worked at the Robert Gordon University as an Educational Development Officer, and as a researcher in Information Science. Prior to that he worked at the sharp end of IT user support in the oil services industry. Mike has published on technology issues in education, Web usability and produced a number of educational Web applications. Mike co-facilitated a workshop session with Iain Middleton on Hey! You! Get Offa My Web! Hidden Desires and Unforeseen Circumstances in Web Management. Mike can be contacted at m.mcconnell AT abdn.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#mcconnell Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000 57.168409 -2.094183 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#middleton Iain Middleton works in the Learning Technology Unit at the University of Aberdeen where he co-ordinates the development of the staff and student web portals. He worked in academia for a number of years researching help desks, user support and the developing World Wide Web, teaching searching and authoring skills and latterly managing the Robert Gordon University Web site, playing a leading role in its redevelopment and the introduction of a content management system. He has published on user support, learning technology and Web management issues. Iain co-facilitated a workshop session with Mike McConnell on Hey! You! Get Offa My Web! Hidden Desires and Unforeseen Circumstances in Web Management. Iain can be contacted at i.a.middleton AT abdn.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#middleton Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000 57.168409 -2.094183 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#metcalfe Randy Metcalfe is the OSS Watch Communications Manager. He is responsible for all aspects of internal and external communications for OSS Watch, a role he previously filled for the Humbul Humanities Hub. Within OSS Watch Randy concentrates on raising the level of awareness of free and open source fundamentals as well as exploring aspects of community building prevalent within open source development projects. Randy facilitated a workshop session on Community Building - Open Source and Open Content. Randy can be contacted at info AT ox.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#metcalfe Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000 51.759480 -1.260209 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#lowndes Mike Lowndes is Interactive Media Manager at the Natural History Museum (NHM), London, where he is responsible for the operational management and technical development of the Web site and Intranet and acts as technical advisory on e-applications to the Museum. Previously, he narrowly escaped from a career as a neuroanatomist by learning Web skills while a Departmental Lecturer at Oxford University. Before that he spent seven years studying learning and memory: this however, did not lead to any improvements. On-going interests are in content management (see the TechWatch content management Mike co-authored - [PDF format]), interoperablity and exposing the deep Web (see NHM's Data Locator), Web analytics, 3D reconstruction and visualisation (see the NHM's Virtual Wonders) and building content-rich Web sites (see Seeds of Trade Web site). Mike facilitated a workshop session on Lies, Damn Lies, and Web Statistics. Mike can be contacted at m.lowndes AT nhm.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#lowndes Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#franklin Tom Franklin runs Franklin Consulting which offers consultancy services in educational technology. His particular interests are in portals, educational technology standards and VLEs and MLEs. He is technical advisor to the Higher Education Academy's Connects portal, where his work has included the selection and definition of appropriate standards and developing appropriate techniques for developing the channels in Web sites and portals. Franklin gave a plenary talk on There Is No Such Thing As A Silver Bullet: CMS And Portals Will Not Solve Your Problems! and facilitating a workshop session on Embedding Third Party Services in Web Sites and Portals - From Links to WSRP the Pros and Cons. Tom can be contacted at tom AT franklin-consulting.co.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#franklin Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#walker Peter Walker has 15 years experience in the IT industry working in local government, private industry and at the University of Bristol. His career started in database and PC development work but rapidly moved to project and group management. Pete has led on projects delivering a Council Asset Register, home-to-schools transport management, commercial student record and stock-control system and range of HE applications. The technology base of these projects range through PC-based, mainframe, client-server, and the Web. Since January 2002 Pete has managed the Internet Development (ID) Group, the consultancy wing of the Institute for Learning and Research Technology. ID delivers Web projects, large and small, to the University and the Higher Education and public sector. Further details about Pete and the work of the ILRT can be found at http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk/ Peter facilitated a workshop session on on It Always Takes Longer Than You Think (Even If You Think It Will Take Longer Than You Think). Peter can be contacted at peter.walker AT bristol.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#walker Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 51.460264 -2.602515 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#upton Ian Upton is a Web Applications Developer at the University of Birmingham. He is currently responsible for developing 'new generation' Web infrastructure for the corporate Web site and creating the mechanisms needed to support those who contribute to it. Ian facilitated a workshop session on on Defining the Role of the Web Editor. Ian can be contacted at I.P.Upton AT bham.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#upton Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 52.452505 -1.928573 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#stanley Tracey Stanley is the Head of E-Strategy and Development at the Library, University of Leeds. She is responsible for the development of Library strategy for electronic services and electronic resources. She currently chairs the Steering Group for the Library's Hybrid Library Project. She has also spearheaded a number of Library initiatives in using virtual learning environments for the delivery of e-learning support activities. Tracey is Project Director for the PORTOLE project (funded under the JISC DiVLE programme) which is looking at the integration of resource discovery tools into a Virtual Learning Environment. Tracey has produced a series of articles for the Ariadne electronic journal, and has undertaken consultancy work for Netskills and for other UK universities. Previous posts held by Tracey include Faculty Team Leader, Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences Team (December 1998 - December 2001) and Networked Information Officer (March 1995 - December 1998), both at Leeds University Library. Tracey facilitated a workshop session on Developing an E-content Strategy for your Web Site. Tracey can be contacted at T.S.Stanley AT leeds.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#stanley Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 53.814893 -1.553106 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#sargan Helen Varley Sargan works for the University of Cambridge Computing Service, handling information for and on the Web, giving courses on Web technologies and generaly doing webmaster stuff. In other lives a zoologist and refereee to two daughters and an overweight cat. Helen facilitated a workshop session on Choosing a Search Engine for your Web Site. Helen can be contacted at hvs1001 AT cam.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#sargan Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 52.209132 0.116215 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#ruskuc Ester Ruskuc is a Project Manager in Business Improvements of the University of St Andrews. Ester has a background in IT and a wide ranging experience of many aspects of higher education administration, information flow, data management and administrative systems. She is involved, and has a keen interest in, the management of IT related projects, business process re-engineering and change management. Ester co-presented a plenary talk and co-facilitated a workshop session with Heidi Fraser-Krauss on From Swipe Card Machine to the Computer Screen. Ester can be contacted at er3 AT st.andrews.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#ruskuc Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 56.33876 -2.816234 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#rahtz Sebastian Rahtz is normally Information Manager for Oxford University Computing Services, but is currently seconded part-time to manage the JISC Open Source Advisory Service (OSS Watch). As this role lets him play with open source software a lot, and reject MS Word attachments with a clear conscience, he is having fun. Sebastian also serves as a member of the Board of Directors, and Technical Council, of the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) and recommends TEI markup to anyone who stays around long enough to listen. Sebastian gave a plenary talk on Beyond Free Beer: Is Using Open Source A Matter Of Choosing Software or Joining A Political Movement? and co-facilitating a workshop session on Being Open Source with Randy Metcalfe. Sebastian can be contacted at: sebastian.rahtz AT computing-services.oxford.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#rahtz Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 51.755329 -1.261454 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#porter Joel Porter is the Senior Communications Officer within the Office of Marketing and Communication at St Martin's College, Cumbria. Joel is responsible for the external face of the College through the corporate Web site as well as developing internal communications via the college Intranet. Joel has a background in Photography and has exhibited nationally. Joel co-facilitated a workshop session on Cheesy And Sad Images with Claire Gibbons. Joel can be contacted at j.porter AT ucsm.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#porter Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 55.070505 -2.881165 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#metcalfe Randy Metcalfe is Communications Manager for OSS Watch, based within the Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford. He is responsible for all aspects of internal and external communications with particular focus on the online presence of OSS Watch. He has previously been Communications Director of a national charity developing citizenship education materials for schools and further education. In that capacity he has authored resources for BBC Education and others. His previous work was in philosophy with a special interest in ethics. Randy co-facilitated a workshop session on Being Open Source with Sebastian Rahtz. Randy can be contacted at randolph.metcalfe AT computing-services.oxford.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#metcalfe Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 51.755329 -1.261454 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#lauke Patrick H Lauke has been Webmaster at the University of Salford since January 2001, where he is involved in both strategic planning and hands-on design/development for all University Web sites. He heads a small central Web team which is directly responsible not only for the development and maintenance of the University's core Web site, but also for the creation and dissemination of University-wide guidelines and templates for the various departmental Web authors. An outspoken accessibility and standards advocate (although he's been called an "evangelist", with only slight negative connotations, by some of his colleagues), Patrick favours a pragmatic hands-on approach to Web accessibility over purely theoretical, high-level discussions. Back in September 2003, Patrick completed the relaunch of the main University of Salford site, pulling it in line with revised corporate identity guidelines and abandoning the kludged, table-based markup with standards-compliant XHTML, CSS and enhanced accessibility features. Patrick facilitated a workshop session on Implementing Web Standards Across The Institution - Trials And Tribulations Of A Redesign. Patrick can be contacted at P.H.Lauke AT salford.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#lauke Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 53.489322 -2.271166 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#kelly Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus - a post funded by the JISC and MLA which provides advice and support to the UK Higher and Further Education communities and the museums, libraries and archives sector on Web issues. Brian is based at UKOLN. Brian has been chair of the programme committee for the Institutional Web Management Workshop series since he established the event in 1997. Brian's interests include Web standards, technical architectures for Web services and innovative Web developments. Brian is chair of the Programme Committee and a member of the Organising Committee. Brian gave a plenary talk on Life After Email: Strategies For Collaboration in the 21st Century, contributed Lawrie Phipps to the talk on Beyond Web Accessibility: Providing A Holistic User Experience, and co-facilitated a workshop session on QA For Web sites - What Goes Wrong And How Can We Prevent It? with Amanda Closier. Brian can be contacted at B.Kelly AT ukoln.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#kelly Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 51.366074 -2.329445 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#gibbons Claire Gibbons is the Web Officer for the University of Bradford, working within the department of Marketing and Corporate Communications. Claire is responsible for the external face of the University's web presence and works closely with departments and Schools to ensure consistency of University brand and message as well as compliance with standards and legislation, such as SENDA. Claire was recently shortlisted for the national HEIST Young Marketer of the Year award (an award which she will be too old to enter next year!). Claire co-facilitated a workshop session on Cheesy And Sad Images with Joel Porter. Claire can be contacted at c.s.gibbons AT bradford.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#gibbons Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 53.792235 -1.76206 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#fraser-krauss Heidi Fraser-Krauss is the Director of Business Improvements (BI) at the University of St Andrews. BI is a relatively new Unit which combines the traditional MIS function with project management and process analysis/re engineering expertise. Heidi has a background in management and has worked on a number of research projects aimed at improving communication and business processes in manufacturing companies. Before she took up her current post she was part of the team who introduced e-business to the University of St Andrews. Heidi gave a plenary talk on E-business: Why Join In? and facilitated a workshop session on From Swipe Card Machine to the Computer Screen both jointly with Ester Ruskuc. Heidi can be contacted at hmf AT st.andrews.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#fraser-krauss Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 56.33876 -2.816234 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#closier Amanda Closier is a Research Officer at UKOLN, University of Bath. Her time is split between working for QA Focus and working for the JISC IESR (Information Environment Service Registry) Pilot project. Prior to this Amanda worked for a JISC 5/99 project as an Information Officer and has a background in library and information work. Amanda co-facilitated a workshop session with Brian Kelly on QA For Web Sites: What Goes Wrong And How Can We Prevent It? with Brian Kelly. Amanda can be contacted at a.closier AT ukoln.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#closier Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#pitts Kieren Pitts joined ILRT during June 2001 having freelanced for the Institute at various times since 1999. He is currently employed as a Senior Technical Researcher for the Biz/ed service and the Internet Development (ID) group. Recently Kieren has been working on the implementation of the Plone Content Management System (CMS). In addition he is currently working on an online graphing tool using Scalable Vector Graphics, a number of Flash-based games & simulations and further developments to his metadata aggregation tool. As a freelance developer his clients included The Daily Telegraph, Novartis AG, Wiggins Teape and British Aerospace. Previous to his current position Kieren gained a PhD in insect ecology from the University of Bristol. In recent years Kieren's research interests have centred on the development of interactive and educational online games and simulations. Kieren co-facilitated a workshop session on Give The Dog A Plone with Dominic Hiles. Kieren can be contacted at Kieren.Pitts AT bristol.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#pitts Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 51.460264 -2.602515 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#milne-p Paul Milne is the Documentation Officer at EDINA, a national datacentre based at the University of Edinburgh. One of the hats he wears is the Web Editor of the EDINA web site. Another is accessibility watchdog. He also has an unhealthy interest in usability issues. Paul co-facilitated a workshop session on on Paper Prototyping in Practice with Peigi MacKillop. Paul can be contacted at paul.milne AT edina.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#milne-p Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 55.948239 -3.185606 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#milne-c Chris Milne is a Senior Information Specialist (Academic Librarian) at the University of Abertay Dundee. He spent five years at the Robert Gordon University Aberdeen, 1990 - 1995 first completing his undergraduate degree BA (Hons) Librarianship and Information Studies and then continuing with his Post graduate studies (PgDip Information Analysis). Having turned his professional development towards the management area he has recently completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Personnel Management and is now studying for the PRINCE2 Practitioner exams having passed the PRINCE2 foundation element. He worked at the Robert Gordon University briefly before moving to the University of Abertay Dundee to co-ordinate the development of the University's IT Help Desk. From 1998 - 2002 Chris was the Academic Librarian for Abertay's Business School and latterly the School of Computing. From 2002 to date he worked closely with colleagues across teams to develop library services including the introduction of an information literacy programme into the University's modular scheme. Chris's current duties include co-ordinating the revision of the University's Information Strategy and implementing the introduction of the project management methodology PRINCE2 into the University's Information Services Department and providing project support to the University's portal project. Chris facilitated a workshop session on on Taxonomy: The Science Of Classification. Chris can be contacted at c.milne AT abertay.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#milne-c Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 55.948239 -3.185606 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#middleton Bo Middleton is Portal Project Manager at the University of Leeds. She has responsibility for planning and developing an institutional portal including undertaking a business analysis of University requirements for a portal product and scoping a detailed business case for a portal service. Previously, Bo taught electronics, computer science and programming before escaping from a career as an academic and becoming a full-time techie, most recently specialising in library systems and library portals. Bo facilitated a workshop session on Using your Ayes and Noes: Creating a Business Case for an Institutional Portal. Bo can be contacted at m.m.middleton AT leeds.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#middleton Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 53.814893 -1.553106 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#malcolm Grant Malcolm is the Web Coordinator at The University of Western Australia. Appointed in 2001, Grant was the first full-time, centrally employed web officer at the University. He has managed the establishment of the University Website Office, the key Web policy, support and advisory unit of the University. The Website Office has overseen the roll out of an open source content management system to most business units around this highly devolved University. In a previous incarnation Grant was the Computer Technician/Tutor in the Language Studies Department at Edith Cowan University (Western Australian). The department was recognised nationally as a centre of excellence in language teaching and research, in part for it's innovative use of new technologies. Grant facilitated a workshop session on on Measuring the Impact of a CMS Implementation. Grant can be contacted at grant.malcolm AT uwa.edu.au http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#malcolm Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#maccabe David MacCabe is a Project Manger/Business Analyst at the University of Abertay Dundee. He is relatively new to higher education (Jan 2004) having worked in the private sector in a number of project management, business analysis, systems analysis and development roles. He ran his own database and software development consultancy for seven years. At Abertay, current projects include process mapping, business intelligence and, of course, the University portal. David c0-facilitated a workshop session on on Taxonomy: The Science Of Classification with Chris Milne. David can be contacted at d.maccabe AT abertay.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#maccabe Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 56.46856 -2.974463 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#mackillop Peigi MacKillop is the Training Office for EDINA, a national data centre based at the University of Edinburgh. Peigi has a background in Systems Librarianship but changed direction in 2001 after gaining a training qualification. She became interested in usability through observation of users and feedback at training sessions. Peigi co-facilitated a workshop session on on Paper Prototyping in Practice with Paul Milne. Peigi can be contacted at Peigi.MacKillop AT edina.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#mackillop Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 55.948239 -3.185606 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#hiles Dominic Hiles is a Web Developer within the Internet Development Group of the Institute for Learning and Research Technology, based at the University of Bristol. His recent work at the Institute has concentrated on the development and bespoke implementation of the Plone Content Management System (CMS). Dominic has previously developed a wide variety of database-backed information systems and turned his attention to Web-enabled database systems around 4 years ago. This started with the development of a 'portal' for the School of Biological Sciences at the University (using Macromedia Coldfusion) and has included stints of JSP development as well as database design and implementation using Microsoft Access, Oracle and PostgreSQL. Dominic co-facilitated a workshop session on Give The Dog A Plone with Kieren Pitts. Dominic can be contacted at Dominic.Hiles AT bristol.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#hiles Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 51.460264 -2.602515 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#campbell Jason Campbell is the Service Manager at JISC Legal Information Service, which gives information on ICT law to colleges and universities throughout the United Kingdom. Its aim is to prevent legal barriers being an obstacle to the use of ICT in the FE and HE sectors. He lectured in law at the University of Abertay Dundee for ten years before joining the Service. Jason facilitated a workshop session on Integrating Legal Compliance into Web Management. Jason can be contacted at Jason.Campbell AT strath.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#campbell Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 55.864524 -4.246645 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#browning Paul Browning is Assistant Director, Information Strategy at the University of Bristol (but was an earth scientist who ran a departmental network in a former life). Paul wrote the JISC TechWatch Reports on Content Management Systems and Through The Web (TTW) Authoring Tools, and the Technical Review of the systems developed by the JISC "Building MLEs in HE" (7/99) programme. He is Chair of the Advisory Committee for OSS Watch - the JISC -funded Open Source advisory service. Currently he heads up Bristol's Pilot Portal Project. Paul facilitated a workshop session on on Blogs & Wikis: Herding Cats?. Paul can be contacted at Paul.Browning AT bristol.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#browning Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 51.460264 -2.602515 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#musgrave Steve Musgrave is a PhD research student involved in Telematic research into Community Portals. He is a full time IT Manager at Blackpool and the Fylde College in Lancashire. Formerly a merchant navy Radio/Electronics Officer and design engineer with IMR/ITT. Beyond the professional qualifications he holds a B.Sc (Hons) in Electronics with Computing; an MSc in Information Technology and a post graduate Diploma in Management of Education. With a strong background in the Further Education sector as a Principal Lecturer and Head of Division of Communication Engineering, he transferred to a position in IT Management with Blackpool and The Fylde College to develop and implement a unified college-wide electronic network interlinking the campus sites, buildings and outreach centres. Implementation of a Virtual Learning Environment is currently on-going. Direct personal experience of managing multi-million pound IT projects has been gained through project management of Further Education Funding Council (FEFC) projects, notably the ICT centred 'Regional Open System for Education' project and SIGMA projects, giving network inter/intra connectivity between Colleges in a virtual private network. Recent experience of Community Portal planning, design and implementation has arisen through the partnership of Blackpool Borough Council, Blackpool and The Fylde College, and Telewest, in feasibility studies and planning of a 'Broadband Interactive Grid' public sector Community Network strategy for the Fylde Coast of Lancashire. Representation at national level includes membership of the JISC Information Environment Committee (JCIE) and NILTA Technical Committee. Steve gave a plenary talk on Community Portals - A False Dawn Over The Field of Dreams? and faciltated a workshop on "Vertical Learning Environment to Community Portal". http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#musgrave Sun, 13 Jul 2003 00:00:00 +0000 53.840779 -3.05351 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#beckett Dave Beckett is a senior technical researcher at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology (ILRT), University of Bristol working on Semantic Web and web technology research, development and standardisation. He has been developing, researching and deploying Internet research discovery, search and metadata systems since 1993 and based at the ILRT since 2000. Dave presently works on the EU-funded IST project Semantic Web Advanced Development Europe (SWAD-Europe) on deploying and developing practical applications and approaches for this new technology. As part of this he does standardisation work on the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and on the Resource Description Framework (RDF), the foundation work of the W3C Semantic Web Activity. Dave edits two of the RDF specifications in development. Dave Beckett gave the opening keynote plenary talk on day 2 on The Semantic Web and faciltated a Semantic Web BoF. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#beckett Sun, 13 Jul 2003 00:00:00 +0000 51.298342 1.067648 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#agarwal Sarah Agarwal is a consultant Project Manager, specialising in user-centred Web and application development. She has worked for the Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol since 2002. During that time, she's worked on a variety of internal and external development projects, using user-centred design techniques with particular effect in politically difficult and organisationally complex developments. Sarah has previously worked in the field of intranets, knowledge management, usability and information science for other not-for-profit organisations, such as the BBC and the Environment Agency. She has written articles and given seminars on Web-related subjects such as design, information architecture, usability, end-user surveying and change management issues. Sarah Agarwal gave a plenary talk on Focussing On Users: Gathering Users' Requirements and failtated a session on "Practical Approaches For Gathering Users' Requirements". http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#agarwal Fri, 11 Jul 2003 00:00:00 +0000 51.460264 -2.602515 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#steward Jean Steward is Director of Library, Learning and IT Services at the University of East Anglia. She is Project Director of the JISC-funded MARTINI project, which is developing open source-based student access to corporate information and previously acted as Project Director for the Agora resource discovery project. Under her direction the UEA is also currently leading projects on records management for research records and video streaming. Jean facilitated a session on "Managing People And Resources". http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#steward Fri, 13 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 52.628557 1.246948 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#rushworth Anne Rushworth is the Staff Development Manager at the University of Kent. She has been at Kent since 1990 and in former lives was a secondary school teacher and worked in the voluntary sector in the London Borough of Brent during the lively times of the 1980s. Her current professional interests are Work/Life Balance (including how to get her own balance right), professional and skills' development for technical and related staff, and supporting staff in promoting equality and diversity. Ann facilitated a session on "Managing People in an Educational Environment". http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#rushworth Fri, 13 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 51.298074 1.067605 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#neisser George Neisser joined Manchester Computing in 1984 and has been involved in various network related projects and activities on a wide range of hardware platforms and operating systems. He is currently involved with the Bandwidth Management Advisory Service (BMAS), the development of multimedia Web Based systems for teaching and learning and infrastructure monitoring and management. Prior to this George worked on the Name Registration Scheme, coloured book protocols and protocol analysis software at the Computing Systems Research and Development Centre at Salford University. George studied for his Physics degree at Manchester University and then moved to UMIST to undertake research in the computerised techniques for the determination of the crystalline structure of polymers for which he was awarded a PhD in 1980. George co-facilitated a session on "Bandwidth Management Techniques: Technical And Policy Issues" with Ingrid Evans. George can be contacted at George.Neisser AT nessie.mcc.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#neisser Fri, 13 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 53.469785 -2.228251 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#mcdonald Diane McDonald is a senior member of the Information Resources Directorate of the University of Strathclyde. Her current major interest is in the use of technology to enhance the effectiveness of the University, and organisations or communities in general. As part of this Diane is responsible for a number of projects ranging from Knowledge Management to the design and develop an intelligence-enabled infrastructure of networked services for supporting the citizen of the future. Diane Diane is a member of the Programme Committee. and facilitated a workshop session on "Web Services and The Institutional Web". http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#mcdonald Fri, 13 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 55.864524 -4.246645 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#fearon Kriss Fearon has been Web Coordinator at the University of York for 7 years. She has a publishing background and an MPhil in Publishing Studies from the University of Stirling. She is responsible for advice and support to Web authors, and implementation of non-technical Web issues mainly based around project work such as advertising, legal liability, design revisions, and other issues common to many HE institutions. Her particular interests are in effective departmental outreach in decentralised institutions, supporting Web authors, accessibility and professionalisation of Web staff. Kriss was a member of the Programme Committee. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#fearon Fri, 13 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 53.9484 -1.0536 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#franklin Tom Franklin graduated in Zoology in 1980. Since then Tom has worked in computing in a number of capacities. Initally a programmer and then consultant in industry he went on to do an MSc in Systems Design and then to lead a research programme into the use of computers to sell financial and other services for a major bank. Since then he has worked in the education sector, first on high performance computing and then managing JISC development programmes. His particular interests are in new educational possibilities created by technology, learning environments and user-centred design. Tom facilitated a session on "Ubiquitous Computing And The Institutional Web". Tom can be contacted at tom AT techlearn.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#franklin Fri, 13 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#evans Ingrid Evans joined the JANET Web Cache Service in 2001 and is now working as a User Liaison Officer for the Bandwidth Management Advisory Service (BMAS) based at Manchester Computing. It is her duty to promote the BMAS to the UK academic community, provide user documentation and information about the Service, assess user requirements & maintain and develop the BMAS website. Prior to joining BMAS Ingrid was a Project Officer for an e-Lib document delivery project, and has previous IT support experience in a school environment. She is also interested in web accessibility and is web designer and foilist for the Universities of Manchester Fencing club. Ingrid co-facilitated a session on "Bandwidth Management Techniques: Technical And Policy Issues" with George Neisser. Ingrid can be contacted at ingrid.evans AT man.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#evans Fri, 13 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 53.469785 -2.228251 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#campbell Lorna M. Campbell is an Assistant Director of the Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards (CETIS). She has been involved in developing and supporting the use of learning technologies to facilitate teaching and education since 1997. She has also played an active role in a variety of projects facilitating the reuse of interoperable educational resources. These include the Scottish electronic Staff Development Library, the DNER and Learning Objects project and the CEN/ISSS WSLT Taxonomies and Vocabularies Project. Associated areas of research include the implementation of learning object metadata, the identification of common practice frameworks and development of application profiles and the use of educational classification systems and controlled vocabularies. Lorna facilitated a session on "Learning Technology Interoperability Standards Update". Lorna can be contacted at lmc AT strath.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#campbell Fri, 13 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 55.864837 -4.247246 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#stanley Tracey Stanley is the Head of E-Strategy and Development at the Library, University of Leeds. She is responsible for the development of Library strategy for electronic services and electronic resources. She currently chairs the Steering Group for the Library's Hybrid Library Project. She has also spearheaded a number of Library initiatives in using virtual learning environments for the delivery of e-learning support activities. Tracey is Project Director for the PORTOLE project (funded under the JISC DiVLE programme) which is looking at the integration of resource discovery tools into a Virtual Learning Environment. Tracey has produced a series of articles for the Ariadne electronic journal, and has undertaken consultancy work for Netskills and for other UK universities. Previous posts held by Tracey include Faculty Team Leader, Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences Team (December 1998 - December 2001) and Networked Information Officer (March 1995 - December 1998), both at Leeds University Library. Tracey is a member of the Programme Committee and faciltated a session on "Can Librarians Transform The Institutional Web?". Tracey can be contacted at T.S.Stanley AT leeds.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#stanley Thu, 12 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 50.934416 -1.396294 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#mccombe Anne McCombe is the Publicity Officer for the JISC-funded MIMAS service: a national data centre for UK Education and Research, based at the University of Manchester. Services supported by MIMAS include ISI Web of Science, copac, zetoc, Crossfire, the UK Census Aggregate Statistics and the new Economic and Social Data Service for International Data. In her role as Publicity Officer Anne needs to keep an eye on developments in all these services, and coordinates activities that concern more than a single MIMAS service. She is project manager of the MIMAS Accessibility Compliance Exercise and editor of the MIMAS Newsletter, Focus on MIMAS. Before coming to MIMAS, Anne was a systems programmer, user support advisor and systems integrator, devising ways to ensure that releases of new software and applications were tested, fully documented and didn't get in the way of each other. She has worked at two regional computer centres: at Manchester and the University of London Computer Centre where she has an office. Anne co-facilitated a workshop session on "Catching Mistakes: QA for your Web site" with Marieke Guy. Anne can be contacted at anne.mccombe AT man.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#mccombe Thu, 12 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 53.469785 -2.228251 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#lowndes Mike Lowndes has been the Web Manager at The Natural History Museum for 5 years. Previously, he narrowly escaped from a career as a neuroanatomist by learning web skills while a Departmental Lecturer at Oxford University. Before that he spent seven years studying learning and memory: this however, did not lead to any improvements. He now manages a small team supporting the Museum's website and intranet and his ongoing interests are in content management, exposing the 'deep Web' and 3D reconstruction. Mike facilitated a session on "'One Query To Rule Them All' - Cross-database Searching and Finding". Mike can be contacted at mikel AT nhm.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#lowndes Thu, 12 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#jones Richard Jones, University of Leeds is currently the Web Accessibility Officer for the University of Leeds with responsibility for leading the move towards accessibility compliance for the University's Web-based material in light of the Special Educational Needs Act. Before coming to the University of Leeds he worked for a number of commercial Web design agencies offering accessibility and usability design consultancy. Richard co-facilitated a session on "E-learning And Accessibility" with Melissa Highton. Richard can be contacted at r.g.g.jones AT as.leeds.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#jones Thu, 12 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 53.814893 -1.553106 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#hubbard Bill Hubbard, is the Project Manager of the JISC FAIR project, SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access) and is based at the University of Nottingham. Bill has a background in HE and IT; in particular in work aiming to embed IT into university functions and working practices. Most recently, he was a project manager in a private company specialising in virtual reality software in communications, education and heritage. Before this he was a senior lecturer at De Montfort University, leading a degree course in Multimedia Design. He has also worked at Aston and Sheffield universities on building the use of multimedia and networked services in teaching and learning. Bill will be facilitating a session on e-prints. Bill facilitated a session on "Institutional E-print Repositories". Bill can be contacted at bill.hubbard AT nottingham.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#hubbard Thu, 12 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 52.945638 -1.184893 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#highton Melissa Highton, University of Leeds is Senior Staff Development Officer at University of Leeds with specific responsibility for the delivery of staff development programmes which support academic staff in the integration of communications and information technology into their courses. Her work has strong emphasis on pedagogical uses of learning technology tools and in enhancing learning and teaching. Before moving to University of Leeds she worked for Royal Holloway, University of London, Napier University in Edinburgh and is a visiting lecturer at City University. Melissa co-facilitated a session on "E-learning And Accessibility" with Richard Jones. Melissa can be contacted at M.Highton AT adm.leeds.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#highton Thu, 12 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 53.814893 -1.553106 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#guy Marieke Guy is one half of the QA Focus post, supporting the JISC 5/99 programme. She works at UKOLN, a national centre of expertise in digital information management, which is based at the University of Bath. Her previous roles at UKOLN include NOF-digitise Advisor and Information Officer. She has been editor of the Exploit Interactive and Cultivate Interactive Web magazines and deputy editor of the Ariadne Web magazine. Marieke has given a number of presentations and workshops around the UK and abroad on various aspects of Web publishing. Marieke has an MSc. in information Management from Manchester Metropolitan University. Marieke co-facilitated a workshop session on "Catching Mistakes: QA for your Web site" with Ann McCombe. Marieke can be contacted at M.Guy AT ukoln.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#guy Thu, 12 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 51.366074 -2.329445 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#bristow Rob Bristow is currently Information Services Manager at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Bristol. Until recently he was Web Manager at Cass Business School, City of London. In that role he led a team that implemented a commercial Content Management System, Merant Inc's Collage. He has been in pursuit of the perfect Content Management System for the past seven years, and is currently migrating the Graduate School of Education to his fourth CMS. Rob can be contacted at Robert.Bristow AT bristol.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#bristow Thu, 12 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 51.460264 -2.602515 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#backhouse Gaynor Backhouse is the Editor of the innovationONLINE website, a business-facing information service, based at The University of Nottingham. She is responsible for designing and implementing the EMRED data collection system and jointly responsible for the system specification. She is primarily a writer who has been dragged into the world of computers against her better judgment and had to join the Society of Indexers in an attempt to learn how to think like a computer without actually using one. Gaynor co-facilitated a session on "Online Research and Technology Transfer Expertise Systems" with Paul Anderson. Gaynor can be contacted at Gaynor.Backhouse AT nottingham.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#backhouse Thu, 12 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 52.945638 -1.184893 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#anderson Paul Anderson is project manager of the University of Nottingham's InnovationOnline project which aims to develop a regional information service for the link between academia and business. This work includes development of EMRED - the East Midlands Research Expertise Directory. Paul is a computer scientist (BSc Leeds University)and software engineer with a background in developing research-related software in industry and academia. His internet-related work includes development work for Sony Europe and acting as a director of the Second Wednesday digital media cluster. Paul co-facilitated a session on "Online Research and Technology Transfer Expertise Systems" with Gaynor Backhouse. Paul can be contacted at Paul.Anderson AT nottingham.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#anderson Thu, 12 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 52.945638 -1.184893 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#young Chris Young is a Netskills Trainer, based at the University of Newcastle. Netskills offer training on a wide variety of Internet-based topics. Chris has been with Netskills since 1998 and specialises in training in Web Development and Web Technologies, including the Netskills/BTEC "Professional Development Certificate in Web Development". Chris co-facilitated a session on "Professional Development For Managers And Providers Of Web Content - The Way Forward" with Trish Murray. Chris can be contacted at chris.young AT newcastle.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#young Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 54.98281 -1.61396 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#uttley Publications & Web Manager Anne Uttley advanced from a career in PR and Marketing spanning the private, public and HE sectors to develop Royal Holloway's first Web strategy in 2000, recognising the Web's potential as an effective, user-driven marketing and communications channel. Anne will facilitate a workshop session jointly with David Sweeney. Anne co-facilitated a session on "Whose Web Is It Anyway?" with David Sweeney. Anne can be contacted at A.Uttley AT rhul.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#uttley Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 51.535285 -0.118532 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#upton Ian Upton works for the Corporate Web Team at the University of Birmingham. He is responsible for designing, and implementing the current Web architecture and corporate authoring environment. Ian has been involved with developing 'enabling computer infrastructure' and software for the last twelve years. Previous work has included: Technical Development Officer for the BUILDER Project (an eLib project involved with developing the Hybrid Library), Information Services (University of Birmingham - developing and supporting collaborative Internet workspaces), The Centre for Computer Based Learning (University of Birmingham - developing computer based support materials and network infrastructure for teaching), Research Machines (RM - developing turnkey solutions and networks for primary schools) and the BBC (designing and producing educational software for primary school children). It is rumoured he also used to design computer games.... (see http://www.creativestuff.co.uk/). Ian faciliated a session on "From Vision to Reality : Implementing a University Web Strategy". Ian can be contacted at I.P.Upton AT bham.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#upton Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 52.452505 -1.928573 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#sweeney David Sweeney moved into the mainstream world of IT management in the early eighties at just the right moment to build teams and infrastructure to exploit distributed computing. He is currently Director of Information Services at Royal Holloway, University of London where he chairs the web implementation team responsible for developing Internet and Intranet services, and coordinating the input of around 50 Webmasters. David will facilitate a workshop session jointly with Anne Uttley. David co-facilitated a session on "Whose Web Is It Anyway?". David can be contacted at d.sweeney AT rhul.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#sweeney Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 51.535285 -0.118532 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#sargan Helen Varley Sargan works for the University of Cambridge Computing Service, handling information for and on the Web, giving courses on Web technologies and generaly doing webmaster stuff. In other lives a zoologist and refereee to two daughters and an overweight cat. Helen facilitated a session on "Search Facilities For Web Sites". Helen can be contacted at hvs1001 AT cam.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#sargan Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 52.205371 0.129561 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#murray Trish Murray is a Netskills Trainer, based at the University of Newcastle. Netskills offer Internet Training in a variety of Web Technologies and elearning, predominantly within the Higher and Further Education communities. Trish has specialised in the area of Web Technologies including HTML, Web Accessibility, Dynamic HTML, and XML. Trish has been at Netskills for three years, and previously worked as a research consultant in coastal management. Trish co-facilitated a session on "Professional Development For Managers And Providers Of Web Content - The Way Forward" with Chris Young. Trish can be contacted at p.b.murray AT newcastle.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#murray Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 54.98281 -1.61396 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#ewart Catherine Ewart is currently on six-month secondment to the Natural Environment Research Council to manage the implementation of a Joint Administration Strategy for all seven research councils and the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB). As a member of the strategy implementation team she is working to identify and deliver opportunities for joint working where this will achieve benefits for research council stakeholders or for internal efficiency. She is also responsible for co-ordinating the work of the research councils and AHRB web teams. In this capacity, she chairs the Joint Council Web Group and has been asked to define the requirements for a research councils' Web portal, in part driven by the Joint Electronic Submission (Je-S) project, an initiative to implement electronic grant submission across the research councils. She is also on the Project Board of a joint project to implement an electronic records management system for the research councils. Prior to her current role, Catherine was Web Manager and before that Corporate Communications Manager at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. She has a PhD in Plant Sciences. Catherine facilitated a workshop session on "Supporting The Research User". Catherine is also a member of the Programme Committee. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#ewart Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#cox Andrew Cox is currently undertaking a study of online communities of practice, and is based in the Department of Information Science, Loughborugh University. He is editor of the Emerald journal, Vine. Previously he was manager of LITC. Chris facilitated a session on "Promoting Online Collaboration and Virtual Community: Benefits For The Web Team". Andrew can be contacted at A.M.Cox AT lboro.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#cox Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 52.775563 -1.224632 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#browning Paul Browning is Information Strategy Co-ordinator at the University of Bristol (but was an earth scientist who ran a departmental network in a former life). Paul is co-author of the JISC TechWatch Report on Content Management Systems. Currently he heads up Bristol's Pilot Portal Project. Most likely to say: "Can I see your TTW WYSIWYG Widget?" Least likely to say: "Let's put Dreamweaver on all our desktops." Paul facilitated a session on "The WWW Web - Widgeted, WebDAVed and Write-enabled Web". Paul can be contacted at Paul.Browning AT bristol.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#browning Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 51.460264 -2.602515 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#awre Chris Awre is a Programme Manager for the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). He has responsibility for portals development and the Focus on Access to Institutional Resources (FAIR) Programme; these together covering both the delivery and provision of information within the JISC Information Environment. A key area of current interest is the integration and delivery of external information within an institutional environment, and he is working closely with JISC colleagues in the Managed Learning Environment (MLE) team to develop this area. Before joining JISC, Chris was a systems and reader services librarian at Imperial, London, involved in running the Unicorn library management system and providing training courses on bibliographic management software and databases. Chris facilitated a session on "Integration, Integration, Integration: Issues Involved in Providing Web Access Across Institutional Systems". Chris can be contacted at chris.awre AT kcl.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#awre Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#weedon Ralph Weedon is the Internet Copyright Officer for the University of Strathclyde. Following a successful bid to JISC in 2000 he is also Project Director for the JISC Legal Information Service. This focuses on those working in Information Services in the widest sense. The service is based at Strathclyde and has two other partners, the UK Centre for Legal Education at the University of Warwick and MacRoberts, Solicitors. Areas of law covered by the service include data protection, liability and monitoring. In future it hopes to look at new issues such as e-commerce in FE/HE. Ralph has recently completed work on two other JISC funded projects. He was Project Officer for 'Policy Approaches to Copyright in HEIs' for JCALT, which investigated issues such as ownership and control of material produced by academic staff particularly, that put up on the Web. This included reference to the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, relevant EU, international legislation and treaties - see http://www.strath.ac.uk/ces/projects/jiscipr/. He also worked with Project Manager Diane MacDonald on 'A Study into Advertising on JANET'. In his role as Internet Copyright Officer, Ralph writes guidelines on electronic copyright, conducts multi-media copyright clearance and drafts copyright licences for institutions, authors and users. He has close links with the university Law School. Ralph co-facilitated the parallel session on Advertising On Web Sites with Kriss Fearon. Ralph can be contacted at ralph.weedon@strath.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#weedon Thu, 20 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 55.864524 -4.246645 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#sclater Niall Sclater is Manager of Educational Systems at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. He has been involved in implementing technology in Higher Education since 1990, initially coordinating the development of multimedia courseware to teach modern languages at the University of Glasgow. Since 1995 he has been promoting learning technology across all subject areas at the University of Strathclyde, advising staff in the effective use of new technologies for learning, communication and assessment. Niall co-founded and manages Clyde Virtual University, set up in 1995 as Europe's first virtual university. His advice has been sought in the development of online learning abroad and he was involved in creating the Virtual Open University in Helsinki, Finland. He is currently managing the Web-Supported Learning initiative of the European Consortium of Innovative Universities and recently co-wrote a proposal to set up a collaborative European Virtual University which has just been received funding of 500,000 Euros from the European Commission. More locally, Niall is currently heavily involved with Scottish Enterprise Glasgow in "Real", a city-wide initiative to create a learning city, where all citizens can gain access to high quality learning materials via the Internet. One of Niall's main interests is in computer assisted assessment. He co-specified and managed the development of the Miranda assessment engine, a Web-based system in use at institutions across the UK. He led the Scottish Computer Assisted Assessment Network in collaboration with Dr Roger Sutcliffe of Glasgow University and Dr Roger Rist of Heriot-Watt University. The Network was funded by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council to promote the use of computers for assessing university students across the country. A major part of this initiative was in the field of standards for the definition of question types. He now manages the CETIS Assessment Special Interest Group, funded by JISC to promote interoperability in the area of online assessment across UK FE and HE. He sits on the panel which is developing BS7988: 'A Code of Practice for the use of Information Technology in the Delivery of Assessments' and is on the IMS Question and Test Interoperability Working Group. Niall co-facilitated the briefing session on "Interoperability and Learning Standards Briefing" with Lorna Campbell. Niall can be contacted at n.Sclater@strath.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#sclater Thu, 20 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 55.864524 -4.246645 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#middleton Iain Middleton is based in the Learning Technology Unit at the University of Aberdeen where he is currently working on a 3-year JISC-funded project to develop Web teaching and learning packages around the Museums and Special Collections, having previously been Web Editor at The Robert Gordon University where he played a leading role in the comprehensive redevelopment of the institution's Web presence. He holds a degree in Human Computer Interaction from Heriot-Watt University and a Masters in Information Analysis (Distinction) from The Robert Gordon University where he also spent 5 years in research at the School of Information and Media, specialising in help desks, online user support systems and communication on the World Wide Web. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) and maintains his research interest in the co-ordination of Web sites and help desks in user support, and the role of the Web in Higher Education. Iain gave a joint presentation with Mike McConnell on "Centralised Control Or Departmental Freedom?". http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#middleton Thu, 20 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 57.169596 -2.102895 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#mcconnell Mike McConnell is the Web Team Manager of the University of Aberdeen's Web Design Unit and currently manages a team of 5 staff who are responsible for the University's central Web presence, and the maintenance of certain departments and sections across the institution. Mike has formerly worked at the Robert Gordon University as an Educational Development Officer, and as a researcher in Information Science. Prior to that he worked at the sharp end of IT user support in the oil services industry. Mike has published on technology issues in education, Web usability and produced a number of educational Web applications. Mike has an MA in English Literature and the History of Art, a Pg Dip in Information Analysis, an MSc in Information Science, a PgCert in Tertiary Level Teaching and is a member of CILIP. Mike gave a joint presentation with Iain Middleton on "Centralised Control Or Departmental Freedom?". http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#mcconnell Thu, 20 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 57.169596 -2.102895 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#kelly-b Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus - a JISC-funded post which provides advice and support to the UK Higher and Further Education communities on Web issues. Brian has been chair of the organising committees for the Institutional Web Management Workshop series since he established the event in 1997. As well as organising the event Brian also gave a briefing session on "Web Standards". Brian can be contacted at B.Kelly@ukoln.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#kelly-b Thu, 20 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 51.366074 -2.329445 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#fearon Kriss Fearon has been Web Coordinator at the University of York for 6 years. Initially graduating in Greek Studies and Philosophy, she has a publishing background and an MPhil in Publishing Studies from the University of Stirling. She is responsible for advice and implementation of non-technical Web issues mainly based around project work such as legal liability, design revisions, and other issues common to many HE institutions. Her particular interest is in effective departmental outreach in decentralised institutions and professionalisation of Web staff. As well as being a member of the programme committee Kriss co-facilitated the parallel session on "Advertising on Web Sites". Kriss can be contacted at kf7@york.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#fearon Thu, 20 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 53.9484 -1.0536 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#campbell Lorna M. Campbell is the Assistant Director of the Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards (CETIS). She is based at the Centre for Academic Practice at the University of Strathclyde. Lorna has worked in Higher Education since 1990 and has been active in the field of e-learning since 1996. She has been involved in a wide portfolio of projects focusing on the development and reuse of online learning resources, these include Clyde Virtual University, The Scottish electronic Staff Development Library (SeSDL), the DNER and Learning Objects Project and the CETIS Educational Content Special Interest Group. In addition, Lorna actively participates in a number of international standards bodies. She attends a variety of IMS working group meetings and participates in the CEN/ISSS WSLT Taxonomies and Vocabularies Project Team as an independent expert. Lorna's particular areas of interest are the use of learning object metadata, the development of educational vocabularies and classification systems and the sharing and reuse of educational content. She regularly advises colleagues throughout the UK FE/HE sector on issues relating to uptake and implementation of interoperability standards and specifications. Lorna co-facilitated the briefing session on "Interoperability and Learning Standards Briefing" with Niall Sclater. Lorna can be contacted at lmc@strath.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#campbell Thu, 20 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 55.864524 -4.246645 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#work Colin K. Work is currently the Information Resources Manager at Southampton University Computing Services. He has been involved in online information services since the days of the JANET colour books, and still hasn't got bored with it. The title of Colin's workshop session is "Will The Real Mr Homepage Please Stand Up?". Colin can be contacted at C.K.Work@soton.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#work Wed, 19 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 50.934416 -1.396294 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#surridge Claire Surridge is currently project manager of EVINCE - a HEFCE Development of Good Management Practice Fund project evaluating social and cultural aspects of IT-related change. EVINCE is using ethnographic (participant observation) techniques to study three case studies across two institutions (the Universities of Reading and Southampton). Prior to the current secondment Claire was ITS User Services manager at Reading. She has also worked in computing services at UCL and Brunel University, and was also a sociologist in a previous life. Claire facilitated the parallel session on "Information Strategies - An Essential Navigational Tool?". Claire can be contacted at c.a.surridge@reading.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#surridge Wed, 19 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 51.444379 -0.949888 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#stuckes Julie Stuckes is the Subject Portals Project Manager, based at UKOLN. Prior to working at UKOLN, Julie was the UK Operations Manager for The Future Network, running the internet division of consumer magazine publisher Future Publishing. This entailed managing the design, development, marketing and advertising across over fifty Web sites which together made up the 'portal' at http://www.futurenet.com/. Julie has a BA Hons in Graphic Designer and began her career as a designer in an advertising agency in Bermuda. In the early 1990's she moved into magazine design and then on into Web design and management several years ago. The title of Julie's workshop session is The Perfect Portal ... is a Popular Portal. Julie also took part in the panel session on "Avoiding Portal Wars". Julie can be contacted at J.Stuckes@ukoln.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#stuckes Wed, 19 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 51.366074 -2.329445 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#smeed Duncan Smeed is a member of academic staff in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde. A brief biography is available at http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/people/biography/dunc/. He is committed user of Web/internet technologies to support and inform his teaching and research. His teaching interests in computer science are concentrated at the hardware end of the spectrum. His research interests revolve around the use of the Web/Internet to facilitate collaboration and knowledge transfer. As an early adopter of Web technologies, Duncan has almost a decade of experience in using such technologies to deliver teaching material and to coordinate students' project work. He has been a member of his Faculty's IT committee - for far too long! - and has recently been serving as a member of his University's Information Strategy Advisory Group and Information Technology Advisory Group committees at which he takes pains to represent the interests of the academic community of the institution. Duncan has been a member of the British Computer Society for over 20 years and is a past Chairman of the Glasgow Branch Committee. Duncan's first (and, so far, only) attendance at an IWMW was in Bath at the IWMW 2000 event. At a show of hands at a plenary session there, he appeared to be one of only a handful of academic teaching staff in attendance ;-) Nevertheless, he thoroughly enjoyed the event and is pleased to be a member of the Programme Committee for IWMW 2002. He will be hosting a 'Weblogging and Personal Content Management' workshop. To support the workshop he will use the technology he is most familiar with - Conversant - to create and maintain a workshop specific site: http://www.free-conversant.com/iwmw-2002/ and will use this to demonstrate some of the concepts in this approach to (personal) Web site management. The extent to which Duncan is committed to the use of these technologies is (sadly?) reflected in the fact that a Google search for 'duncan' (at the time of writing) has him as hit number 1! As well as being a member of the programme committee Duncan facilitated the parallel sessions on "Weblogs and Blogs: What Are They? What Can They Be Used For?" and "Computer Scientists - A Help Or A Hindrance ;-)!". http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#smeed Wed, 19 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 55.864524 -4.246645 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#sloan David Sloan is Project Lead of the Digital Media Access Group, a Web accessibility research and consultancy group based in the Division of Applied Computing at the University of Dundee. The group have provided Web accessibility audits and advice to a number of clients in the HE, commercial and public sectors. David previously worked with the Disability and Information Systems in Higher Education project (DISinHE), the predecessor to TechDIS. David was originally a cartographer, having graduated BSc in Topographic Science, before an MSc in Applied Computing led him to an interest in Web design and content, and specifically usability and accessibility issues. David facilitated the parallel session on "Usable Design and Accessible Web Sites". Note that this session will be held after the session on "Testing Web Site Accessibility". These two sessions cover related topics but are independent of each other. David can be contacted at dsloan@computing.dundee.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#aloan Wed, 19 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 56.458175 -2.978582 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#rahtz Sebastian Rahtz is Information Manager for Oxford University Computing Services, running what is now an almost 100% XML Web site. He has degrees in classics and archaeology; and has worked teaching computer science, and practising typesetting and publishing. He has published widely on TeX, and is an accredited bigot about a TeX, XML, XSLT and open source software. He is also a director of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium and is now working on schema versions of the TEI. Sebastian facilitated the parallel session on "Delivering XML in an Apache Environment". Sebastian can be contacted at sebastian.rahtz@oucs.ox.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#rahtz Wed, 19 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 51.783984 -1.196823 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#murray Trish Murray is a Netskills Trainer at the University of Newcastle. Netskills offer Internet Training, predominantly to the Higher and Further Education communities. Trish does training in a variety of technologies from HTML via ASP and JavaScript to XML. Trish has been at Netskills for two years, and previously worked as a research consultant in coastal management. Trish facilitated the parallel session on "Dynamic Web Interfaces and Browser Compatibility". Trish can be contacted at p.b.murray@newcastle.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#murray Wed, 19 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 54.98281 -1.61396 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#kemp Bob Kemp is Information Officer for the Digital Information Office, an initiative of Strathclyde's Centre for Digital Library Research providing support for professionalising information management in the academic environment. He previously worked on the GAELS Project at Strathclyde, producing information skills training for post-graduate students. He is interested in hypertext and Web design issues and in academic knowledge and information management. Bob facilitated the parallel session on "Exploiting Locally-Created E-resources: OAI and Eprints". Bob can be contacted at robert.kemp@strath.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#kempr Wed, 19 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 55.864524 -4.246645 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#whyte Jim Whyte is the Computer Systems Manager at Learning Services in the University of Strathclyde. He has been involved with computers for more than 30 years and has been involved in Web issues for the last 10. Much of his recent work has been concerned with investigating novel modes of delivering Web content. Jim co-facilitated the parallel session on Providing 360 degree Panoramic Scenes on the Web with Graeme Fleming. Jim can be contacted at j.m.whyte@strath.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#whyte Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 55.864524 -4.246645 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#stanley Tracey Stanley is the Head of E-Strategy and Development at the Library, University of Leeds. She is responsible for the development of Library strategy for electronic services and electronic resources. She currently chairs the Steering Group for the Library's Hybrid Library Project, and sits on a University steering group for the development of C&IT in the curriculum. She has also spearheaded a number of Library initiatives in using virtual learning environments for the delivery of e-learning support activities. Tracey was project manager for Library aspects of the University merger with Bretton Hall College in 2001, and as such has experience of site rationalisation and re-organisation. Tracey has produced a series of articles for the Ariadne electronic journal, and has undertaken consultancy work for Netskills, and for other UK universities. Previous posts held by Tracey include Faculty Team Leader, Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences Team (December 1998 - December 2001) and Networked Information Officer (March 1995 - December 1998), both at Leeds University Library. The title of Tracey's workshop session is "How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The E-Strategy". Tracey also took part in the panel session on "Avoiding Portal Wars". Tracey can be contacted at T.S.Stanley@leeds.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#stanley Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 53.814893 -1.553106 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#savory Andrew Savory is the managing director of Luminas Limited, an Internet application company, and was a university Webmaster for a number of years. Andrew facilitated the workshop session on "XML Everywhere /". Andrew can be contacted at andrew@luminas.co.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#savory Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#nicholson Dennis Nicholson is Director of the Centre for Digital Library Research at Strathclyde University and Director of Research in Strathclyde University's Information Resources Directorate. Since 1991, he has managed a range of funded projects, either directly or in his role as CDLR manager. Included amongst these are the Scottish Portals Initiative (2001-), the Victorian Times NOF Digitisation Project (2001-), the HILT, High Level Thesaurus Project (2000-), the SCONE, Scottish Collections Network Extension Project (1999-), the CAIRNS, Co-operative Academic Information Retrieval Network for Scotland project (1998-2000), the CATRIONA II, University Management of Electronic Resources project (1996-98), the CATRIONA, Cataloguing and Retrieval of Information Over Networks Applications project (1994-95), and the BUBL Information Service(1991-). Further information about most of these projects can be found at http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/projects/projects.htm. Dennis facilitated the parallel session on "The Value of Metadata and How to Realise it". Dennis can be contacted at d.m.nicholson@strath.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#nicholson Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 55.864524 -4.246645 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#kelly-j John Kelly is the Legal Information Officer with the JISC Legal Information Service. He is based in Learning Services at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. A qualified lawyer with a background in legal publishing John's interests include data protection compliance in universities and colleges web publishing. John facilitated the parallel session on "Your Institution's Web Site Legal?: A Guide To Keeping Your Web Site Compliant With Recent Legislation". John can be contacted at john.kelly@strath.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#kelly-j Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 55.864524 -4.246645 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#de-la-flor Grace de la Flor works for the Institute for Learning and Research Technology (ILRT), University of Bristol. She has written Web site, usability reviews and functional specifications for clients ranging from the UK National Health Service (NHS), Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN), The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) as well as for internal University of Bristol Web-based initiatives. Her most recent project involves analysing search behaviors and providing recommendations regarding keyword taxonomies based on user input for the Environment Agency. Grace facilitated the parallel session on "Testing Web Site Accessibility". Grace can be contacted at Grace.De-La-Flor@bristol.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#de-la-flor Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 51.460264 -2.602515 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#fleming Graeme Fleming is the Senior Photographer at the University of Strathclyde. He is heavily involved in the development of photographically rich Web content and particularly with the Pioneer Project hosted by Education Scotland (formerly SCET- Scottish Council for Education Technology). Graeme co-facilitated the parallel session on Providing 360 degree Panoramic Scenes on the Web with Jim Whyte. Graeme can be contacted at gr.fleming@strath.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#fleming Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 55.864524 -4.246645 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#farrow Colin Farrow has worked with computer systems in earth sciences for more years than he cares to remember. Currently he is a Web developer in the Computing Service at the University of Glasgow where he creates custom solutions for the developing intranet and was a member of the Scottish Middleware Project team (see http://www.gla.ac.uk/scotmid). Drawing on experiences with the Glasgow Permissions Database he hopes to be able to provide some sedatives in the session "Right People, Right Stuff, Right Pain?" which he is co-facilitating with James Currall and John Byrne. Colin can be contacted at c.farrow@compserv.gla.ac.uk. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#farrow Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 55.864524 -4.246645 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#currall James Currall joined the University of Glasgow as a statistical computing consultant in 1989 and has contributed to the research work of over 30 departments in the University. He comes from a background of biology and statistics. Since 1994 he has been the manager of the User Service Team in the University Computing Service, with overall responsibility for training, documentation, Web development, software support and advisory services. He was also deputy director of a UK-wide support centre for computers in the teaching of statistics. In 1997 he broadened his interests into areas of information beyond numbers, when he jointly put together the University's Information Strategy framework with Michael Moss and subsequently he was made Information Strategy Co-ordinator. From 1997-2000 he co-lead (with Michael Moss) the Effective Records Management project funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Technology Application Programme (JTAP), which carried out fundamental research on management of organisational records in digital form. The information strategy developments have lead on to Intranet and security work and James has just finished a project looking at the use of Middleware technologies (particularly with respect to authentication and other security) to permit people to publish information in a secure environment without the need for them to have detailed technical knowledge. During 2000/1 he was also involved in a project, with South Bank University, investigating Information Security Culture. For the last year, James has been a Senior Research Fellow of the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, where he is developing research into information access drawing on his Computing Service work. In the last few years he has worked on and given talks on a wide variety of topics concerned with the use and potential of technology in teaching, statistics, information, security and various combinations of these. As well as being a member of the programme committee James co-facilitated a parallel session on "Right People, Right Stuff: Right Pain?". James can be contacted at J.Currall@compserv.gla.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#currall Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 55.864524 -4.246645 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#byrne John Byrne is Head of Web Services at the University of York Computing Service. He coordinates the provision of Web services provided by the Computing Service. He has been involved in a number of projects including chairing the development of the University's YorkWeb Service. His group provides a hosting service for about 200 Web sites representing 30 departments and specialist centres, and dozens of administrative offices. John can be contacted at jcb1@york.ac.uk. John co-facilitated the parallel session on Right People, Right Stuff, Right Pain? with James Currall and Colin Farrow. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#byrne Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 53.9484 -1.0536 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#willder Betty Willder has a background in law and is a qualified Scottish solicitor. She has previously worked in private practice, the insurance industry and also in the commercial department of an IT consultancy. She is currently completing a masters degree in IT and Telecommunications Law. Betty facilitated the briefing session on "Web Sites and Legislation Briefing". Betty can be contacted at b.willder@strath.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#willder Wed, 12 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 55.864524 -4.246645 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#mccombe Anne McCombe is the Publicity Officer for the JISC-funded MIMAS service: a national data centre for UK Education and Research, based at the University of Manchester. Services supported by MIMAS include ISI Web of Science, copac, zetoc, Crossfire, the UK Census Aggregate Statistics and the new Economic and Social Data Service for International Data. In her role as Publicity Officer Anne needs to keep an eye on developments in all these services, and coordinates activities that concern more than a single MIMAS service. She is project manager of the MIMAS Accessibility Compliance Exercise and editor of the MIMAS Newsletter, Focus on MIMAS. Before coming to MIMAS, Anne was a systems programmer, user support advisor and systems integrator, devising ways to ensure that releases of new software and applications were tested, fully documented and didn't get in the way of each other. She has worked at two regional computer centres: at Manchester and the University of London Computer Centre where she has an office. Anne co-facilitated a workshop session on "Catching Mistakes: QA for your Web site" with Marieke Guy. Anne can be contacted at anne.mccombe AT man.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#mccombe Wed, 12 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 53.469785 -2.228251 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#rogers Clare Rogers works for JISC ASSIST. Clare can be contacted at Clare.Rogers@bristol.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/speakers.html#rogers Wed, 12 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#weedon Ralph Weedon is the Internet Copyright Officer for the University of Strathclyde and is based in the Centre for Educational Systems. He has close links with the Law School there. Following a successful bid to JISC earlier this year he is Project Manager for a pilot Legal Information Service for the Further and Higher Education sectors in the UK. The service is based at Strathclyde with two other partners, the UK Centre for Legal Education at the University of Warwick and MacRoberts, Solicitors. He has recently completed work on another JISC funded project on 'Policy Approaches to Copyright in HEIs' investigating issues such as ownership and control of material produced by academic staff, particularly that put up on the web (see http://www.strath.ac.uk/ces/projects/jiscipr/). In his role as Internet Copyright Officer, Ralph writes guidelines on electronic copyright, conducts multi-media copyright clearance, tries to answer queries on copyright and conducts research (when he gets any time) (see http://www.strath.ac.uk/ces/staff/ralph.html). Prior to joining Strathclyde Ralph was the co-ordinator for the TLTP History project at the University of Glasgow, which included responsibility for copyright (see http://www.gla.ac.uk/~histtltp/. For some 8 years at the University of Leicester he was responsible for an Information Technology course aimed at graduates in the Humanities and Social Sciences. For 5 years after his first degree he was computer officer for a professional organisation in London. He holds a Masters degree in English Local History and a BA in History and Geography. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#weedon Wed, 27 Jun 2001 00:00:00 +0000 55.864524 -4.246645 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#napier Marieke Napier is a member of the UKOLN Information Services Team. Her main role is as main editor of the Cultivate Interactive Web magazine and deputy editor of the Ariadne Web magazine. Marieke has given a number of presentations and workshops around the UK on the development and publishing of online publications. She is interested in Web tools and the evaluation and auditing of Web sites. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#napier Tue, 26 Jun 2001 00:00:00 +0000 51.366074 -2.329445 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#mcaleese Gareth McAleese is Web Development Manager with the Department of Public Affairs at the University of Ulster where he has been for the last four years. He is responsible for the technical management and development of the University of Ulster Web service. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#mcaleese Tue, 26 Jun 2001 00:00:00 +0000 55.199128 -6.643338 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#hartland David Hartland has managed the Netskills internet training service for the past 5 years. Netskills is an internet training service which helps both the public and private sectors develop their network skills to make effective use of both internet and Intranet technologies for teaching and learning, research, administration, marketing and other business activities. Netskills is supported by the Higher and Further Education Funding Bodies' Joint Information Systems Committee and the University of Newcastle. Before helping to set up Netskills Dave was the User Support Officer for the Mailbase mailing list service. He has been involved with providing Web development workshops for developing countries for the past 6 years through the Internet Society and was the chair of the TERENA User Services Working Group from 1997 until 1999. He is also a member of the UCISA Staff Development Group. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#hartland Tue, 26 Jun 2001 00:00:00 +0000 54.98281 -1.61396 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#mcdonald Diane McDonald is a senior member of the PREDICT Research Group, part of the Information Strategy Directorate of the University of Strathclyde. Her current major interests are in the e-business area. She has responsibility for the development of a Managed Learning Environment, general WWW strategy and ITC security policy & strategy within the University. She is also responsible for the development of the demonstration and dissemination facilities for the West of Scotland based e-institute, of which the University is the senior partner. She was previously the Network Manager for the University. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#mcdonald Tue, 26 Jun 2001 00:00:00 +0000 55.864524 -4.246645 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#de-la-flor Grace de la Flor is Usability Engineer at ILRT (the Institute for Learning and Research Technology), University of Bristol. Before arriving at the ILRT, Grace was involved in San Francisco's digital community for seven years. She has worked as a Web usability engineer/information architect on Web-based projects such as iPlanet, The Alaska Museum and various Internet start-ups. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#de-la-flor Tue, 26 Jun 2001 00:00:00 +0000 51.45866 -2.603545 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#kelly Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus and the organiser of the series of Institutional Web Management workshops. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#kelly Tue, 26 Jun 2001 00:00:00 +0000 51.366074 -2.329445 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#ray MJ Ray is a director of Luminas Limited and was the founding general editor of tsw, winners of the 2000 NUS/Independent National Student Journalism Award. He is currently on sabbatical to complete his doctorate. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#ray Tue, 26 Jun 2001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#savory Andrew Savory is managing director of Luminas Limited, an Internet application company, and was a university webmaster for a number of years. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#savory Tue, 26 Jun 2001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#lomas David Lomas is the Associate Director (User Services) in the department of Academic Information Services at the University of Salford. He has acquired the role of mentor to Web service developers - attempting to balance the service provision, system support and development, whilst always considering the needs of Web users. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#lomas Tue, 26 Jun 2001 00:00:00 +0000 53.489322 -2.271166 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#evans Ingrid Evans has been the User Liaison Officer with the JANET Web Cache Service since January 2001, and is based at Manchester Computing at the University of Manchester. She has primarily responsibility for creating and disseminating information and documentation about the JWCS to the HE and FE sectors, and hopes that she can do this as humanely as possible. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#evans Mon, 25 Jun 2001 00:00:00 +0000 53.469785 -2.228251 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#sargan Helen Sargan is Webmaster for the University of Cambridge. In former lives she was a zoologist and book/journal editor. Helen practices organising chaos on a daily basis! http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#sargan Mon, 25 Jun 2001 00:00:00 +0000 52.206476 0.125356 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#aird Andrew Aird is Director of Web Services at King's College, London. Previously he ran the Web at Goldsmiths College. His commercial experience stems from many years in the music and publishing industries, notably as managing director of an international music software company. Recent publications include E-commerce in Higher Education: can we afford to do nothing? published in Ariadne issue 26 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#aird Mon, 25 Jun 2001 00:00:00 +0000 51.512455 -0.120163 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#banbery Miles Banbery has been the Web Editor and manager of the UKC Web team at the University of Kent at Canterbury for nearly three years. Working within the Communications & Development Office, the UKC Web team have a varied portfolio of internal communications and external relations responsibilities including recruitment support, alumni relations, intranet work and support for the many departmental Web authors around the University. Miles led a quarter-day workshop at last year's IWMW event and is involved in two one-day sessions on re-designing your Web site and a one day workshop on running alumni Web sites for CASE Europe. Miles is also currently managing a HEFCE TQEF funded Web Secondment Scheme at the University. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#banbery Mon, 25 Jun 2001 00:00:00 +0000 51.399206 0.54657 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#currall Since 1994 James has has been the manager of the User Service Team in the University of Glasgow Computing Service, with overall responsibility for training, documentation, web development, software support and advisory services. In 1997 he became involved in the development of the University's Information Strategy and in late 1999 the SHEFC funded a a consortium, lead by Glasgow, to investigate Middleware in Intranets - this work is on-going. In the last few years James has been invited to speak on a variety of topics at the boundary between information and technology: Intranets, Information Strategy, Information Security, Data Protection, Information Access, Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Mathematical Markup Language (MathML). http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#currall Mon, 25 Jun 2001 00:00:00 +0000 55.864524 -4.246645 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#browning Paul Browning is Information Strategy Co-ordinator at the University of Bristol (but was an earth scientist who ran a departmental network in a former life). He is a member of the institutional Web Team and is fed up using a bucket and spade to build and maintain the University Web; he has been on the lookout for a JCB for the last 18 months. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#browning Mon, 25 Jun 2001 00:00:00 +0000 51.460264 -2.602515 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#lowndes Mike Lowndes is the Web Manager at The Natural History Museum. He narrowly escaped from a career as a neuroanatomist by learning web skills while a Departmental Lecturer at Oxford University. Before that he spent 7 years studying learning and memory: this however, did not lead to any improvements. Bangor University, The Open University and St. George's Hospital Medical School, Tooting, are all congratulated for putting up with him. A left handed Mac user in a world of right handed mice and Windows. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#lowndes Mon, 25 Jun 2001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#thomas Amber Thomas is a Content Officer for the National Grid for Learning content portal. She is currently involved with the development of a Learning and Skills Hub for the FE Sector. Previously she worked for the Joint Information Systems Committee on the Information Strategies Initiative. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#thomas Mon, 25 Jun 2001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#work Colin Work is "Information Resources Manager" at Southampton University Computing Services and has been playing with the web since 1994. Genetically a librarian, he is more interested in the issues of organising and managing information services than the technology behind them, but enjoys playing with new toys as much as the next man/woman. Until recently a committee member of UCISA-TLIG, he is now safely retired from this role. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#work Mon, 25 Jun 2001 00:00:00 +0000 50.934416 -1.396294 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#quentin-Baxter Megan Quentin-Baxter is Centre Manager for the Learning and Teaching Support Network Subject Centre for Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine based at the University of Newcastle. She has worked in 'distributed learning' for health education and co-authored a report investigating the implementation of a virtual learning environment for the NHS (towards a 'University for the NHS'). http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#quentin-Baxter Mon, 25 Jun 2001 00:00:00 +0000 54.98281 -1.61396 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#helm Paul Helm is Associate Head Learning Technology in the Learning and Teaching Institute at Sheffield Hallam University. He has worked in adult and further education, university computing services and educational development units. He is currently the project manager for Sheffield Hallam's Virtual Learning Environment, a major thrust of the University's Learning Teaching and Assessment strategy (see http://e-learning.shu.ac.uk/). http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/speakers.html#byrne Mon, 25 Jun 2001 00:00:00 +0000 53.420582 -1.464615 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions.html#banbery Miles Banbery has been University Web Editor at the University of Kent at Canterbury for two years having previously worked as an Information Officer for UKC's Computing Service. His post is within the Communications & Development Office, a department with remits for public relations, internal communications, alumni relations, fund raising and development amongst other things. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions.html#banbery Thu, 07 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0000 51.399206 0.54657 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions.html#powell Andy is based at UKOLN and spends most of his time working as part of the Resource Discovery Network Centre, where he is currently responsible for coordinating the technical architecture of the Resource Discovery Network - see http://www.rdn.ac.uk/. He also contributes to a number of metadata-related projects at UKOLN and has been actively involved in the development of campus information services at the University of Bath for more years than he cares to remember! http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions.html#powell Thu, 07 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0000 51.366074 -2.329445 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions.html#raggett Malcolm was a lecturer in engineering when he introduced and developed the first web-based learning in his institution. Since then he has changed role and moved institution: he is now the IT Manager at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions.html#raggett Thu, 07 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0000 51.521962 -0.12836 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions.html#kelly Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus, a JISC-funded post based at UKOLN, University of Bath. His responsibilities include monitoring Web developments and informing the UK HE community. His dissemination activities include regular contributions to the Ariadne, Cultivate Interactive and Exploit Interactive Web magazines, presentations at conferences, workshops and seminars and organising events such as the Institutional Web Management series of workshops. Brian is also chair of the HERO Technical Advisory Group. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions.html#kelly Thu, 07 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0000 51.366074 -2.329445 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions.html#aird No biographical details available. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions.html#aird Thu, 07 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions.html#stiles Mark Stiles is Co-Director of the Learning Development Centre at Staffordshire University. The Centre has the proactive role of leading the transformation of the way learning takes place at the University, which last year saw over 7,000 learners experience using one or more VLEs (Virtual Learning Environments). He is a regular conference speaker on the strategic and educational aspects of the electronic support of learning and has published a number of papers in the same field. He is also Director of the JISC supported COSE Project which has developed the COSE VLE, and seen it published as commercial product by Longman. The Project is still further developing COSE as a product and, also using JISC funding, is working on COSE IMS standards compliance and the production of an IMS compliant content repository. He also manages the JISC/JCIEL "CO3" project which is testing the IMS (Instructional Management Systems) interoperability standards using the COSE (Staffordshire University), Colloquia (Bangor) and CoMentor (Huddersfield) systems. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions.html#stiles Thu, 07 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0000 53.010032 -2.180357 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#newton-ingham Greg has been in the IT field since 1977. Following periods working as a systems programmer and network administrator Greg joined UEA. Greg describes himself as a 'maverick academic'. In additon to managing EU and TLTP projects Greg has been the course director for the final year undergraduate unit on strategic information systems, MBA course organiser for information systems and until recently lectured on the final year computer science unit "Web and Network Graphics". He is currently the project manager for the eLib phase 3 Agora hybrid library project and has been project manager for the JISC funded Networked Moving Images Pilot Project. Greg's many hobbies include ice-cream, chocolate and the Caribbean (preferably at the same time). http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#newton-ingham Thu, 07 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0000 52.628557 1.246948 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions.html#browning Paul is Information Strategy Co-ordinator at the University of Bristol (but was an earth scientist who ran a departmental network in a former life). He is a member of the institutional Web Team and is fed up using a bucket and spade to build and maintain the University Web; he has been on the lookout for a JCB for the last 18 months. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/speakers.html#browning Thu, 07 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0000 51.460264 -2.602515