Institutional Web Management Workshop 2012:
Embedding Innovation
Speakers, Facilitators and Organising Committee
A list of IWMW 2012 organising committee, speakers, facilitators and chairs is given below.
Note that an RSS list of plenary speakers and an RSS list of workshop facilitators is also available. A location map of the plenary speakers and location map of the workshop facilitators can be viewed.
In addition to the list given below the speakers and facilitators are also listed on Lanyrd and the details are embedded below.
IWMW 2012 Organising Committee
Details of the organising committee for the Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) 2012 event are given below.
Brian Kelly [anchor]
Brian Kelly
is chair of the IWMW 2012 organising committee. Brian works for the Innovation Support Centre (ISC)
at UKOLN, University of Bath which has a
responsibility for supporting innovation across the UK higher and further
education sector.
Brian established the IWMW series of events in 1997 and has been chair or co-chair of the event ever since. Brian has also spoken at all of the IWMW events.
Contact details:
Brian Kelly, UKOLN, University of Bath, BATH, UK, BA2 7AY
Web: isc.ukoln.ac.uk
Blog: ukwebfocus.wordpress.com
Email: b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk
Twitter: @briankelly
Slideshare: lisbk
Google+: http://goo.gl/SjVgA or
http://gplus.to/ukwebfocus
LinkedIn: ukwebfocus
Talks: Welcome to IWMW 2012
Session: Identifying and Responding to Emerging Technologies
Natasha Bishop [anchor]
Natasha Bishop
is the Events and Marketing Manager at UKOLN and has responsibility for IWMW 2012
organisational issues. Natasha is based at
UKOLN.
Contact details:
Natasha Bishop, UKOLN, University of Bath, BATH, UK, BA2 7AY
Email n.bishop@ukoln.ac.uk
Twitter: @ukolnevents
Michelle Smith [anchor]
Michelle Smith
provides additional support for the organisation of the IWMW 2012 event.
Michelle is based at UKOLN.
Contact details:
Michelle Smith, UKOLN, University of Bath, BATH, UK, BA2 7AY
Email: m.smith@ukoln.ac.uk
Twitter: @ukolnevents
IWMW 2012 Session Chairs
Details of the plenary session chairs for the Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) 2012 event are given below.
Katherine Pickles [anchor]
Katherine Pickles
has specialised in delivering online public services for the past 12 years.
Currently the Senior Web Editor at Robert Gordon University, she was formerly
Web Project Manager with Skills Development Scotland (Careers Scotland) and began
her passion for the web with Grampian Careers. Katherine has over 30 years experience
of managing careers guidance and training services.
Katherine chaired talks #P6 and #P7 in the afternoon session on Embedding Innovation.
Contact details:
Web site: http://www.rgu.ac.uk/
email: k.g.pickles@rgu.ac.uk
Colin Work [anchor]
Colin Work trained and worked as a Librarian in Dublin but was seduced into the IT support world at University of Southampton where he developed and supported information services for many years. He has been involved with the web since 1993.
Now getting back to his roots, Colin has been providing web support in the University of Portsmouth Library since 2011.
Colin chaired the final session on Institutional Case Studies.
Contact details:
University Web site: http://www.port.ac.uk/
email: colin.work@port.ac.uk
In addition biographical details for Brian Kelly and Marieke Guy are given elsewhere on this page.
Plenary Speakers at IWMW 2012
Details of the 15 plenary speakers (11 male and 5 female) at the Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) 2012 event are given below.
Mike Nolan [anchor]
Mike Nolan
is Head of Web Services at Edge Hill University where he is responsible for development
of external Web sites and a portal service for staff and students.
Michael has previously facilitated sessions at IWMW on a variety of topics and regularly posts about HE web development topics on the Edge Hill Web Services blog.
Contact Details:
Email: Michael.Nolan@edgehill.ac.uk
Twitter: @MikeNolan
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mjnolan
Blog: http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/webservices/
Talk: Talk New to the Sector? New to Web Management? New to IWMW?
Kevin Ashley [anchor]
Kevin Ashley
is Director of the DCC (Digital Curation Centre).
He began his career as a developer supporting researchers at a large MRC/NHS research
facility. In 25 years at ULCC he was involved in network development, systems management,
the provision of web services to organisations such as OFTEL and the British
Museum, national services and standards development, before establishing ULCC's
Digital Archives Department. That group provides digital preservation, repository
and web-based services to a wide range of national bodies as well as engaging in
collaborative research on topics such as web preservation
(the JISC PoWR project, with UKOLN
being one example.) At the DCC he is responsible for raising capability and capacity
for research data management in the UK.
Contact details:
Kevin Ashley, Director, Digital Curation Centre, Appleton Tower, Crichton St, Edinburgh EH8 9LE
Email: director@dcc.ac.uk
Web site: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
Slideshare: http://slideshare.net/kevinashley
Twitter: @kevingashley
Talk: Data and the Web Manager
Rob Borley
Rob Borley
has been working with the web since 2002. Starting life as a developer he moved
through project management and business development, today he is the co-founder
of UK based mobile applications development agency Dootrix.
Rob also consults on emerging technologies at UK web agency Headscape working closely
with clients to help them formulate and realise their web strategy.
Rob has been involved in the wider web community as a host of leading web design podcast: Boagworld.
Contact Details:
Headscape web site: http://www.headscape.co.uk/
Dootrix web site: http://www.dootrix.com/
Twitter: @bobscape
Blog: http://www.robborley.com/
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/robborley/
Talk: Do I Need an App for That?
Paddy Callaghan [anchor]
Paddy Callaghan has over ten years' experience of web development and has expert knowledge of all aspects of a project life cycle, and has a longstanding interest in the web and web development and has recently been honing his skills in responsive design. Paddy has several years of agency experience and currently practices in the HE sector at the University of Bradford.
Contact details:
Paddy Callaghan, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK, BD7 1DP
Email: m.callaghan1@bradford.ac.uk
Twitter: @paddycallaghan
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/matthew-callaghan/10/a19/8b7
University Website: http://www.brad.ac.uk/
Talk: Serve Two Masters: Creating Large-Scale Responsive Websites.
Session: Large-Scale Responsive Websites: Tools and Techniques
Keith Doyle [anchor]
Keith Doyle
has worked in education since 1993, including time at what is now The Manchester College
as Web Master and the University of Salford as Web Content Architect. He has been
a freelance information architect since 2010.
Contact details:
Email: keith.doyle@navopia.co.uk
Twitter: @keithdoyle
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/keithdoyleuk
Blog: http://consequencing.com/
Website: http://www.navopia.co.uk/
Talk: Serve Two Masters: Creating Large-Scale Responsive Websites.
Session: Large-Scale Responsive Websites: Tools and Techniques
EA Draffan [anchor]
EA Draffan trained as a Speech and Language Therapist, before specialising in the field of Assistive Technology and Accessibility. She has since worked with disabled students in Further and Higher Education, set up an Assistive Technology Centre, contributed to the work of JISC TechDis and other institutions and groups. She was a member of the committee that worked on BS 8878. She is now a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton with interests in the ease of use and accessibility of cloud based services and the mainstreaming of assistive technologies.
Contact details:
EA Draffan, ECS, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ
University Web site: http://www.soton.ac.uk/
Access Web site: http://access.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
Emptech Web site: http://www.emptech.info/
Email: ead@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Talk: Beyond WCAG: Experiences in Implementing BS 8878
Dawn Ellis [anchor]
Dawn Ellis
leads the University Website Programme at the University of Edinburgh, supporting
the University's key strategic goals and coordinating a comprehensive web publishing
framework for the University community.
Contact details:
Dawn Ellis, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
University Web site: http://www.ed.ac.uk/
Departmental Web site: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/website-programme/programme-team
Email: Dawn.Ellis@ed.ac.uk
Talk: What Do You Really Want?
Stephen Emmott [anchor]
Stephen Emmott
is the Head of Web Services at the London School of
Economics and Political Science (LSE).
He has previously worked for King's College London, Webmedia, Netmare, Easynet/Cyberia, and the University of Westminster. Having worked on the web since 1993, Stephen combines an in-depth knowledge of web technology with sound people skills. He specialises in web management and governance within medium to large organisations. More recently, he was an external examiner for the Department of Information Studies at University College London (UCL).
Stephen has a BSc in Applied Psychology, a MSc in Cognitive Science and Intelligent Computing and a Diploma in Management.
Contact details:
The London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK
Web: http://www.lse.ac.uk/
Email: Stephen.Emmott@lse.ac.uk
Twitter: @emmottion
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenemmott
Talk: Measuring Impact
Martin Hawksey [anchor]
Martin Hawksey
is e-Learning Advisor at JISC CETIS based at the University of Strathclyde. In between
supporting the UK's OER Programme Martin is a master of web mash-ups exploring and
crafting solutions for life's little problems. Blogging on
MASHe Martin tries to
shine a light on the cutting edge on technological development, but often leaves
readers blinded by the sun as he chases tomorrow's opportunities.
Contact details:
Email: m.hawksey@gmail.com
Twitter: @mhawksey
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mhawksey
Blog: http://mashe.hawksey.info/
Quora: http://www.quora.com/martin-hawksey
Google Reader: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/11609741331127149470
YouTube: http://youtube.com/user/mhawksey
Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/user937418
Gist GitHub: http://gist.github.com/mhawksey
Talk: Data Visualisation: A Taster
Session: Data Visualisation Kitchen
Tony Hirst [anchor]
Tony Hirst
is an academic in the Department of Communication and Systems at the Open University,
but better known for the OUseful Blog on practical applications of Open Data.
In February 2009 Tony and colleague Joss Winn, established WriteToReply, to re-publish the UK Government's Digital Britain Interim Report in a way that allowed readers to comment on each paragraph. This was among a number of experiments to promote greater online public participation in government consultations. In March 2009 Tony created a technique for extracting and presenting subtitles generated from Twitter status updates. Tony won the 2011 "Open Up" contest for his ideas about the use of UCAS data.
Tony was described as "brilliant" in The Guardian data blog for his work analysing the use of twitter by journalists.
Tony has also been featured in Wikipedia.
Contact details:
Twitter: @psychemedia
Blog: http://ouseful.info/
Talk: Data Visualisation: A Taster
Session: Data Visualisation Kitchen
Sally Kerr [anchor]
Sally Kerr
has been working with the Web since the 1990s, the Council's primary website for
around 10 years and has been Edinburgh Council's Web Manager for over 5 years.
She is a corporate Project Manager with substantial experience of delivering websites
- including corporate, partnership and individual clients. She has extensive
experience of managing award winning websites, providing consultancy to enterprise
level web project delivery and how to introduce new technologies.
Currently she's working on the development of open data use, the Council's social
media strategy and mobile site development.
Contact details:
Website: http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/
Twitter: @WeeBletherer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sally-kerr/5/761/b92
Email: sally.kerr@edinburgh.gov.uk
Talk: Open Data Development in the City of Edinburgh Council
Suraj Kika [anchor]
Suraj Kika:
Founder and CEO of Jadu, Suraj started his career as a designer in the publishing
industry, eventually moving into web development at Electrocomponents PLC. After
writing the first lines of code for the Jadu CMS, Suraj led the development of
Jadu's Universe Platform, which includes CMS, Forms, Search and Mobile. Suraj is
obsessed with making the complex appear simple and providing non-technical tools
that organise information for any enterprise.
Contact details:
Website: http://www.jadu.net/
Twitter: @surajkika
LinkedIn: surajkika
Talk: Open Data Development in the City of Edinburgh Council
Andrew Oakley [anchor]
Andrew Oakley
is Head of Software Development at the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA),
the authoritative source for UK higher education statistics, where he manages the
development of systems to collate and disseminate statistical data from universities
to government departments and the general public. Prior to joining HESA, Andrew
was anti-spam development manager at MessageLabs/Symantec and has 20 years' experience
in software development. In his spare time, Andrew is an open rights advocate.
He enjoys politics and the countryside.
Contact details:
Organisation Web site: HESA
Twitter: @aroakley
Email: andrew.oakley@hesa.ac.uk
Talk: Key Information Set Data
Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski [anchor]
Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski
is the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland.
He is known as a lawyer, a legal academic, a high profile public commentator and
a university leader in Ireland and Scotland.
A German-born Irish citizen, he is a former lecturer and Fellow at Trinity College,
Dublin, and was later both a Professor and a Dean at the University of Hull, before
serving as the high profile second President of Dublin City University (DCU), Dublin,
Ireland from 2000 to 2010. He has been Principal of Robert Gordon University since
late March 2011. He is an authority on employment and commercial law and on
certain EU and competition policy matters, and an active commentator on academic affairs and public policy.
Contact details:
University Web site: http://www.rgu.ac.uk/
University entry: http://www.rgu.ac.uk/about/senior-management/the-principal
Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_von_Prondzynski
Blog: http://universitydiary.wordpress.com/
Twitter: @vonprond
Talk: Going Online - Do Universities Really Understand the Internet?
Helen Sargan [anchor]
Helen Sargan has been a webmaster since 1994, and in IT since 1990. A career before that as an editor in scientific and medical textbooks and journals gives a different perspective on information. Currently absorbed in managing and supporting a Plone-based content management service and keeping up with responsive design and HTML(5).
Contact details:
Helen Sargan, University Computing Service, New Museums Site, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG
University Web site: http://www.cam.ac.uk/
Email: hvs1001@cam.ac.uk
Talk: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Two Years of Running a Content Management Service
Amber Thomas [anchor]
Amber Thomas
is a Programme Manager in the JISC Digital Infrastructure Team. She currently works
on the Open Educational Resources (OER) Programme, coordinating the IPR and
technology support projects, and she oversees the work of Jorum. Her focus is on
how learning and teaching materials can be supported by digital infrastructure,
including repositories, tools, standards, metadata, rights management and sustainable services.
In previous roles she ran the WM-Share project, managed the Ferl service for FE, worked on the National Grid for Learning Portal, and over ten years ago she was assistant coordinator for the JISC information strategies initiative.
Contact details:
Web site: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/
Twitter: @ambrouk
Session: Talk New to the Sector? New to Web Management? New to IWMW?
Workshop Facilitators at IWMW 2012
Details of the 18 workshop facilitators (13 male and 5 female) at the Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) 2012 event are given below. In addition details for Brian Kelly, Keith Doyle, Tony Hirst, Martin Hawksey and Paddy Callaghan are given elsewhere in this page.
In total there are 22 workshop facilitators (18 male and 5 female),
Neil Allison [anchor]
Neil Allison
champions usability and user-centred design at the University of Edinburgh through
his work with the University Website Programme. He is also a member of the
Scottish Usability Professionals Association.
Contact Details:
Email: Neil.Allison@ed.ac.uk
Departmental Web site: University Website Programme
LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/neilallison
Twitter: @usabilityed
Blog: http://www.usability-ed.blogspot.co.uk/
Sessions: Experiences in User Centred Design at the University of Edinburgh and Managing and Supporting a Central Content Management System (CMS) with a Devolved Web Publishing Community
Alex Bilbie [anchor]
Alex Bilbie
is a developer at the University of Lincoln working towards the concept of the
"connected university" by opening up disparate data stores, adding sexy RESTful APIs
on top and then promoting people inside and outside the university to build awesome
things with the data.
Alex developed the Common Web Design HTML5 and CSS3 presentation framework, runs the data.lincoln.ac.uk platform, built an OAuth 2.0 powered single sign-on platform and has created countless little hacks which bolt systems together.
Contact details:
ICT Services, University of Lincoln, Brayford Pool, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7TS
Twitter: @alexbilbie
Staff directory entry: http://phone.online.lincoln.ac.uk/abilbie
Blog: http://httpster.org/
Session: Linking You
Steve Boneham [anchor]
Steve Boneham
is a learning technologist at JISC Netskills. His work involves research and staff
development to help people understand the potential of emergent technologies and
make effective use of them. His interests include WordPress, mobile technologies,
web design, blogging, digital storytelling and online training.
Contact details:
Steve Boneham, Netskills, University of Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Email: steve@netskills.ac.uk
Web site: http://www.netskills.ac.uk/
Blog: http://sboneham.com/blog/
Twitter: @sboneham
LinkedIn: sboneham
Session: Mobilising WordPress
Thom Bunting [anchor]
Thom Bunting
works as Project Manager and Web Manager in the Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN.
Contact details:
Thom Bunting, UKOLN, University of Bath, BATH, UK, BA2 7AY
Web: isc.ukoln.ac.uk
Email: t.bunting@ukoln.ac.uk
Session: Identifying and Responding to Emerging Technologies
Phil Barker [anchor]
Phil Barker
is a Learning Technology Adviser for JISC CETIS with interest in the management,
description, dissemination and discovery of learning resources, especially open
educational resources. He has been working in the field discovery and selection
of learning resources on the web for 18 years, and is a member of the Technical
Working Group of the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI.net) which
extended schema.org in order to describe learning resources. He hasn't been this
excited about metadata since 2003.
Contact Details:
Email: phil.barker@hw.ac.uk
Department Web site: http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/~philb/
Twitter: @philbarker
LinkedIn: philbarker66
Session: What Can schema.org Offer the Web Manager?
Christopher Eddie [anchor]
Christopher Eddie is Web Officer in the
Public Affairs Directorate of the University of Oxford
Christopher studied Architecture at Edinburgh University. Between 1994-2002 he worked in London beginning in graphic design, then lecturing in IT/graphics/multimedia in FE and HE colleges, then IT/web consultancy and web design for the Greenwich Enterprise Board. In mid 2002 he went AWOL for 2 years.
Since 2004 he has lived in Oxford, initially biding his time in print design for Elsevier then working on its intranet before landing his dream job at Oxford University in 2007.
His favourite projects so far are the Wall of 100 Faces, Oxford's iTunesU channel and Oxford University - The Official Guide App, which is the subject of his workshop.
Contact details:
University Web site: http://www.ox.ac.uk/
Email: christopher.eddie@admin.ox.ac.uk
Session: I've Got this Idea for an App...
Rob Englebright [anchor]
Rob Englebright
is a Programme Manager in the JISC eLearning Team.
He currently works on the technical aspects of the
JISC #coursedata Programme,
including the standardisation of XCRI-CAP as
BS8581. Rob also oversees
the JISC LTIG programme
and is the admin of the JISCMail Champ-curriculum list for Further Education.
Prior to working at JISC Rob was the Senior Architect for Digital learning at Becta, managed the NLN implementation team and worked in Further Education as manager, lecturer and instructor over 13 years. In his free time he builds robots, draws a weekly webcomic and drinks tea at his allotment shed.
Contact details:
Email: r.englebright@jisc.ac.uk
Twitter: @Rob_work
Skype: robenglebright
Phone (rarely answered): 07507013798
Rob also confesses to having a poorly maintained blog.
Session: The Xcri-cap Files
Joe Farthing [anchor]
As a teenager, Joseph Farthing co-founded Phoenix Labs, an open source
software development community that found over 10 million users. Now he works at
the University of Edinburgh as a Communications Specialist for the Website Programme
and Sustainability Office, focusing on engagement and new marketing and system integration.
Contact details:
Joseph Farthing, Communications Specialist, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
University Web site: http://www.ed.ac.uk/
Departmental Web site: http://www.ed.ac.uk/website-project
Departmental Web site: http://www.ed.ac.uk/sustainability
Twitter: @josephfarthing
Email: Joseph.Farthing@ed.ac.uk
Claire Gibbons [anchor]
Claire Gibbons
is the Senior Web and Marketing Manager at the University of Bradford, managing
the Web and Marketing teams within Marketing and Communications. Claire has worked
in HE for 15 years - she was a VERY early starter ;) - nearly 11 of those in web.
Claire has facilitated sessions at IWMW previously on the University's CMS project journey (see the details for the sessions in 2007, 2008 and 2009). Claire is currently the Deputy Project Manager for the JISC project on Course Data: making the most of course information - Stage 2 through which a new interest and enthusiasm for Enterprise Architecture has been developed.
Contact details:
Claire Gibbons, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK, BD7 1DP
Web site: http://www.brad.ac.uk/
Email: c.s.gibbons1@BRADFORD.AC.UK
Twitter: @planetclaire
Blog: http://blogs.brad.ac.uk/planet-claire/
Sessions: The Xcri-cap Files and Responding to the Cookie Monster
Marieke Guy [anchor]
Marieke Guy
works for UKOLN and has been involved with
the Institutional Web Management Workshop series for many years: as a co-chair,
workshop facilitator and participant.
Last year her role at UKOLN changed and she is now an Institutional Support Officer for the Digital Curation Centre(DCC), working towards raising awareness and building capacity for institutional research data management at HEIs.
She deals with researchers and the data they create. Although researchers tend to be a little more precious about their data (!) she feels that many of the issues are also relevant to Web managers and the information they work with.
Contact details:
Marieke Guy, Institutional Support Officer, DCC, UKOLN, University of Bath, BA2 7AY
Web site: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
Email: M.Guy@ukoln.ac.uk
Twitter: @mariekeguy
Blog: http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/
Session: Big and Small Web Data
John X Kelly [anchor]
John X Kelly
is Principal Legal Information Specialist with JISC Legal and is a solicitor with
a background in commercial publishing.
John studied law at King's Inns Dublin, the University of Sydney and the College of Law in London. His background includes editorial training with Reed Elsevier before helping to progress JISC Legal from a JISC-funded project to a core JISC Service now part of JISC Advance.
He is author of "What Does the New "Cookie" Legislation Require us to do?" (updated on 15 Dec 2011) and "Cookies - Six Months Until Enforcement" (updated on 25 Nov 2011) articles hosted on the JISC Legal website.
Contact details:
John X Kelly, Principal Legal Information Specialist, JISC Legal.
Web: http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/
Email: johnxkelly@jisclegal.ac.uk
Twitter: @jisclegal
Vimeo: jisclegal
LinkedIn: jisc-legal
Session: Responding to the Cookie Monster
Sheila MacNeill [anchor]
Sheila MacNeill
is currently an Assistant Director with JISC CETIS (one of the JISC Innovations Support Centres).
Her work in CETIS tends to centre around developments related to teaching practice
e.g. learning design, educational content related specifications, enhancement of
VLEs e.g. widgets and digital literacies.
Before joining CETIS Sheila was a learning technologist with the former LT Scotland, developing web-based resources for the schools sector.
Contact details:
Skype: sheilmcn
Twitter: @sheilmcn
Blog: http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/sheilamacneill/
LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/sheila-macneill/b/278/331
Session: Developing Digital Literacies and the Role of Institutional Support Services
Laura Murphy [anchor]
Laura Murphy
is Head of Client Services and Support at TERMINALFOUR.
Contact Details:
Company Web site: TERMINALFOUR
Email: laura.murphy@terminalfour.com
Session: Building a Low Cost Mobile Web Presence
Mark Power [anchor]
Mark Power is a researcher in Educational Technology
at the University of Bolton. Based at the Institute for Educational Cybernetics,
Mark has also been involved in supporting the work of JISC eLearning Programmes
through the JISC Innovation Support Centre, CETIS.
While interested in many areas of the use of technology in learning, Mark's focus is now on the rapidly evolving and expanding area of mobile technology and how best to utilise this to deliver institutional services, learning and the relationship between a user's mobile technology and how it can join up personal learning environments with institutionally controlled systems.
Contact details:
Web site: http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/
Blog: http://markpower.me.uk/workblog/
Twitter: @markpower
Sessions: Mobilising WordPress and Identifying and Responding to Emerging Technologies
Julian Prior [anchor]
Julian Prior is
e-Learning Technologist
in the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Office, University of Bath. He currently
provides support to the Widening Participation and CPD Support and Development offices
and is currently working on a number of projects ranging from the creation of
student-focused screencasts on Moodle 2 to the JISC-funded
Professionalism in the Digital Environment (PriDE) project.
He recently received an MSc with distinction in Education, Technology and Society
from the University of Bristol.
Contact details:
Julian Prior, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY
Web site: http://www.bath.ac.uk/
Email: j.prior2@bath.ac.uk
Twitter: @jpodcaster
Session: A Collaborative Evaluation of Web Conferencing Tools
Richard Prowse [anchor]
Richard Prowse
is a graduate of the University of Leicester. In 2012 he joined the University of
Bath as Web Content Manager, responsible for bath.ac.uk.
Richard is a digital strategist: passionate about higher education and user experience.
In 2011 while working for Bournemouth University he was shortlisted for the Vice-Chancellor's Unsung Hero of the Year, for his contribution to the University's web development.
Richard has previously presented at Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) events.
Contact details:
Richard Prowse, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY
Web site: http://www.bath.ac.uk/
Web service blog: http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/webservices/
Email: r.w.prowse@bath.ac.uk
LinkedIn: richprowse
Twitter: @richprowse
Google+: http://goo.gl/gJoQg
Session: Managing the Process of Providing an Inclusive Institutional Web Presence
Marie Salter [anchor]
Marie Salter
is e-Developments Manager
in the central e-learning team at the University of Bath supporting the
Widening Participation and CPD Support and Development Offices in their use of
technologies to enhance the student learning experience.
She is involved in a number of projects and currently leads a pilot of
web conferencing tools at the University.
Contact details:
Marie Salter, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY
Web site: http://www.bath.ac.uk/
Email: m.salter@bath.ac.uk
Twitter: @marie_s
Session: A Collaborative Evaluation of Web Conferencing Tools
Ben Showers [anchor]
Ben Showers
is one of JISC's programme managers in the digital infrastructure team working
on the Library Management Systems programme. This programme of work is currently
engaging with areas including: open source software, user experience and usability
as well as broader areas of library infrastructure and institutional systems.
He is also responsible for work with the PALS metadata group and a usability programme
to help embed usability within higher education organisations.
Ben also has experience of managing digitisation and impact programmes due to his previous role as programme manager with eContent.
Contact details:
JISC Web site: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/
JISC Contact information: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/contactus/staff/benshowers.aspx
Twitter: @benshowers
Email: b.showers@jisc.ac.uk
Session: Preparing For Mobile
David Sloan [anchor]
David Sloan is an accessibility and inclusive design researcher and consultant from the University of Dundee. His activities include teaching HCI and accessibility on undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses, co-ordinating the University's Web Accessibility Support Service, serving as Dundee representative on the European eAccess+ accessibility network and leading a small accessibility consultancy group - the Digital Media Access Group.
Contact details:
David Sloan, University of Dundee, Dundee
University Web site: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/
Blog: The '58 Sound
Email: DSloan@computing.dundee.ac.uk
Session: Managing the Process of Providing an Inclusive Institutional Web Presence