Responsibilities

• Principal Lecturer
• Level 6 Tutor - with Rachel Delbridge and Richard Eskins
• Level 6 Project and Dissertations Co-ordinator  - with Rachel Delbridge and Richard Eskins
• Admissions Tutor, Information & Communications undergraduate programme; MSc Informatics
• Dissertations Co-ordinator, MA Multimedia Journalism

Teaching

• Media Law - Level 6 unit
• Web Site Design - Level 5 unit with Richard Eskins
• Applied Web Design and Management - Level 6 unit with Richard Eskins
• Creative Digital Media Production - Level 5 unit with Dee Hynes
• Advanced Digital Media Production Level 6 unit with Dee Hynes

Office hours in term time

• Tuesday  10.00-10.50
• Friday  11.00-12.00 and 13.00-15.00 in MRL (GM 2.01)

Background

Scholarly interests

• accessible web design and web standards
• online support of teaching and learning - development and use of VLE
• assessment and feedback policy and practice
• governance of the internet and digital rights

Varied experience of research supervision as Director of Studies for PhD programmes and supervisor for MA/MSc Dissertations.

Publications

To follow

Professional interests

Fellow, Higher Education Academy.

Biography

• 1976-80 University of Leeds, BA (Hons) Spanish and Portuguese
• 1980-81 University of Leeds, Brotherton Library
• 1981-82 University of Sheffield, MA Librarianship
• 1982-84 Gateshead Libraries and Arts
• 1984-85 Chief Executive Department, Gateshead MBC
• 1985-88 Newcastle Polytechnic Library
• 1988-91 Accounts Manager, BookshelF library management system
• 1991- Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
• 1996- Principal Lecturer