I have over 9 years successful teaching experience at undergraduate level within the Department of Computing, Goldsmiths College, University of London. I have developed and taught a range of undergraduate courses and in 2004 I was presented with the Goldsmiths award for the development of learning and teaching. I am currently supervising a PhD student and have been internal examiner for another. I actively conduct research in the fields of assistive technologies, user interaction and adaptive systems. My research since returning to goldsmiths in 2001 has resulted in 18 refereed publications in international journals and conference proceedings. I have presented work at 10 international conferences and have acted as session chair and review committee member for the IEEE International Conference series on Advanced Learning Technologies. My current administrative responsibilities within the Department of Computing range from Department Senior Tutor, Department Access and Recruitment Tutor, Schools Liaison Officer and Programme monitoring committee chair for Computer science and Information Systems.

QUALIFICATIONS

Date	Title of award	Subject	Class	Awarding body
2000	PhD	Computer Science	Pass	Goldsmiths College, University of London
1992	MSc	Information Technology	Distinction	Kingston University
1991	BA	Business Studies/Systems Analysis and Design	2:1	Sunderland Polytechnic

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS

Year from	Year to	Appointment
Apr 2001	Jan 2002	Technical Project Manager, Ogilvy Interactive Worldwide, London
Jan 1999	Apr 2001	Lecturer in Computer Science, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Oct 1995	Jan 1999	Visiting Lecturer, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Oct 1995	Jan 1999	Adult Education Tutor, Westminster Adult Education Service
Oct 1993	Oct 1995	Information Systems Manager, Laboratory Impex Ltd
Sep 1992	Oct 1993	IT Consultant, Notting Dale Technology Centre
Apr 1992	Sep 1992	Multimedia Developer, ICL UK
Jul 1989	Sep 1990	Business Information Systems, Lloyds of London

HONOURS and DISTINCTIONS

Year	Honour or Distinction
2004	Goldsmiths Award for Teaching and Learning

CURRENT RESEARCH

Current research, which has been presented at major international conferences and published by internationally recognised journals, is in the areas of assistive learning technologies for the deaf community, adaptive, intelligent hypermedia and the personalisation of advanced learning technologies. Each of these areas is now briefly described.

Assistive learning technologies for the deaf community is a relatively new research area that aims to devise interactive systems and technologies to support the learning and teaching of deaf and hearing impaired students. Sign languages are combinations of hand and body movements together with facial expressions used to communicate without sound. Such languages enable deaf and hearing impaired people to communicate. In an educational context both spoken and printed information can be translated into pictorial representations to enable students to have equal access to it. Such pictorial representations of the vocabulary of sign languages are called sign writing systems and research is also conducted into the development of animated avatars and video translation systems of signers.

Adaptive, intelligent hypermedia, is an area of research that aims to enhance the functionality of hypermedia systems such as the World Wide Web by making the user interaction process personalisable. The approach taken is to endow hypermedia systems with personalisation and machine learning adaptation features, which may be initiated by the users or, by the system itself. These features utilise knowledge provided by (or captured about) specific users to intelligently tailor the information and the links presented to users. By applying the knowledge they amass, such systems can support users in navigating to information by limiting the options for traversal to information units, suggesting relevant links to follow and providing additional information on links and information units.

Increasingly technologies such as the World Wide Web, Instant Messaging, and chat systems are being used for teaching and to foster and direct communications in educational contexts. My research aims to devise interactive systems for the teaching of sign languages and writing systems for the deaf using these technologies.

EXTERNAL COLLABORATIVE AND INDUSTRIAL/COMMERCIAL LINKS

I am currently conducting research in collaboration with the BT, Royal National Institute for the Deaf, VIATAAL Research, Development and Support Institute, Holland and LawsonWeb an SME specialising in the development of adaptive personalisable hypermedia systems.

Membership of Professional Bodies

• Member IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology
• Member IEEE Computer Society
• Member Association for Computing Machinery
• Member British Computer Society