I’ve held a number of interesting roles at the university since finishing my undergraduate studies here in 1999. Whilst carrying out these roles, I completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching (Higher Education) at CCCU, a Professional Diploma in Management at the Open University, an MSc at the University of Kent, and a PhD at University College Dublin.
In my current role at CCCU, I am a member of the School Management and Leadership Team (SchMaLT). I sit on the School Executive Group, working closely with, and supporting, the Head of School (HoS) on strategic planning and operational delivery of School business. I deputise as HoS when necessary and appropriate. This includes providing cover for holidays and other absences including a research sabbatical in 2017. As part of these delegated responsibilities I chair School Boards of Studies and Stage 2 Plagiarism Panels. I lead on School work streams and projects related to academic portfolio, student experience & satisfaction, innovation & enhancement of learning, teaching, & assessment, quality of academic programmes, and staff development. To support this work I co-chair the School Forum. I contribute to Faculty and University Committees and other administrative functions, for example, I represent the School on the Faculty Quality Committee, am the Faculty Lead for Contract Cheating Investigations, and act as a University Formal Investigator for Student Complaints, Academic Appeals, and Student Disciplinary cases.
My past roles have included IT Support & Infrastructure Engineer, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Course Director, and leading the Department of Computing through an organisational change to become Computing, Digital Forensics & Cybersecurity. I led this unit for a five-year term before accepting my current role. During this time the employability results of DLHE and LEO surveys for those who studied Computing programmes at CCCU were consistently one of the highest for the Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences. In 2018, the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) published a study which used the LEO dataset showing Graduates of Computing at CCCU added £4,267 to their earnings relative to the national graduate average. This report showed that Computing boosted graduate earnings more than any other subject at CCCU and more than many of our competitors nationwide. At the end of my directorship the most recent overall satisfaction results in the NSS were at their highest ever levels for Computing and IT programmes.
As Director I managed the partnerships between Computing at CCCU and, amongst others, the College of Policing, and the Justice Institute of British Columbia. As part of the College of Policing partnership I was a Projects Supervisor and module leader for Covert Internet Investigations, Core Skills for Network Investigations, Linux Forensics, and Advanced Internet Forensic Traces. In addition to module leading, I taught on the Linux Forensics course hosted at Wyboston between 2008 and 2012.