In 2001 I opened the Learning Cafe at Glasgow Caledonian and the Saltire Centre at Caledonian which opened on 30th January 2006.


I have worked in education for 35 years as a teacher, lecturer and researcher in computers in education, and as a senior manager. I have many interests but my passions include IT (trying to make it really useful), learning (making it engaging and inspirational), and management (making it creative). I have now been a freelance educational adviser for 4 years after taking early retirement from my post as Pro Vice-Chancellor at Glasgow Caledonian University. At GCU I had responsibility for a large part of the academically related services. Before that I worked as a Dean at the University of Gloucestershire and before that I was a Head of IT Services. I am a member of the Chartered institute of management, a fellow of the RSA, and have previously been a regular contributor to the Times Educational Supplement . Over the past few years I have done some interesting work with learning spaces at Glasgow Caledonian and also at Royal Holloway University of London.

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I spend quite a lot of my time presenting my ideas and advising on strategic aspects of IT, learning space and service development. If you would like to contact me you can by clicking here.