Biography

BA (Open 1992) PG Cert Computing (Open 2006)

I came to Geography at Sussex in 1979 and my job has evolved with the advance of computing from using BBC Basic on the BBC Bs and Acorn Archimedes in the 1980's through to setting up one of the first university web sites for Geography on a Sun SPARCStation in the 1990s and then on to the present day working as chief website editor for the following Sussex sites on the Web Content Management System:

School

• Global Studies

Departments

• Anthropology
• Geography
• International Development
• International Relations

Research Sites

• Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
• Centre for Global Political Economy
• Centre for World Environmental History
• Justice and Violence Research Centre
• Migrating out of Poverty International Research Programme Consortium
• Sussex Centre for Migration Research
• Sussex Climate Change Network

Other Sites

• Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

I manage the file server geoserver1 which is the geography central storage system, with over a terabyte of drive space, used for storing research data and images and shareable from users' desktops.  

I also maintain a number of staff and student email groups.

I asist on the Los Angeles field class for second year geographers and help produce our LA Blog.

I was part of the Arts Web Site Working Group which was set up to produce a common structure for Arts web sites with links from the sites to central database systems to improve accuracy and consistency of information.  I was then brought in to help the School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies with web matters and became the main contact for the school web pages.  I also advised SocCul departments and research centres on the use of the Web Content Management System and the Web News System and to advise postgraduate students on developing their personal web profiles using Sussex Direct and Dreamweaver. 

With the restructuring of the schools, a similar arrangement now applies within the new School of Global Studies where my role has expanded and where I have worked in collaboration with the University Web Team on producing the new school, department and research centre web pages and where I am part of the Global Sudies Web Content Working Group.

I am a founding member of the Geography Equipment Committee which meets every term to discuss and decide upon Geography's equipment budget allocation.

Role

Computing and Information Systems Officer - Geography
Website manager - Migration
Website manager - Global Studies