Research Support Activities

In addition to the usual duties of my position at Reading and my primary research work I have been involved in the following research-related activities:

• I was a member of the Programme Committee for the 2001 Calculemus conference, and a member of the Programme Committee for the 2004, 2005 and 2006 MKM conferences, and was being Conference Chair of the 2006 MKM conference.
• I edited a Special Issue of the International Review of Law, Computers and Technology in 2006. I have refereed papers for the International Journal of IT and Management and the UK's Higher Education Academy conference on ICT education amongst others.
• I have refereed research grant proposals for the Council for Physical Sciences of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
• I supervised the PhD of Gottliebsen at St Andrews (who successfully defended in 2000 and is now a lecturer at Queen Mary University of London). I am the second supervisor of two PhD students at the Informatics Research Centre in Reading.
• I have been involved in government consultations regarding open source software use, been interviewed by the BBC for current affairs programmes and websites and given a University of Reading Public Lecture. I am a founding member of the Open Rights Group, a lobbying and information organisation dedicated to improving human rights in the UK with regard to digital technologies.