http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/ Details of the Speakers at the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2000 en http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#slater http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#slater John Slater is a part of the Generic Learning and Teaching Centre and the Technology Integration Centre in the Learning and Teaching Support Network. His past includes being a JISC member, a Computer Board Member, and a number of relevant L&T Initiatives. He was the PVC for Learning and Teaching at Kent and is a member of the E-University Steering Group. 51.299174 1.067648 2000-09-06 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#harris http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#harris Christopher Harris is Executive Director of HERO. He has been seconded from Newcastle University for a period of 3 years to undertake this task. At Newcastle he was Director of Communications and Public Affairs, which included responsibility for NUInfo, the University's Internet service. 54.983573 -1.61396 2000-09-06 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#price http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#price Andy Price has been the Head of Corporate Communications at the University of Teesside for 18 months. He spent two years as Head of New Media at North East Evening Gazette, seven years as a Marketing and Business development consultant. Andy has had a varied career in both the private and public sector and have spent almost half his working life self employed. His main discipline is Marketing, but he has increasingly been involved in developments in new media and digital imaging. He has worked on early on-line 'business to business' developments in the music industry as well as managing a very early international on-line digital photography event in 1995. Subsequently he put local newspapers on-line, created local community portals, put Premiership footballs clubs in cyberspace and created national business databases as well as being directly involved in a wide variety of other on-line initiatives. In the past he has been the managing director of a graphics company, a community development worker, a language teacher in Spain and has helped establish a community circus, so he feels ideally suited to life on the web! 54.572453 -1.23564 2000-09-06 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#sanders http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#sanders Cliff Sanders is Projects Manager for the Online Group, part of the University of Ulster's department of External Affairs. His duties include advising client departments on corporate Internet strategy and the overall development of the institution's web presence. Cliff began his employment career as a land surveyor and became increasingly involved in the use of IT for survey processing in the late 1980s. To further this interest, Cliff enrolled on the University of Ulster's BSc Hons Computing Science degree and graduated in 1998. On graduation, Cliff joined the Online Group and was promoted to his current position of Projects manager in June 2000. 54.60603 -5.929184 2000-09-06 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#rowlatt http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#rowlatt Mary Rowlatt is currently Information Services Manager with Essex Libraries where she is responsible for the development and delivery of information services to the public. In October she will move to a new post as Community Information Network Co-ordinator for the County Council. She is joint editor for the Essex County Council website, Project leader for the LIC funded Seamless project, Project Director for the DGV funded ISTAR project, and Essex Co-ordinator for the DGXIII funded ONE-2 Project. She is a Member of the Interoperability Focus Advisory Group, the European Public Information Centres (EPIC) National Steering Group, and chairs the EARL European Task Group which developed euroguide. 2000-09-06 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#kelly http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#kelly Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus - a JISC-funded post which provides advice for the UK Higher and Further Education communities on Web developments. 51.367279 -2.324553 2000-09-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#smart http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#smart Greg Smart is the Development Manager at the University of Bath, and worked on implementing and supporting the University's Finance System, Lawson. Greg has helped to ensure that the University plays a leading role in utilising is responsible for the University's Management Information Systems, having previously Lawson's tools for web deployment. He has worked in IT for over ten years and in HE for four, and has particular interests in the way people use computers and how their jobs are affected by changing technology. 51.367279 -2.324553 2000-09-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#halliday http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#halliday Ian Halliday: Instructor, Princeton University 1964-66. Fellow Christ's College, Cambridge 1966-67. Lectureship 1967-75, Reader 75-90, Professor 90-92, Imperial College, University of London. Professor of Physics and Head of Department, University of Wales, Swansea since 1992, Dean of Graduate School 93-96 (on leave of absence). Chief Executive, Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council since 1998. 51.634215 -1.766052 2000-09-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#mcdonald http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#mcdonald Dr Tony McDonald is TLTP officer at the Faculty of Medicine Computing Centre in the Medical School at the University of Newcastle. In this position he has been involved in the development and implementation of the Networked Learning Environment and its deployment at the consortium sites. Whilst developing this system, a lot of additional work was done on XML. Before joining the FMCC, Tony worked at Netskills on the DESIRE project and, further back, was the Macintosh systems advisor at the University of Newcastle Computing Service. His current interests are in website communication (XML-RPC and SOAP) and in 'shipping' the NLE out to as many sites as want it. 51.460264 -2.602515 2000-09-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#belcher http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#belcher Martin Belcher is Project Manager for the Internet Development Group, Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol. Martin is responsible for the consultancy activities of the ILRT. These mainly take a Web-based focus and include Web site design, implementation, service specification development, usability and accessibility audits, online strategy development and various forms of Web-focused training. Recent clients include; JISC, ESRC, University of Bristol, Bank of England, the Institute of Fiscal Studies, National Maritime Museum, BMW. Martin has been working for the University of Bristol in Internet related projects since 1994. Previous to that he studied, and sometimes practiced, in the fields of archaeology and geology. 51.460264 -2.602515 2000-09-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#robiette http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#robiette Alan Robiette works as Programme Director for JISC's rapidly developing interests in authentication and security. He began his career as a physical scientist but became increasingly involved in IT planning and management, and directed IT services in a number of HEIs for a period of some 15 years before taking up his current position. He is a former member of the Computer Board and of a number of JISC committees and working groups, and was closely associated with the eLib Programme throughout much of its existence. 2000-06-25