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Dr. Simon Charles Stobart Date of birth: 24th May
1966
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PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
1998 - Date:
MBCS - Member British Computer Society.
1998 - Date: C.Eng. - Chartered Engineer.
WORK EXPERIENCE
1987 - 1988: Programmer,
(Industrial Placement) Commercial Union Assurance, Surrey.
1989 - 1990: Part-time Lecturer, Computing Department, New College Durham.
1989 - 1992: Research Assistant and Visiting Lecturer, School of Computing
and Information Systems, University of Sunderland.
1992-1996: Lecturer in Computing, University of Sunderland.
1996-1998: Senior Lecturer in Computing, University of Sunderland.
1998-2000: Distance Learning Consultant/Senior Lecturer in Computing,
University of Sunderland.
2000-Nov 2000 Principal Lecturer in Computing-Postgraduate Programmes
Coordinator, University of Sunderland.
Nov2000-Date: Principal Lecturer in Computing-Postgraduate Programmes
Co-ordinator, University of Sunderland.
CURRENT POSITION
Principal Lecturer in Computing, - Postgraduate Programmes Coordinator, University of Sunderland.
My responsibilities are to coordinate the development of the Masters portfolio of programmes with the School of Computing, Engineering and Technology. To monitor quality issues across the programmes through the boards of studies. To monitor the commonality of modules across the programmes. To schedule, plan and monitor recruitment and cohorts. To monitor off campus provision of Masters programmes to ensure comparability of learning, teaching and assessment.
Programme Leader for:
- MSc Electronic Commerce
- MSc Electronic Commerce Applications
| Publications, Conference/Journal Membership | |
| Conference / Journal Publications |
1990 - Date. Over
45 academic research publications in the areas of Computer Aided
Software Engineering, quality methods, tools, distance learning
and testing.
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| Book Publications |
2002 - Essential
PHP Fast - Springer Verlag. Currently in publication.
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| Conference Committee Membership&Journal Editorial Board Member |
1995 - MetaCASE95,
Member of the rganizing committee. 1996 & 1998 - Turkish International Distance Education Symposium, member of the academic programme committee. 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 & 2001 - Member of the scientific and rganizing committee, Romanian Internet Learning Workshop. 1998 INSPIRE 98, 3rd Annual International Conference on Software Process Improvement, Member of local organizing and editorial committee. 2000 - member of the editorial board for The Turkish On-line Journal of Distance Education. 2001 - member of the editorial board for The 5th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, SC! 2001, Florida, USA |
| Keynotes |
1999, Invited Speaker on Postgraduate Education in Computing, Rawalpindi Institute of Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan, July 17, 1999. Reported in Business Recorder (www.brecorder.com) 2000, Invited Speaker on International Distance Learning Collaboration, LondonTec International Diploma Awards, Colombo, Sri Lanka. 2000. Awarded "Best Computer Scientist Award". |
| Research Supervision and Projects | |
| Research Interests |
Software Engineering
Methods and paradigms. Testing Object Oriented Systems. Distance
Learning. Computer Aided Software Engineering Tools. Low-end lifecycle
quality, metrics and code generation. The Internet as a teaching
and learning tool.
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| Research Projects |
1996 - UKERNA, investigation into World Wide Web search Engines for the UK. 2002 - ITSN Supporting Learning and Teaching, developing the Sunderland OnLine Learning Environment. |
| Current Research Supervision |
2001 - Director
of Studies for 1 full time PhD student - Mr ZhengLu Wang - investigating
"Risk Assessment in Chinese Software Development Organisations".
2001 - Second Supervisor for 1 part time PhD student - Mr Anders Fongen - investigating "A Distributed Searching Mechanism for Large Scale Networks |
| Previous Research Supervision |
2000 - Successfully
supervised 1 PhD student - Dr Bor-Yuan Tsai - investigated "A
Hybrid Object Oriented Class Testing Method - Based on State-based
and Data Flow Testing".
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| External Examination and Moderation | |
| 2000 - Date |
External Examiner,
University Central Lancashire, Business Information Systems and
MSc Business Admin (I.T.). Commenced 18th Oct 2000.
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| 2001 - Date: |
External Examiner,
Leeds Metropolitan University, MSc E Commerce. Commenced 1st March
2001.
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| 2002 - Date: |
External Examiner,
Sheffield Hallam University, MSc Multimedia Technologies for E-Commerce.
Commenced 1st Jan 2002.
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| 2001 - Date: |
Moderator, LondonTec
International - Sri Lanka, International Academic Computing Diploma.
Commenced 1st April 2001.
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Contact Adresses
Dr. Simon Stobart
Principal Lecturer - Postgraduate Programmes Coordinator
School of Computing, Engineering and Technology, University of Sunderland
St. Peter's Campus, St. Peter's Way, Sunderland, SR6 0DD, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)191 5152838 Fax: +44 (0)191 5153292 Mobile: 0973 431373
Email: simon.stobart@sunderland.ac.uk