About me:

I'm a lecturer at the University of South Australia, although that much is probably already clear at this point. I teach in the School of Computing and Information Science, which is part of the Engineering Division, although I tend to focus a bit more on the Information Systems side of things. I tend to teach programming, web development, and general "technology" courses covering current, past and future developments in technology. Professionally, prior to arriving I worked as a web developer and programmer, which I started in 1994 and continued on until I started at UniSA. Academically, my initial background was in Arts at Adelaide University, where I majored in Philosophy and Classical History. I then went on to complete Honours in Philosophy in a combined program with Adelaide and Flinders Universities, and began (but didn't complete) a Masters in Philosophy at Flinders. One day I hope to finish that, but the pressures of raising children were enough to lead me in other directions. After some years working, I was eventually given the opportunity to enter a Doctoral program in Information Systems at UniSA, which lead to my current position. I still code - most recently I've been doing extensive work in .NET and Java - but that's probably not a surprise. So, what else should I cover? The only other relevant issue seems to be research interests. My background has been in two areas - philosophy and programming. As a result I tend to do research in either of those two subjects. The philosophy track of my research is to do with foundational issues in IS, focusing on research methodologies, modeling issues, definitions of knowledge, and the like. Anything with no direct application to the real world. :) Programming research tends to be along the lines of the design of web based systems, with a focus on applications within education. I've also a very strong interest in Wikipedia and have been studying it for many years, as it neatly combines both philosophy and computing, and topics such as the Open Source movement.