Staff Contact Details
Executive|
Professor Jim Roach BSc, MSc, PGCE, MIET, CEng, MIoD, FRSA |
Dean +44 (0)1202 965899 ProfileI am the Dean of the School of Design, Engineering and Computing, and as such I am responsible for providing strong academic and strategic leadership in education, research, enterprise and professional practice together with the effective people, operational and financial management. I firmly believe in ensuring our students have the best educational experience possible. I am keen to ensure that our links with industry and commerce are maintained and I have been involved in many industrial partnerships. I was awarded a HEFCE/DTI National Business Fellowship in 2001 in recognition of the collaborative work undertaken between the University and Industry. I have run and delivered a large number of consultancy projects, generally in the area of embedded systems and instrumentation. I have been successful in gaining a number of DTI grants for Research and Development with local companies. I have also been successful in attracting EPSRC CASE awards again with local companies. |
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Professor Mark Hadfield BEng (Hons), PhD, FIMechE, FHEA |
Deputy Dean: Research, Enterprise and Internationalisation +44 (0)1202 965983 ProfileI am the director of Sustainable Design Research Centre SDRC, which includes four members of academic staff and five research students. The Centre is supported by SKF Engineering and Research Centre (The Netherlands), Federal Department of Energy (USA), The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), The Royal Academy of Engineering and BP International Research Centre. Research collaborative agreements exist between Ashigawa Institute of Technology (Japan) and Oviedo University (Spain). |
| Dr Xavier Velay BEng, MSc, PhD |
Deptuy Dean: Education +44 (0)1202 961416 ProfileI am actively involved with two research centres in the School: VMPRG and PVMC. Although both groups have different research outputs there is common ground between them in terms of product design development, modelling and simulation, advanced material science and complex manufacturing processes. |
| Kelly Deacon-Smith |
Director of Operations |
Senior Management Team
| Dr Andrew Main BSc, MSc, PhD, MBCS |
Associate Dean: Student Experience +44 (0)1202 965501 ProfileWith seventeen years of professional experience in industry, and eighteen in university, I deal comfortably with the breadth of applied computing, but my favourite field of interest is computer graphics – 2D. It is a very undervalued and under-researched area. It is often mistakenly regarded as a simple case of 3D, but in fact it has a very different problem-set, and requires very different facilities. |
| Dr Keith Phalp BSc, PGCE, MSc, PhD, MIMA, CMath |
Associate Dean & Head of Academic Group: Computing and Informatics +44 (0)1202 965571 Profile I am Reader in Software Engineering and joint director (with Dr Jonathan Vincent), of the Software Systems and Modelling group (SoSyM) at Bournemouth University. |
| Dr Tania Humphries-Smith BSc, PG Dip, MPhil, EdD, MIED, CEng, FHEA |
Associate Dean & Head of Academic Group: Design and Engineering +44 (0)1202 965626 ProfileI am Associate Dean & Head of Academic Group for Technology and Design at Bournemouth University. My teaching areas are engineering and product design. I was in professional practice as a product designer before entering academia. I am a Member and Councillor of the Institution of Engineering Designers, a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. My research activities are centred on sustainable product design, specifically the socio-cultural aspects of sustainable design. Currently, I am researching the psychology of product attachment and product life spans as well as how this aspect of sustainable design can be incorporated into design education. I have published in the area of design education since 1998. |
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Dr Reza Sahandi BSc, MSc, PhD, MIET, CEng, FHEA |
Associate Dean & Head of Academic Group: Creative Technology +44 (0)1202 965258 ProfileI have worked as a Technical Manager in industry. In my PhD research I developed a technique for vector encoding bit mapped images. I have extended my expertise in multimedia, speech synthesis, computer networks including design, protocols, security as well as management. |
| Professor Siné McDougall MA, PhD |
Associate Dean & Head of Academic Group: Psychology +44 (0)1202 966781 Profile
My research has focussed primarily on how we understand symbolic information either in the form of letters (reading and dyslexia) or icons used on computer interfaces and traffic and public information signs. |
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Dr Zulfiquar Khan BEng (Mech), MEng (Mech), PhD, PE, PGCert, MIMechE, CEng, Industrial Advisor (IMechE) |
Associate Dean: Research & Enterprise +44 (0)1202 961645 ProfileI conducted research on 16MnR Pressure Vessel Steel to assess the influence of corrosive environment on fatigue life performance. Modern approach based on fracture mechanics was applied to fatigue crack initiation and propagation life predictions. This project was funded by the Ministry of Labour and Industries, PR China under the 9th Five Year Plan. |
| Professor Siamak Noroozi BSc (Hons), MEng, PhD, MIET, CEng |
Design Simulation Research Centre Director +44 (0)1202 965554 ProfileI am a mechanical engineer with a broad range of interests that cross many disciplines. Throughout my professional and academic career I have always been involved in research. My research interests cover a wide range of disciplines from bio-mechanics to artificial intelligence; from inverse problem analysis to light weight structures; from composite materials to to passively smart adaptive composite structures. Please find below a selection of recent publications and do not hesitate to contact me if you would like to know more. |
| Professor Bogdan Gabrys MSc, PhD, SMIEEE, FHEA |
Smart Technology Research Centre Director +44 (0)1202 965298 ProfileI moved to Bournemouth University in January 2003. I am now Head of the Computational Intelligence Research Group. Current research interests include a wide range of machine learning and hybrid intelligent techniques encompassing data and information fusion, multiple classifier and prediction systems, processing and modelling of uncertainty in pattern recognition, diagnostic analysis and decision support systems. |
| Sheridan Paula Jeary BSc, MBCS, FHEA |
Software Systems Research Centre Co-Director +44 (0)1202 965257 ProfileAs a member of the Software Systems Modelling Group I am able to pursue a number of my research passions in Requirements Engineering, Business Process Improvement and Web Development particularly from a modelling aspect. |
| Helen Impett |
Academic Administration Manager |
