About Richard
I’m currently Head of Subject, Computing at the University of Derby, managing a vibrant computing department that has a number of successful undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. My teaching areas are agent-managed web services and cloud architectures for the enterprise.
Prior to this I was a Principal Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University in the area of enterprise web technologies. Specifically I was teaching distributed IT enterprise architecture, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), portal design, web programming and Business Process Modelling (BPM).
I’m a believer that research is a fundamental part of the graduate ‘experience’, since the skills of enquiry are important for working life. As such I have an interest in professional development for both staff and students, and part of my role at the University is to engage in educational development, changing policy and practice to embed research into the curriculum.
In 2008 I founded ‘Enquiry - the ACES Journal of Undergraduate Research‘ to illustrate some of the work produced by undergraduates whilst also offering development opportunities for the students through engagement with a real-life publishing project.
My research interests are:
- multi-agent systems modelling;
- enterprise systems architecture;
- gathering requirements;
- transaction theory and modelling;
- emergence in systems;
- organisational culture.