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- Creating a Photo Slide Show in HTML
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About Me
Professor Alan Gillies is the Director of Informatics at the Hope Street Centre in Liverpool, a not-for-profit Community Interest Company in Liverpool, advising a range of public and third sector bodies on how to use information to improve their services
Alan was Professor of Information Management at the University of Central Lancashire from 1994 to 2010 and retains an honorary chair
He graduated from The Queen's College, Oxford in 1984 in Chemistry. His PhD, probably the first to be awarded by the University of Central Lancashire after gaining its charter in 1992, was in problem solving methodology using knowledge based systems and formed the basis of his first book The Integration of Expert Systems Into Mainstream Software.
After nearly five years at the IT Institute at the University of Salford, he returned to Preston, and in 1998 joined the newly formed Lancashire School of Health and Postgraduate Medicine. In 2008, the School was amalgamated and expanded to form the School of Public Health and Clinical Sciences.
He has also held part time positions at the University of Oxford PGMET, RMIT in Australia, and in 2002 was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Cluj Napoca.
My Awards & Certifications
Doctor Honoris Causa (Cluj), PhD Computing Science, MA (Oxon) Chemistry
Fellow British Computer Society,
Chartered IT professional,
Fellow Academy of Higher Education
My Experience
Alan has over 100 academic publications including over 30 peer reviewed articles. He has recently returned from a project working with colleague John Howard for the Czech Government, He also has ongoing work in Ontario Canada, and has just been successful in bidding with Mark Cutter for the AHEAD-EU project on widening access for disabled students, with partners in Germany and Sweden.
Alan is the author of quite a lot of books, even more academic articles, and has presented in conferences in lots of nice places. He was recently spotted on TV on Sky News where his opinion piece on the politicisation of health care was shown across Europe on Sept 16th 2008
My Latest Articles
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What Kind of Software Is Best for You?
There’s lots of "free" software around these days: whatever happened to “there’s no such thing as a free lunch?” Well, there still isn’t. All software has costs associated with it, and you need to think about...Published on July 6, 2011 to Home Office
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What Are the True Costs of Acquiring New Software?
There’s lots of software around these days that appears to be free to buy: whatever happened to “there’s no such thing as a free lunch?” Well, there still isn’t. The true cost of acquiring new software may include...Published on July 6, 2011 to Home Office
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Using Your iPod Touch or iPhone to Improve Your Time Management
The iPod Touch is much more than a music player. It has a number of functions which can help you with your time management without incurring the running costs of an iPhone. This review considers how to use an iPod Touch effectively to improve your time...Published on July 6, 2011 to Home Office
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