Teaching

Academic Service & Leadership

I supervise honours, masters, and phd projects. I also develop and lead both modules and programmes globally as well as for specific external academic partners in the UK, Eire, & Myanmar. As a result I also serve on module and programme boards and have been a standing member of our Athena Swan committee since 2015. I am an academic representative to the Edinburgh Napier University Academic board. I developed and lead the successful Global Online BSc Computing degree programme.

Current Taught Courses & Modules

I am currently the Module Leader for the following modules which I also deliver and examine:

SET08101: Web Tech - This focusses upon modern client side web development. This has multiple instances which cover external partnerships (SET08702), graduate apprentic programmes (SET08401), and global online programmes (SET08801). All run in second trimester of each academic year apart from SET08702 which occasionally runs during the summer trimester.

SET08101 Module Descriptor

SET08101 Module Website - Each variant module uses this commmon core of learning materials
SET09103: Advanced Web Tech - SET08101 (or equivalent is a pre-requisite for this module which focusses on the server side of web development.

SET09103 Module Descriptor

SET09103 Module Website
SET09701: Java OO Programming

Module Descriptor

Module Website

Past Taught Courses & Modules

Over time I’ve taught or lead a variety of modules and subjects at various institutions.

@ Edinburgh Napier University

These are some modules that I previously taught on at Edinburgh Napier University.

SET07109: Programming Fundamentals
SET08114: Mobile Application Development
SET09117: Algorithms & Data Structures

@ University of Dundee

I have previously served on the termination of studies committee and exam boards for the School of Computing at the University of Dundee. Whilst there, at various times I coordinated and taught the following undergraduate and postgraduate modules:

AC12003: The Argumentation & Computers Course
AC21003: Applied Computing AC2A
AC21005: Data Structures & Algorithms
AC21006: Advanced Foundations of Computing
AC22001: Applied Computing AC2B
AC42001: Research Frontiers Intelligent Agents Unit
AC52022: Multiagent Systems & Grid Computing
AC51022: Logical Inference & Symbolic Reasoning
AC52023: Application Case Studies & Research Methods

Project Supervision

@ Edinburgh Napier University

The following are undergraduate and postgraduate projects across the SOC10101, SOC10102, SOC10404, SOC10603, SOC11101, and SOC11801 modules. Projects run in each of the three trimesters, depending upon programme, and can run for one, two, or three trimesters, accumulating 40 or 60 credits.

Davide Pollicino, Honours Project, 09.2021 -- 06.2022
Mahendar Katuku, Masters Project, 06.2021 -- 09.2021
Connor Ness, Masters Project, 06.2021 -- 09.2021
Fiona Gilmour, Honours Project, 01.2021 -- 12.2021
Chris Wales, Honours Project, 01.2021 -- 12.2021
Ashfaq Ahmed, Honours Project, 01.2021 -- 12.2021
Cara Bullock, Honours Project (Graduate Apprentice), 09.2020 -- 09.2021
Bhone Thet Aung, Honours Project (Myanmar), 09.2020 -- 12.2021
Aung Min Khant, Honours Project (Myanmar), 09.2020 -- 12.2021
Aung Khant Paing, Honours Project (Myanmar), 09.2020 -- 12.2021
Stefan Hadzhiev, Honours Project, 09.2020 -- 06.2021
Martin Putz, Honours Project, 09.2020 -- 06.2021
Lee Robinson, Honours Project, 09.2020 -- 06.2021
Kaci Yan, Honours Project, 09.2020 -- 12.2021
Jonathan Binns, Honours Project, 09.2020 -- 06.2021
Jacob Barrow, Honours Project, 09.2020 -- 06.2021
Dominic Manderson, Honours Project, 09.2020 -- 06.2021
David Mccluskey, Honours Project, 09.2020 -- 06.2021
Ciaran Brady, Honours Project, 09.2020 -- 06.2021
Celeste Prussiani, Honours Project, 09.2020 -- 06.2021
Arran Smedley, Honours Project, 09.2020 -- 06.2021
Vaughn O'Meara, Honours Project, 01.2020 -- 06.2021
David Linacre, Masters Project, 01.2020 -- 12.2020
Zsolt Varga, Honours Project, 09.2019 -- 06.2020
Rebecca Mcgowan, Honours Project, 09.2019 -- 06.2020
Paul Wilson, Honours Project, 09.2019 -- 06.2020
Luke Reeder, Honours Project, 09.2019 -- 06.2020
Connor Ness, Honours Project, 09.2019 -- 06.2020
Ali Babiker, Honours Project, 09.2019 -- 06.2020
Sean Maguire, Masters Project, 06.2019 -- 09.2019
Bhuvaneswari Thota, Masters Project, 01.2019 -- 06.2019
Rossa Heraty Quirke, Honours Project, 01.2019 -- 12.2019
Michael Paxton, Honours Project, 01.2019 -- 12.2019
David Frame, Honours Project, 01.2019 -- 12.2019
Sean Faughey, Honours Project, 09.2018 -- 06.2019
Michael Gauld, Honours Project, 09.2018 -- 06.2019
Mark Barton, Honours Project, 09.2018 -- 06.2019
Jostein Dyrseth, Honours Project, 09.2018 -- 06.2019
Dan Nash, Honours Project, 09.2018 -- 06.2019
Calvin Gill, Honours Project, 09.2018 -- 06.2019
Ben Gray, Honours Project, 09.2018 -- 06.2019
Wahid Hamid, Masters Project, 06.2018 -- 09.2018
Konstantinos Kalkounos, Masters Project, 06.2018 -- 09.2018
Ryan Stainsby, Honours Project, 01.2018 -- 12.2018
Marcin Szczot, Honours Project, 01.2018 -- 12.2018
William Hutcheson, Honours Project, 09.2017 -- 06.2018
Nathan Mair, Honours Project, 09.2017 -- 06.2018
Illya Kalinov, Honours Project, 09.2017 -- 06.2018
Graeme Campbell, Honours Project, 09.2017 -- 06.2018
Gillan Stewart, Honours Project, 09.2017 -- 06.2018
Finlay Wright, Honours Project, 09.2017 -- 06.2018
Hristo Meshinski, Honours Project, 01.2017 -- 12.2017
Amantle Craviolati, Honours Project, 01.2017 -- 12.2017
Gowthami Gurapadi, Masters Project, 01.2017 -- 06.2017
Sean Jackson, Honours Project, 09.2016 -- 06.2016
Liam Aitken, Honours Project, 09.2016 -- 06.2016
John Douglas, Honours Project, 09.2016 -- 06.2016
Xi Wang, Masters Project, 06.2016 -- 09.2016
Emils Pinkis, Honours Project, 01.2016 -- 12.2016
Ashok Kamepalli, Masters Project, 09.2015 -- 12.2015
James Sharkey, Honours Project, 09.2015 -- 06.2016
Paul Theurer, Honours Project, 01.2015 -- 12.2015
David Stewart, Honours Project, 01.2015 -- 12.2015

@ University of Dundee

I have also supervised both undergraduate and postgraduate projects on modules AC40001, AC52004, AC52030, and AC52031 at the University of Dundee.

Adam Mackie, Senior Honours Project, 09.2010 -- 01.2011, Building GARGle: A search engine for large-scale online argument repositories
James Boyden, Senior Honours Project, 09.2010 -- 01.2011, Exploring argument structures using the Microsoft Surface
Kathleen Donachie, Senior Honours Project, 09.2010 -- 01.2011, GrokTool: An argument construction tool to support student understanding of complex domains
Wojtek Wajerowicz, IAESTE student exchange program, 07--09, 2010, Argument MicroBlogging project funded by IAESTE Placement UK/10/317/01
Zenan Zheng, MSc Applied Computing Dissertation, 04--09.2010, Towards a GrokTool: Helping students to explore complex problem domains
Temitope Olowookere, MSc Applied Computing Dissertation, FireBack: A Firefox extension to support online argumentation
Christopher Brett, Senior Honours Project, 09.2009 -- 05.2010, Zandrok APC: An agent-based testing platform for large-scale multiplayer online games
Craig Gall, Senior Honours Project, 09.2009 -- 05.2010, Argument Blogging with the FireBack Firefox extension prototype
Sean Kearney, Senior Honours Project, 09.2009 -- 05.2010, A Web-based property portfolio management tool
Wenqi Li, 3+1+1 International Student Project, 09.2009 -- 05.2010, Parley: Distributed discussion software to support small group tutorials in complex problem domains
Yi Jin, 3+1+1 International Student Project, 09.2009 -- 05.2010, A GUI for the Dialogue Game Description Language (DGDL)
Mark Snaith, Ph.D Second Supervision, 10.2009 -- 01.2011, Employed on the EPSRC funded Dialectical Argumentation Machines Project (EP/G060347/1)
Patrick Balmer, Senior Honours Project, 09.2008 -- 05.2009, Simulating a hive mind using intelligent agents
Mark Snaith, Senior Honours Project, 09.2008 -- 05.2009, OVA: Online Visualisation of Argument
Heng Dai, MSc Applied Computing Dissertation, 09.2008 -- 05.2009, An online GUI for the Dialogue Game Description Language (DGDL)
Ewan Cunningham, Senior Honours Project, 09.2008 -- 05.2009, Constructing and load testing a prototype computational cluster
Colin Gourlay, Senior Honours Project, 09.2008 -- 05.2009, An argument blogging prototype
Bryan Haddow, Senior Honours Project, 09.2008 -- 05.2009, A Web GUI for building \& verifying Dialogue Game Description Language (DGDL) game descriptions
Minh Nhat Pham, MSc Applied Computing Dissertation, 09.2007 -- 05.2008, Building an international arguing agents competition server
Philip Thompson, Senior Honours Project, 09.2007 -- 05.2008, Automated traffic management using autonomous intelligent agents
Waqar Zafar, MSc Intelligent Computational Systems Dissertation, 09.2007 -- 05.2008, Agent Development for Breast Cancer Research
Syed Hussain, MSc Intelligent Computational Systems Dissertation, 09.2007 -- 05.2008, Agent-based automated vehicle management
Debora Kagohara, MSc Computing & Business Dissertation, 04.2007 -- 09.2007, Virtual Ant Farm

Guidance on References

If I’ve previously taught or supervised you then I’m happy to provide you with a reference. Usually this involves you providing my contact details to your employer who will ask me to then provide a reference according to their requirements.

As I have an increasing number of requests each year, please help me to help you. The easiest way is as follows:

Send me an email to let me know that you need a reference.
In your email, tell me about the job that you’ve applied for, and,
remind me of the contact that we’ve had during your time at Napier, e.g. modules, supervisions, projects, placements, demonstration, tutoring, etc. with dates and other details if possible (not because I’ll necesarily have forgotten you but because if you don’t remind me then I’ll have to look it all up which is fine for one reference but when I do dozens each year this can be quite time consuming).