Name: | George R. S. Weir |
Address: | Department of Computer & Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Richmond Street, Glasgow G1 1XH, UK |
Email: | george.weir[at sign]cis.strath.ac.uk |
Homepage: | http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/people/biography/gw/ |
Present position: | Lecturer |
Academic qualifications: | MA with Honours (Mental Philosophy), University of Glasgow; PhD (Philosophy), University of Edinburgh; PG Diploma in Business Information Technology Systems, University of Strathclyde. |
Summary: | Published extensively in the areas of HCI, Security, e-learning, readability and corpus linguistics (authoring or co-authoring more than 20 publications since 2007); developed several software
tools for use in readability, textual analysis and language learning; collaborated with researchers in the UK, Europe and in Japan
where named as an associate on two grants awarded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
In 2005, awarded a Sir Winston Churchill Trust Travel Fellowship - spent 6 weeks establishing research links with linguists, computer scientists and educators in Japan; Established the International Conference on ICT in the Analysis, Teaching and Learning of Languages (ICTATLL), which he has chaired annually since that date. |
Memberships: | Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics; the BCS Forensics and Cybercrime Specialist Group; the Association of Computing Machinery; the British Computer Society; the Higher Education Academy; IEEE; IEEE Professional Communications Society; IEEE Committee on Systems, Man and Cybernetics; Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust; Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. |
Research awards: | Comparing the effectiveness of on-line teaching, British Council (Portugal), 2004; A Methodology for Hybrid Teaching Materials, University of Strathclyde, R&D Fund, 2003; A Comparison of Teaching Programming, British Council (Portugal), 2003; Adding utility to community Web sites, University of Strathclyde and University of Glasgow, Synergy Fund, 2003; Scottish Teachers On-line Resource Modules (STORM), Scottish Executive Education Department, 2001-02; Robust Human Machine Interaction (RoHMI), CEC Human Capital and Mobility, 1994-95; Second Language Support, British Council (Greece), 1994. In 2010, he was awarded funding by the Institute for Advanced Studies to support a programme of events on Cybercrime. |
Teaching and Supervision: | Taught a variety of courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including: Human-Computer Interaction, Computer programming, Multimedia, Computer Security, Enterprise
Networking, Digital Information Fundamentals, and Web Applications Engineering. Supervised research in areas that include E-learning, Human-Computer Interaction, Complex Dynamic Systems, Computer Security, Digital Forensics and Textual Analysis. | |
Commercial experience: | Founding director of two Internet-related companies; developed and delivered training materials on Internet technologies and Security for a variety of commercial clients; provides consultancy services on aspects of digital forensics. |
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