I have just started (September 2009) a new position as Lecturer in the School of Computer Science at the University of Lincoln. In my role as Lecturer I teach several units including 'Computer Graphics and Games Programming' and 'Advanced Software Enginerring' I am also Unit Co-ordinator for the MSc module 'Component Based Software Engineering'.

In addition to my teaching duties I am also a member of two of the departments research groups, these are LiSC and CVRR, where I am currently continuing my research into Social Robotics, Human Robot Interaction and Land, Sea and Air Robotics. - More to follow.... please check out my research pages for more info.

From December 2007 to August 2009 I worked in the Adaptive Systems Research Group at Hertfordshire University as a Research Fellow. I was working on a project called FEELIX GROWING which is an EU funded project - due for completion May 2010. Within this project I was working on developing robotic models of emotion for understanding cognative development, and for human robot interaction (HRI). I've developed a multimodal robotic head that can express various emotions which are influenced based on interaction with a human. Click here for more information.

My previous position as a researcher (July 2006 - Dec 2007) was working for the University of Wales, Aberystwyth as a Research Associate on an EPSRC funded project called iKAPP (intelligent Kite Aerial Photography Platform). The project website can be found at: www.ikapp.org. This project involved developing an intellgent, gyroscopically stabalised highly engineered photography platform to be flown by a kite for the purpose of terain mapping, folliage identifications and site surveylance. The project saw the development of the prototype up to iKAPP Rig #4 from CAD designs in Carbon Fibre, see the website for more details and images.

I am also still liaising with the researchers at the the Hybrid Intelligent Systems department at the Univeristy of Sunderland where we are looking into Human-Robot-Interaction based on a robotic head we have developed details of which can be found here..

I completed my Ph.D in the HIS department at Sunderland University with my research looking into biologically inspired computational robotics. Specificially in the area of acoustic localisation more...