Staff Handbook: 2.3 Officers and Committees for 2012/13

Contents

0. Introduction

"Until" means until the end of the academic year which falls in the given calendar year (thus "Until 2013" would mean "until the end of the academic year 2012/13", taken here to end on 31 July). Office-holders, other than taught student representatives, remain in post until substitute appointments have been made or elections held.

According to 2.2 Management Structures §1: "Unless otherwise stated, the term of office for all elected or appointed officers and members of committees is three years, except for research staff and students where it is one year."

1. Officers

Post Name Until
Head of School Jon Rowe 2015
Deputy Head(s) of School Andrew Howes 2015
Head of Academic Programmes Manfred Kerber 2014
Head of Quality Assurance John Bullinaria 2013
Head of Student Development and Support Mark Lee 2013
Director of Undergraduate Studies Peter Tiño 2013
Director of Postgraduate Studies Alan Sexton 2013
Senior Tutor John Barnden 2015
UG Programme Directors:
Intercalated Year Uday Reddy 2013
MSc Programme Directors:
MSc Advanced Computer Science Dave Parker 2015
MSc Computer Science Uday Reddy 2015
MSc Computer Security Tom Chothia 2013
MSc Human-Computer Interaction Russell Beale 2015
MSc Multidisciplinary Optimisation Shan He 2015
MRes Natural Computation Shan He 2015
MSc Robotics Michael Mistry 2015
Industrial Placements Tutor Mirco Musolesi (until 31 December 2012) and Behzad Bordbar (after 1 January 2013) 2012
Careers Tutor Rami Bahsoon 2014
Undergraduate Projects Officer Andrew Howes 2015
MSc Projects Officer Shan He 2014
Advanced MSc mini projects Dave Parker 2015
SSC coordinator Bob Hendley 2012
Individual Study Nick Hawes 2015
Examinations Officer Eike Ritter 2013
Deputy Examinations Officer Paul Levy 2015
Senior Welfare Officer Iain Styles 2015
Deputy Welfare Officers Nick Hawes,
Ata Kaban		 2013,
2013
International Students Tutor Hamid Dehghani 2015
Research Students Tutor Steve Vickers 2014
Demonstrator Tutor Richard Dearden 2015
Exchanges Tutor Bernd Bohnet 2015
Head of Admissions Peter Hancox 2013
Admissions and Marketing Coordinator Elena Jung
Admissions Team  
Peter Hancox
Bernd Bohnet
Dave Parker
Jim Yandle
John Bullinaria
Martin Escardo
Michael Mistry
Russell Beale
Shan He
Shishir Nagaraja		  
2013
2015
2015
2013
2013
2015
2015
2015
2014
2015
Head of Marketing and Publicity Jeremy Wyatt 2015
Senior Marketing Officer Gurpreet Grewal-Kang
Marketing Team Jeremy Wyatt
Richard Dearden
Hamid Dehghani
Dan Ghica
Nick Hawes
 2015
2015
2013
2014
2014
Director of Computing Facilities Steve Pillinger 2013
Library Liaison Officer Uday Reddy 2015
Director of Research Ales Leonardis 2015
Deputy Director of Research Dan Ghica 2015
Research Ethics Officer Russell Beale 2015
Other Officers
Departmental Seminar Coordinator Asimina Vasalou 2014
Departmental Lunch Seminar Coordinator Christine Zarges 2015
AINC Seminar Coordinator Leandro Minku 2013
Theory Seminar Coordinator Paul Levy 2012
Interaction Seminar Coordinator Chris Bowers 2014
Health and Safety Coordinator Katie Heliwell
Fire Wardens Ceinwen Cushway
Bertram Dandy
Antoni Diller
Julie Heathcote
Bob Hendley
Eike Ritter
Qualified First Aiders Keith Marlow
Sharon Powell
Mark Robbins
Chair of User Forum Dan Ghica 2014
Data Protection Officer, Freedom of Information Officer Bryan Fryer ex off.
Diversity & Equality Officer Andrew Howes 2015
REF Lead Xin Yao
REF Preparation Group Jeremy Wyatt
Dan Ghica
Jeremy Wyatt
Mark Ryan
Returning Officer Bryan Fryer ex off.

2. School Committee

The membership of the School Committee will be reviewed at a future School Committee meeting.

e-mail: school-comm (school-comm-open is the corresponding open list). For terms of reference, see 2.2 Management Structures.

Head of School (chair) Jon Rowe ex off.
All staff in the School are entitled to attend and vote (including Teaching Staff, Research Staff, Support Staff and Academic-related Staff).
PA to the Head of School (Secretary) Katie Heliwell ex off.
Four student members of the School's Staff/Student Consultative Committee: one first-year undergraduate, one second-year undergraduate, one third-year or fourth-year undergraduate, one MSc student. Bhonae Tayali (Year 1 UG)
Sissi Dimova (Year 2 UG)
Mark Blything (Final Year UG)
Tom Atherton (MSc)		 All 2013
One research student member of the School's Staff/Research Student Consultative Committee. Catherine Harris 2013

3. Advisory Group

Head of School Jon Rowe ex off.
PA to the Head of School Katie Heliwell ex off.
Deputy Head(s) of School Andrew Howes ex off.
Director of Research Ales Leonardis ex off.
Head of Academic Programmes Manfred Kerber ex off.
Director of Admissions Peter Hancox ex off.
Head of Student Development and Support Mark Lee ex off.
Operations Manager Bryan Fryer ex off.
Two elected members of staff of the School Ela Claridge
Nick Hawes		 2014

4. Staffing Committee

e-mail: staffing-comm. For terms of reference, see 2.2 Management Structures.

Head of School (Chair) Jon Rowe ex off.
All Professors in the School John Barnden
Russell Beale
Ela Claridge
Andrew Howes
Ales Leonardis
(Jon Rowe)
Achim Jung
Uday Reddy
Mark Ryan
Xin Yao		 ex off.
One other elected representative of the Non-Professorial Teaching Staff of the School (must be at Senior Lecturer, Reader, or Senior Research Fellow level, and on an open contract) John Bullinaria 2014
Co-options Aaron Sloman 2013

5. Research Committee

e-mail: research-comm. For terms of reference, see 2.2 Management Structures.

Head of School Jon Rowe ex off.
Director of Research (Chair) Ales Leonardis ex off.
Chair of the Research Students Monitoring Group Steve Vickers ex off.
Research Students Admissions Tutor Martin Escardo ex off.
Director of Computing Facilities Steve Pillinger ex off.
Between four and eight other representatives of the research active members of Teaching Staff, nominated by the Teaching Staff and appointed by School Committee after consideration of suggestions from the Research Committee Rami Bahsoon
John Barnden
Russell Beale
Ela Claridge
Dan Ghica
Paul Levy
Peter Tino
Jeremy Wyatt
 2013
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2013
Two elected representative of the Research Staff in the School Rustam Stolkin
vacancy 		2013
One elected representative of the Research Students in the School Jay Young 2013
Research Secretary Ceinwen Cushway

6. Research Students Monitoring Group

e-mail: rsmg-comm. For terms of reference, see 2.2 Management Structures.

Research Students Tutor Steve Vickers (chair) ex off.
Three or more other members of teaching staff, at least one of whom will be a professor, appointed by School Committee after consideration of suggestions from the Research Students Monitoring Group John Barnden
John Bullinaria
Ela Claridge
Richard Dearden
Antoni Diller
Martín Escardó
Peter Hancox
Mark Lee
Uday Reddy
Eike Ritter
Jon Rowe
Peter Tiño
Xin Yao		 2009
2009
2009
2010
2010
2009
2010
2012
2009
2010
2010
2009
2009
Secretary Patrycja Sliwa

7. Computing Facilities User Forum

e-mail: user-forum. For terms of reference, see 2.2 Management Structures.

Chair of User Forum
 Dan Ghica
 2014
The meetings are open to all members of staff and students with an interest in the matters discussed.

8. Staff/Student Consultative Committee

e-mail: staff-student-comm. For terms of reference, see 2.2 Management Structures.

Head of School Jon Rowe ex off.
Co-chair Bhonae Tayali 2013
Head of Student Development & Support (co-chair) Mark Lee ex off.
Director of Undergraduate Studies Peter Tiño ex off.
Director of Postgraduate Studies Alan Sexton ex off.
Director of Computing Facilities Steve Pillinger ex off.
Teaching Assistant member of Teaching Committee Chris Novakovic ex off.
One student representative for each group opposite, elected by those students

Sarah Devereux (AICS1)

Joshua Smith (AICS2)

Liz Felton (AICS3)

Shaylen Pastakia (CS1)

Cristina Ghiur (CS2)

Mark Blything (CS3)

Richard Lin (HalfCS1)

vacancy (HalfCS2)

Katherine Outhwaite (HalfCS3)

vacancy (HalfCS4)

Peter Ting (SE1)

Oliver Smithson (SE2)

Matthew Dutton (SE3)

Atif Hussain (SE4)

Bhonae Tayali (CSBM1)

Sissi Dimova (CSBM2)

Luke Ravenscroft (CSBM3)

Karnpreet Chahal (Year in CS)

Tom Atherton (MScCS)

Neetha Lenka (MScACS)

Rajiv Singh (MScCSec)

Divyen Sanganee (MSc HCI)

vacancy (MSc Robotics)

 All
2013
Secretary Sue Tippin

9. Staff/Research Student Consultative Committee

e-mail: staff-research-student-comm. For terms of reference, see 2.2 Management Structures.

Head of School Jon Rowe ex off.
Research Students Tutor (vice-chair) Steve Vickers ex off.
One Computer Officer, nominated by the Director of Computing Facilities Mark Robbins 2011
One research student representative elected by each of Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, and all other years combined John Saxon (Year 1)
Antonio Lima (Year 2 - chair)
Catherine Harris (Year 3)
Mark Rowan (All other years)		 All
2013
MRes Natural Computation student representative on SSCC vacancy 2013
Research student representative on Research Committee Jay Young 2013
Co-opted members if required Loretta Mancini 2013
Secretary Patrycja Sliwa

10. Teaching Committee

e-mail: teaching-comm (teaching-comm-open is the corresponding open list). For terms of reference, see 2.2 Management Structures.

Head of School Jon Rowe ex off.
Head of Academic Programmes (Chair) Manfred Kerber ex off.
Head of Quality Assurance John Bullinaria ex off.
Director of Undergraduate Studies Peter Tiño ex off.
Director of Postgraduate Studies Alan Sexton ex off.
Head of Student Development & Support Mark Lee ex off.
Academic Administration Officer Samantha Gardiner-Hardy ex off.
Four to eight other members of the Teaching Staff of the School, appointed by School Committee after consideration of suggestions from the Teaching Committee Russell Beale
Tom Chothia
Martín Escardó
Nick Hawes 		2013
2014
2013
2014
Three student members of the School's Staff/Student Consultative Committee: two undergraduates, one MSc student, elected by the student members of Staff/Student Consultative Committee. Matthew Dutton (UG)
Joshua Smith (UG)
Rajiv Singh (MSc)		 All 2013
One Teaching Assistant, elected by the Teaching Assistants. Chris Novakovic 2013
Secretary Samantha Gardiner-Hardy

11. Quality Assurance Committee

e-mail: qae-comm. For terms of reference, see 2.2 Management Structures.

Head of School Jon Rowe ex off.
Head of Quality Assurance (chair) John Bullinaria ex off.
Head of Academic Programmes Manfred Kerber ex off.
Head of Student Development and Support Mark Lee ex off.
Director of Undergraduate Studies Peter Tiño ex off.
Director of Postgraduate Studies Alan Sexton ex off.
Examinations Officer Eike Ritter ex off.
Academic Administration Officer Samantha Gardiner-Hardy ex off.
At least three other members of Teaching Staff of the School appointed by School Committee after consideration of suggestions from the QAEC. Rami Bahsoon
Bob Hendley
Paul Levy
Iain Styles		 2014
2013
2015
2013
Secretary Julie Heathcote

12. Accreditation Committee

e-mail: accredit-comm. For terms of reference, see 2.2 Management Structures.

Head of Quality Assurance (Chair) John Bullinaria ex off.
Head of Academic Programmes Manfred Kerber ex off.
Director of Undergraduate Studies Peter Tino ex off.
Academic Administration Officer Samantha Gardiner-Hardy ex off.
Additional members Peter Coxhead (Consultant member)
Uday Reddy		 co-opted

13. External Liaison Committee

e-mail: external-liaison-comm. For terms of reference, see 2.2 Management Structures.

Head of School (Chair) Jon Rowe ex off.
Head of Academic Programmes Manfred Kerber ex off.
Industrial Placements Tutor Mirco Musolesi, Behzad Bordbar ex off.
Business Development Manager Padma Reddy ex off.
Director of Research Ales Leonardis ex off.
Two other members of teaching staff appointed by School Committee after consideration of suggestions from the External Liaison Committee Mark Ryan
Rami Bahsoon		 2012
2012
Secretary Ceinwen Cushway

The External Liaison Committee forms part of the Industrial Advisory Board; see 2.2 Management Structures.

[Section 14 is obsolete.]

15. Student Recruitment Monitoring Group

The Student Recruitment Monitoring Group operates as an informal body to monitor and manage student recruitment. It is mainly operated by mailing list. Meetings will be called as necessary by the the Convenor, Peter Hancox.

e-mail: srmg-comm. (srmg-comm-open is the corresponding open list).

16. Learning Resources Committee

This committee has been dissolved.

17. Boards of Examiners

See 3.3.1 Assessment Procedures.

Undergraduate for Academic Year 2012/13 (normal meetings June and September 2013)


Chair (member of the Academic Management Team) Peter Tiño ex off.
External Examiners (final award boards only)

Head of School Jon Rowe ex off.
Examinations Officer Eike Ritter ex off.
One member of the Welfare Team Iain Styles ex off.
One member of the Extenuating Circumstances Panel (normally the Chair) John Barnden ex off.
Undergraduate Project Coordinator Andrew Howes ex off.
Four representatives of Module Examiners, who may not serve in this capacity for more than one year consecutively Behzad Bordbar
Bernd Bohnet
Paul Levy
Mirco Musolesi		 All
2013
Secretary Caroline Wilson

MSc for Academic Year 2012/13 (normal meetings June and October 2013)

Chair (member of the Academic Management Team) Alan Sexton ex off.
External Examiners (final award boards only)

Head of School Jon Rowe ex off.
Examinations Officer Eike Ritter ex off.
MSc Projects Officer Shan He ex off.
One member of the Welfare Team Iain Styles ex off.
One member of the Extenuating Circumstances Panel (normally the Chair) John Barnden ex off.
Four representatives of Module Examiners, who may not serve in this capacity for more than one year consecutively Dave Parker
Martin Escardo
Michael Mistry
Jeremy Wyatt		 All
Jan 2014
Secretary Caroline Wilson

18. Extenuating Circumstances Panel

See 3.3.1 Assessment Procedures.

Extenuating Circumstances Panel for 2012/13

Senior Tutor (chair) John Barnden ex off.
Extenuating Circumstances Officer Iain Styles ex off.
One member of the corresponding Undergraduate and MSc Examination Boards to be present for discussions of undergraduates and MSc students respectively Andrew Howes (UG)
Martin Escardo (MSc)		 Jan 2013

19. Appeals Panel

See 3.3.1 Assessment Procedures.

Appeals Panel for 2012/13

Chair of the Extenuating Circumstances Panel (chair) John Barden ex off.
Chair of the relevant Examination Board (undergraduate or MSc) Peter Tiño, Alan Sexton ex off.
Examinations Officer Eike Ritter ex off.

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