Writing & Communication
I have extensive experience as an author of technical and scientific information. This includes books, peer‑reviewed research, technical articles, technical documentation, educational materials, blogging, and more. I served as Project Editor for two ISO/IEC standards on user documentation and agile development practices. I also have extensive experience as a presenter, workshop lead, and teaching:
- Scientific and technical conferences
- Scientific and technical workshops
- Educational and activity workshops for schools and teacher outreach
- Guest lecturing for Imperial College, London and the University of Southampton
- Training for new graduates and lunch & learn at IBM
- Associate lecturer for the Open University
Books
- Recording Science in the Digital Era: From Paper to Electronic Notebooks and Other Digital Tools
- WebSphere Message Broker Basics
- Migrating to WebSphere Message Broker Version 6.0
- WebSphere InterChange Server Migration Scenarios
- WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker Basics
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
- AI4Green4Students: Promoting Sustainable Chemistry in Undergraduate Laboratories with an Electronic Lab Notebook
- Data accessibility in the chemical sciences: an analysis of recent practice in organic chemistry journals
- Digital research environments: a requirements analysis
- Data management matters
- eScience Infrastructures in Physical Chemistry
- Encouraging and Facilitating Laboratory Scientists to Curate at Source
- Documentation and Visualisation of Workflows for Effective Communication, Collaboration and Publication @ Source
- Electronic lab notebooks: can they replace paper?
- Using Metadata Actively
- Effects of using structured templates for recalling chemistry experiments
- Annalist: A practical tool for creating, managing and sharing evolving linked data
- Collection, Curation, Citation at Source: Publication@Source 10 Years On
- User-Defined Metadata: Using Cues and Changing Perspectives
- Creating Context for the Experiment Record. User-Defined Metadata: Investigations into Metadata Usage in the LabTrove ELN
- Experiences with a researcher-centric ELN
- Data Curation Issues in the Chemical Sciences
- Laboratory notebooks in the digital era: the role of ELNs in record keeping for chemistry and other sciences
- Smart Meetings: Experimenting with Space
- Human Aspects of Smart Spaces for Knowledge Transfer
- Smart Meeting Spaces for Knowledge Transfer
Theses
- PhD Thesis, University of Southampton 2015: Asking the right questions: Designing digital tools to support researchers recording scientific experiments
- MSc Environmental Analysis and Health Thesis, University of Wales, Swansea 1997: Analysis of the Impacts of Mine Drainage and its Remediation on a Selection of Rivers in South Wales
- BSc Geology (Honours) Thesis, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 1996: Environments of Deposition in the Carboniferous Limestone of South East Gower
Articles
- Agile Development. A Guide for Technical Communicators Part 2, Southern Communicator, June 2012
- Agile Development. A Guide for Technical Communicators Part 1, Southern Communicator, Feb 2012
- More than words, Communicator Magazine, Winter 2011
- Developing user documentation in an agile environment:An International Standard, Communicator Magazine, Summer 2011
- Standards for User Documentation from ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7/WG2
- Making technology accessible for people with disabilities, Southampton University, 2008
International Standards
Editor
- ISO/IEC 26513:2009 Systems and software engineering – Requirements for testers and reviewers of user documentation (also available as IEEE 26513-2010)
- ISO/IEC 26515:2011 Systems and software engineering – Developing user documentation in an agile environment
Contributor
- ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 Software and systems engineering — Software testing
- ISO/IEC/IEEE 26511 Systems and software engineering — Management of information for users of systems, software, and services
- ISO/IEC/IEEE 26512 Systems and software engineering — Requirements for acquirers and suppliers of information for users
- ISO/IEC/IEEE 26514 Systems and software engineering — Design and development of information for users
- ISO/IEC/IEEE 15289 Systems and software engineering — Content of life-cycle information items (documentation)
- ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765 Systems and software engineering — Vocabulary
Patents
Granted
- Generating a taxonomy for documents using tag data (US8620922, US8346776, US8874583)
- Document taxonomy generation from tag data using user groupings of tags (US8645381)
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