School of Computing and Mathematics

Professor of Software Engineering

• CEng., Member of the BCS, associate Member of ACM and IEEE (CS)
• EPSRC IT&CS Peer Review College (2003-Present)

Recent Research grants

• 2007 - 2009 EPSRC, Evidence-based Practices Informing Computing, with Kitchenham & Niazi, in collaboration with D Budgen & M Goldstein, Durham
• 2005 - 2008 Funding from EPSRC for a service-oriented software research network, with colleagues at King's College London, Durham and Leeds.
• 2005 - 2007 EBSE: Evidence-based Software Engineering, with Profs. Budgen and Kitchenham and Mr. Linkman.
• 2001 - 2004 IBHIS: Information Broker for Heterogeneous Information Sources, with D. Budgen and M. Rigby (Department of Health Planning and Management, Keele Uni.). With Durham University and UMIST.

Research Interests

• Software engineering with a particular emphasis on evidence-based software engineering
• Empirical research methods
• Service-oriented systems development

Software Engineering Group Web Pages

• Software engineering
• Research and evaluation methods