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2017: Looking back, and ahead ...

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The past year has been one of many significant milestones across many aspects of my life in academia - culminating in my appointment as Professor of Software Engineering at The Open University and stepping up to be Head of the School Computing & Communications.  This blog hasn't received as much attention in the past, and not sure if this will change in the coming year, but for my final post of the year let me reflect on some of the significant events in my working life: January: Formally started production of a new course, "Introduction to Computing Technologies", which forms part of the core for the Open University's Digital & Technology Solutions Professional Degree Apprenticeship scheme .  The course is now being presented with our first cohort of apprenticeship students. February: Presented Social-Lift , our tool for digital evidence collection from Facebook timelines, at the Social Media Conference organised by the OU's Centre for Policing