Affiliations and Collaboration

IKD

Odyssey Group

 APTN 

 BITE 

 RIIA 

APROS

IFIP WG 8.2

 DRS

The Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Development (IKD) is an interdisciplinary research centre at the Open University. It organises and conducts research in three main streams: innovation, knowledge and development. These streams are connected through various cross-cutting themes which build on recognised excellence in the areas of biotechnology innovation and development; innovation and industry dynamics; knowledge management; entrepreneurship; social learning and public action; and design innovation.

I am a member of this Centre which integrates researchers from six OU research groups from the Faculties of Social Sciences, Technology and the OU Business School (OUBS)..

Activities included an intititive on Asian Drivers in the Global Economy (www.asiandrivers.open.ac.uk).

The Odyssey Group is an open network of organisation researchers who meet in physical and cyber-space to discuss and enact the implications of the current generation of Information and Communication Technologies.

In 2007 the group is collaborating on a meeting on accessibility, tourism and development at the Open University, October 31 to November 1

I have been involved with this group since its inception, attending meetings and workshops in North America, Europe, Australia, Africa, London, Tyneside, Ulster Stockholm and New York.

Asia Pacific Technology Network (APTN), based in London, is a non-profit organisation which aims to raise awareness of the developments occurring in high technology in Asian countries and to encourage collaboration between companies in the UK (and indeed wider Europe) and those in the Asia-Pacific region. .

I became chairman of APTN in 2005 having been an active member since my return from Australia in 1996 following some eleven years teaching both undergraduate and research students from the various countries of the Pacific Rim.

From 1997 to 1999 I studied Japanese at the North West Japan Centre which is supported by the four universities of Greater Manchester.

The British Institute of Information Technology and Ecommerce (BITE), engages in consultancy, training and education in e-commerce and ICTs at practical and policy levels in Britain and beyond.

BITE maintains a network of associates with a range of skills and capacities in order to respond to consultancy opportunities.

BITE organised a World High Tech Forum in London in October 2008. This focussed on the contribution of Indian science, technology and innovation to the global economy.

Chatham House (RIIA), formerly known as The Royal Institute of International Affairs, is one of the world's leading institutes for the analysis of international issues.

Chatham House conducts joint meetings with APTN, including a seminar series on the prospects for EU-Asia technology coordination under the forthcoming FP-7 programmes.

APTN has a long stanidng relationhsip with Chatham Hosue and continues ot contribute to joint events of mutual interest.

Asia Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies (APROS) has members from across the pacific Rim and beyond.

I developed the first APROS website for the 2000 Sydney meeting and in 2003 I established jointly archiving_practice, a site providing an on-line archive for the 2003 Colloquium held in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Since 1989 I have attended meetings in Australia, Japan, China and the U.S.A. and APROS-12 which took place in Delhi in December 2007.

IFIP Working Group 8.2 Interaction of Information Systems and the Organisation WG 8.2 I am a member of this working group and have participated in meetings since 1990. I am also a member of WG 8.6 Transfer and Diffusion of IT and have attended meetings of WG 9.4 Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries

I attended the 2005 working conference on Ubiquitous Computing which took place in Cleveland, Ohio and the follow on meeting on Virtuality and Virtualization in Portland, Oregon in 2007.

The International Federation For Information Processing Working Group 8.2 was established by IFIP in 1977. WG 8.2 conducts working conferences, publishes books through IFIP, and publishes a semi-annual newsletter (OASIS). In addition, the working group maintains a listserv, a website and holds business meetings.

Design Research Society (DRS)

My initial professional qualification was in architecture, followed by a Masters in Applied Psychology. My doctoral studies investigated the organisational implications of computer aided architectural design (published in 1988) at the Department of Design Research, Royal College of Art, London. This resulted from contacts through the Design Research Society with which I have been involved for over twenty-five years. I was re-elected to the DRS Council in July 2005.

The Society hold regular meetings and cooperates with a variety of partners in international conferences. The 2004 conference, Futureground, was held in Melbourne Australia in November.

DRS founded the journal Design Studies in 1979. This is the principal refereed journal for multi-disciplinary design research and is now published by Elsevier.