Alan began his career in education as a primary school teacher in a village school in Warwickshire. In his sixteen years of school teaching experience he worked in four different schools took responsibility of a variety of subjects including math, science and ICT. He worked for two of these years as an Advisory Teacher for ICT and his last school-based post was as Deputy Head of a large Middle School.

Alan has been a member of the academic staff in the Warwick Institute of Education, at the University of Warwick for nearly twenty years. He is currently Associate Professor of Education. He teaches, and has taught, across the full range of courses in the institute, including many undergraduate courses. Currently his main teaching duties are centered on the Post Graduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) for trainee primary teachers, and the institute’s Masters Programme.

The Warwick Institute of Education is home to the Centre for New Technologies Research and Education (CeNTRE) of which Alan is a founder member. The CeNTRE is a research group which focuses on teaching and learning and the educational use of new technologies.

Learning has been the main focus of Alan’s research, with a strong emphasis on the ways in which new technologies (in particular the use of Internet based resources) can impact on both teaching and learning. Much of Alan’s published work is focused on his classroom based research. He has presented his work at conferences around the world, and published articles in a range of academic journals and professional magazines.

For the complete list of Alan’s publications please click here.