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Roger Sutton
Senior Lecturer (UKM)
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Medway
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Canterbury
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I was appointed Senior Lecturer in Computing at the University of Kent in 2002, and tasked with establishing and developing a sub-department of the School of Computing at Medway. In 2003, this sub-department launched its first degree programme, a BSc in Business Information Technology in collaboration with the Kent Business School with 12 students. In 2005 it was able to offer a full applied computing programme leading to a BSc in Information Technology. The number of applied computing undergraduates on this campus has now reached 220 with an annual recruitment of approximately 80. The number of academic staff based at Medway has similarly increased from 2 initially to 7 and it has become the base of the Future Computing Research Group. Over the next few years the computing research activity at Medway will be consolidated and it intends in conjunction with other Medway-based schools to offer postgraduate programmes in business computing that incorporate aspects of Cloud and Green Computing.
Background
I undertook my first degree in Mathematics and Management Applications at Brunel
University. This was a thin-sandwich course that allowed me to gain experience
working for a chartered accountant, and programming in the National Gas Turbine
Establishment, Pyestock, the Ford Motor Company, Brentwood and the Shirley Institute
or Textile Research Association, Manchester. Then, following teacher training
and a research assistant's post at Manchester Polytechnic, I embarked
on a career in further education, teaching mathematics. I continued to study
part-time, reading Statistics and later Software Engineering at postgraduate
level. My teaching became more computing oriented and eventually I became the
Head of the Computing & Business (HE) Department at Mid-Kent College. Here
I taught mainly HND programmes in computing and business, and a BSc in Software
Engineering and was followed by my appointment to the School of Computing at
Kent. I have been a GCSE Mathematics examiner (team leader) since 1987.
I enjoy reading immensely, particularly historical fiction. I can often be
found scrutinising the shelves at Baggins Bookshop in Rochester looking for that
elusive first edition to complete a series. At other times I am restoring a house
in Lincolnshire, doing diy and gardening.
Teaching
CO320 Object Oriented Programming
CO331 Visual Programming
CO333 Applications Project
CO335 Mathematics for Computing
CO534 IT Consultancy Methods
CO540 Software Engineering Project Workshop
Other Responsibilities
Head of Medway Sub-School
Director of Studies
- Information Technology
- Business Information Technology
Qualifications
BTech Mathematics with Management Applications, Brunel University (1974)
PGCE Leeds University, 1975
MSc Statistics, Birkbeck College, University of London, 1983,
MSc Software Engineering, Brunel University, 1996
Dissertation: Training linear neural networks using principal component
analysis and factor analysis
Chartered Mathematician, Member of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
Chartered Statistician, Member of the Royal Statistical Society
Research Interests
I belong to the following research groups:
My interests include:
- Computation methods
- Image processing and pattern recognition
- Programming operational research methods