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The aim of this series of seminars is to share the knowledge of the research activities in the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (ECM) with all staff and students and other interested people across the University by providing an update on recent developments.
Dependable Systems Engineering Research Centre (DSERC)
Director(s): Professor Rachel Harrison
About us
The Dependable Software Engineering Research Centre is an umbrella Research Centre in the School of Engineering, Computing and Maths. It was launched in September 2012 and encompasses the Cloud Computing and Cybersecurity Group, the Applied Software Engineering and Data Analytics Group, and the Advanced Reliable Computer Systems Group. The aim of the Centre is to promote the synergies and potential that exist between the Research Groups and to encourage the exploration of new research ground.
This union of the Research Groups is beneficial, fruitful and effective. Collaboration between the Research Groups takes place in the form of regular reading group meetings and seminars. The Centre brings together empirical, theoretical, and applied software research. It provides a dynamic environment to foster and support a vibrant and successful research culture through an interdisciplinary framework of science and technology at Oxford Brookes University.
Related courses
- Advanced Computer Science (MSc / PGDip / PGCert)
- Computing (MPhil / PhD / Masters by Research / PhD by Published Work)
- Artificial Intelligence (MSc / PGDip / PGCert)
- Computer Science for Cyber Security (BSc (Hons))
- Computer Science (BSc (Hons))
- Data Analytics (MSc)
The AIRE (AI & Requirements Engineering) workshop will run virtually for the 8th year in September 2021.
The purpose of this workshop is to explore synergies between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Requirements Engineering (RE). AIRE aims to strengthen the links between the community, including industry and academia.
For more information, visit the AIRE’21 webpage.
During Alex’s University education as part of his dissertation, he met The British Honey Company and worked alongside the founder, Michael Williams, in the development of a software application to meet food standards SALSA regulations. This project broke boundaries creating a paperless human error free cloud base system.
In May 2018, Alex joined the British Honey Company and has recently been appointed Director of Operations.
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What was your MSc project about?
My MSC project consisted on computerising the Food Standards SALSA (Safe and Local Supplier Approval). These standards are mostly applied by SME’s and represents an enormous amount of paperwork. The aim of my project was to computerise the application and documentation of the standards in order to enhance productivity but also compliance as software offers greater control than paper. The British Honey Company PLC, which is the company who hired me during my MSC project, still uses this software which has since been updated and upgraded to accommodate the production of spirits.
How much did you enjoy being at Brookes?
It was a great experience which I enjoyed a lot. The university offered an interesting perspective to computer science challenging me to reflect on a wider scope when approaching a problem. Oxford Brookes and the university staff gave me a great support either regarding my studies or personal.
Any opportunities it gave for working with other people around the world?
Through Oxford Brookes, I met my mentor Michael Williams, the Founder of the British Honey Company PLC for which I continue to work for today.
Was your work cutting edge and did it provide a platform for your career development?
Cutting edge in a sense that still today, there is no Software available on the market that offer a computerise version of the food standards SALSA. The development of this software was only the start of BHC software. We continually developed the software for the company to remain paperless. Today our software manages every business processes. This provided me a platform to grow within the company and understand every part of the business, production, finance, accounting, sales etc…. I have since become Director of Operations where I supervise our IT department and help Michael Williams ( CEO ) in the corporate day to day affairs.
Can you highly recommend working at Brookes?
Yes I can, a very supporting team with great interesting modules.
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