Mr Simon Price

Role

I help to lead R&D/ILRT, an innovative multi-disciplinary research and development division of the University of Bristol's IT Services, where we explore and pilot cutting edge research, learning and enterprise technologies for the University and the wider educational sector.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Since joining the University of Bristol in 1992, I have worked on numerous R&D projects, including:

• data.bris, an initiative to establish a Research Data Service at the University, building on £2m investment already made in research data storage;
• Bristol Online Surveys, a web based tool that allows people to create, deploy and analyse online surveys. BOS is widely used in approximately 130 UK and overseas universities and over 170 other organisations;
• Learning Technology Support Service, a pre-cursor to the University's e-Learning group;
• early multimedia and e-Learning projects such as WinEcon, still widely site licenced around the world today. 

I have written over 50 published articles, papers, reports and book chapters, with co-authors from ILRT and similar R&D groups, academic departments, UK and overseas universities and labs.

Conferences & teaching

Recent and upcoming conferences, workshops and other events.

• 2013
  • Apr 9, Digital Impacts: Crowdsourcing in the Arts and Humanities, Oxford
  • Mar 25-26, JISC Managing Research Data Programme Meeting, Birmingham
  • Feb 25, Research Data Management Storage Requirements Workshop, London
  • Feb 19, CKAN for Research Data Management in an Academic Setting, London
  • Feb 15-16, South West Big Data, Hack/Reduce, Bristol
  • Feb 6, Bristol Future Cities Demonstrator workshop, Bristol City Council

• 2012
  
  • Dec 6, Big Data Analytics, London
  • Nov 14-15, Research Data Management Forum, Shaping the Infrastructure – Technology Aspirations for Research Data Management, Cambridge
  • Nov 13, South West Big Data meetup, Agile Data, HP Labs, Bristol
  • Oct 24-25, JISC Managing Research Data Programme Progress Workshop, Nottingham
  • Oct 17, JISC Research Tools Workshop, Birmingham
  • Oct 10, Future Cities - Stakeholder Workshop, ARUP, Bristol
  • Sep 24-28, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2012), Bristol
  • Sep 10-12, Digital Research 2012, Oxford
  • Aug 29, SW Research Data Management meeting, Exeter
  • May 10, Eduserve Symposium: Big Data, Big Deal?, London
  • Apr 18, DevCSI UK management steering committee, London
  • Apr 4, Data Intensive Computing Symposium, Bristol
  • Mar 29-30, DCC RDM Forum - Engaging with the publishers, Southampton
  • Mar 20-21, Open Source Junction: mobile technologies and the cloud, Oxford
  • Mar 13, UK HPC-SIG meeting: Research Data Storage and Management, Bristol
  • Mar 7, Serious Games Institute, Coventry
• 2011
  
  • Dec 8, e-Learning Strategy workshop, Bristol
  • Dec 6-7, International Digital Curation Conference, Bristol
  • Dec 1-2, JISC Managing Research Data programme meeting, Nottingham
  • Oct 28-29, JISCgeo programme meeting, Ravensborough College, London
  • Oct 25, SE HPC Consortium Data Management and Curation workshop, Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford
  • Oct 15, Bristol NextGen11 conference
  • Oct 9, Social Sciences Data workshop, Bristol
  • Sep 30, Next-Gen Sequencing (NGS) workshop, Bristol
  • Sep 20, Special Collections Digital Humanities workshop, Bristol
  • Sep 13, Mobile Technologies for Health workshop, Bristol
  • Sep 7-8, TransferSummit 2001, Oxford
  • Jul 27, MyMobileBristol Transferability workshop, Bristol
  • Jul 5-6, Open Source Junction: context-aware mobile technologies, Oxford
  • Jun 23, Online Epidemiology workshop 2, Bristol
  • Jun 17, Assessment and learning in the digital age, Bristol
  • Apr 5-7, ITIL V3 Foundation course, Bristol
  • Mar 29-30, Open Source Junction: cross-platform mobile apps, Oxford
  • Mar 15, Online Epidemiology workshop, Bristol
  • Mar 17-18, JISC New Strategies for Digital Content Conference, London
  • Feb 23, Digital Humanities workshop, Bristol
  • Jan 21, Research Databases in the Humanities workshop, Oxford
• 2010
  
  • Dec 7-9, IEEE eScience 2010, Brisbane, Australia
  • Nov 23, Research Systems workshop, Bristol
  • Nov 12, HPC Symposium: Smarter use of data, Bristol
  • Sep 21, JISC XSearch workshop, Bristol
  • Sep 13-16, UK eScience AHM 2010, Cardiff
  • Aug 31 - Sep 2, WAPA 2010, Windsor