Professor
of TelematicsProfessor
of Telematics
Information and Communication Technologies Group
Communication
and Systems Department
Faculty
of Mathematics, Computing and Technology
The Open University
Milton Keynes
GB-MK7 6AA
Office Phone: +44 1908 652857
Office Fax: +44 1908 653658
E-mail: c.c.bissell@open.ac.uk
Active member of the Society and Information Research Group.
Member of T325 Technologies for Digital Media Course Team, a 30-point level 3 course first presented in 2009.
Chair of T324 Keeping Ahead in ICT Course Team, a 30-point level 3 course first presented in 2007.
Member of T175 Networked Living Course Team, a 30-point level 1 introduction to ICTs.
Member of ICT Project Course Team, a 30-point capstone project for the BSc in ICT.
BBC collaboration: Academic Advisor for two successful prime-time series The Natural History of Britain, presented by Alan Titchmarsh, and Dan Cruikshanks's What the Industrial Revolution did for us.
History of Automation and Control: a long-term research interest, currently focusing on developments in the USA and the Soviet Union in the immediate post-war period. See here for slides of an invited lecture on this topic in Nizhnii Novgorod in 2001.
Translations Project. As part of my ongoing historical research I translated a number of seminal publications in the history of telecommunications and control engineering. They can be found here.
Digital Communications Project: member of a team which prepared T305, a level 3, 60 credit-point, undergraduate course in digital communications first presented in 1999, revised and updated for 2003.
Research student projects:
I currently supervise one part-time PhD student who is researching the history of programmable logic controllers.
PhD research projects were recently completed successfully by Karen Kear and Ivan Horrocks
T102 Project: computer-mediated communication was introduced into the Technology Faculty's Foundation Course T102 Living with Technology in 1996. Over 3000 students per year used e-mail, computer conferencing, and (optionally) the WWW.
Engineering Education - active in SEFI's Curriculum Development and ICT Working Groups
Philosophy of technology – member of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice
A list of refereed publications from 2001, with full text where possible, can be found in the Open University's open research repository at http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/ccb2.html. See also this full publications list up to 2008.
Modified: August 2009
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