I'm Professor of Computing Science at Glasgow University.

My research helps to understand the failure of complex systems, including national critical infrastructures.

I've worked on space mission failures with NASA and the European Space Agency, on contingency planning for the European Commission, military risk assessments and accident analysis for the US Air Force, on the security of sporting events and computer-related fraud in financial institutions.

In my spare time, I'm an SRU level one rugby coach with the West of Scotland juniors.

Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Europe's air traffic modernisation programme (SESAR).

Evaluation panel for Home Office's INnovative Science and Technology in Counter Terrorism (INSTINCT) programme part of CONTEST.

Commissioned to provide European Railways Agency with guidelines on 'best practices' in accident and incident reporting across member states.

Full List of Publications, Recent Projects, Awards, Seminars etc and Recent workshops.

Here is an on-line version of my Handbook of Incident and Accident Reporting.

Here are some recent papers:

• Understanding Failures in International Infrastructures: A Comparison of Major Blackouts in North America and Europe,

• Technical and Organisational Security at Olympic Events

• Night Vision Equipment in Military Accidents and Incidents

• Hidden Human Factors in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

• Extending the Use of Evacuation Simulators to Increase Resilience to Improvised Explosive Devices

• Politics and Patient Safety Don't Mix: Understanding the Failure of Large-Scale Software Procurement for Healthcare Systems

Here is information about research projects:

• on NASA's Mars Surveyor and the NASA/ESA SOHO interruption.
• on UK Health and Safety Executive proposals for reporting incidents involving programmable systems;
• on various accident reporting and safety management system projects with the European Air Traffic Management organisation (EUROCONTROL).

I am a member of Glasgow's human-computer interaction group. I coordinated the European Commission's ADVISES research training network looking at Human Computer Interaction in Safety-Critical Systems . I set up IFIP Working Group 13.5 on Human Error, Safety and Systems Development.

I help to edit:

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Cognition, Technology and Work, Safety Science, Interacting With Computers,

IMechE's new Journal of Risk and Reliability, Journal of Systems Safety, the Health Informatics Journal. International Journal of Forensic Software Engineering

I am giving or have given recent invited talks at:

• HCI in Aerospace 2010
• 2008 and 2009 EUROCONTROL Annual Safety R&D Conference,
• Mobile Response 2008
• British Computer Society, Formal Aspects of Computing and UK Safety Critical Systems Joint Meeting, 2008
• Conference of Australian Safety-Critical Systems Association 2007,
• International Systems Safety Conference 2007,
• UK Safety Critical Systems Club Symposium 2007
• European Space Agency Workshop on Tools for Psychological Support during Exploration Missions to Mars and the Moon 2007
• a NATO Security through Sciences 2006 Advanced Research Workshop
• the European Commission's Conference on Safety and Security of Energy Infrastructures 2006,

Together with Paul Casely (DSTL), I am technical co-chair for the IET International Conference on System Safety 2007-2010.

I have served on a number of conference organising committees. In 2009-2010, I am on the programme committees for the following:

• IFAC Human Machine System 2010 Symposium - Analysis, Design, and Evaluation of Human-Machine Systems
• 4th International Conference on Critical Infrastructures (CRIS 2009)
• Annual Conference of South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists
• Human Error, Safety and Systems Development 2009
• Interact 2009
• EAM09: Human Decision Making and Manual Control
• Formal Mathods for Interactive Systems 2009
• SAFECOMP 2009: The International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security
• 2nd Workshop Human Computer Interaction for Medicine: HCI4MED 2009
• Multimedia Systems and Human-Machine Interaction, Conf on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems
• SAFECOMP 2010: The International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security
• Usability Symposium of the Austrian Computer Society

I have been a judge for the UK Distinguished Dissertations in Computing Science.

I am head of our Teaching Committee and chair the Board of Studies across our Undergraduate and M.Sc. programmes. I am an external examiner and have taught:

Safety Critical Systems Development. Ada programming Distributed Operating Systems CS1Q: Intro. to Human Computer Interaction. CS1Q: Intro. to Computer Systems.

IS3: Usability of Web-Based Systems. Interactive Systems Design. Interface Design using Java. Interface Design for Windows. Social Aspects of Computing.