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.

I have recently joined the IAASS Suborbital Safety Committee, looking amongst other things at mishap reporting requirements for commercial space flight.

Received the 2010 Scientific Research and Development Award from International Systems Safety Society.

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

I help to edit:

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Cognition, Technology and Work, Safety Science, Interacting With Computers, Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making,

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:

• 20th Safety Critical Systems Symposium 2012
• Working on Safety 2012
• Italian Conference on Helicopter Safety in Mass Emergencies 2012
• New technologies and Work 2011
• Improving Safety through Incident Reporting, 2011
• Formal Methods for Interactive Systems 2011
• IET Systems Safety 2010
• International Conference on Electronic Patient Records 2010

Together with Paul Casely (DSTL), I am technical co-chair for the IET International Conference on System Safety 2007-2011.

I have served on a number of conference organising committees. I am on the programme committees for the following:

• International Conference on Application and Theory of Automation in Command and Control Systems(ATACCS2012, programme co-chair)
• Annual Conference of South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists
• Usability Symposium of the Austrian Computer Society, 2012
• IET Systems Safety 2012

I have been a judge for the UK Distinguished Dissertations in Computing Science. I was head of our Teaching Committee and chaired the Board of Studies across our Undergraduate and M.Sc. programmes.

I was nominated by my students for one of the Prizes for Excellent Teachers.

I am an external examiner and have taught:

Safety Critical Systems Development. Ada programming Distributed Operating Systems CS1P: Programming in Python CS1Q: Intro. to Human Computer Interaction. CS1Q: Intro. to Computer Systems.

IS3: Usability of Web-Based Systems. Professional Skills and Issues (4/MSc). Interactive Systems Design. Interface Design using Java. Interface Design for Windows. Social Aspects of Computing.