Neil McCormick

Educational Technology Policy Officer

  • Digital Skills, Design and Training
  • Learning, Teaching and Web Services
  • Information Services Group

Contact details

Address

Street

Argyle House (H East)
3 Lady Lawson Street

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH3 9DS

Availability

  • Tuesday 9am-1pm (working from home)
    Wednesday & Thursday 9am-5pm (based in Argyle House)

Background

Neil joined Information Services in February 2017 as a Policy Officer specialising in learning technology.  Before this, he worked in the Medical School's teaching and admissions offices, in Student Recruitment and Admissions, as a Warden in the student accommodation, and as a researcher in computer vision and image processing both in the School of Informatics and at Heriot-Watt University.

Qualifications

PhD in signal and image processing (2001), MSc Information Technology (1996), BSc (Hons) Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics (1993), all Heriot-Watt University.

Responsibilities & affiliations

  • Support development of academic policies for educational technologies.
  • Ensure policies comply with relevant legislation and existing policy.
  • Maintain awareness of developments within the sector.