Curriculum Vitae
Dr S. D. Lee, MA
Name: Stuart Dermot Lee Date of Birth: 3/2/66
Sex: Male Nationality: Irish
Address: 92 Wytham Street, Oxford, OX1 4TW. Tel: 01865-434307
Present Position: Director, Computing Systems and Services, Oxford University Computing Services
Member of the English Faculty, University of Oxford
Member of Merton College, Oxford
Present Employer: Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK.
Education
1987-1992 King's College, University of London, UK.
1984-1987 University of Keele, Keele, Staffordshire, UK.
1976-1983 Bancroft's School, Woodford Green, Essex, UK.
Qualifications & Awards
2009 HEA National Teaching Fellow
2008 Reader in E-Learning and Digital Libraries, Oxford University
2008 Teaching Award, Oxford University
2001-2002 Open University Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and
Learning in Higher Education: Course Design in HE
1992 PhD in Old English Literature entitled ÔAn Edition of ®lfric's
Homilies on Judith, Esther, and the MaccabeesÕ. Supervisor: Prof.
Jane Roberts, King's College; External examiner: Prof. Malcolm
Godden. Pembroke College, University of Oxford; Internal examiner:
Dr Peter Orton, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University
of London.
1988 M.A. in English Literature pre 1525, King's College,
University of London.
1987 B.A. (Joint Honours, 2:1) in English and Economics,
University of Keele; subsidiary Computer Science and
Modern History.
Positions of Employment
Oct 2005 - Director, Computing Systems and Services, Oxford University Computing Services
2001 -
2005 Head of the Learning Technologies Group, University of Oxford
Nov 1998- Seconded position, 9 months, to the Bodleian Library to complete
July 1999 A. W. Mellon Foundation-funded Study of Oxford's
Digitization Activities
Oct 1996-
2002 Head of the Centre for Humanities Computing, University of Oxford
Jan 1996- Part-time lecturer in English at the Department
of Continuing Education, University of Oxford.
Oct 1994–
Oct 1996 Humanities IT Support Officer for the University of Oxford.
Jan 1991–
Sep 1994 Research Officer for the Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for
Textual Studies, Oxford University Computing Services.
Jan 1990–
July 1990 Part-time lecturer at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College,
University of London.
July 1983–
July 1984 Bank Clerk, Barclays Bank PLC, Gidea Park, Essex, UK.
Positions of Responsibility
Mar 2007-
Mar 2009 Director, JISC WW1 Poetry Digital Archive
2007 - Student Systems Board
2006 - OeRC Management Committee
2006 - Enhanced Computing Environment (ECE) Project Board
2005 - JISC CETIS Advsiory Board
2005 - ASUC Strategy Group
2005 – Russell Group IT Directors
2005 Chaired committee for distribution of HEFCE E-learning Fund
2005- Member of Oxford UniversityÕs ICT Strategy Group.
Oct 2005 - Supervisor on IAULÕs Diploma in learning and Teaching in HE (Alison Young, Law Faculty)
2004 - Members of the Social Sciences Divisional IT Committee.
Supervising two students as part of the Masters in E-learning.
2003-
2004 Supervised
Oxford survey into Student IT Literacy.
2003- Member
of OxfordÕs ICT sub-committee.
2003 Member of JISC e-pedagogy experts forum
June 2002 Selection Panel for JISC/NSF 'Digital Libraries in
the Classroom' initiative
Oct 2001 - Joint supervision of PhD student (thesis entitled 'The
Use of IT in Higher Education to Teach English Literature')
Oct 2001-
May 2002 Member of Committee outlining future IT in Teaching
Strategy for Oxford's Medical Division
Sep 2001 - Chair, Oxford's VLE Working Group
Feb 2001 - Member of Oxford University's Educational Development
Advisory Panel
Jan 2001 - Member of JISC DNER working groups on 'Images' and 'E-Books'
Jan 2001 - Chair, JISC Assisted Bibliographic Services (JIBS) User Group
2000-2003 Oxford UniversityÕs Digital Library Board
Nov 2000 - Member of Oxford University's Committee for Library Provision
In English
Oct 2000- Supervised survey into the use of IT in Teaching at Oxford
Feb 2001
Oct 2000 - Deputy Manager of the Humanities Computing Unit
Oct 2000 - Acting Co-ordinator for OxTALENT
Jan 2000 -
May 2002 Site Manager for the ASTER Project
Jan 2000- External examiner for the University of Nottingham (undergraduate)
and Oxford Brookes University (postgraduate)
Jan 2000
Jun 2000 Acting Director for the CTI Centre for Textual Studies
July 1998 - Chair of University's Datasets Committee (formerly Datasets
Oct 2000 Working Party)
Feb 1998
Mar 1998 Supervised University Survey of IT in Humanities Teaching
Jan 1998 - Member of Oxford's Sub-Committee on Library Automation
Oct 2000
Aug 1996
Sep 1998– Manager for the JISC Technology Applications Program (JTAP)
project ÔVirtual Seminars for Teaching LiteratureÕ.
Jun 1996 - Member of the Committee of the Association for Literary and
Linguistic Computing
Apr 1996 - Member of the EC-funded Advanced Computing in the Humanities
(ACO*HUM) group
Jan 1996– MA Status of Oxford University, Member of Congregation
Oct 1995 - Secretary of University's Committee on Computing in the Arts
Oct 1995 -– Member of the English Faculty, University of Oxford
Oct 1995
Jan 1998– Member of the Policy Group advising Oxford UniversityÕs Committee
on Automated Library Services (COALS)
June 1995
July 1998– Chair of the Datasets Working Party, University of Oxford.
June 1995– Member of Oxford UniversityÕs Committee on Automated
Library Services (COALS)
June 1995–
Jan 1996 Supervised Humanities Computing Survey of Oxford University
Jan1995– Member of the English Faculty IT Committee
Oct 1994–
Oct 1995 Deputy Director of the CTI Centre for Textual Studies.
Grants
October 2008 £96,000 Enriching the Poetry Archive (JISC)
July 2008 £4,500 Oxford University Teaching Award
March 2007 £434,000 from JISC Digitisation call
August 2005 2 x £5,000 grants from English Subject Centre (Old English
Coursepack project and New Tools for English)
May 2005 £30,000 JISC Evaluation of Learning Design Tools
May 2005 £10,000 Evaluation of JISC/NSF Digital Libraries scheme
January 2005 £120,000 JISC Regional E-learning Project ELISA (joint with
University of Greenwich)
January 2005 £5,000 grant from English Subject Centre ÔReusing learning
sequencesÕ
August 2004 JISC E-learning grant (£10,000) – Practitioner Trial of LAMS
April
2004 HEFCE PC3 grant for VLE development £200,000
JISC grants on portfolio development, federated searching, and
Shibboleth integration (total c. £100,000)
September
2002 JISC Grant (joint with University of Huddersfield and Loughborough)
to work on Digital Libraries and VLEs £33,000
April 2001 AHRB grant to digitize John Ruskin's Teaching Collections
£140,000 (Resource Enhancement Scheme)
August 1998 Datasets Committee, given annual budget of
Oct 2000 c.£330,000
March 1998 Received £6,000 from Hulme University Fund for JTAP Project
March 1996 Received £50,000 from the JISC Technology Application Programme
to develop Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature. Funding
commenced 1 August 1996 running for 24 months.
Conference/Workshop Papers
ÔAnglo-Saxons on FilmÕ Anglo-Saxons Bones Conference, Oxford, April 2008.
ÔOpen LearningÕ Research Panel, October
2007, OpenLearn Conference, Open University.
ÔLAMS Practitioner TrialÕ and ÔReusing Learning ObjectsÕ September 2005, ALT-C, University of Manchester
ÔAre Students ready to e-learn?Õ April
2004, Shock of the Old Conference, Oxford Said Business School.
ÔOpen Source VLEs: The pleasure and the painÕ September 2003, ALT-C Conference, University of Sheffield.
''It Depends': The Use of IT in HE Teaching', April 2002, Beyond Chalk and Talk, Oxford Union Debating Chamber.
'VLEs: Who Needs Them?' March 2002, Digital Projects in Oxford series.
'Using C&IT in Teaching' January 2002, presentation to new lecturers at Oxford.
'Digital Collection Development', March 2000, Oxford University Libraries' Conference, Oxford
'Seeing it Through: Prioritising, Purchasing, and Evaluating the Dataset', September 1999, DRH 99, King's College, London
'Scoping the Future of Oxford's Digital Collections', June 1999, ACH-ALLC Conference, Virginia
'Creating the Digital Archive and Copyright', July 1998, Text Encoding Summer School, Oxford
'The JTAP 'Virtual Seminars' Project: Tutorials, Archives, and Evaluation', July 1998, ALLC Conference, Debrecen, Hungary
'The Datasets Nightmare', June 1998, IT Support Staff Conference, University of Oxford
'The Two Cultures: Teaching and Research in IT', June 1998, IT and English Studies, University of Oxford
ÔVirtual Seminars for Teaching LiteratureÕ, September 1997, Digital Resources in the Humanities Conference, Oxford
ÔDigitisation PrinciplesÕ, June 1997, Oxford University's Text Encoding Summer School.
ÔLiterature and the Web: World War One PoetryÕ, April 1997, Edinburgh Science Festival.
ÔWorld-Wide Web TutorialsÕ, December 1996, joint JTAP/CTI Workshop on 'The Virtual ClassroomÕ.
ÔTeaching English Studies Using the InternetÕ, September 1996, CCUE Conference, University of Loughborough.
ÔWorld-Wide Web Pages for StudentsÕ, March 1996, CTI Centre for Textual StudiesÕ ÔUsing the World-Wide Web in TeachingÕ Workshop, University of Oxford.
ÔProviding IT Resources in the Library: Problems and SolutionsÕ, March 1996, Oxford University Annual Conference for Library Staff.
ÔThe World-Wide Web and First World War PoetryÕ, September 1995, European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) Conference, University of Glasgow.
ÔOxford University's Centre for Humanities ComputingÕ, September 1995, CATH Conference, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College.
ÔUsing The Poetry Shell for Teaching LiteratureÕ, July 1995, International Medieval Conference, University of Leeds.
ÔElectronic Textuality and the Shifting Boundaries of TextsÕ, August 1994, International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Graz.
ÔA Hypermedia Edition of The Dream of the RoodÕ, June 1994, Leeds International Medieval Congress, Leeds.
ÔHypermedia in the Humanities: A Crucible, or a Mechanical Toy?Õ, April 1994, Association for History and Computing, Hull.
ÔComputers and the Teaching of English StudiesÕ, September 1993, ESSE 93, Bordeaux.
ÔHypermedia in the Trenches: The Use of HyperCard in the Teaching of World War I Poetry: Some Observations on Design, Copyright, and EvaluationÕ, June 1993, ALLC-ACH, Georgetown University.
Invited Papers
PLENARY: ÔContent is King but weÕre in a republicÕ, July 2009, JISC Digitisation Conference, Oxfordshire.
PLENARY: ÔChallenges for IT ServicesÕ, November 2008, CETIS Conference, Aston University.
KEYNOTE ÔE-learning demand and supply: selling the unsinkable submarineÕ April 2006, De Paul University, Chicago (via Video-conference).
ÔLearning Designs for English LiteratureÕ November 2005, English Subject Centre Workshop, Newcastle.
ÔRefocusing E-learningÕ October 2005, University of Chicago, SLATE Conference.
ÔUsing film in teaching English LiteratureÕ March 2005, English Subject Centre Workshop, Hull.
ÔLiterature and ITÕ February 2004, Nottingham Trent University.
'Is Digitization Worth It?, BUILDER Conference, Birmingham, January 2001
ÔCanute and the Waves: Coping Locally with Electronic PublicationsÕ, UKOLUG Conference, 13th July 2000, Cambridge
'The Information Service Provider - The Local 'Coal-Face'', JISC Assist E-Collections Workshop, 27th January 2000, London
'Selection Criteria for Digitization', November 1999, Selecting for Surrogacy Workshop, City of Westminster Archives, London
'Literature and the Internet', March 1999, Literature and the Millennium Conference, Kellogg College, Oxford
'Electronic Publishing', May 1999, Oxford Brookes University
'Remote Learning: A Teacher's Perspective' May 1998, TALISMAN workshop, University of Dundee
'Project Management' February 1998, Oxford Brookes University
'The History of the Electronic Text: Past, Present, and Future' History of the Book Series, January 1998, University of Oxford
'Using IT in Teaching'. January 1998, University of Warwick Staff Development Seminar Series
ÔJTAP Project: The Poetry of Wilfred OwenÕ, May 1997, King's College, London.
ÔThe World-Wide Web and First World War PoetryÕ, February 1996, Sorbonne University, Paris.
ÔTeaching and the World-Wide WebÕ, June 1995, King's College London.
ÔMultimedia and the Teaching of English LiteratureÕ, March 1995, University De La Corunna.
ÔThe Principles of Digitization: Text, Graphics, Sound, and VideoÕ, January 1995, Hypermedia at Work Conference, University of Kent.
ÔThe Computers in Teaching InitiativeÕ, October 1994, University of Sydney and the Australian Defence Force Academy (Canberra).
ÔHypermedia for Humanists: An IntroductionÕ, March 1994, University of Kent.
ÔMultimedia and Humanities TeachingÕ, October 1993, ILECC Educational Computing Services Guest Lecturer, London.
ÔMultimedia and the HumanitiesÕ, December 1992, University of Braga, Portugal.
Articles
ÔIf you build it, they will scan: Oxford UniversityÕs exploration of Community CollectionsÕ Educause Quarterly [2009, forthcoming.]
[Joint with K. Lindsay] ÔWorld War One LiteratureÕ European English Messenger 18.1 (Spring, 2009), pp. 18-21.
ÔTolkien and The Wanderer: From Translation to AdaptationÕ Tolkien Studies VI (2009), pp. 189-211.
[Joint with D. OÕDonnell] ÔFrom Manuscript to ComputerÕ in (ed.) G. R. Owen-CrockerÕs Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (University of Exeter Press, 2009), pp. 253-284.
ÔThe Gates are
shut: Technical and Cultural Barriers to Open LearningÕ in V. Kumar and T.
Liyoshi (eds.) Opening Up Education (2008, MIT
Press), pp. 47-60.
ÔPutting IT into the English Syllabus: a Case of Square Pegs in Round Holes?Õ (2006) in M. Hanrahan & D. L. Madsen (eds.) Teaching, Technology, Textuality (Palgrave-Macmillan), pp. 57-68.
'VLEs: Who Needs Them?' Library and Information Update 1.8 (November 2002), pp. 38-40.
'C&IT in Teaching and Learning' JISC Factsheet (forthcoming, July 2002)
LTG Reports: 'E-Books: A Brief Guide' (2001), and 'VLEs/MLEs' (2001) - http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/reports/index.shtml
'Is Digitization Worth It?', Computers in Libraries (May 2001)
ÔForging Links: The Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature ProjectÕ, in S. Porter and S. Sutherland (eds.) Teaching European Literature and Culture (CTI Occasional Series 3, 1999), pp. 19-23.
'Review of the World Shakespeare Bibliography on CD-ROM', The Review of English Studies 50.199 (1999), 376-78.
'Review of The Brontes: Major Authors on CD-ROM', The Review of English Studies 50.198 (1999), 251-2.
ÔA Review of ÔUnreal CityÕ: A Hypertext Guide to T. S. Eliot's The Waste LandÕ, Computers & Texts 13 (December, 1996), 19-20 (also appears on the CHORUS Web Site at http://www.chorus.cycor.ca/chorus.html).
ÔThe Internet and the Humanities ScholarÕ, in (eds.) C. Mullings, M. Deegan, S. Ross, S. Kenna Humanities Scholarship for the 1990s, British Library Research Report (London: Bowker-Saur, 1996).
ÔAn Introduction to Media CaptureÕ in Hypermedia at Work: Practice and Theory in Higher Education eds. W. Strang, V. B. Simpson, and D. Slater (Kent: University of Kent, 1996).
ÔWorld War One on the World Wide WebÕ, Computers & Texts 10 (December, 1995), 3–5.
ÔMEDIA-Active CD-ROMÕ [Review], Active Learning 2 (July, 1995), 58.
ÔUmberto Eco Lecture: The Future of the BookÕ [Report], ALT-N 10 (June, 1995), 7.
ÔThe Humanities and the Internet: An IntroductionÕ, Journal of Information Networking 2.1 (1994), 66–73.
ÔPutting Poetry into ContextÕ in Hypermedia in the Humanities eds. M. Deegan, N. Timbrell, L. Warren (December 1992), 50–53.
ÔThe Global ScholarÕ, Computers & Texts 4 (October, 1992), 2–5.
ÔElectronic Resources for the Literary ScholarÕ, British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin 3 (October, 1992), 7–8.
ÔComputing in Textual StudiesÕ, Computers & Education 19 (July/August 1992), 183–192 (joint article with M. Deegan and C. Mullings).
ÔHumGrad—Discussion List for Humanities PostgraduatesÕ, Computers & Texts 3 (April 1992), 4.
ÔHUMBUL—The Humanities Bulletin BoardÕ, Computers & Texts 1 (May, 1991), 15.
Reports
Old English Coursepack – (2006 -
http://www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/explore/projects/archive/technology/tech19.php).
New
Tools for Creative Interpretation: An Investigative Study using Digital Video
and Animation (June,
2006) - http://www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/explore/projects/archive/technology/tech16.php.
JISC Evaluation of Learning Design Tools
with L. Masterman (2005) - http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/LD%20Tools%20Report%20v1.1.pdf.
Reusing
Learning Objects in English Literature and Language (October 2005) - http://www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/explore/projects/archive/technology/tech10.php.
JISC/NSF Digital Libraries in the
Classroom Evaluation (with K. Lindsay - 2005).
JISC LAMS Practitioner Trial (jointly
with L. Masterman – 2005) – http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=elp_lams
JISC MLE Development Pack (2003) - http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/InfoKits/creating-an-mle
OxTALENT Survey: The Use of IT in Teaching at Oxford University (February 2001) jointly authored with Dr E. Solopova and Dr F. Condron
Scoping the Future of the University of Oxford's Digital Collections (August, 1999) - final report of the nine-month study funded by the A. W. Mellon Foundation Available at - http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/scoping/.
On-Line Teaching: Tools and Projects (JTAP Report Series, 1999) - joint report with S. Armitage, P. Groves, and C. Stephens available at http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/reports/teaching/
Digitising Wilfred (On-Line Tutorials and Digital Archives) (JTAP Report Series, 1998) - joint report with P. Groves, available in electronic form at http://www.jtap.ac.uk/reports/htm/jtap-027-1.html
Existing Tools and Projects for On-Line Teaching (JTAP Report Series, 1997)—joint editor with P. Groves and Chris Stephens, available in electronic form at http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/reports/teaching/.
A Case Study: Teaching on the World-Wide Web—Isaac RosenbergÕs ÔBreak of Day in the TrenchesÕ (SIMA Report Series, 1996)—available in electronic form at: http://info.mcc. ac.uk/CGU/SIMA/rosenberg/toc.html
Books
Key Concepts in Medieval Literature (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007) with E. Solopova.
The Keys of Middle-earth (Palgrave-Macmillan, December 2005) with E. Solopova.
Electronic Collection Development: A Practical Guide (LAP 2002); 2nd
ed. with F. Boyle (2004).
Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook (Library Association Publishing, 2000).
An Introduction to Multimedia for Academic Use, edited and co-written with Marilyn Deegan and Nicola Timbrell (Oxford: OUCS, 1996).
Electronic Text—A Coursebook (Oxford: Oxford Brookes University, 1995).
Editorials
2004 Guest editor – Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JIME) special issue on Shock of the Old proceedings, 2003.
1997–- Assistant Editor of Literary and Linguistic Computing (OUP)
2000
1995–
1998 Editor of the newsletter for the Teachers of Old English in
Britain and Ireland society.
1994– Victorian Periodicals Hypertext Project —first in an Occasional series
by the CTI Centre, co-edited with L. Hughes.
1992–
1996 Humanities Computing in Oxford (newsletter)—News-sheet for the
Centre for Humanities Computing. Three issues per year.
1992 Computers & Education special edition—joint editor with J. Darby,
R. Gladwin, J. Rafferty, and F. Rowland.
1991 The STELLA Symposium —joint editor with J. Anderson.
1991–
1994 CTI Centre for Textual Studies newsletter Computers & Texts.
1991–1994 CTI Centre for Textual Studies Resources Guide—three editions,
joint editor with M. Deegan (1991); M. Deegan and C. Davis (1992);
L. Hughes (1994).
1991—1994 Production Assistant on the British Association
for Romantic
Studies Bulletin.
Electronic Editing
2006 - Advisory
Board member for International Electronic Editions of the
works of ®lfric of Eynsham (led by Biola University)
2002 Authored on-line course 'Poets of WW1' for the Alliance
for Lifelong Learning (Oxford, Yale, Stanford)
2000 Authored 'Internet for English' as part of the RDN
Virtual Training Suite.
1996-
1998 Supervised and contributed to publication of four web-based tutorials
to teach literature. Contributed to digitization and SGML-encoding
of Wilfred Owen Archive (part of JTAP 'Virtual Seminars' Project)
1995 Edited and Published World-Wide Web tutorial to teach First World
War Poetry (mentioned in The Guardian [21/9/95] and
The Times [27/9/95]). Expanded to 4 tutorials, 1/10/97.
1994–
1995 Editor of the Centre for Humanities Computing World-Wide Web
Service.
1994– Editor of MULTIMEDIA-L, discussion list on multimedia
development within Oxford University.
1991–1993 Editor of the electronic bulletin board HUMBUL (the Humanities Bulletin Board).
1992–1996 Joint Editor of HumGrad, a discussion list for Humanities
Postgraduates.
Other
November
2008 Numerous
interview re launch of Great War Archive (BBC Radio Oxford, Gloucester, etc)
April 2007 Interviewed for The Radio CafŽ, BBC Radio Scotland on new J. R. R.
Tolkien book
September Interviewed for The Radio CafŽ, BBC Radio Scotland on J. R. R.
2006 Tolkien
September
1999 Interviewed for Ariadne
February
1997 Interviewed (twice) for Radio Oxygen FM.
September
1996 Interviewed for the BBC World Service's programme on the
English Language.
October 1995 Interviewed for BBC Radio 4's The Network; Interviewed for the
Interface section of The Times.