Steering Group

Professor Ella Ritchie

Professor Ella Ritchie is an expert in the politics of the European Union (EU), with a particular interest in the Common Fisheries Policy, and the relationships between Britain and the EU and France and the EU,

Kevin Woollard

Professor John Farrington

John Farrington is Professor of Transport and Environment at the University of Aberdeen, and is Director of the RCUK Rural Digital Economy Hub, dot.rural.

Professor Sara J. Czaja

Sara J. Czaja has a BS in Psychology and an MS and PhD in Industrial Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is the director of the Center for Research and Education

Helen Milner

Set up by the UK government in 1999 to provide public access to computers and the internet, the network of 6,000 UK Online centres now plays a key role in realising the benefits of ICT

Dr Evangelos Bekiaris

Dr. E. Bekiaris, Dr. Mech. Engineer of the National Technical University of Athens, is Research Director in Hellenic Institute of Transport, Head of the Department ―Driver and Vehicle‖.

Dr Pamela Denham

Pamela read physics at King’s College London before joining the Civil Service fast stream in 1967. Her posts in the 1980s focussed on policy and promotion of advanced manufacturing technology

Graham Thrower

Graham Thrower has had an extensive international career in Corporate Finance raising equity, bond and bank finance around the world for many of the major global companies in the Media

Graham Worsley

The aim of ALIP is to significantly advance the technology to meet the demand for independent living from those suffering from chronic conditions (e.g. CHF, COPD, type 2 diabetes, and dementia),

Aart Van Halteren

Aart Van Halteren is a senior researcher at Philips Research. His research interests include architecture and software infrastructures for (context-aware) networked applications

Gary Moulton

Gary graduated in 1971 with an undergraduate degree in the liberal arts and subsequently trained as a psychologist working as a clinician from 1975 – 1984 in San Jose, California.

John McAllion

John has been retired since February 2008. He formerly worked as a campaigner for Oxfam in Scotland (2003-2008). Before then, he was a Member of the Scottish Parliament

Derek McAuley

Derek McAuley is Professor of Digital Economy in the School of Computer Science and Director of Horizon, a Digital Economy Research Institute, at the University of Nottingham, and Affiliated Lecturer

Professor Christopher Whatley

Since returning to Dundee in 1992, after a spell at St Andrews, Christopher has worked to raise the profile of Scottish History at Dundee. In 2002 he became Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Graham I Johnson

Graham's current role is establishing research and strategic technology directions, enabling breakthrough innovation, creating applied research initiatives on significant industry issues, building strategic global research

Ewen Weir

A Social Worker by professional background, he has worked in the Public/Voluntary Sector throughout his career. Previous posts have included Assistant Director (Adult Commissioning) in the Adult and Community