Updated 30th July 2001
Simon
McLeish
Institution - London School of Economics
Job or role on HeadLine
IT Specialist
Systems design and programming for Headline
Other job
Same job for
Decomate II project
Previous
experience/expertise
Research Officer then Co-director,
Formations Project at the University
of Ulster in Coleraine.
Programming and helping design a Lotus Notes based
WWW site to encourage collaborative research in Media and Theatre Studies;
consultancy on "electronic classroom" project at the University; teaching HTML
design.
Webmaster and Marketing Assistant,
ElectricMail Ltd., Cambridge including
building an Intranet system from scratch (i.e. based on my own database - my
first real programming!).
Organising conferences in IT and setting up
Internet connection and Web site for a conference firm; academic visitor at
QMW; writing includes the mathematics and computing sections for two reference
guides, the Bloomsbury Guide to Human Thought (1993) and the Bloomsbury Guide
to Thinkers (1996).
Interests/professional
activities
I have always been very interested in music, and I
own a large and varied collection of recordings - now over 1500. I listen to
just about every type of music under the sun, though my main love is modern
classical music. I play the flute and have played in many orchestras and
ensembles (as well as occasional madrigal and choral singing). I was most
recently a member of the Cambridge Sinfonietta (1995-1996), and I'm currently
trying to join a local orchestra once again.
I am an avid reader of science
fiction, and, as an active member of the Oxford University Speculative Fiction
Group in my college days, I wrote reviews of science fiction novels and films
for their magazine and for the Sunday Times. I was also a major contributor to
the Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy (1989). I
still write reviews,
though today they're for my own amusement.
