Dr Simon Kent
Honorary Reader
Wilfred Brown Building 111
- Email: simon.kent@brunel.ac.uk
Summary
I am an Honorary Reader at Brunel now working at the University of Nottingham. I was previously Director of Learning and Teaching in the Department of Computer Science. I have a combination of academic and commercial skills from my experience as a university lecturer and as a software architect in the financial services industry.
My current focus is on improving Digital Higher Education. In this area, I was responsible for the first large-scale deployment in the UK of a Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) approach to examinations in the Department of Computer Science at Brunel. I am now looking at how the rich data from digital assessment can be used to improve our understanding of our students to better serve their needs.
I also have interests in machine learning, distributed computing and in improving the way we teach our students to be excellent software engineers. I want to bring industry closer to academia in order that universities better serve society through research and students through making them better prepared for the workplace.
Newest selected publications
Kent, S. and Ahmi, A. (2013) ''. Managerial Auditing Journal, 28 (2). pp. 88 - 113. ISSN: 0268-6902
McVean, A., Kent, S., Bakanov, A., Hobbs, T. and Anderson, R. (2012) ''. Genome Integrity, 3 (1). pp. 1 - 13. ISSN: 2041-9414
Kent, S., Broadbent, P., Warren, N. and Gulliver, S. (2008) ''.IEEE 2008 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo. Hannover, Germany. IEEE. pp. 1045 - 1048.
Ghinea, G., Kent, S., Frank, AO. and Chana, GS. (2007) ''. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 11 (5). pp. 595 - 597. ISSN: 1089-7771
Johnson, R. and Kent, S. (2007) ''. Cognition, Technology and Work, 9 (4). pp. 209 - 218. ISSN: 1435-5558