Mike
HART Curriculum Vitae
Biographical details
Place of Birth Malton, Yorkshire, England
Marital status Married, one son aged 34 years
Driving Licence 1970 to date.
Secondary Education
1956-1959 Thornleigh College, BOLTON, Lancashire
1959-1961 St. Michael’s College, LEEDS, Yorkshire
Higher Education
1965-1968 Manchester University
1968-1969 Salford University
Qualifications Obtained
1961-62 10 GCE ‘O’-levels
GCE ‘A’-levels
1963 English Literature Grade D } Gained as a result of
1965 Economics Grade A } independent, part-time
1965 Logic Grade B } study
1968 BA(Econ) Honours -II(i) Sociology
1969 M.Sc. Sociology of Science
1997 Ph.D. [De Montfort University]
Membership of Professional Institutes
1983 FSS (Fellow - Royal Statistical Society)
1983 MCMI (Member - Chartered Management Institute)
1983 MIMIS (Member - Institute for the
Management ofInformation Systems)
1993 MBCS (Member - British Computer Society)
Employment (most recent first)
1997 to date Professor of Business and Informatics
King Alfred’s College
WINCHESTER
SO22 4NR
1976 -1997 Principal Lecturer
Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University), LEICESTER
The Gateway
LEICESTER
LE1 9BH
1974-1976 Senior Lecturer
Leicester Polytechnic, LEICESTER
1971-1974 Lecturer II
Leicester Polytechnic, LEICESTER
1969-1971 Lecturer
Elizabeth Gaskell College of Education, MANCHESTER
(1965-1969 ... Full time education in universities of Manchester, Salford)
1964-1965 Clerical Officer
Central Office of Information, LONDON
1962-64 Scientific Assistant
National Lending Library for Science and Technology
(now British Library - Lending Division)
BOSTON SPA, Yorkshire
1962 Clerk
Skanda
Wallpaper Co. Ltd., HARROGATE, Yorkshire
Publications/Research/Scholarship
Attached are two lists of publications:
Mike HART : Computing and Statistics
Many of the articles here, written in the 1980’s, were technical articles demonstrating the use of machine code programming whilst I was developing my expertise in this area. The culmination of this programming effort is to be found in the programs MICROSTATS (similarly to Minitab) and TURBOSTATS (similar to SPSS) which have been published as software accompanying the books indicated in the CV.
Mike HART: Social Science
This selection
from my CV details articles written in the main in the 1990’s, with a particular
focus on the research interest around which I wrote my Ph.D i.e. the measures
and deployment of quality improvement techniques in the NHS.
More recently (2002), I have writing and publishing in the field of Communities of Practice and Knowledge Management.
Hobbies and Recreational Interests
Fell-walking (particularly in the English Lake District)
Classical Music and Opera
Gardening
Extending my knowledge/appreciation of Hispanic culture by travelling in Mexico
and more latterly in some of the remoter regions of Spain.
Current Teaching
Public Administration in Britain Certificate in Public Services Information Management
BA(Hons) Public Services Management
Local Government-Continuity Certificate in Public Services Information Management
and Change BA(Hons)
Public Services Management
Public Services Information Certificate in Public Services
Information Management
Management
Quality
Management in the Certificate
in Public Services Information Management
Public Sector
Research Methods
and StatisticsCertificate
in Public Services Information Managementi
in the Public Sector
Research Methods M.Sc Medical Informatics
Open University teaching experience (1972-1981)
D283 The Sociological Perspective
E352 Education, Economy and Politics
DE351 People and Work
DE206 Social Work, Community Work and Society
DE304 Research Methods in Education and the Social Sciences
D101 Team Leader: Housing Interdisciplinary module
(Summer schools at York,
Nottingham, Cardiff, Warwick)
Textbooks demonstrating innovation in Teaching
The third and fourth editions of the textbook:
Curwin,J. and Slater,R. : Quantitative Methods for Business Decisions
(Chapman and Hall,1991; International Thomson Business Press,1996)
incorporate a statistical program (MICROSTATS) written by myself. This program, which is similar in philosophy and operation to MINITAB, is the most successful interactive statistical program to be sold on the undergraduate market in the UK. So far, total sales of the 3rd edition, including MICROSTATS, have exceeded 25,000 copies confirming its position as a market leader.
In 1993 I wrote
Survey Design and Analysis using
TURBOSTATS
(Chapman and Hall,1993)
which is a textbook, complete with an integrated suite of programs, designed to
facilitate the conduct and statistical analysis of surveys after the minimum of
learning time. TURBOSTATS performs many of the same functions as SPSS (Statistical
Package for the Social Sciences) but is much easier to learn and to use. This has been constantly updated and refined
in the light of teaching the package to successive cohorts of students and now
contains some sixteen modules.
The combination of MICROSTATS and TURBOSTATS has brought cheap, portable
statistical computing power to British students for the first time. They can be seen as ‘liberating’ in that
once students have bought the relevant book including the software (each about
£16-00), the packages are useable on any IBM compatible personal computer to
which they have access, either at home or at work. TURBOSTATS, in
particular, is used by many of my former colleagues to assist in the
statistical analysis of their own survey work as well as many undergraduate and
postgraduate courses at De Montfort University (where I was employed until
1997).
I have also written EZESTATS which
is a Computer Assisted Learning Package in elementary statistical concepts for
business and social science students.
This is available in both interactive (computer program) form and in
text form. The EZESTATS program is incorporated in:
Curwin, Slater with Mike Hart: Numerical
Techniques in Business
(Chapman and Hall, 1994)
External Examining
1991-1994 Chief External Examiner on the BA(Hons)
Business Administration degree at
the University of Huddersfield
Responsibility for the following papers:
Human Resource Management
Managing Business Operations
Managerial and
Administrative Approaches to Decision Making
)
1991-1995 External Examiner on the
BA(Hons) Public Administration degree at
Manchester
Metropolitan University
Responsibility for the following papers:
Information
Systems
Computing
Applications in Public Administration
Research methods
Statistics
Administrative
Practice Seminars
1994 - External Examiner on
the BA(Hons) Business Administration
degree
(University of Wales Institute, Cardiff -
University of Wales)
Responsibility
for the following papers:
Information
Systems Management
People,
Organisations and Society
Public Sector
Management
Britain and
Europe-Strategic Policy Conflicts
Strategic
Management II
Managing Social
Policy
Course Management experience
1971-1978 Year Tutor BA(Hons) Degree in Business Studies
1978-1985 Course Leader BA(Hons) Degree in Social Sciences (PT)
1985 - Year Tutor BA(Hons) Degree in Public Administration and
Managerial Studies
1997-2001 Head of Group Business and Informatics Group
King
Alfred’s College
International Links
In the Spring of 1990, I accepted an invitation to be Visiting Professor in Information Technology in the Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid where I taught several courses (in Spanish) to social science students.
In May, 1994, I taught the Quantitative Methods and Information Technology core course on De Montfort University’s MBA course in Jakarta, Indonesia.
I have been an active member of the European Group of Public Administration’s Quality and Productivity in the Public Sector working group and have given papers to meetings at Bad Tadsmannsdorf, Austria (in 1994), the Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (in 1995) and the Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium (in 1997).
In my present position, I have experience in helping to organise and to
supervise ERASMUS exchange links with the Complutense
University of Madrid and the University
of Granada, Spain. I have personal
contacts in several Spanish (and Spanish speaking) universities including the
Universities of Seville, Granada, Cadiz, La Coruña, Complutense (Madrid) and
Carlos III (Madrid) as well as the Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico.
You will observe from my CV that I have conducted some cross-cultural research
utilising the SERVQUAL methodology
with Pirkko Vartiainen from the University of Vaasa (principally by email!) and
presented the results to an international conference in Edinburgh in 1996.
Research activities
In the 1980’s, the principal thrust of ‘scholarly activity’
in which I was engaged was writing a series of some 60 articles, often of a technical nature (e.g. machine code utilities for CBM
machines written in 6502 assembler) which helped to establish my academic
credibility in the field of Information Technology. In addition, I acquired valuable programming skills which were
come to fruition in the writing of the large statistical packages MICROSTATS (similar in operation to MINITAB)
and TURBOSTATS (similar in operation
to SPSS). These activities were in
addition to a large teaching load, which typically included evening teaching to
part-time degree students and with no research ‘remission’.
Since 1992, I have been conducting investigations
into Quality Improvement in NHS
Outpatient Clinics. The papers
resulting from these investigations have been read to different groups of
professionals (healthcare evaluators, public administrators, experts in TQM)
principally at international conferences and the majority of them have
appeared, or are scheduled to appear, in refereed journals or edited books of
conference proceedings.
A brief perusal of my CV reveals that I left school (for financial reasons)
immediately after GCE ‘O’-levels and worked in commerce and the civil service
for nearly four years before gaining my ‘A’-levels by independent study and
attending university. Within one year
of graduating, I had acquired a Master’s degree and immediately entered my first teaching post in higher
education, in which I had a full and heavy teaching load. This continued apace when I was recruited to
Leicester Polytechnic where considerable emphasis was then placed upon course
development rather than research activities ‘per se’. Consequently, I did not have the opportunity at that time to
pursue a conventional Ph.D programme.
In September, 1994, De Montfort University revised its Higher Degree
Regulations to allow candidates to present a series of published, refereed
papers, linked by a substantial exposition document, for presentation as a PhD
by published works. I am one of the
first individuals in the university to have availed themselves of the new
procedures and have taken the opportunity to present a Ph.D on the theme of ‘Quality Improvement in NHS Outpatient
Clinics’. This was formally
presented in March, 1997 and approved by the Examiners (two external, one
internal) in May 1997.
Most recently, my research interests have been in the field of Knowledge Management and the development
of Communities of Practice.
Research Funding
Many of the research activities detailed in my CV have been conducted on the basis of consultancy rather than research grant. To some extent, this may have been a reflection of a teaching load in which there were limited opportunities to undertake research in a climate in which the Research Assessment Exercise had not assumed its current salience.
However, with the increasing recognition of the importance of research to the profiles of individuals and colleges, I recognise the importance of securing research funding for projects and for postgraduate students. I am currently preparing a submission for the funding of future developments in the development of Communities of Practice with particular reference to the public sector.
Contracts have been secured in the past as follows :
1986 £1,500 Leicester City Council
Contract
secured to investigate ‘Ethnic Minorities and the Planning
Processes in Leicester - a re-examination’
(Statistical
examination of refusals of planning
applications submitted by
members of ethnic
minorities in Leics.)
1990 £2,000 King’s Fund, London
(Hospital
discharge procedures in
Northamptonshire)
1991-1994 £2,000 Leicester General Hospital
(Statistical
tracking and Monitoring of Outpatients)
1993 £2,000 Oadby and Wigston Borough Council
(Analysis
of ‘Youth Needs’ Survey)
(1986-88 £5,000 Leicester City Council
‘Leisure,
Pleasure and Jobs: Developing a Strategy to Attract Tourists and Visitors
to the City’ (group project) )
(1989 £4,000 Department of Employment,Enterprise
in Higher Education
Initiative
‘An
investigation of Public Administration Students Attitudes in R elation to Enterprise’ (group project) )
2001 £2,000 King Alfred’s College Teaching and Learning Committee to
fund an investigation into ‘How
Business Students Learn’
2002 £3,000 King Alfred’s College HEIF (Higher Education Initiative Fund) to
assist
in the development of an internal communications
strategy
for Hampshire County Council (which has 20,000+ full-
time equivalent employees and a budget of £16.3 billion)
Additional Information
Course Development whilst at King Alfred’s College, Winchester
w BA(Hons)
Business Management with Business Communications (FT)
(Innovative features: Work
placements, languages provision)
w BA(Hons)Public Services Management
(shares Research Methods, ICT
strands with the above : validated
February, 1999)
w Higher National Diploma in Public Services
Management
(validated May, 1999)
w BA(Hons)Business Administration &
BA(Combined Hons) Business
(validated November, 1999 ).
w Certificate in Public Services Information
Management
(in collaboration with Hampshire
County Council- validated January, 2001)
w
Major Contributions to - BA(Hons) Tourism and Heritage Management
-
KAC part-time degree (Business field)
-
BA(Hons) Sports Studies
- BA(Hons) Sports Development
- M.Sc Medical
Informatics
w Minor Contribution to - postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in HigherEducation
Editorial Boards
Appointed
to the editorial board of International
Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance in January, 1998.
Appointed
to the editorial board of Electronic Journal of E-Learning in January, 2003.
Quality Assurance Agency report, (February 2001)
My colleagues and I were awarded a mark of 22 out of 24 for Business and Management provision (which equates to Excellent in the previous
exercise). This was the highest grade
achieved within the college at the time.
Teaching
Since appointment, I have been teaching four modules per semester,
including evening teaching (BA(Hons) Business Administration - part-time). Innovations within my own teaching style
(and which some colleagues are now adopting) includes:
w Statistical profiling of modules
w Individualised feedback on assignments
w New forms of assessment feedback
College Responsibilities
w Chair -
Business and Applied Sciences School Quality Committee
(January 1998-February,2000)
w Member - Academic Standards Committee
w Acting Head - Business and Applied Sciences
(April-August 1998)
w Chairman of
Validation panels for :
MA(Local History and Archaeology) -
Final stage event
PGCE (Primary) - First stage event
MA Religion
Website developed
http://final-year-projects.com
has been on-line since March, 2002 and has attracted a total of 50,000 visitors
My personal webpage can be accessed at:
which contains downloadable versions of recently delivered conference papers