Keith Phalp

Executive Dean for the Faculty of Science and Technology and Professor of Software Engineering, Bournemouth University

Keith Phalp is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology at Bournemouth University, and Professor of Software Engineering. Previous leadership roles have included Head of Software Systems and Psychology, Head of Computing and Informatics, and Deputy Dean for Education and Professional Practice. His research foci cover software engineering, particularly the early phases of software projects and the relationship between business and software models, model driven development, applications of AI, and, in recent years, social computing, which encompasses digital addiction and on-line gambling. He has extensive project leadership expertise, having led major successful EC funded projects, as well as Knowledge Transfer Projects, and his research has brought tangible and financial benefits to the organisations involv

Experience

2011–present

Professor, Bournemouth University
2017–present

Executive Dean, Faculty of Science and Technology
2014–2017

Faculty deputy dean, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University
2010–2014

Head of department, Computing and Informatics
2007–2010

Head of department, Software Systems and Psychology
2006–2007

Reader, Software Systems Research Centre
1998–2006

Senior lecturer, Bournemouth University
1997–1998

Lecturer, Bournemouth University
1994–1997

Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Southampton, Electronics and Computer Science

Education

1995

Bournemouth University, PhD Computer Science
1992

Bournemouth University, MSc Software Engineering
1987

Christchurch University, Canterbury, PGCE
1986

University of Kent at Canterbury, BSc Mathematics