Outline public history - Simon Grant
This is a general-purpose chronology of main public events. Alternatively please see my professional CV.
Outline public history - Simon GrantThis is a general-purpose chronology of main public events. Alternatively please see my professional CV. |
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| 1956–1963 | Born 3rd of 4 siblings in Workington, England. First school there. | |
| 1963–1968 | Unhappy at two boys boarding (“prep”) schools in Cumberland and Westmorland, England. | |
| 1969–1974 | Secondary schooling at Winchester College, England. Much happier. | |
| 1972 | First solo glider flight at Old Sarum airfield. | |
| 1973 | Learned powered flight with a Flying Scholarship, Carlisle Airport. | |
| 1974 | 4 months specially arranged post at Ordnance Survey, Southampton, England. | |
| 1974–1978 | Brasenose College, University of Oxford BA, Physics and Philosophy 1977 Class 2; Postgraduate Certificate in Education, 1978. Volunteer with Nightline. Flying with OU Air Squadron. | |
| 1978 | One term tutoring physics and maths, D'Overbroeck's, Oxford. | |
| 1979 | Two terms teaching physics and maths at John Mason Comprehensive, Abingdon. | |
| 1979–1981 | Teaching Physics, Chemistry, etc. Wychwood School, Oxford. | |
| 1980 | A few seconds of human-powered flight as one of two pilots in the Newbury Manflier at Greenham Common airfield; first marriage. | |
| 1981–1982 | Tutoring in physics and maths, Oxford. First child born. Volunteer with Education Otherwise | |
| 1982–1986 | Self-employed tutor, hypnotherapist; home making, amateur building and groundwork; in Gwynedd, Wales. Second and third children born. | |
| 1987 | Postgraduate Diploma in Information Technology, passed with distinction, with what was the CSM Faculty, Bristol Polytechnic, England (now the University of the West of England) | |
| 1987–1990 | University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. Department of Computer Science. (now CIS). PhD, "Modelling Cognitive Aspects of Complex Control Tasks", with the Scottish HCI Centre supervised by Terry Mayes, passed January 1991. Sang with the University Chamber Choir. | |
| 1990 → | Became a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) initially in Glasgow. | |
| 1990 | University of Strathclyde. Six weeks as a research assistant working for Mike Kibby on the SAFE project (DELTA project P7061); wrote report "SLIM 3: Human-Computer Interaction for Learners". | |
| 1991 | Three months (March - May) travelling: in New Zealand (a month) Fiji (a week); Tahiti (a week); USA and Canada (six weeks, using Amtrak). | |
| 1991 | Loughborough University. Worked for Jim Alty on a project constructing an interface for BT Research Labs, using NeWS and Postscript. | |
| 1991–1994 | City University, Department of Business Computing - a part of the what was the School of Informatics. Lecturer in Business Computing, specialist teaching area human-computer interaction. Member of the research group Centre for HCI Design. See also separate page. | |
| 1994–1996 | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Systems Engineering and Informatics, then the Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety, Ispra (VA), Italy. Post-doctoral grant-holder. Focal work area: developing cognitive architecture for constructing cognitive models of complex task behaviour, including error. See also separate page. | |
| 1996–1999 | University of Liverpool, Department of Computer Science, Connect, which was the "Internet Centre for Merseyside Businesses" and at that time part of the University. Lecturer: taught and developed courses for business and unemployed, including e-commerce. Researched in e-commerce and related areas. Helped conceive and manage the LUSID project, which was in use for 17 years until 2015. Sang with the Renaissance Music Group and the Liverpool Barbershop Harmony Club. | |
| 1999 → | Information systems consultant, specialising in e-portfolios for personal and professional development, skill and competence systems, interoperability, usability. | |
| 2000 | Fourth child born. Singing with the William Byrd Singers of Manchester. | |
| 2002–2008 | Work with the Centre for Recording Achievement and Cetis interoperability standards for ICT systems that support Personal Development Planning in the UK. |
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| 2005-08-13 | Second marriage while living in Bristol for a year. Sang briefly with the City of Bristol Choir | |
| 2006–2013 | Lived in New Mills, Derbyshire. Fifth child born. Sang with Duodecimo, 2011 to 2013. | |
| 2008–2015 | Senior Researcher and Learning Technology Advisor (part time) at the Institute for Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton. Continued to take main responsibility for the areas of e-portfolios; and skills/competence technology. |
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| 2009 | Author Electronic Portfolios: Personal information, personal development and personal values. Part 3 gives a useful introduction to the ideas behind some of my more recent work. |
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| 2011–2013 | European expert team leader, InLOC: an information model to represent and communicate the core information contained in frameworks (or other structures) of skills, competences, etc. | |
| 2012 → | Contributor to P2P Foundation wiki, mostly voluntary. It stepped up from around 2017, and in 2019 I was asked to do some work on category pages. See my user page. I have also been an occasional Wikipedian. This experience has focused my interest in knowledge commons. |
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| 2013–2020 | Lived at Lancaster Cohousing; involved with community governance. Sang with Divers Voyces of Lancaster, 2015 to 2020. |
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| 2014–2015 | Volunteer director, Green Elephant Co-operative Limited. Volunteer with B4RN | |
| 2015 → | Co-founder and Partner (to 2024), Cetis LLP (a worker co-operative); from 2024, Associate |
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| 2017-11 | Paraglider training with FlySpain, Algodonales, Spain. | |
| 2019-05-28 | Second marriage ended, with ex-wife and fifth child in Finland. | |
| 2019–2022 | Involvement with Collective Presencing including formatting & enhancing the book. |
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| 2019-06 | Started Art of Hosting practice with training in Belgium. | |
| 2020 | Living in Ransberg, Belgium. Amateur building, groundwork; making bread and jam. | |
| 2022 → | Collaborations have included: CTA, GRC |
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| 2022-11 | Residency around Internal Family Systems at the Life Itself hub in Bergerac. | |
| 2023 | Lunations with Liminal Village, nurturing ideas for RegenCHOICE. |
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| 2023 | Online GEN Ecovillage Design Education course. | |
| 2023 → | Focus on bringing RegenCHOICE into reality, to help regenerate relationship. Coined new term: Ontological Commoning; continuing to develop it. | |
| 2024 | Retired from all paid work. Explored an ontological framework for the 2024 Gathering of Tribes; Senior Research Associate, Life Itself |
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| 2025 | Knowledge Commons work for Growing the Commons and Bioregional Knowledge Commons. |
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See a separate page for general recreational interests.