Portfolio

Patrick McSweeney

Biography

I work in the Web and Internet Science research group at the University of Southampton. I have a rich and full job description which combines software development, research, writing publications, presenting at conferences and teaching undergraduate students.

Publications

Millard, D., Howard, Y., McSweeney, P., Borthwick, K., Arrebola, M. and Watson, J. (2009) The Language Box: Re-imagining Teaching and Learning Repositories. In: International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, July 14-18, 2009, Riga, Latvia.

McSweeney, P. (2009) Language Box: Every Day Learning Objects in EPrints. In: Open Repositories 2009, May 2009, Atlanta, Georgia, US. (Unpublished)

Millard, D., Howard, Y., McSweeney, P., Arrebola, M., Borthwick, K. and Varella, S. (2009) Phantom Tasks and Invisible Rubric: The Challenges of Remixing Learning Objects in the Wild. Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning . (In Press)

Millard, D. E., Davis, H. C., Howard, Y., McSweeney, P., Francois, S., Morris, D., Ramsden, M. and White, S. (2010) MePrints: Building User Centred Repositories. In: 5th International Conference on Open Repositories, 6-9 July 2010 , Madrid, Spain. (In Press)

McSweeney, P., Borthwick, K., Hargood, C., Millard, D. and Howard, Y. (2011) The Mechanisms and Impact of Encouraging Community Engagement in Teaching Repositories. In: Open Repositories 2011, July 2011, Austen, Texas.

McSweeney, P., Prince, R., Hargood, C., Millard, D. and Carr, L. (2011) Aggregated Erevnametrics: bringing together alt-metrics through Research Objects. In: Alt Metrics Workshop 2011. (Unpublished)

Millard, D., Davis, H., Howard, Y., McSweeney, P., Morris, D., Solheim, H. and Yorke, C. (2011) Towards an Institutional PLE. In: The PLE Conference 2011, 11-13 July, Southampton, UK. (In Press)

Teaching and Demonstrating

Designed the JavaScript labs for the module INFO1003 - Web Design

Demonstrated on and managed the labs for COMP1004 - Programming Principles

Taught the COMP1004 - "Ground controllers" lectures for students struggling to learn Java

Conferences Attended

Open Repositories 2008

Repository Fringe 2008

Open Repositories 2009

Repository Fringe 2009

ACM Hypertext 2010

Open Repositories 2010

Repository Fringe 2010

Open Repositories 2011

ACM Web Science 2011

Repository Fringe 2011

Workshops Organised

JISC Deposit Tools Show and Tell

EPrints Services Training Course - Southampton 2010

EPrints Bazaar Training Course - Southampton 2010

EPrints Bazaar Training Course - Glasgow 2010

Dev8D 2012 (in process)