Liz Bacon | |
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| Born | 27 September 1963 |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Abertay University, Dundee. Scotland [1] |
| Spouse | Stuart Kabler |
| Awards | FBCS, CEng, CSci, CITP, PFHEA., [2] MACM, NTF [3] FIScT [4] |
Liz Bacon (born 27 September 1963) is Principal and Vice-Chancellor [5] of Abertay University, Dundee.
Liz Bacon grew up in Kenley, Surrey. She studied for an undergraduate degree in computer science at Thames Polytechnic, spending her third year on an industrial placement at CERN, graduating in 1986. She studied for her PhD in the field of artificial intelligence at the University of Greenwich, [6] and was awarded her doctorate in 1993. [7] [8] Bacon is currently the past President of the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT , and has had many serious roles, including the Chair of the BCS Academy, a BCS Council member and Trustee of the BCS. She has been a Council Member of PITCOM, the Parliamentary IT Committee, responsible for communications, Past President of EQANIE (European Quality Assurance Network for Informatics Education), the National HE STEM Programme and an ICT thought leader for the University of Cambridge International Examinations. Bacon has been involved in software engineering and e-learning research for more than 10 years [7] [8]
She was one of the 30 women identified in the BCS Women in IT Campaign in 2014 source [9] and was then featured in the e-book of these 30 women in IT, "Women in IT: Inspiring the next generation" produced by the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, as a free download e-book, from various sources. [10]
In 2015, Bacon became a Principal Fellow of the HEA [2] and was identified as the 35th Most Influential Women in UK IT 2015, [11] by Computer Weekly.
e-learning, serious games, software engineering, crisis management, affective computing, cybersecurity, e-Health, personalisation.
Bacon is married to Stuart Kabler. [16] Her hobbies are horse jumping, skiing and scuba diving.
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