Timothy O'Shea
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Timothy O'Shea (far right), signing an agreement between Peking University and Edinburgh University in 2012.
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| Principal of the University of Edinburgh |
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Assumed office 2002 |
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| Chancellor |
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh HRH Princess Anne |
| Preceded by | The Lord Sutherland of Houndwood |
| Succeeded by | Peter Mathieson (designated) |
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28 March 1949 Hamburg, Germany |
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| Website | ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/principals-office |
Sir Timothy Michael Martin O'Shea FRSE (born 28 March 1949,Hamburg, Germany) is the current Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Edinburgh.
O'Shea grew up in London, attended the Royal Liberty School, in Romford, Essex. A computer scientist, he was Master of Birkbeck College from 1998 and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 2001.
A graduate of the Universities of Sussex and Leeds, he has worked in the United States and for the Open University where he founded the Computer Assisted Learning Research Group and worked on a range of educational technology research and development projects, later becoming Pro-Vice-Chancellor there. He was a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, Department of Artificial Intelligence, from 1974-78.
The most translated of his ten books is Learning and Teaching with Computers, co-authored with John Self and his most recent 2007 book, In Order to Learn, published by Oxford University Press, was co-edited with Frank Ritter, Josef Nerb and Erno Lehtinen.
O'Shea became Principal of the University of Edinburgh in October 2002. Since his appointment he has sat on various boards including the Boards of Scottish Enterprise, the Intermediary Technology Institute Scotland Ltd, the British Council, the Governing Body of the Roslin Institute and has been Convenor of the Research and Commercialisation Committee of Universities Scotland and Acting Convener of Universities Scotland.
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