Background
Liz Bacon grew up in Kenley, Surrey.
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Liz Bacon
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She studied for an undergraduate degree in Computer Science at Thames Polytechnic, spending her third year on an industrial placement at European Organization of Nuclear Research, graduating in 1986. She studied for her Doctor of Philosophy in the field of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Greenwich, and was awarded her doctorate in 1993.
Career
MACM (born 27 September 1963) is a Professor of Software Engineering and Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Greenwich, England. Bacon is currently the Past President of the British Computer Society, The Chartered Institute for Information Technology, and has had many serious roles, including the Chair of the British Computer Society Academy, a British Computer Society Council Member and Trustee of the British Computer Society. Bacon has been involved in software engineering and e-learning research for more than 10 years She was one of the 30 women identified in the British Computer Society Women in Information Technology Campaign in 2014 source and was then featured in the e-book of these 30 women in Information Technology, "Women in Information Technology: Inspiring the next generation" produced by the British Computer Society, The Chartered Institute for Information Technology, as a free download e-book, from various sources. In 2015, Liz bacon became a Principal Fellow of the HEA and was identified as the 35th Most Influential Women in United Kingdom Information Technology 2015, by Computer Weekly.
Professor of Software Engineering and Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Greenwich, England.
Past President and Trustee of British Computer Society, the Chartered Institute for Information Technology., and was elected President of British Computer Society for one year from March 2014. Inaugural Chair of the British Computer Society Academy of Computing, the first Learned Society in the United Kingdom for Computing,
Previously President and Trustee of the British Computer Society, the Chartered Institute for Information Technology. University representative for PICTFOR (The Parliamentary Internet, Communications and Technology Forum).
East-learning, serious games, software engineering, crisis management, affective computing, cybersecurity, e-Health, personalisation.
Membership
She has been a Council member of PITCOM, the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee, responsible for communications, EQANIE (European Quality Assurance Network for Informatics Education), the National HE Science Technology Engineering And Mathematics Programme and an Information and communications technology Thought Leader for the University of Cambridge International Examinations. Past Chair of the CPHC, Past member of Council and Communications Officer for PITCOM (Parliamentary Information Technology Committee).
