Paul Beynon-Davies is a British academic, author and consultant.
Education
Born in the Rhondda, Wales, he received his Bachelor of Science in Economics and Social Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Computing from University of Wales College, Cardiff. His inter-disciplinary interests began with this Doctor of Philosophy thesis which considered the application of computing in ethnography.
Career
Before taking up an academic post he worked for several years in the Information and communications technology industry in the United Kingdom as a programmer and business analyst both in the public and private sectors. He entered academia in the mid 1980s and has held positions at the University of Glamorgan, Swansea University and most recently at Cardiff University. Over nearly three decades of work he has published on a wide range of topics ranging from the nature of informatics, electronic business, electronic government, information systems planning, information systems development and database systems
Details of some of these publications are included below.
His most recent programme of work involves considering the fundamental nature of informatics in terms of the intersection of signs and systems Some of this work has already been published A book describing this work is published by Palgrave/ More recently he has been developing a new design theory for business analysis which is theory-driven but practical in application.