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From: http://www.aaps.ed.ac.uk/PrincipalsOffice/
Professor Timothy O'Shea, BSc, PhD, FRSE
Principal and Vice-Chancellor,
Professor Timothy O'Shea became Principal of the University of Edinburgh in October 2002. Born in Hamburg in 1949, Professor O'Shea was brought up in London and went to school in Essex. A Computer Scientist, he was Master of Birkbeck College at the University of London 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. He was a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, Department of Artificial Intelligence, from 1974 to 1978. His career has been characterised by a commitment to issues of access and research.
Professor O’Shea is a member of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), and sits on the Boards of Universities UK, the Intermediary Technology Institute Scotland Ltd., the British Council, is a member of the Governing Body of the Roslin Institute and is Convener of the Research and Commercialisation Committee of Universities Scotland.
