Professor of Software Quality and Principal Lecturer
Margaret Ross is Professor of Software Quality and is a Principal Lecturer at Southampton Solent University. Margaret was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in 2004 by Staffordshire University. She is also a Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Engineers.
Margaret's area of interest is quality within a computing context. She has also been Conference Director since 1992 of the annual series of Software Quality Management international conferences, aimed at benefits to industry, and since 1995 of the annual series of international educational INSPIRE conferences. She has edited over twenty five books, and is the assistant editor responsible for Europe for the refereed Software Quality Journal.
Margaret has supervised many successful PhD students on various aspects of quality, including:
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Risk-management
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Testing
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Teleworking.
Margaret Ross has been and is influential in the British Computer Society (BCS), currently holding various positions including that of nationally elected member of the BCS Council, Chair of the Hampshire Branch, Vice Chair and Secretary of the BCS national Quality Specialist Group, Committee member of the BCS Ethics Expert Panel, the BCSWomen Specialist Group and the TickIT Committee.
In 1998 Margaret was appointed as Senator to the Engineering Council. She elected in 2001, as one of the 24 members to represent all the EC Registrants, onto the Registrants Panel and College A of the Engineering and Technology Board, and was nationally re-elected in 2004. Margaret's original degees were in mathematics.
Margaret is an External Examiner for the following courses:
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MSc at the University of Sunderland
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BSc at Canterbury Christ Church University.
Margaret was responsible for introducing the first accredited European Computer Driving Licence course in the UK. She is particularly interested in encouraging part-time education, including a distance-learning modes of study to enable all those who were not able to follow conventional education courses to obtain skills and qualifications which would be of use or interest to them.
Margaret is interested in promoting access to IT for the aged and disabled in addition to encouraging youngsters, particularly girls, into computing and technology.
In 2001, she won the national PAWS Special Award for a TV soap idea that if televised could raise the profile of engineering and attract youngsters to technology.
Qualifications and Designated Letters:
MSc BSc MSc ILTM, CSci, CITP, CEng FBCS
Education:
BSc, MSc at University of London
Subject expertise and research interests:
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quality within a computing context
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quality associated with web-based and distance learning education
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promoting access to IT for the aged and disabled
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encouraging youngsters, particularly girls, into computing and technology.
Emeritus Professor Ross is willing to give lectures/seminars/interviews on the above.