Web Development with Management Studies PgDip/MSc

Who teaches this course?

Find out more here about the Faculty or School where you will be taught and about some of the key teaching staff for this course.


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The Faculty of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics teaches this course. The Faculty is driven by technological progress in the computing, software and communication systems industry. As technology has advanced, we have responded by developing a forward-looking programme of postgraduate courses.

Our courses:

  • take into account government initiatives and the priorities of industry, research and professional bodies
  • are designed and regularly reviewed to ensure they are relevant to professional and industry needs
  • are subject to accreditation by the British Computer Society

Where is the Faculty based? The Faculty is based in a specially-designed building on the Penrhyn Road campus. Our labs offer a modern study environment, giving you the chance to gain cutting-edge skills and undertake research in specialist areas.

Our facilities include:

  • dedicated postgraduate computing laboratories
  • state-of-the-art hardware and the latest software – including access to development software and tools
  • a postgraduate teaching suite
  • a dedicated team of IT technicians
  • a Graduate Centre – offering a seminar room, computers and a social space for postgraduate students

 

Staff profiles

 

Name: Karel Riha

Title: Principal lecturer and field leader

 

Background: Karel has a Physics degree from Oxford University and a PhD in Computer Science from Kingston University. He has over 29 years’ experience of ICT, working both in academia and in industry. As well as working at Kingston University, he has also worked as a software development project manager, consultant, analyst/programmer, systems architect and database administrator for several commercial organisations, including British Telecom, British Airways and Deutsche Bank.

 

Karel has designed and run courses on many aspects of software development methods and tools. As field leader of the Software Engineering and Web Development MSc courses, Karel is keen to ensure that the course content reflects the latest industry practices and technologies such as agile development, test driven development, aspect-oriented programming, service oriented architecture, web services, open source software, integrated development environments and software development frameworks.

 

Karel has also organised a number of collaborative links with industry to help postgraduate students gain commercial experience as a part of their MSc project and after they finish their University course.

 

Research fields: Karel has a long-standing interest in software engineering methods and tools – these have a long history of often failing to live up to expectations in terms of helping to improve the productivity of software developers and the quality of delivered software.

 

He is a firm believer that for methods and tools to be effective, they have to adapted to fit the software development organisation's culture, and that the organisation needs to invest heavily in the education and training of the software engineers so they become proficient in those methods and tools. Karel has published papers on this and other subjects in a number of internationally-reviewed conference proceedings.

 

Membership of professional bodies: British Computer Society (MBCS CITP CEng)

Email: k.riha@kingston.ac.uk

 

 


 

Name: Dr Miroslav Novak

Title: Principal lecturer and director of postgraduate programmes

 

Specialist subjects: Dr Novak is the director of postgraduate programmes in the Faculty of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics. He is responsible for the taught MSc degrees’:

  • quality;
  • academic coherence;
  • management; and
  • operation.

Dr Novak has been teaching and researching in universities across Europe and Australia since the late ’70s. By training a theoretical physicist, his work on the first supercomputer in the UK, the Cray 1S, introduced him to vector computation and led to a series of published papers. Read more.

 

Research fields: Dr Novak has a long track record in convening and chairing a biennial series of international conferences on complex geometry in nature, which is his current research area. Other interests include:

  • fractal geometry;
  • non-linear dynamics;
  • complexity; and
  • multi-modal perceputalization of data.

Recent publications: Dr Novak has published 11 books and is the author of over 40 research papers, including:

  • Thinking in Patterns ed. (World Scientific, 2004)
  • Fractal Reviews in the Natural and Applied Sciences ed. (Chapman & Hall, 1995)
  • Modula-2 in Science and Engineering (McGraw-Hill, 1990)

Email: novak@kingston.ac.uk