I live in Lincoln, UK with my wife and daughter. I work at the University of Lincoln in the Centre for Educational Research and Development and co-ordinate the work of LNCD. I help develop software and publish, too. I’m interested in hacking as labour and how hackers produce value. I’m especially interested in the role of universities in hacker culture and how young hackers learn their craft. I am also a founding member of the Social Science Centre, Lincoln. Outside of my work, I enjoy building, maintaining and riding bikes.

Selected Publications

• Open education. Common(s), commonism and the new common wealth
• Open education. From the freedom of things to the freedom of people
• Hacking the University – Lincoln’s approach to openness
• Hacking the Academy
• Questioning Technology in the Development of a Resilient Higher Education
• Wikileaks and the limits of protocol

Projects, past and present

• ADAM: Amnesty International’s Digital Asset Management System
• Bebop: Open Educational Resources for a BuddyPress social network.
• ChemistryFM: Open Educational Resources for Forensic Chemistry.
• data.lincoln: Open Data at the University of Lincoln.
• DevXS: A non-stop 36hr student hackathon
• JISCPress: A document discussion platform.
• Linking You: Better URIs for the UK university sector.
• Linkey: Improving Access and Identity Management with OAuth 2.0.
• ON Course: An open course data project.
• Orbital: An infrastructure for managing research data.
• TotalRecal: Space-time data for campus life
• WriteToReply: An open consultation platform.