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PhD students

Over the past 30-odd years, I guess I must have supervised around 20 PhD students and, I'm delighted to say, that none of the students that I supervised and who submitted a thesis have ever failed. Unfortunately, I didn't keep a list of students supervised and I don't know what all of them are doing now. I've always tried to work with and help develop students who were better than me and I'm delighted that some of them have gone on to be very successful in their careers.

Currently, at St Andrews, I'm supervising three students. David Greenwood, Ali Khajeh-Hosseini and James Smith. David is working in socio-technical systems and Ali and James in cloud computing.

Previous students who have web pages that I can find include Murray Wood, Tom Rodden, Pete Sawyer, Gerald Kotonya, Steve Viller, Russell Lock, Muthu Ramachandran, Simon Monk, Guy Dewsbury, Andre Oboler. Apologies to others whose web pages I've failed to discover.

As I am not too far away from retirement (less time than a PhD normally takes), I am not accepting any new PhD students as principal supervisor  but I have excellent colleagues working in cloud computing and socio-technical systems who could supervise PhD students. If you are interested in doing a PhD at St Andrews, please do not contact me directly - details about PhD opportunities are here.