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CV - Alan F Harrison                                                   hidden page                               

1   Summary

2   Further information

3   Additional study

4   Publications - Overview

5   My contribution to HE


 

1   Summary


  1. Career included being a Lecturer in Gastronomy at Surrey Univer­sity, Director of the Edinburgh Hotel School at Crewe Toll, an Open University Tutor/Examiner within the Post-Grad course in Educational Manage­ment and Head of Faculty of Community Studies at Canterbury College. 

  3. I was a University Dean in France and Switzerland and became Professor independently in 1992. Other foreign activities included being a Tourism specialist (hence graphic) and academic adviser in fifteen countries.
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  5. Retired and living near Hereford, I am available as a speaker.  Involved in various community/charity projects before and since 2004 on moving to Ross-on-Wye.



2   Further information

  1. Four years FT technical college education to 1961
  2. Worked in the broad field of hotel, catering and tourism until 1965.
  3. Taught in FE to 1966
  4. Cert Ed - 1967 and returned to FE
  5. Moved to HE in 1974
  6. Returned to FE - senior posts, 1977 - 1988.
  7. Tourism specialist and academic adviser in fifteen countries - 1988 - 2000. 

 3   Additional study

  1. Six years PT O U studies to BA (Hons) 1974 - 1977

  3. Two years PT study - M Ed Edinburgh University to 1982

  5. TEFL Certificate 1990 - see 7 above.  In many different roles, a common denominator was "While you are here,                                                                         can you teach us English?"


4   Publications - Overview

  

  4.1 Books

         1.  Gastronomy (280 A5 page text book) New Horizon,1982

         2.  Are We Really What We Eat?: The Thinker’s Book of Food, Weavers Press Publishing, 1986, 112 A5pages

         3   Haggis and Other Stories: a History of Scotland's Food and Hospitality - etext.  350 A5 pages


   4.2  Papers and articles 

           A wide range including conference and journal papers. Links can be provided to many.

  

             

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 5   My contribution to HE

  1. This website as a database of resources
  2. Occasional lectures and other aspects seen here.                  

Further details of career and publications via here if required.            



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