Jonathan Westlake Digital Doctor

Once a month Jonathan Westlake is Radio Stoke's Digital Doctor on the Pete Morgan Breakfast Show.  He answers listeners' computer and IT related cries for help responding live on-air to email, phone or bulletin board queries and solves their Digital Dilemmas from mobile mess's to web wipeouts. 

The rest of the month during daylight hours Jonathan is Senior Lecturer in Applied Computing at Staffordshire University's Stoke site which is where the majority of the Faculty's part-time computing courses are run. 

Jonathan is an active member of the British Computer Society (BCS) which is the professional body for IT workers and a qualifying body Chartered IT Professionals.  The majority of the University's Computing graduates go on to work in the industry in someway therefore these links are obviously very important.

When darkness falls Jonathan has the perfect answer to insomnia - he counts newts instead of sheep. Jonathan is a volunteer warden at Apedale Countryside park which has a large colony of newts.  As the newts are a protected species wardens have to have a licence to handle them.  The wardens protect and maintain the newts' habitat at Apedale and record newt numbers as part of the UK survey.