Janet Francis

• Member of the British Computer Society
• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Postgraduate Associate Member, LCT Centre for Knowledge-Building

• Doctorate in Education, Staffordshire University (Ongoing)
• MSc in Computer Science, University of Birmingham
• PGCE (Science Teaching), Chelsea College, University of London
• PGCert Research Methods, Staffordshire University

• Data Management and Databases
• Data Analytics and Business Intelligence
• Data Mining and Machine Learning
• IT Project Management
• Service Innovation and Digital Transformation
• Work-based learning

• Apprenticeship and Work-based learning
• ICT for Service Innovation and Transformation
• Women in STEM

Staffordshire Digital Innovation Partnerships (SDIPs) in the area of Data Mining and Business Intelligence

I am currently involved in teaching the following modules

Face to face
CESCOM10064-3 INTRODUCTION TO PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC SKILLS
CESCOM10066-3 INTRODUCTION TO WEB AND DATABASE TECHNOLOGIES
CESCOM10092-4 PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS SKILLS
CESCOM10093-4 SKILLS FOR COMPUTING PROFESSIONALS
CE00315-5 PROFESSIONAL AND ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
CE00831-6 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN ORGANISATIONS

Work Based/Distance Learning
CEW10024-5 STUDY SKILLS AND RESEARCH METHODS FOR WORK-BASED LEARNING
CESCOMD10160-6 ICT FOR SERVICE INNOVATION AND MANAGEMENT (DISTANCE LEARNING)
CESCOM10162-6 ICT PROJECT MANAGEMENT
CESCOMD10230-6 CAREER PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT OF ICT SYSTEMS (D/L)
CESCOMD10161-6 ICT HONOURS PROJECT (DISTANCE LEARNING)

I supervise a number of work-based projects and I also manage the following modules which run as part of HND/FDSc awards at our partner colleges.

CESCOM10088-4 PROFESSIONAL AND ACADMIC SKILLS FOR APPLIED IT I
CESCOM10089-4 PROFESSIONAL AND ACADMIC SKILLS FOR APPLIED IT II
CESCOM10097-4 WEB AND DATABASE TECHNOLOGIES
CESCOMW10237-5 INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN ORGANISATIONS (WORK BASED LEARNING)
CESCOM10118-5 GOOD PRACTICE PORTFOLIO
CESCOM10112-5 FDSC PROJECT FOR COMPUTING AND ICT

Stanier C., Mansfield G, Lawton J., Wilson E., Hasan M., Knight F., Francis J., Cornes R., Eardley W.A., Hodgkiss D., (2017) Sharing Ideas and Practice In Higher Education Proceedings of INTED 2017 ( 11th International Technology, Education and Development Conference) 6-8 March 2017, Valencia, Spain

Borup, R., Francis, J., Willingham J. (2015) “Developing STEM Skills through Universities and Companies working together – A Marriage made in Heaven?”. Presented at HEA Stem Conference, Nottingham 2015

https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/system/files/downloads/2.3_borup_willingham-stem_skills.pdf

Behl, R. Dearing W., Francis, J., Freed, J., Varga B (2015) (unpublished) “Building a digital ready leadership and workforce” Presented at E-health Conference, London. 2015

Uden, L., Francis, J.(2008) Actor-network theory for service innovation, International Journal of Actor Network Theory and Technological Innovation Vol. 1, Issue 1 Pages: 23-44.

Uden, L., Francis, J., Dai, W (2008) Service Quality For Service Innovation, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, October 12-15, 2008, Beijing, China, Volume 2 Page(s): 2779-2784