Dr Timothy Cribbin
Senior Lecturer

Summary

I am an information scientist with interests and expertise in information visualisation, interactive search UIs and text analytics. I was awarded a BSc (Hons) Psychology from the University of Portsmouth in 1994 and an MSc Industrial Psychology from the University of Hull in 1996. In 2006, I was awarded a PhD from Brunel University London for research exploring the use of spatial-semantic interfaces for exploratory document search. After working as a researcher for several years, I was appointed as a lecturer here at the Department of Computer Science (formerly DISC) in 2001. I have taught a wide range of subjects, at undergraduate and postgraduate level, including information visualization, human-computer interaction, statistics, databases and programming. I have worked on a number of funded projects during my career, primarily researching new methods and applications of visual text analytics in diverse areas such as requirements elicitation for end-user medical devices and the online development of radical/extremist group identities. I am a founder and lead programmer on the Chorus Twitter analytics project. I have published widely over a number of topics including document similarity modelling and visualization, social media analytics, citation-based search user interfaces and science mapping. I regularly act as reviewer for many conferences and journals in the areas of information science, social media analytics and information visualisation.

Qualifications

• 2007 - PGCert Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Brunel University
• 2005 - PhD Information Science, Brunel University
  • "Classifying complex topics using spatial-semantic document visualization: an evaluation of an interaction model to support open-ended search tasks"
• 1996 - MSc Industrial Psychology, University of Hull
  • Awarded Tom Hoyes Memorial Prize
• 1994 - Bsc (Hons) Psychology, University of Portsmouth

Responsibility

Deputy Senior Tutor (Misconduct)