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Senior Lecturer in Computing and Information Systems

PhD BSc (Hons) PhD BSc (Hons) CEng FBCS CITP FHEA

Dr Ali Mansour completed his first degree, BSc (Honours) in Computer Studies, from Sheffield City Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam University) and his PhD in Computer Science from Sheffield University.

His PhD research and post-doctoral Wellcome Trust funded work (working on a grant of £100K based on his research) at Sheffield University were in Medical Informatics and Medical Multimedia Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

Ali has extensive commercial training knowledge and experience in professional industry certification programmes, and has been the lead academic and operations person for the Cisco Academy since it was established in 2009. Ali has been acknowledged by Cisco for his successful operation and being the leading instructor of the Cisco Academy in 2018.

Ali is presently the EC-Council Academia Partner contact person as well for any matters related to EC-Council professional certifications.

In addition, Ali has a broad knowledge and experience in team leadership, quality assurance, project management, research supervision, commercial consultancy, and curriculum development covering various fields of Computer Science and Information Technology.

Present Teaching Areas

• Cyber Defence
• Information Governance
• Information Security Management
• Endpoints and Network Security

Research Interests

• Cyber Security
• Computer Networking
• Educational Technology (E-Learning, Virtual Learning Environments, Course Management Systems, Computer Based Assessment, etc.)
• Medical Informatics and Assessment

Research and Consultancy Projects

• Various Small Business consultancies from the University's Research and Innovation Service.
• British Council DelPHE-Iraq Project (2011-2012) with Kufa University, Iraq. Project Coordinator and Budget Holder (£73K)
• Two Innovation Voucher projects – Lead investigator (£6K)

Research Supervision

Dr Ali Mansour has successfully 9 PhD researchers within his research areas (See Research Interests above).

Publications

• Publications

Internal Activities

• Leadership of BSc Cybersecurity, MSc Cyber Security,Ìý and MSc Cyber Security with Project Management courses
• Member of the IRAC (Institute for Research in Applicable Computing)

External Activities:

External Examiner and External Validations Panel Member Posts

• External Examiner for the Department of Science and Engineering, BSc Computing, Solent University (Aug 2023 - Present)
• Subject External Examiner for School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, University of Portsmouth (Sep 2022 – Present)
• External validation panel member for the MSc Cyber Security, Department of Digital Technologies, University of Winchester (Mar 2023)
• External Examiner for BSc Computing covering Cybersecurity, Networking, Software Engineering and Media Technology, Department of Computing, Faculty of Arts, Science & Technology, University of Northampton (Oct 2017 – Sep 2022)
• External validation panel member for the BSc Computer Networks and Security (formally BSc Computer Networks), Department of Computer Science, University of Middlesex (May 2021)
• External validation panel member for the BSc (Hons) Computing (Level 6) at Yeovil College, School of Computing and Engineering, University of Gloucestershire (May 2021)
• External Examiner for the Computer Networks and Security BSc Programme, School of Computing and Digital Technology, Birmingham City University (Jan 2016 – Dec 2019)
• External Examiner for the Computer and Digital Forensics MSc Programme, Garden City University College, Ghana (Feb 2015 – Jan 2016)
• External Examiner for the Computer Networking and Security MSc Programmes, School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University (Sep 2010 – Dec 2014)
• External Examiner for the Faculty Flexible Managed Programme (BSc and MSc), Faculty of Engineering, Computing & Creative Industries, Edinburgh Napier University (Sep 2010 – Dec 2014)
• External Examiner for the Computer Communications MSc Programme, School of Science and Technology, Middlesex University (Mar 2010 – Apr 2014)
• Internal-External Examiner for the Network Management FdSc at Barnfield College, Luton (2008 – 2013)
• Internal-External Examiner for BSc Computer Science (Networking), Majan College, Oman (Sep 2001 – Aug 2003)

External PhD Examiner

• External Examiner for PhD students from Middlesex University (May 2024; May 2022; Apr 2017), Nottingham Trent University (Jun 2023), and Edinburgh Napier University (Jun 2019).

Reviewer Positions

• Technical Reviewer for the 6thÌýInternational Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems, 2016 (ICIAS2016)
• Programme Committee member of 10th International Conference on Global Security, Safety and Sustainability, ICGS3-15, 8-10 April 2015, London
• Technical reviewer for 5th International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems, (ICIAS2014)

Professional Membership

• Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS), since 2012
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), since 2012
• Chartered Engineer (CEng), British Engineering Council, since 2003
• Chartered IT Professional (CITP), British Computer Society, since 2004
• Member of the BritishÌýComputer Society (MBCS), between 2003-2012

Professional Qualifications

• Cisco Academy Instructor training, 2009
• EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), 2007
• 7Safe Certified Security Testing Associate (CSTA), 2007
• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), 2007
• Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA), 2007
• Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), 1999-2001
• Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), since 1999

Contact Details

Dr Ali Mansour
T: +44 (0)1582 489337

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