Engagements

Example of Responses to UK Government and other National Consultations   

• UK Government White Paper: 21st Century Skills: Realising our Potential
• The Future of UK Higher Education
• Department for Education and Skills E-Learning Strategy Green Paper
• Lambert Review of Business University Collaboration in UK
• The DfES Inquiry into Mathematics Education and the Science Curriculum
• The Government Secondary Education Qualifications Review
• Race to the Top – The Sainsbury Review
• Innovation Nation Whitepaper

Sample of Previous Memberships of National & EU Committees

• Vice-Chairman of the DTI UK Electronic Computer Aided Design Initiative
• Member of EC-EUROCHIP Executive Board- Programme Committee
• Member of the EC ESPRIT / FUSE Evaluation Panel (DGIII) Brussels (task contract 107473 -1996).
• Council for Industry in Higher Education
• Qualification and Curriculum Authority QCA – Engineering Skills Committee
• Engineering Council (UK) - Member of the Board of Trustees
• UNESCO – UK Science Committee
• Edexcel Policy Group
• Member of the Government Office for the South-West Competitiveness Strategy Network
• Member of the Royal Society Policy Group and Vision for Science and Mathematics Education

Sample of academic publications

• Book: Concurrent Engineering- the agenda for success. Publishers: Research Studies Press/ John Wiley & Sons 1997. Used worldwide and the proceeds are donated to charity.
• Chapter: Concurrent Engineering - What's Working Where.  Edited by Backhouse CJ & Brookes NJ. (Gower, Aldershot) ISBN 0 566 07666 7. Chapter entitled "Tools and Techniques for Efficient Product Development", by Marshall, Medhat, Pratt & Rook.
• Innovation for Wealth Creation: Building Regional Partnerships for Economic Strength. ISBN 1-903032-01-6.
• Frequent contributor to Science in Parliament Journal  http://www.scienceinparliament.org.uk/
• Editor: Brite Innovation Journal and publish the lead article https://www.ikeinstitute.org/brite
• Editor: Journal of the Society for Computer Simulation International on Simulation in Concurrent Engineering, ISBN: 1-56555-054-4.
• Editor: Proceedings of Mediacomm International Conference on Multimedia Communications (70 papers). Society of Computer Simulation/ Institution of Electrical Engineers ISBN: 1-56555-046-3.

Sample of Press / Media Coverage

• Telegraph: CSI leads to increase in forensic science courses.
• Guardian: Colleges must stop delivering irrelevant courses with poor careers advice.
• THES: Creating effective learning habitat using “Design for Learning”.
• Channel 4: Interview by Mark Eastman on the Quality of University Education and the 50% increase of HE Participation (with Professor Medhat and Minister of Higher Education Margaret Hodge).
• BBC: File on 4: Quality of Degrees.
• Times Higer Education Supplement - Dubai proves a fast learners