Peter James Thomas
{{short description|British academic and entrepreneur}}
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| name = Peter James Thomas
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| birth_place = Bingley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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| citizenship = British, Australian
| nationality = British
| fields = Human-Computer Interaction, Personal information management, Ubiquitous Computing, Mobile computing
| workplaces = Brunel University, University of Melbourne, Beijing Normal University, Falmouth University, Newcastle University, Haileybury school, RMIT University.
| alma_mater = University of Hull, York St John University, University of Cambridge
| doctoral_advisor = Professor Michael Norman
| notable_students = Professor Robert Macredie
| known_for = Human-Computer Interaction, Personal Information Management, Ubiquitous Computing, social media, service design, experience design, design thinking, future of work.
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| footnotes = Former Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS), Chartered Information Technology Professional (CITP)
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Peter James Thomas {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} is a British academic and entrepreneur.
Biography
Thomas was educated at Mexborough Grammar School, South Yorkshire, York St. John University, the University of Cambridge and the University of Hull. Following a PhD at The University of Hull in the applications of social science to computing, he lectured in Human-Computer Interaction at Brunel University, West London between 1990–1992 and became Professor of Information Management at the University of the West of England, Bristol in 1993. He is currently the inaugural director of [https://medium.com/rmit-forward FORWARD], The Centre for Future Skills and Workforce Transformation at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia; CEO and founding partner of THEORICA; founder and CEO of cybersecurity education platform Upling; global education strategist for the [https://www.conversationdesigninstitute.com/ Conversation Design Institute] and co-founder of the School for Conversation Design; and creative director of Medicine Unboxed. He was founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Nature research journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. He is board President and Chair of [https://www.conversationdesigninstitute.org/ The CDI Foundation]. He was previously the founding director of the learning platform HaileyburyX.
Publications
- {{cite book |title=Social and Interactional Dimensions of Human-Computer Interaction |url=https://archive.org/details/socialinteractio0000unse_b0z8 |url-access=registration |year=1995 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=052145302X}}
- {{cite book |title=Personal Information Management: Tools and Techniques for Achieving Professional Effectiveness |year=1999 |publisher=NYU Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8147-2200-8 }}
- {{cite web |title=Personal and Ubiquitous Computing |url=http://www.facebook.com/personalubicomp | publisher=Springer |location=Heidelberg |issn=1617-4909 }}
- {{cite journal |author=Thomas P |author2=Macredie D |title=The New Usability |journal=ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=69–73 |date=June 2002 |doi=10.1145/513665.513666 |s2cid=168546 |url=http://tochi.acm.org/}}
- {{cite web |title=RMIT FORWARD on Medium |url=http://medium.com/rmit-forward | publisher=Medium}}
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Category:Academics from Yorkshire
Category:Academics of Brunel University London
Category:Academics of Falmouth University
Category:Academics of the University of the West of England, Bristol
Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Category:Alumni of the University of Hull
Category:Alumni of York St John University
Category:Businesspeople from Yorkshire
Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire