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Alistair Edwards

Honorary Research Fellow

Alistair Edwards has retired

I have retired from full-time and paid employment as a Senior Lecturer. However, I retain an honorary post as a Research Fellow. Some of my retirement activities are listed below.

If you need to contact him, please email cs-reception@york.ac.uk

York HCI Group Reunion

We thought that 2024 marked 40 years of the HCI Group so we had a reunion. Watch this space for information about the day.

Speakers for Schools

I give talks to schools under the auspices of the organization Speakers for Schools. Talks I have recently given are:

Further information on talks I have given, and would like to give, is available.

I've written a paper!

Retired and in lockdown – and free from having to think about REF – I had nothing better to do than to write a paper on a topic that has almost nothing to do with my main research. Testing the November Alfa Tango Oscar Spelling Alphabet It is about the 'spelling alphabet' that people use in radio communications and the like. I don't think it's publishable, because its results are at variance with those in the literature, and anyway no-one is going to diverge from the current Nato standard.

Having mentioned its existence to various family and friends ('What have you been doing in lockdown?'), I suspect it has had more readers than most of my publications. If you can be bothered to look at it, comments will be very welcome.

I submitted it to the RadCom magazine. Sadly they rejected it. Their feedback consisted of, 'I enjoyed reading your article however it is not something that we are currently interested in publishing in RadCom.' Any suggestions as to other places to submit it?

Coping: A Survival Guide for People with Asperger Syndrome

This is a booklet that was written by Marc Segar and it is what the title implies. As Marc wrote: 'It is aimed at passing on my experiences of surviving as an Asperger sufferer in a world where every situation is slightly different for the benefit of other Asperger sufferers.'

I obtained permission to transfer this to a webpage, as here. Judging by the feedback I have received it is an invaluable resource. I have suggested to the University that it ought to be in a more accessible and permanent section of the website, but they don't seem bothered. I hope you can find it and find it helpful

Martin House

Martin House is a hospice for children and young people, in Boston Spa. I think it is a vital resource. Like all UK hospices, it is a charity. It raises some of its funding from shops, which take in donated items and resell them. I do my small bit to keep this going, generally by driving a white van round on a Friday, moving stock between the shops.