UWE
Dr Robert Stephens
Robert Stephens
Director of CISC
Senior Lecturer
School of Information Systems

Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

University of the West of England

Bristol, BS16 1QY

Robert.Stephens@uwe.ac.uk


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TEACHING FIELDS

Undergraduate

UFIE95-20-3, Information Systems in Society, course blog

UFIE8R-20-2, Information Systems in the Human Context

UFIE8W-20-1, Foundations of Information Technology

Postgraduate

UQC833hm, Knowledge Acquisition, elicitation and representation.
Artificial Intelligence and IKBS,
Computer Support for Cooperative Work.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Application of the dialogic theory of M.M. Bakhtin into a computing and information systems context.

Evolution of computing and information systems in society

Computing Ethics

Knowledge acquisition and representation

Web-site designer and administrator for Living Easton (local community and history group)

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Rawlings, P., White, P. and Stephens, R., 2005, Practice-Based Learning in Information Systems: The advantages for Students, Journal of Information Systems Education, 16(4): 455-464.
  2. Stephens, R.A., 2004, Embracing Information as Concept and Practice, Proc. IFIP (WG 8.2) Relevant theory and informed practice, Manchester, July, 2004
  3. Stephens, R.A., 2002, The role of surplus vision in knowledge systems, Proc. UKSS, July, 2002
  4. Stephens, R.A., and Beeson, I., Educating the reflexive practitioner, Proc. UKAIS, April, 2002
  5. Stephens, R.A., 2001, Problems with a Theoretical Attitude to the Information Concept, Proc. AIS 2001, Boston, pp 1963-1967, August 2-5. (Best paper award)
  6. Stephens, R.A. and Probert, S.K, 2000, Authentic Intervention in Information Systems Practice, Proc. European Conference on Information Systems, July 2000, Vienna.
  7. Stephens, R.A., 2000, Authenticity and ethics in IS: the limits of theoretical thinking, Proc., United Kingdom Academy of Information Systems, April, 2000, Cardiff UK.
  8. Stephens, R.A., 1999, Shared alterity in interpretive research: a case of mistaken identity?, Proc. United Kngdom Systems Society: 6th International Conference
  9. Stephens, R.A., Authenticity and Ethical Practice in IS: Technicism, Reflective Practice and Answerability, Proc. AIS 99, Milwaukee, pp 656-658, August 13-15, 1999.
  10. Stephens, R.A., The meta-linguistic model in information systems research, Proc. AIS 98, Baltimore,pp 852-854 14-16 August 1998,.
  11. Stephens, R.A., Some problems with the representation concept in the study of information, Proc, Second Information Seeking in Context Conference, August 13-15, 1998, Sheffield UK.
  12. Stephens, R.A., 1998, The meta-linguistic model in information systems, Symposium on the Philosophical Aspects of Information Systems (PAIS II), University of the West of England, July.
  13. Probert, S.K. and Stephens, R.A., 1998, Philosophical Aspects of Information Systems: Why? Wherefore? And Where Next?, editorial introduction to special issue of The Systemist, 20: 3-4.
  14. Stephens, R.A., 1998, The meta-linguistic model in information systems, The Systemist, 20: 221-228.
  15. Stephens, R.A, Dialogism: A Bakhtinian perspective on communication, Proc. Fifth International Conference of the United Kingdom Systems Society, 1997, In: Systems for Sustainability: People, Organizations and Environments, Eds., FA Stowell, RL Ison, R Armson, J Holloway, S Jackson and S McRobb, NY: Plenum, pp 513-517.
  16. John G Gammack and Robert A Stephens, Knowledge acquisition as a situated process: implications for information systems design, Third Australian Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, at the Proc. Tenth Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence; (AI'97) 1 December 1997; Perth, Australia
  17. Stephens, R.A. 1996, Representation and Knowledge Acquisition: The Problem of Language, Unpublished PhD thesis, University of the West of England, April 1996.
  18. Stephens, R.A. 1995, Representation and double-level language in information systems, Proc. United Kngdom Systems Society: 4th International Conference
  19. Gammack J.G. and Stephens R.A., 1994, Constructive Methodology and Repertory Grids, in Cassell, C. and Symon, G, (eds.) Qualitative Methods in Organisational and Occupational Psychology, Sage.
  20. Gammack J.G. and Stephens R.A., 1994, A model for supporting interacting knowledge sources, In: Edmonds, E. and Connolly J.H., (eds.), CSCW and Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag.
  21. Stephens, R.A. and Gammack, J.G., 1994, Constructivist knowledge elicitation for systems practitioners, Systems Practice, 7 (2): 162-182.
  22. Stephens, R.A. A look through the representational mirror, Symposium of the Logical and Philosophical Aspects of Information Systems, UWE, April 1994.
  23. Stephens, R.A. and Gammack, J.G., 1993, Linguistic categories in Knowledge Based Systems, Proc. United Kngdom Systems Society: 3rd International Conference; July 1993. In: Stowell, F.A. (ed) Systems Science: Addressing Global Issues. Plenum.
  24. Stephens, R.A., Forgarty, T. and Johnson, I.R, 1993, Applying the Repertory Grid to construct category descriptions in quality control, Proc. 4th European Meeting on Cognitive Science Approaches to Process Control, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  25. Gammack J.G. and Stephens R.A., Designing for communication among interacting knowledge sources, Poster at 6th European Conference On Cognitive Ergonomics, Balatonfured, Hungary, 1992.
  26. Gammack J.G., Rowe G and Stephens R.A., Multi expert decision- making: Issues in providing automated support. Proc. International Conference on Systems Science, Wroclaw, Poland, 1992.
  27. Gammack J.G. and Stephens R.A., Supporting distributed expertise in organisational decision- making, Proc. ISDSS Conference, Ulm, 1992.
  28. Stephens, R.A., 1991, Exploring Meaning in Cooperative Research, Proc. Second European Congress of Psychology, 8-12 July, Budapest, Hungary.
  29. Gammack J.G. and Stephens R.A., 1991, Methodological Issues in Validating Knowledge- Based Systems, in: Proc. AMSE International Conference on Signals and Systems, Warsaw, p 213- 219.
  30. Stephens, R.A. and Wood, J.R.G., 1991, Information Systems as Linguistic Systems: A Constructivist Perspective, in, MC Jackson, RL Flood, GJ Mansell and SVE Probert (Eds.) Systems Thinking in Europe, Plenum.
  31. Gammack J.G. and Stephens R.A., 1991, The Human-Centred Paradigm in KBS Design Theory, in, MC Jackson, RL Flood, GJ Mansell and SVE Probert (Eds.) Systems Thinking in Europe, Plenum.
  32. Stephens, R.A. and Gammack, J.G., 1991, Distributed Expertise and Knowledge-Based Systems, The Systemist, 13 (4), 166-171.
  33. Stephens, R.A. and Gammack, J.G., 1991, Modelling Distributed Expertise for Knowledge- Based Systems, In: Shangxu Hu and Shaozhong Jiang (Eds.) Information and Systems, International Academic Publishers, Beijing, Vol 11, p 797-800.
  34. Stephens, R.A., 1991, Knowledge and Action at Social and Organisational Levels, Keynote Address, American Association for Artificial Intelligence Fall Symposium, Asilomar, C.A., November 17-21, 1991.
  35. Stephens, R.A., 1990, Putting Knowledge in its Place, In: 1990 Workshop on Human-Centred Systems, Brighton Polytechnic, UK.
  36. Gammack, J.G. Battle, S.A. and Stephens, R.A., 1989, A knowledge acquisition and representation scheme for constraint-based and parallel systems. In: Proc. IEEE conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Cambridge MA, p 1030-1035.
  37. Stephens, R.A., 1987, The Computer Interpretation of Foriegn Exchange Dealers' Conversations, Technical Report: Barclays Bank Expert Systems Unit.

MEMBERSHIP

Association of Computing Machinery
United Kingdom Systems Society
BCS Specialist Group on Information Systems Methodologies

QUALIFICATIONS

BA Social Science, 2.1 Honours (CNAA), Polytechnic of Central London 1979.

MA History (London), Birkbeck College, University of London, 1983.

Post-graduate Diploma in Computing and Artificial Intelligence, (CNAA), Knowledge-Based Systems Centre, South-Bank Polytechnic 1987.

PhD, Representation and Knowledge Acquisition: The Problem of Language, University of the West of England, April 1996.