John Colquhoun

About

Dr John Colquhoun is a Lecturer at Newcastle University's School of Computing. He arrived as an undergraduate in 2001, completed his BSc in 2004, and earned his PhD in 2008. His research interests include teaching styles and pedagogies, and he previously worked on the CV-Decide project for cardiovascular risk communication. He teaches modules such as Information Storage & Retrieval and Software Engineering Team Project.

Education

• BSc, Newcastle University, 2004
• PhD, Newcastle University, 2008

Selected publications

• Designing a Portfolio-Oriented Curriculum using Problem Based Learning
• SHAPE your CLASS: Improving the Lecture Experience
• Development and usability testing of a shared decision support tool for cardiovascular risk reduction in primary care
• Risk Communication and Shared Decision Making in High Risk Cardiovascular Patients - a Tool in Development
• Evaluating a Peer-to-Peer Database Server Based on BitTorrent
• Cardiovascular Risk Communication Software for Patients and Clinicians
• A Peer-to-Peer Database Server based on BitTorrent
• A Peer-to-Peer database server
• Dynamically deploying web services on a grid using dynasoar