Prof Alan Newell PhD, MBE, FRSE
Alan Newell - biography
Professor Newell has been researching into computer systems to assist people with disabilities for over thirty years, and has published widely in this field. He was awarded the Lloyd of Kilgerran Prize from the Foundation for Science and Technology for this research, and an MBE for services to IT and communication for people with disabilities.
Applied Computing at Dundee University contains the major academic group in the world investigating computer and communication systems for older and disabled people with over 30 researchers working in this field. A number of software systems they have developed have been marketed in Europe and America, and their Digital Media Access Group provides an accessibility audit and consultancy service for designers for the web and other digital resources.
Professor Newell, a former Deputy Principal of the University, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the British Computer Society, the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and an Honorary Fellow Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. He was a member of the Thematic Panel of the 1999 UK Foresight Exercise on the Ageing Population.