Alan EardleyAlan Eardley is the Director of the MRes Scheme in the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Technology at Staffordshire University, as well as being Associate Head of Postgraduate Research Studies. He has considerable commercial experience in manageent and systems analysis in a variety of industries, and has worked as an academic for over twenty four years in schools of business and computing. He has participated in a number of industrial collaborations and consultancy projects and has co-authored five text books on IS and the use of IT in business. Eardley has a first class honours degree in Business, a Masters degree in Computer Science and a PhD in Strategic Information Systems. His current research into knowledge management, research methods and strategic planning in business and healthcare applications has resulted in a number of publications in international journals and conferences. Read More Read Less