OUCS Group Leaders
OUCS is made up of 6 technical and one administration group. Each group has responsibility for different aspects of OUCS services supplied to the University or to our own internal users. The following shows the main groups of the department, gives a brief description of each, and lists and links to their component sections within the group. Also see the OUCS organisation chart.
To contact any of the group heads, please use the generic email address: help@oucs.ox.ac.uk. This address will send your message to our ticketing system and from there it will be passed on to the appropriate group head.
Director, Computing Systems & Services
Dr Stuart Lee is the Director, Computing Systems & Services. Prior to taking on this role, Stuart was the head of the Learning Technologies Group at OUCS. He is a member of several senior University ICT committees, sits on JISC's e-pedagogies experts group, and the UK's Higher Education E-Learning Forum (HELF). He is also a teaching member of the English Faculty.
Stuart's responsibilities also include the University and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA), a body that represents the whole of higher education, and increasingly further education, in the provision and development of academic, management and administrative information systems, providing a network of contacts and a powerful lobbying voice.
Network and Telecommunications Group
This group, led by Roger Treweek, is responsible for a number of key services to the University, without which much of the interconnectivity both inhouse and externally to the Internet would not be possible.
Infrastructure Systems and Services Group
The group, led by Mike Fraser, runs the central archiving and data storage facility (HFS), manages the registration database, develops new web and other services through the system development and support and the Operations groups.
- Hierarchical File Server
- System Development and Support
- Operations
- Registration database
Network Systems Management (NSMS)
Information and Support
This group, led by Sebastian Rahtz, is responsible for a number of essential services which interact extensively with the rest of the University. This is achieved both by face-to-face consultations through the help centre service and by providing in-depth information on our web sites.
- Help Centre and the OUCS On-line Shop
- Registration
- Information Services
- IT Support Staff Services (ITS3)
- Licensing
- Media Services
Group National Projects
Group National Projects, led by Lou Burnard, includes the OUCS Research Technologies Service (RTS). RTS provides a centre of expertise for the development, implementation and support of leading open technologies within digital environments. As such the RTS has a particular focus on supporting academic research infrastructure.
Learning Technologies
The Learning Technologies Group (LTG), led by Melissa Highton, is the main centre for e-learning development within the University of Oxford. LTG provides appropriate IT skills training for staff, students and other members of the University and carries out research into the use of C&IT in traditional university teaching, both locally and internationally.
The LTG offers a range of services to academic colleagues including: a virtual learning environment (VLE) which can be used by any college, department or group; tools for feedback and assessment; web design consultancy for small projects; advice on using technology in teaching; and support for use of podcasting, video recording, and course design.
