Dr Ali Mansour

Senior Lecturer in Computing and Information Systems

PhD BSc (Hons) CEng FBCS CITP FHEA CEH CSTA MCSE MCSA PCE CertEd

Ali Mansour

Dr Ali Mansour completed his first degree, BSc (Honours) in Computer Studies, from Sheffield City Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam University) and his PhD in Computer Science from Sheffield University.

His PhD research and post-doctoral Wellcome Trust funded work (working on a grant of £100K based on his research) at Sheffield University were in Medical Informatics and Medical Multimedia Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

Ali has extensive commercial training knowledge and experience in professional industry certification programmes, and has been the lead academic and operations person for the Cisco Academy since it was established in 2009. Ali has been acknowledged by Cisco for his successful operation and being the leading instructor of the Cisco Academy in 2018.

Ali is presently the EC-Council Academia Partner contact person as well for any matters related to EC-Council professional certifications.

In addition, Ali has a broad knowledge and experience in team leadership, quality assurance, project management, research supervision, commercial consultancy, and curriculum development covering various fields of Computer Science and Information Technology.

Present Teaching Areas

Cyber Security
End-points and Network Security

Research Interests

Cyber Security
Computer Networking
Educational Technology (E-Learning, Virtual Learning Environments, Course Management Systems, Computer Based Assessment, etc.)
Medical Informatics and Assessment

Research and Consultancy Projects

British Council DelPHE-Iraq Project (2011-2012) with Kufa University, Iraq. Project Coordinator and Budget Holder (£73K)
Two Innovation Voucher projects – Lead investigator (£6K)
The Dean of CATS Pump-priming project – Working on the development of a CPD system for Medical Doctors, GPs and other health workers (£500)
TEMPUS CME 1069. UK Project and Team Manager (1996-1997) in partnership with Cracow University of Technology, Poland

Research Supervision

Dr Ali Mansour has successfully completed a number of PhD researchers and is currently a Director of Studies and second supervisor for MPhil/PhD students within his research areas (See Research Interests above).

Publications

Publications

Internal Activities

Leadership of BSc and MSc Computer Networking and Computer Security & Forensic (7Safe Route) courses
Member of the IRAC (Institute for Research in Applicable Computing)
FASC (Faculty Academic Standards Committee) member (2002-2004)
Technical consultant: E-Commerce for Women ESF (European Social Fund) project (2001)
Member of the Plagiarism Interest Group
Member of the Curriculum Development Working Group
School of Computer Science & Technology Disability Coordinator

External Activities

External Examiner for the Department of Science and Engineering, responsible for Levels 5 to 7 modules in Computing, Solent University (Aug 2023 - Present)
External Examiner for a PhD student from Nottingham Trent University (Jun 2023)
Subject External Examiner for School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, University of Portsmouth (Sep 2022 – Present)
External validation panel member for the MSc Cyber Security, Department of Digital Technologies, University of Winchester (Mar 2023)
External Examiner for Level 6 modules in Cybersecurity, Networking, Software Engineering and Media Technology, Department of Computing, Faculty of Arts, Science & Technology, University of Northampton (Oct 2017 – Sep 2022)
External Examiner for a PhD student from University of Middlesex(Mar 2022)
External validation panel member for the BSc Computer Networks and Security (formally BSc Computer Networks), Department of Computer Science, University of Middlesex (May 2021)
External validation panel member for the BSc (Hons) Computing (Level 6) at Yeovil College, School of Computing and Engineering, University of Gloucestershire (May 2021)
External Examiner for the Computer Networks and Security Undergraduate Programme, School of Computing and Digital Technology, Birmingham City University (Jan 2016 – Dec 2019)
External Examiner for a PhD student from Edinburgh Napier University (Jun 2019)
External Examiner for a PhD student from University of Middlesex (Apr 2017)
External Examiner for the Computer and Digital Forensics MSc Programme, Garden City University College, Ghana (Feb 2015 – Jan 2016)
External Examiner for the Computer Networking and Security Postgraduate Programmes, School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University (Sep 2010 – Dec 2014)
External Examiner for the Faculty Flexible Managed Programme (Undergraduate and Postgraduate), Faculty of Engineering, Computing & Creative Industries, Edinburgh Napier University (Sep 2010 – Dec 2014)
External Examiner for the Computer Communications Postgraduate Programme, School of Science and Technology, Middlesex University (Mar 2010 – Apr 2014)
Internal-External Examiner for the Network Management FdSc at Barnfield College, Luton (2008 – 2013)
Internal-External Examiner for BSc Computer Science (Networking), Majan College, Oman (Sep 2001 – Aug 2003)

Reviewer Positions

Technical Reviewer for the 6^th International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems, 2016 (ICIAS2016)
Programme Committee member of 10th International Conference on Global Security, Safety and Sustainability, ICGS3-15, 8-10 April 2015, London
Technical reviewer for 5th International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems, (ICIAS2014)
Technical reviewer for the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics (IJESDF)
Technical Reviewer for the Computers and Education International Journal (1991-1992)
Book reviewer for LTSN Centre for Information and Computer Sciences (1990-1992)