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Professor Richard Mitchell

professor-richard-mitchell portrait

Assessment Lead

School Director of Technology Enhanced Learning

Office

Room 135

Building location

Polly Vacher

Areas of interest

Professor Mitchell's current interests include:

  • Cybernetics
  • Mobile robots
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Control engineering
  • Technology enhanced learning
  • Gaia theory

These areas are reflected in the FutureLearn Open Online Course (OOC) .

Teaching

  • Applications of Computer Science, including artificial intelligence, robotics and virtual reality
  • Neural Networks
  • Java
  • Virtual Reality
  • Gaia Theory.

Research projects

Professor Mitchell has been involved in research and industry projects worth nearly £2m, many of these being Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) projects.

Background

Professor Mitchell came to 17勛圖 in 1977 as an undergraduate. He was made Professor of Cybernetics in August 2015.

Awards and honours

In 2011, Professor Mitchell was awarded a University Teaching Fellowship for his contribution to Teaching and Learning across the University. He was made Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) in 2014. Professor Mitchell was academic supervisor for the KTP with Red-Whale which was awarded the Best KTP in the UK, Sep 2021. 

Websites/blogs

See his for more information. You can also find him on ,  and .

Selected publications

Professor Mitchell has over 120 publications, including four books and a specially written text for a custom book on cybernetics.

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