Dr John Dixon's Outputs (4)

Improving Graduate Futures and Employability Through Embedded Industrial Experience (2022)
Journal Article
Dixon, J., & Gordon, N. (2022). Improving Graduate Futures and Employability Through Embedded Industrial Experience. New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, https://doi.org/10.29311/ndtps.v0i17.3596

The financial cost to individuals of higher education is now regularly exceeding £50k before maintenance in the UK; consequently, students are more concerned than ever that their degree should offer value for money when they enter the jobs marketplac... Read More about Improving Graduate Futures and Employability Through Embedded Industrial Experience.

The Role of Gamification in a Software Development Lifecycle (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gordon, N., Brayshaw, M., Dixon, J., Grey, S., & Parker, D. (2021, June). The Role of Gamification in a Software Development Lifecycle. Presented at INSPIRE XXVI International e-conference, Online

Teaching Software Engineering students raises a number of challenges; in particular that student developers typically demonstrate behaviours that run counter to good software development. These include failing to plan properly, failing to develop the... Read More about The Role of Gamification in a Software Development Lifecycle.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: a setting for Professional and Research skills (2021)
Journal Article
Dixon, J., & Gordon, N. A. (2021). The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: a setting for Professional and Research skills. New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.29311/ndtps.v0i16.3660

This paper considers the use of the United Nations global goals to provide a framework for the teaching of professional and related skills. The main example and case study considered in this paper is from computing; however, much of the approach and... Read More about The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: a setting for Professional and Research skills.

Introducing the Emergency Propagated Reference Network (EPRN): A practical and efficient ad hoc network for emergency response (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dixon, J. W. D., & Grey, D. J. (2015, April). Introducing the Emergency Propagated Reference Network (EPRN): A practical and efficient ad hoc network for emergency response. Presented at International Conference on Computer Games, Multimedia and Allied Technology, Singapore

Many civilian, law enforcement or military emergency services are beginning to understand the need for rapidly deployable and dependable mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) for situations where GPS, satellite, cellular and private mobile radio (PMR) comm... Read More about Introducing the Emergency Propagated Reference Network (EPRN): A practical and efficient ad hoc network for emergency response.