Welcome to our Publications Library
This contains various writings that family members have produced over the years.
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Categories
Our documents are listed on the DOCUMENT LIBRARY page in alphabetical order of the document title. They are also grouped into the categories which are described in the panels below. A document may belong to more than one category.
Children’s stories, like nursery rhymes and Aesop’s Fables, often have a moral or significant event underpinning them. Christina’s children’s books follow the same pattern. And, whilst the moral or underpinning event might not “slap you in the face”, it is still there, cocooned in adventures informed by life experiences.
Beginning as an Hypnotherapist, Christina expanded her portfolio of complementary therapies. This category contains the books she has written capturing the learning she developed during her career.
This is a latent interest of Christina’s that she has been developing now that she has more time to devote to it,
Contains the results of Roger’s Ph. D. work
Roger was ‘volunteered’ to deliver a Basic Photo Editing Course for members of South Waikato Seniornet. This contains the course manual that he put together.
Particularly during his time as a Lecturer in Information Systems at the Cranfield School of Management, Roger wrote and/or was interviewed for various articles on the subject of information systems management. Derived from his 25 years experience as an IS/IT practitioner, he had a particular interest in supporting journals supporting practitioner interests.
Computer Weekly was a prominent free publication for practitioners. For a period they featured a ‘Strategy Clinic’ whereby readers could poise questions that would be addressed by a panel of “experts”. Roger was a frequent member of the panel.
Papers Roger delivered at various conferences
By the late 1970s, Roger had been variously a programmer, programming manager and systems analyst for some 7-8 years and had taken for granted that IT was inherently ‘a good thing’. Joining TDS Circuits Ltd (later plc) as DPM, he was challenged by the MD, the late David Taylor, to justify the existence of his department in David’s company. Thus began a journey lasting many decades into how to ‘measure’ the value of information and information technology to an organisation. This category contains writings and thoughts that were produced at the start of this journey.
Academic papers written by Roger Elvin during his time with the Information systems Group at the Cranfield School of Management and later as Principal of e-change Training Limited.
Roger’s papers published in peer-reviewed journals.
Roger attended the annual BIT conference meetings during his time at Cranfield School of management. These are the papers he presented, which were published in the Conference Proceedings.
Roger attended the annual UKAIS conference meetings during his time at Cranfield School of Management. These are the papers he presented, which were published in the Conference Proceedings.
The UKAIS was organised on a regional basis. Cranfield was within the East Midlands region and contributed to the meetings.
Roger worked with Professor John Ward and his team in the Information Systems Research Centre during his time as a Lecturer in Information Systems at the Cranfield School of Management
During his time at Cranfield, Roger was involved whole or in part with about 5 research projects. This category lists the reports and contributions that Roger wrote.
The Cranfield School of Management Information Systems Research Centre (ISRC) produced a quarterly digest for its sponsoring members. In each edition, recently published research papers would be reviewed and summarised for the members by the ISRC staff. This category contains Roger’s contributions.