Prof. Alastair Irons
Professor Alastair Irons is the Academic Lead for Computing at Walbrook Institute London.
He is Emeritus Professor of Computer Science and former Deputy Principal and Deputy Vice Chancellor at Abertay University in Scotland. Before joining Abertay in July 2022 he was Academic Director for Digital Education at the University of Sunderland, having previously been the Dean for the Faculty of Technology. Prior to joining the University of Sunderland in 2008 he worked at ONE North East, Northumbria University and ICI. Alastair became a National Teaching Fellow in 2010. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Cape Town in South Africa from 2013 – 2017 and is a visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg, at the British University in Egypt and at the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean.
Alastair served as Vice President (academic) of the BCS and chair of the BCS Academy board from 2020 to 2026. He is a founding trustee of the BCS Foundation and continues to work with that group. Currently he is the UK representative on IFIP and serves on the IFIP Board (General Assembly). Recently he has taken up a non-executive role on the board of Dumfries and Galloway College and is chair of the Board of Governors at the Percy Hedley Foundation in Newcastle.
