This is the professional website of Walter Milner

My first degree was in Natural Sciences at Cambridge University Selwyn College, mostly involving Physics and Mathematics. After graduation I took a PGCE in S. Katharine's College, Liverpool, and since then I've worked in education in various ways, as school teacher, college lecturer and consultant. I've taught 'students' from the age of ten to over eighty, from basic skills to post-graduate level. I worked at Joseph Chamberlain College as Head of IT for about 10 years, having several student textbooks published..

I currently work as Lecturer in Computing and IT at the University of Birmingham, in the School of Publivc Policy, an dpreviously in teh Centre for Lifelong Learning. There I developed a course intended for mature students attending on a part-time basis, covering programming and web development skills in a practical manner. During this time I also completed (as a student) the post-graduate certificate of education in learning and teaching in higher eductaion.

I am also a part-time PhD student, my thesis being concerned with concept development in novice Java programmers. I am interested in the various meanings of the word concept, and how students develop personal notions of a set of related concepts. I use learning Java simply as a focus - more generally I am interested in concept formation in 'scientific' disciplines in general, especially maths physics and computing. My supervisor is David Tall .

I live in Coventry in the UK.

Consultancy contracts near good trout rivers are especially welcome.