Peter Sharpe

Development Officer Open Learning Unit
BA, MSc Photograph of Peter Sharpe.

Contact

Email: pes@aber.ac.uk
Office: 214
Phone: +44 (0)1970 628644
Fax: +44 (0)1970 622190

Responsibilities

Supporting and developing Distance Learning MSc programmes in Information and Library Studies, Management of Information and Library Services, and Health Information Management.

Research

Oral and community history, issues in cross-cultural online communication.

Biography

Having completed the full-time Masters ILS course with DIS in 1999 I spent most of my subsequent time working at the University of Birmingham as Assistant to the Director of a major ESRC research programme on ‘Devolution and Constitutional Change’. This was something of a surprise as I expected to find work as a librarian after qualification!My pre-ILS career pathway has been described as “interesting” by bemused job interviewers. Previous jobs have included work as a potato packer, guitarist, archival researcher, DSS “gopher”, church administrator, caterer, conference organiser, mobile phone assembler, and warehouse operative.

I am a keen multi-instrumental musician and songwriter with interests in many fields of music, but particularly roots and dub reggae. In addition to recording my own songs in a small home studio I work with the Croydon-based world-fusion collective ‘Secret Archives of the Vatican’. I also have an interest in contemporary and emerging Christian and Rasta theologies and worldviews.