Adrian Low

Adrian Low is an Essex man, he obtained his BSc(Hons) Maths and Computing from the University of East Anglia, then an MSc in Operational Research from Hull University. He worked, initially, at Westminster Medical School in the Department of Community Medicine as a statistician and lecturer in applied statistics, where he wrote his first paper on 100 years of British suicide. He then went to work for Norwich City College as a lecturer in Maths and Computing, during which he studied for a Cert Ed and a Dip FE with Leeds University. In 1984 he went to Staffordshire as a senior lecturer, and started a family. In 1990 he went to Sandwell College of FE and HE as the Head of School of Computing. At the time the college was the largest in the UK. He returned to Staffordshire, preferring higher education, late in 1991 and was promoted to principal lecturer and then Associate Dean in 1998. Since then he has fulfilled learning and teaching roles, quality, resources, international and, most recently, scholarship, enterprise and research. In 2010 he completed an MA in Theology and Pastoral Studies at Nottingham University as part of part-time training for the priesthood. He was ordained in 2010, initially working in spare time as a curate in the parishes of Alrewas, Fradley and Wychnor. He retired from the University in April 2014 and began a 14 month paid second curacy with the Church of England in the benefice of Abbots Bromley, Blithfield, Colton, Colwich and Great Haywood in Saffordshire. Since September 2015 he is now living and working in Estepona on the Costa del Sol (West) as an Anglican priest with responsibility for two English-speaking churches one in San Pedro and the other at Sotogrande. He is interested in computer vision (particularly 3D reconstruction), chaos, fractals and computational language theory; but also non-determinism in quantum events, and the theological implications of such events. He has written two books on Computer Vision and supervised PhDs in that area. He has two further books on the go, though because they are on science and theology, finding a publisher is much more tricky! He is an occasional contributor to the Church Times on issues relating Science and Religion. He was chair of the National IT in FE conference for fifteen years, chair of the BCS FE panel for five years, and has held many external examiner posts in different universities over the last 30 years. He is still on the National Accreditation Committee of the British Computer Society (despite being resident in Spain) and regularly visits universities across the country and occasionally internationally, to chair accreditation panels.