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The trAce Management Board comprises
Brian Ashley
Brian Ashley works for Nottingham City Council as Assistant
Director with responsibility for Libraries and Museums.
he is a professional librarian who has worked in Northamptonshire,
Coventry and Warwickshire before moving to Nottingham in
1998. He escapes from his management responsibilities whenever
he can by encouraging the development of projects and services
that celebrate reading or facilitate access to information.
Achieving this through electronic media to establish unusual
links between creators and audiences is one of his most
fulfilling activities. Mr. Ashley holds a B.A. (Hons), a
Diploma in Librarianship, and is a Member of the Chartered
Institute of Library and Information Professionals.
Vicky Bullivant
Vicky Bullivant is the Community Involvement and Community
Affairs Manager for Experian and has been involved in the
sponsorship of the Big 3 Book Award and Primary Parliament.
She is also on the Boards of Funder's Forum and the Nottingham
e-learning Foundation.
Catherine Byron
 Catherine
Byron trained as a medievalist at Somerville College
Oxford, and currently teaches writing and medieval literature
halftime at the Nottingham Trent University. Her other life
is as a poet. Work-in-progress: narratives of the inscribed
flesh, from abattoir to boudoir. Her sixth poetry collection
The Getting of Vellum (2000) is inspired by her ongoing
creative collaboration with Dublin-based artist and calligrapher
Denis Brown. Their joint works on vellum and glass have
been exhibited in major galleries throughout Europe. Her
webpoem Renderers, commissioned by the Poetry Society, was
created during a trAce attachment. In 2001 the British Council
in India invited her to Delhi and Mumbai to talk about this
project. She is a member of the trAce Management Board.
Web: http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/poets/byron/homepage.htm
http://www.poetrysoc.com/places/cbyron.htm
Dr Linda Candy
 Dr
Linda Candy is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department
of Computer Science at Loughborough University, UK. She
has a first degree in English and French from the University
of Adelaide, a Masters in Computer Aided Learning from De
Montfort University, a doctorate in Computer Science from
Loughborough University and is a qualified teacher. She
is currently principal researcher for the EPSRC project:
'Studies of Computer Support for Creative Work: Artists
and Technologists in Collaboration'. In addition, her role
in the SEDRES-2 EC funded project is to lead the Loughborough
team and to co-ordinate its technical work in conjunction
with the industrial partners. The formulating and implementation
of the evaluation tasks, including the definition of software
environments for distributed collaborative work, is the
main focus of her research in SEDRES-2. Her main research
areas include creativity research, interaction design, creative
knowledge work and methods for usability evaluation. She
has published widely on these topics. She has been a member
of various international conference programme committees,
including the ACM Intelligent User Interfaces 1997, EUROPIA'97
and '98, and CAPS'98, France. She has carried out a number
of projects in collaboration with industry including BAE
Systems, EADS, Saab and Lotus Engineering. She is Co-Chair
of the International Symposium on Creativity and Cognition
sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer
Human Interaction and also is Co-Chair of the 3rd International
Conference on Strategic Knowledge and Concept Formation.
She has been invited to present her work in Europe, Japan,
Australia and the USA.
Matthew Clegg
Arts Council England, East Midlands
Professor Sandra Harris
 Sandra
Harris has recently retired as Head of the Department of
English and Media Studies and also the Dean of Graduate
Studies at Nottingham Trent University. She has a longstanding
interest in institutional and strategic discourse and is
the author of Managing Language: the Discourse of Corporate
Meetings (1997) and The Languages of Business:
an International Perspective (1997, with Francesca
Bargiela) and has contributed a large number of articles
in this field to international journals, i.e. Discourse
and Society, Journal of Pragmatics, Text, Discourse Studies,
ARAL, and edited collections. She is also a national
officer and a member of the executive of the UK Council
for Graduate Education.
Joanne Peat
Management Accountant, The Nottingham Trent University
Laraine Porter
Laraine Porter is a Director of Broadway Media Centre and
"Out of Sight", Broadway's Film and TV Archive Festival.
She is also on the board of MACE, the Media Archive for
Central England.
Jennifer Spencer
Jennifer Spencer is Director of Corporate Affairs at Nottingham
Trent University where she has overall responsibility for
Corporate Affairs including the Press Office, Marketing
Services (and Creative Services), Development and Alumni,
Schools and Colleges Liaison, Web Development.
Dr Caroline Stainton
Caroline Stainton is the Acting Director of CAP. She was
previously the Academic Practice Development Manager. Prior
to this she was a principal lecturer in the Department of
English and Media Studies (Nottingham Trent University)
where she taught linguistics and supported learning and
teaching developments as the Faculty of Humanities Learning
and Teaching Co-ordinator. Dr Stainton is a member of the
SEDA publications committee and editor of a new series of
SEDA publications. She is also a member of the planning
committee of the UK Heads of Educational Development Group.
She has conducted research in the field of educational linguistics,
being involved in two major research projects at the University
of Manchester and the University of Nottingham/British Telecom.
The former on assessment and the latter on successful communication
practices in business. Her main interests and areas of expertise
are: academic writing, assessment, e-learning and management
and leadership development in higher education.
Sue Thomas - Artistic
Director
 Sue Thomas
is the founder and Artistic Director of trAce. She has over
ten years experience of teaching writing in the UK and the
US, and in 1994 she developed and validated the Master of
Arts degree in Writing at The Nottingham Trent University.
During that time she wrote A Handbook for Creative Writing
Tutors. Her books also include the novel Correspondence,
short-listed for the Arthur C Clarke Award 1992, Water ,
1994, and an anthology of contemporary short stories Wild
Women, 1994. She has been working with the arts and technology
since 1986 and has been teaching online since 1996. Her
online work includes a web-interpretation
of Correspondence at Riding the Meridian; and Imagining
a Stone at Ensemble Logic and Choragraphy http://ensemble.va.com.au/enslogic/index.html
and Lines at Lux: notes
for an electronic writing. With Teri Hoskin, she co-edited
the Noon
Quilt website and book. She is currently writing a novel
of virtual life.
Stevie Vanhegan
Stevie Vanhegan is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education
at Nottingham Trent University. Working with intending teachers
and lecturers, as well as in-service teachers, much of her
work focuses on the effective use of IT as a tool for teaching
and learning, in whatever subject. She is particularly interested
in Internet technologies and works part-time for the Open
University, tutoring on a fully on-line course about the
Internet. The creative arts are something of a mystery to
her, although she appreciates a good read - paper, audio,
hypertext. 
Helen Whitehead - Observer
Helen Whitehead
is a writer and editor. She has worked with online media
since 1985, with interests which include scientific databases,
hypertext fiction and education. Qualified to teach adults,
she holds an MA in Writing from The Nottingham Trent University.
She is editor of Kids on
the Net and Site Editor for the trAce site. www.HelenWhitehead.com
Professor Gregory Woods -
Chair
 Gregory
Woods is Professor of Gay and Lesbian Studies at the Nottingham
Trent University. His was the first such appointment in
the UK. His publications in cultural history include Articulate
Flesh: Male Homo-eroticism and Modern Poetry (1987)
and A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition
(1998), both from Yale University Press. His poetry collections
are We Have the Melon (1992), May I Say Nothing
(1998) and The District Commissioner's Dreams (2002),
all from Carcanet Press.
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