My Very brief CV
Written for media use in 2000 elsewhere.
Prof Alan Harrison's career included being a Lecturer in Gastronomy at Surrey University, Director of the Edinburgh Hotel School at Crewe Toll, an Open University Tutor/Examiner within the Post-Grad course in Educational Management and Head of Faculty of Community Studies at Canterbury College.
He was also a University Dean in France and Switzerland and became Honoris Causa Professor in 1992. Other foreign activities saw Alan as a Tourism specialist and academic adviser in a dozen countries.
His books include Gastronomy 1962 and Are We Really What We Eat 1986.
Retired and living near Oxford, he is available as a speaker and volunteer teacher of Primary Science.
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My longer CV
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My life after leaving school and university has been within post-compulsory school education including colleges - 20%, universities 40%.
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20% in the tourism industry as in item 5.
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In 1989 I left education and operated in a dozen countries within tourism development.
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I volunteered from time to time. There were four postings occupying five months: St Petersburg, Ukraine, Ho Chi Minh City, and Nepal. "As you're here, please help us with our English." Also junior science sometimes.
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My overseas experience included colleges and universities and in 1992 I became a Professor Honoris Causa in Switzerland after giving a series of lectures in Strasbourg on a French judge and gastronome Brillat-Savarin. who died in 1826: I was Dean of Schiller University in Switzerland at the time.
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I retired in 2000 to care for my late wife who died in early 2017.
- For the last seven years, I have lived in Charlbury in West Oxfordshire with my poetess partner here.
