My Very brief CV

Written for media use in 2000 elsewhere.

1. Prof Alan Harrison's career included being an Admissions Tutor and 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. 
2. 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.

1. Retired and living near Oxford, he is available as a speaker and volunteer teacher of Primary Science. 

Longer CV

1. Following my education at school and university, my professional life has centered primarily on post-compulsory education. Approximately 60% of my career was spent in colleges (20%) and universities (40%).

2. In 1989, I transitioned from education into the tourism sector, which ultimately comprised around 20% of my career. This work took me to over a dozen countries, where I was involved in various aspects of tourism development.

3. Throughout my career, I also undertook volunteer work. Notably, I completed four international postings (totaling five months) in St. Petersburg, Ukraine, Ho Chi Minh City, and Nepal. In each location, I was frequently asked to assist with English language instruction and, on occasion, with junior science.

4. My overseas work often included teaching at colleges and universities. In 1992, following a series of lectures in Strasbourg on the French judge and gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755–1826), I was awarded the title of Professor Honoris Causa in Switzerland. At the time, I was also serving as Dean of Schiller International University near Lucerne.

5. I retired in 2005 to care for my late wife, who died in early 2017.

6. Since mid 2018, I have lived in Charlbury, West Oxfordshire, with my partner, an international poet and author here.