My life is a journey shaped by challenges, growth, and countless memorable moments. Every experience, whether big or small, contributes to who I am today.
Well done Hercules! {ie AI}
He even supplied the bird.
My Very brief CV
Written for written use in 1998.
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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.
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He was also a University Dean in France and became Honoris Causa Professor in 1992. Other foreign activities saw Alan as a Tourism specialist and academic adviser in a dozen countries.
3. His books include Gastronomy 1962 and Are We Really What We Eat? 1986.
4. Retired and living near Oxford, he is available as speaker and volunteer teacher of Primary Science.
Longer CV
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Following my education university, my professional life has centered primarily on post-compulsory education. Approximately 60% of my career was spent in colleges (20%) and universities (40%).
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In 1989, I moved 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.
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Throughout my career, I also undertook volunteer work. Notably, I completed four international postings (totalling 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 occasions, with science.
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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 serving as Dean of Schiller International University at its Engelberg campus near Lucerne.
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I retired in 2005 to care for my late wife, who died in early 2017.
I set up the Ross-on-Wye Dementia Meeting Centre - Home page here
Since mid-2018, I have lived in Charlbury, West Oxfordshire, with my partner, an international poet and author here.
