Dr Martin Chorley
Director of Learning and Teaching
Senior Lecturer
School of Computer Science and Informatics
- chorleymj@cardiff.ac.uk
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I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science & Informatics where I serve as the Director of Learning and Teaching. I am responsible for overseeing all of our taught programmes at both Undergraduate and Postgraduate level.
I am course director for the MSc Computational and Data Journalism, an innovative joint-honours course I designed and now run with my colleague Glyn Mottershead in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture.
My current research focuses on a number of areas: firstly relating to education, both in terms of Computer Science education, but also in educating students with non-STEM backgrounds in STEM areas such as coding and data analysis, as with many of our data journalism students. Secondly, I focus on the field of Computational and Data Journalism, looking at advances in information dissemination and collection, and their effect on media and society. I am also interested in the areas of Mobile and Social computing, where I examine the ways in which humans and society interact with systems and technology.
Education and Qualifications
- 2012: PhD (Computer Science) - Cardiff University, UK
- 2007: MSc High End Computing - Edinburgh University, UK
- 2005: BSc Computer Science - Cardiff University, UK
Career Overview
- 2018 - Present: Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University School of Computer Science & Informatics
- 2014 - 2018: Lecturer, Cardiff University School of Computer Science & Informatics
- 2013 - 2014: EPSRC Doctoral Award Fellowship,Cardiff University School of Computer Science & Informatics
- 2011 - 2013: Research Associate (RECOGNITION project), Cardiff University School of Computer Science & Informatics
- 2010 - 2011: Research Assistant (SOCIALNETS project), Cardiff University School of Computer Science & Informatics
Committees and reviewing
I am a co-organiser and co-founder of the European Data and Computational Journalism Conference
- Guest Editor, special issue of International Journal of Human Computer Interaction: "Following User Pathways"
- Reviewer for:
- Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
- Computer Communications
- Computer Physics Communications
- Journal of Computational Science
- International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
- ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
- Transactions on Internet Technology
- I have been on the organising committee and various panels for a number of conferences and workshops:
- I was a member of the Organising Committee for the “Following User Pathways: Cross Platform and Mixed Methods Analysis in Social Media Studies” workshop, held at CHI 2016
- I’ve reviewed for CSCW 2016
- I’ve served on the Technical Program Committee for some conferences and workshops:
- Work In Progress section of CHI 2014 & CHI 2015
- Workshop on “Social Media World Sensors” (SIDEWAYS) at the International Conference on HyperText and Social Media (HT) 2015 & 2016
- Workshop on “Healthy and Secure People” (HSP) at the International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies (HCist) 2015 - 2017
- Publicity Chair for Social Computing and its Applications 2013
- Publicity Chair for Cloud and Green Computing 2013
- Co-Organiser and Technical Program Committee for Collective Social Awareness and Relevance workshop 2013
2016
- Chorley, M. and Mottershead, G. 2016. Are you talking to me? An analysis of journalism conversation on social media. Journalism Practice 10(7), pp. 856-867. (10.1080/17512786.2016.1166978)
- Noe, N.et al. 2016. Birds of a feather locate together? Foursquare checkins and personality homophily. Computers in Human Behavior 58, pp. 343-353. (10.1016/j.chb.2016.01.009)
- Chorley, M.et al. 2016. Pub crawling at scale: tapping Untappd to explore social drinking. Presented at: The 10th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-16), Cologne, Germany, 18-20 May 2016Proceedings of the Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2016). AAAI
- Knight, V. A.et al. 2016. An open framework for the reproducible study of the iterated prisoner's dilemma. Journal of Open Research Software 4(1), article number: e35. (10.5334/jors.125)
2015
- Mordacchini, M.et al. 2015. Crowdsourcing through cognitive opportunistic networks. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems 10(2), article number: 13. (10.1145/2733379)
- Chorley, M. J., Whitaker, R. M. and Allen, S. M. 2015. Personality and location-based social networks. Computers in Human Behavior 46, pp. 45-56. (10.1016/j.chb.2014.12.038)
- Chorley, M. J.et al. 2015. Human content filtering in Twitter: The influence of metadata. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 74, pp. 32-40. (10.1016/j.ijhcs.2014.10.001)
- Whitaker, R. M., Chorley, M. and Allen, S. M. 2015. New frontiers for crowdsourcing: The extended mind. Presented at: 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Koloa, Hawaii, USA, 5-8 January 2015.
2013
- Chorley, M.et al. 2013. Visiting patterns and personality of foursquare users. Presented at: Third International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, Karlsruhe, Germany, 30 Sept - 2 Oct 2013. , (10.1109/CGC.2013.50)
2012
- Allen, S. M.et al. 2012. Opportunistic social dissemination of micro-blogs. Ad Hoc Networks 10(8), pp. 1570-1585. (10.1016/j.adhoc.2011.04.012)
- Chorley, M.et al. 2012. Better the tweeter you know: social signals on Twitter. Presented at: Fourth ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing 2012 (SocialCom 2012), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 3-5 September 2012 Presented at Nijholt, A., Vinciarelli, A. and Heylen, D. eds.Proceedings of the 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing: SocialCom/PASSAT 2012. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 277-282., (10.1109/SocialCom-PASSAT.2012.27)
- Chorley, M. J. 2012. Performance engineering of hybrid message passing + shared memory programming on multi-core clusters. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
- Colombo, G. B.et al. 2012. You are where you eat: foursquare checkins as indicators of human mobility and behaviour. Presented at: IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops), Lugano, Switzerland, 19-23 March 20122012 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops). Picastaway, NJ: IEEE pp. 217-222., (10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197483)
2011
- Allen, S. M.et al. 2011. Exploiting user interest similarity and social links for micro-blog forwarding in mobile opportunistic networks. Pervasive and Mobile Computing n/a (10.1016/j.pmcj.2011.12.003)
2010
- Chorley, M. and Walker, D. 2010. Performance analysis of a hybrid MPI/OpenMP application on multi-core clusters. Journal of Computational Science 1(3), pp. 168-174. (10.1016/j.jocs.2010.05.001)
2009
- Chorley, M., Walker, D. and Guest, M. F. 2009. Hybrid message-passing and shared-memory programming in a molecular dynamics application on multicore clusters. International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications 23(3), pp. 196-211. (10.1177/1094342009106188)
Overview
I am the Director of Learning and Teaching in the School of Computer Science and Informatics, where I am responsible for overseeing all aspects of our taught courses at both Undergraduate and Postgraduate level. Within this role I am focused on ensuring consistent high quality of teaching and learning, and on delivering the best possible student experience across all our modules and programmes,
I am course director for MSc Computational and Data Journalism, an innovative joint-honours degree delivered by the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies and the School of Computer Science & Informatics. The programme focuses on the development of knowledge and skills through research-informed and practice-based learning in data journalism, computer coding and digital development.
Teaching
I am Module Leader for and teach on a number of postgraduate modules within the School of Computer Science & Informatics, where I teach web development, data visualisation and communication, and run a student-led project-based module focusing on the practical application of Computational and Data Journalism skills:
- Web Application Development
- Visual Communication and Information Design
- Digital Investigation (co-module leader with Glyn Mottershead, JOMEC)
I also co-manage the shared seminar/lab series on the MSc Computational and Data Journalism, where students are invited to spend time working on side projects and improving both their journalistic and coding skills. I supervise both undergraduate and postgraduate final projects and dissertations.
Previous Roles
I have previously served as Senior Personal Tutor for taught postgraduate students, chair of the Postgraduate Taught Programmes Operations Team, and Deputy Director of Learning and Teaching for the School of Computer Science & Informatics.
My current research focuses on a number of areas: firstly relating to education, both in terms of Computer Science education, but also in educating students with non-STEM backgrounds in STEM areas such as coding and data analysis, as with many of our Data Journalism students. Secondly, I focus on the field of Computational and Data Journalism, both in terms of advancing the field, but also in terms of studying the field itself, where Computer Science and technology are being harnessed to both improve the communication of information and to understand better the role that the media plays in society. I am also interested in the areas of Mobile and Social Computing, where advances are driven by the ever increasing use and power of smartphone devices, the potential of social networks, and the rise of small, wearable computing devices, and where I examine the ways in which humans and society interact with systems and technology.
Past Projects
Before gaining a position as a Lecturer I was working on a 12 month EPSRC Fellowship (2013 Doctoral Award Prize) examining the relationship between an individual’s personality (in terms of the OCEAN five-factor personality model) and the places they visit or check in to.
Prior to my fellowship, I was working on the Recognition project, an EU FP7 project attempting to use relevance and human cognitive processes within IT systems to improve content dissemination and filtering. The work included areas such as how human decision making processes relate to twitter and micro-blogging, and examining the relationship between spatial places/venues and people in terms of both their personality and the expression they use towards the places they’ve been.
Before the Recognition project, I spent a year and a half working on the SocialNets project, another EU FP7 project concerning pervasive adaptation looking to improve mobile and ad-hoc systems using social network information and adaptive strategies.
