Dr Cathryn Peoples received the BA degree with Honours and Diploma in Industrial Studies in Business Studies with Computing, MSc degree in Telecommunications and Internet Systems, and PhD degree in Networking from Ulster University, UK, in 2004, 2005, and 2009, respectively.

On a part-time basis since 2017, Cathryn has acted as a Research Associate with Ulster University, investigating the design of smart Service Level Agreements for the Internet of Things with BT. Cathryn's research interests include cloud management, cross-layer protocol optimisation, network autonomy, delay-tolerant networking, smart cities, green IT, software development and secure software development.

Cathryn is also employed as an Associate Lecturer with The Open University, supporting five modules in this role. These include Software Engineering on an undergraduate degree programme, and project supervision in computing and IT, and engineering. Cathryn also works with Degree Apprentice students through the OU, tutoring Advanced Workplace Learning and supervising student projects.

Since January 2020, Cathryn has worked on a freelance basis with Kaplan Online Learning in association with the University of Essex Online (UoEO), as a Tutor and Content Developer on the MSc Computer Science and MSc Cyber Security programmes. Cathryn tutors Secure Software Development with UoEO, in addition to supervising Computer Science and Cyber Security MSc projects.

In other independent contractual roles, Cathryn acts as a trainer for Learning People and has acted as a Computer Science A Level examiner for Cambridge International.

Prior to these appointments, Cathryn was employed as a Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, with shared teaching on the Joint Programme at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Teaching in this post includes the Networks and Protocols module on the BSc(Eng) Internet of Things Engineering degree, and the Communications and Networks module on the BEng(Hons) Computer Systems Engineering degree. Previously, Cathryn has been employed as a Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Computing and Engineering at Ulster University, teaching on an MSc degree in Professional Software Development. Prior to her appointment into this post, she worked as a Research Associate at Ulster University in the area of next generation networking.

Cathryn is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SMIEEE) and the Association for Computing Machinery (SMACM). She became a Certified Associate in Project Management in August 2008, an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in February 2015, and achieved Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy in March 2018. Cathryn achieved Full College membership of EPSRC in August 2018, and she became the co-Editor-in-Chief of the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Cloud Systems in January 2020.

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