Mr R Corrigan

Ray Corrigan is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics at the Open University. He has worked with the UK parliament, European Commission, the World Intellectual Property Organisation, NGOs and the Korean Copyright Commission on privacy, security, surveillance, education, intellectual property and its economics.

Ray is a signatory of the ‘Necessary and Proportionate International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance.’

Author of 'Digital Decision Making: Back to the Future' [Springer-Verlag, 2007], Ray wrote the OU's 'Law, the Internet and Society: Technology and the Future of Ideas' course, as well as a variety of other (multi-media) materials on the environment and information and communications technologies.

He has direct responsibility on a day to day level for about a thousand students on a range of Open University technology courses.

Ray dabbles in the use of the Internet and digital technologies in education, having been at the front line of the Open University’s industrial-scale deployment of e-learning for many years.

Before alighting in academia he spent nearly ten years in a variety of roles in industry with occasional lean periods ‘seeking employment’. By far the most technically interesting period of the commercial roles was the nearly 7 years spent development testing aircraft parts to destruction.