My Very Brief CV
Written for use in 1998.
- 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.
- He was also a University Dean in France and Switzerland. 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.
- Retired and living near Oxford, he is available as speaker on AI and volunteer teacher of Primary Science.
Longer CV
- 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%).
- In 1989, I moved from education into the tourism sector, which ultimately comprised around 40% of my career. This work took me to over a dozen countries, where I was involved in various aspects of tourism development.
- 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.
- 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 then Engelberg campus near Lucerne.
