Writing

I benefitted from old-school-rigorous teaching in the use of English (in the days when the semicolon was revered but before the bullet-point had been invented).

Here are some examples of my ability to write in different styles – academic, journalistic, even occasionally humorous.

I’m saddened to discover that many of these links have been allowed to become broken. If you’d like to read any of the articles, do please get in touch via pra at break-step.com

Occasional articles

Metro blog

I blog for Metro newspaper; you can see my contributions here.

Inventors’ Inbox

An ongoing series of articles for the IET‘s E&T magazine, co-written with Mark Sheahan.

Cycling [Vol 7, Issue 7, 2012-07-16]
Exposing fakes [Vol 7, Issue 1, 2012-01-23]
Inventions to help inventors [Vol 6, Issue 10, 2011-10-17]
Pet technologies [Vol 6, Issue 7, 2011-07-11]
Minimising risk [Vol 5, Issue 13, 2010-09-11]
(Nominated for a Professional Publishers’ Association Award)
Football [Issue 8, 2010-06-02]
Innovoting [Issue 6, 2010-04-24]
Snowed under with ideas [Issue 21, 2009-12-05]
Helping kludgers [Issue 20, 2009-11-21]
Inventing for the disabled [Issue 17, 2009-10-07]
Mobile phones [Issue 12, 2009-07-08]
Medical devices [Issue 5, 2009-03-14]
The future of toys [Issue 3, 2009-02-14]
Weird and Wonderful Gadgets and Inventions [Issue 21, 2008-12-06]
Wall-E [Issue 18, 2008-10-25]
Rat trap [Issue 14, 2008-08-09]
It never rains but it pours [Issue 10, 2008-06-07]
Banking on railways [Issue 6, 2008-04-12]
Less lees [Issue 3, 2008-02-23]
Winged mirror
Ghosts of Christmas future

Project management articles at Tech Republic

Imagine the features of an ideal PM tool [2003-02-19]
Objects for projects: OOP’s domination of procedural programming [2003-02-13]
Tame these 10 types of techies [2003-02-07]
How stupid questions can lead to smart answers [2003-02-06]
Scavenge resources when cuts threaten to derail your project [2003-02-05]
How to help your team focus on details, avoid errors [2003-01-30]
Three top tips for surviving open source projects [2003-01-23]
How to respond when clients make things difficult [2003-01-22]
What’s senior management’s view of your project? [2003-01-17]
Promote project management’s image [2003-01-16]
Simple tool can help evaluate innovative opportunities [2003-01-09]
Transform project impossible into project plausible [2003-01-08]
Tidy up loose ends with a ‘project amnesty’ [2002-12-19]
Use forensics to analyze a failed project [2002-12-18]
How to keep your team focused on results [2002-12-12]
Are self-organizing projects right around the corner? [2002-12-05]
Welcome to your new job in HR [2002-11-21]
Is it time to change your project management tool? [2002-11-14]
So many conferences, so little time [2002-11-07]
A feasibility study: Can you manage it? [2002-10-31]
Decisions, decisions: Make them timely, wisely, and responsibly [2002-10-24]
Improve client relations by dispelling PM myths [2002-10-17]
Revive a beached project without losing your cool [2002-10-10]
Is your career still on the critical path? [2002-10-03]
Use an inventive approach when working with ‘Creatives’ [2002-09-19]
Safety-critical projects: Can formal methods help? [2002-09-12]
Build a release checklist to track software development [2002-09-05]
Manage your time as well as you manage your project [2002-08-29]
True confessions: What’s your biggest project management mistake? [2002-08-22]

Project management articles at Builder.com

Personal writing (and speaking)

On loving ‘Le Mans’: a guest post at that elusive clarity.
There’s an interview with me at thatelusiveclarity.breakstep.com.
“Since St John’s” a short piece for the St John’s College Alumni/Development blog
Some personal pieces can be found at pruck.com.
My blog about cars and especially the Porsche 911 (996) is here classactiondesigns.com.
Here is an interview I did, about selling inventions, with the good folk at Workshopshopshed.com .
I have done some voice-over work, such as this.
My first novel, an alternative history set in WW2, is for sale here.
“Thermal Dance Automaton” Meccano Society of Scotland Newsletter, #106, April 2018
Dr Sprocket’s Notebook: an ongoing series of blog posts in support of the Crieff Cloverleaf touring routes.
A slideshow talk, at the Overland ’22 event, on the subject of a motorcycle tour of Nepal

Poems

I have, surprisingly, had this poem accepted for publication in Red Squirrel’s Split Screen anthology, edited by Andy Jackson.

Book reviews

Shadows of the mind

Textbooks

Fractal Geometry in Digital Imaging

Chapter 41 Protection and Exploitation of Intellectual Property, Research Methods for Postgraduates, Third edition, Wiley

Technical and peer-reviewed publications

P.R. Andrews, “Constructing Consciousness“, Generation 5.
P.R. Andrews, K. Cornwell and T.D. Patten, “Heat transfer in a reboiler with a rotated-square tube bundle”, Seventh All-Union Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Minsk, 1984.
P.R. Andrews, Ph.D. Thesis, “Boiling on staggered and in-line tube bundles”, Heriot-Watt University, 1985.
K. Cornwell, J.G. Einarsson and P.R. Andrews, “Studies on boiling in tube bundles”, Paper FB03, 8th International Heat Transfer Conference, San Francisco, 1986.
P.R. Andrews and K. Cornwell, “Cross-sectional and longitudinal heat transfer variations in a reboiler tube bundle section”, Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Service (Harwell Laboratory) Research Symposium, paper RS680, 1986.
P.R. Andrews and K. Cornwell, “Cross-sectional and longitudinal heat transfer variations in a tube bundle section”, Chem. Eng. Res. Des., 65, 127-130, 1987.
P.R. Andrews, “Dimensional surveys – a feasibility study on a subsea metrology system using inertial-navigation technology”, paper presented at the Society for Underwater Technology International Conference, Aberdeen, 1989.
P. Andrews and F. Campbell, “Images at the blind spot”, Nature, vol. 353, pp.308, 1991.
F.W. Campbell and P.R. Andrews, “The role of spatial frequency in the perception of colours”, Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 12(1) 1992 (abstract).
P.R. Andrews and F.W. Campbell, “Why are we unaware of the blind spot produced by the optic disc?”, Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics,
12(1) 1992.
F.W. Campbell and P.R. Andrews, “Motion reveals visual spatial defects”, Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 12(2) 1992.
P.R. Andrews, “Complex patterns; simply recognised”, in 1991 Lectures in Complex Systems, ed. L. Nadel and D. Stein, Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Lecture Volume IV, 353-371, Addison Wesley, 1992.
P. Andrews, “Implications for machine vision of a natural recognition algorithm”, US Army Research Institute, Cambridge 6881-RB-06, 25.8.92 1992.
N. Smeulders, F.W. Campbell and P.R. Andrews, “The role of delineation and spatial frequency in the perception of the colours of the spectrum”, Vision Research, July 1993.
P. Andrews, “In search of shape”, presented at Proceedings of the 4D Dynamics Conference, DeMontfort University, 1995.
M. Turner, J. Blackledge and P. Andrews, Fractal Geometry in Digital Imaging. London: Academic Press, 1998.
P. Andrews, “Biometrics: the mathematics of identification”, presented at Second IMA Conference on Image Processing Mathematical Methods, Algorithms and Applications, DeMontfort University, 1998
P. Andrews, “Foveolar pattern recognition”, MSc dissertation, Cambridge University, 2000
P. Andrews, “Quantitative answers to qualia problems”, submitted to 2nd IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Conference, Reading University, UK September 2003.
Patent Applications: UK 0408421.6 and UK 0408422.4 2005.
P. Andrews, “Smartsoot”, Adjunct Proceedings, European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2006 (highly commended).
UK Patent application number GB1316494.2 A low-cost flatpack furniture assembly tool.
UK Patent application number GB1404948.0 Tool incorporating a coupling device.
US Patent application number US 62/139,048 Smoke alarm add-on device.

Google Scholar citation information is available here.