{"id":5391,"date":"2016-02-01T10:23:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T10:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=5391"},"modified":"2017-04-25T13:52:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T12:52:25","slug":"visiting-academic-professor-martin-parr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2016\/02\/visiting-academic-professor-martin-parr\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting academic, Professor Martin Parr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Kent Business School is pleased to welcome Professor Martin Parr.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Parr has worked for the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) since 1991 and has completed a BEng in Electronic Engineering with Business, and an MSc in Electronic Engineering from the University of Surrey. Both degrees were funded by DERA.<\/p>\n<p>Following the split of DERA, Professor Parr joined QinetiQ as a lead researcher looking into novel image tracking and processing algorithms.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003 Professor Parr moved to the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) as a Senior Analyst leading the analysis of complex military networks in collaboration with an international partner organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Parr has held a number of positions in Dstl including Team Leader, Lead Analyst and (as a secondee) Project Manager within a MOD\/Industry partnership, Niteworks.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years Professor Parr has been a consultant focusing on complex and high profile business and systems problems such as the design of mitigation for a pan-government specialist national capability. Professor Parr\u2019s work has focused on designing and planning of change activities that affect government, industry and academia.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Parr will continue his work with colleagues in management science and explore collaboration with colleagues in innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Business School is pleased to welcome Professor Martin Parr. Professor Parr has worked for the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) since 1991 and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2016\/02\/visiting-academic-professor-martin-parr\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19170],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5393,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions\/5393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}