Peter Coxhead: Personal Home Page
Contact
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Sutton Coldfield Natural History Society e-mail: 
Academic e-mail: 
Links to my Web Pages
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University
| » My University Home Page | I've officially retired from the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham; I'm now an Honorary Senior Lecturer. Having retired from earning a full-time salary doesn't mean I've retired from academic activity. Some web pages which originated in my teaching but which have been found generally useful are on my university web site, linked via my University home page. |
Personal
| » Current Photos | I used to upload photographs to Facebook. However, I'm now trying a newish service called Dropbox as a way to store current photographs. |
| » Digital Photography | I'm still learning about digital photography and processing the resulting images. See this link above for some of the things I've learnt. |
| Software | » Synchronizing Remember? with iCal Remember?, by Dave Warker is an alternative diary/calendar system to Apple's iCal. I've written an AppleScript application which synchronizes Remember? to iCal. |
| Family History | My great-grandfather was Charles Coxhead (dob 8 Oct 1848) of Reading, Berkshire, England. I used to have some web pages showing his descendants. I've had some technical problems with restricting the information shown publicly; until these are resolved, the pages have been removed. |
| » Brief Academic Biography | Includes publications (mostly very old) and former research students. For more about me, see below. |
| » The Sutton Coldfield Natural History Society |
Information about the society and how to join. |
| » Sutton Park | 
General information about Sutton Park. |
| » The Natural History of Sutton Park |
Information about Sutton Park and its wildlife, including checklists of species. |
| » My Talks | 
Brief descriptions of talks on flowers and similar natural history subjects which I am available to give to societies, clubs, etc. |
| » The Birmingham Greek Club | 
Information about the club and how to join. |
About Me
My leisure interests include natural history and gardening (I'm currently Secretary of the Sutton Coldfield Natural History Society, President of the Birmingham Natural History Society and Vice-Chair of the Birmingham Group of the Alpine Garden Society). I'm an enthusiastic photographer, with a focus on flowers, particularly European wild orchids, and regularly give talks to local groups.
I am also currently the Chair of the Birmingham Greek Club, having spent rather too many years struggling with classes in Modern Greek (among other languages).
My wife Maureen and I have one daughter, Jane, who graduated in Civil Engineering from Queen Mary College, London, and now lives with her husband Bill Hunt and son Spencer in Ottawa, Canada, where she qualified as a Certified General Accountant. Hence travelling to Canada has become a regular activity.