Jawed Siddiqi

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is a Pakistani British

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and software engineer. He is professor emeritus of

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. He is the president of NCUP National Council of University Professors in the UK.

Education and academic career

Siddiqi received a BSc degree in

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from the

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, followed by an MSc and PhD in

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at the

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. During 1991–1993, he was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Requirements and Foundation at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now the

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), working with Professor

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in the area of

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. Siddiqi has been involved with the BCS ''

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'' (FACS) Specialist Group for many years. Currently he is chair of the group. Siddiqi is also an executive member of the

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''Technical Council on Software Engineering'' (TCSE). Siddiqi is a British

, fellow of the

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, a member of the

, and a member of the

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. He is a co-editor of ''Formal Methods: State of the Art and New Directions''.

Fighting racism

Siddiqi has for three decades has been involved in countering

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and fighting for social justice. He was a founding member and chair of the North

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Racial Equality Council, executive member of the

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Regional Board for Commission for Racial Equality, secretary of the Black Justice Project and chair of

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Racial Harassment Project. He has written about and been invited to speak on countering racism particularly structural racism. He is the vice chair of The Monitoring Group (TMG). TMG works with all sections of the black and

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n communities to that are facing hostility, abuse and violence from racists. It has been involved in several high-profile cases: the Stephen Lawrence family, Sarfraz Najeib family and

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family.

Public service

Siddiqi was an active member, an elected officer and an experienced case worker for his trade union the University and College Union (UCU). He has been involved in a number of cases acting as a union representative or advocate for individuals against various public and private sector organisations. In April 2006, Siddiqi successfully defended Professor

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in a hearing concerning his suspension due to controversial emails. Siddiqi has a strong interest in

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arbitration Arbitration is a form of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) that resolves disputes outside the judiciary courts. The dispute will be decided by one or more persons (the 'arbitrators', 'arbiters' or 'arbitral tribunal'), which renders the ' ...

and

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and in various fields but particularly

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and

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and is a member of Improving Dispute Resolution Advisory Service (IDRAS) for Higher and Further Education, UK.IDRAS
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entitling him to be an Associate of the Institute.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Siddiqi, Jawed Year of birth missing (living people) Living people People from Karachi Muhajir people Pakistani emigrants to the United Kingdom Alumni of Aston University Alumni of the University of London Pakistani computer scientists English computer scientists Formal methods people Members of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford Academics of Sheffield Hallam University Software engineering researchers Computer systems researchers People from Stoke-on-Trent Fellows of the British Computer Society British academics of Pakistani descent

Education and academic career

Fighting racism

Public service

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