User:Tkerby

About me

Hi! I'm Tim Kerby. I’m based in Edinburgh, Scotland and work across systems engineering, systems thinking, and technology strategy.

In my professional life I am:

a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at Heriot-Watt University
a Visiting Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Edinburgh
CEO of Edinburgh Systems (a systems engineering and systems thinking consultancy)
a Science and Technology Fellow with the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT)

Editing interests

I am interested contributing to topics related to:

Systems engineering
Systems thinking
Complex systems
Safety engineering
Verification and validation
Requirements engineering
Human factors
Engineering management
Technology policy and innovation systems
UK and Scottish infrastructure / R&I ecosystems (where encyclopaedic sourcing allows)
Notable people and organisations in the field

I’m especially keen on improving:

clarity and structure of technical articles
sourcing and citations (especially to high-quality standards and peer-reviewed sources)

What I try to do

When editing, I aim to:

write in a clear, plain-English style
improve citations and remove unsourced claims
avoid conflicts of interest and follow Wikipedia norms
add diagrams/tables where they genuinely improve comprehension

Disclosures

Given my work across academia, consultancy, and government, I may have a potential conflict of interest on some topics. I aim to follow Wikipedia’s guidance on conflicts of interest (see WP:COI).

In particular:

I will generally avoid directly editing pages about myself, my organisation(s), or projects I am directly involved in.
Where relevant, I will propose changes via article talk pages using reliable independent sources.