My Very brief CV

Written for media extract in 2000 elsewhere and updated 6 October 2024.

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Prof Alan Harrison's career included being a Lecturer in Gastronomy at Surrey Univer­sity, Director of the Edinburgh Hotel School at Crewe Toll, an Open University Tutor/Examiner within the Post-Grad course in Educational Manage­ment and Head of Faculty of Community Studies at Canterbury College. 

He was also a University Dean in France and Switzerland and became Honorary Professor in 1992. Other foreign activities saw Alan as a Tourism specialist and academic adviser in fifteen countries.  

His books include Gastronomy 1962 and Are We Really What We Eat 1986.

Retired and living near Oxford, he is available as a speaker and volunteer teacher of Primary Science.