Paul Beynon-Davies is an academic, author and consultant http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/carbs/faculty/beynon-daviesp/index.html. Born in the Rhondda, South Wales, he received his BSc in Economics and Social Science and PhD in Computing from University of Wales College, Cardiff.

Before taking up an academic post he worked for several years in the ICT industry in the UK as a programmer and business analyst both in the public and private sectors. He entered academia in the mid 1980s and has held positions at the University of Glamorgan, Swansea University and most recently at Cardiff University.
His inter-disciplinary interests began with this PhD thesis which considered the application of computing in ethnography. Over nearly three decades of work he has published on a wide-range of topics ranging from the nature of informatics, electronic business, electronic government, information systems planning, information systems development and database systems. Details of some of these publications are included below.

His most recent programme of work involves considering the fundamental nature of informatics in terms of the intersection of signs and systems. Some of this work has already been published
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A new book describing this work is published by Palgrave/Macmillan.
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Paul Beynon-Davies still lives in South Wales and is married with three children.

Books

• Beynon-Davies P. (1992). Systemes d'information. Afnor. Translated by David Avison.
• Beynon-Davies P. (1991). Expert Database Systems: A Gentle Introduction. McGraw-Hill, Basingstoke.
• Beynon-Davies P. (1991). Relational Database Systems. McGraw-Hill, Basingstoke.
• Beynon-Davies P. (1992). Knowledge Engineering for Information Systems. McGraw-Hill, Basingstoke.
• Beynon-Davies P. (1992). Relational Database Design. McGraw-Hill, Basingstoke.
• Beynon-Davies P. (1997). Analysing Information Systems Failures: a practical approach. Pitman/THES Publications, London, UK.
• Beynon-Davies P. (1998). Information Systems Development: an introduction to information systems engineering. 3rd Ed. Macmillan.
• Beynon-Davies, P. (1998). Systemy Baz Danych. Warsaw, Wydawnictwa Naukowo-Techniczne.
• Beynon-Davies, P. (1999). Inzynieria Systemow Informacyjnych. Warsaw, Wydawnictwa Naukowo-Techniczne.
• Beynon-Davies P. (2002). Information Systems: an introduction to informatics in Organisations. Palgrave, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 0-333-96390-3
• Beynon-Davies P. (2004). E-Business. Palgrave, Basingstoke. ISBN 1-4039-1348-X
• Beynon-Davies P. (2004). Database Systems 3rd Edition. Palgrave, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 1-4039-1601-2
• Beynon-Davies P. (2011) Significance: Exploring the Nature of Information, Systems and Technology ISBN 0-2302-7519-2

Selected journal papers

• Lloyd-Williams M. and Beynon-Davies P. (1992). Expert Systems for Database Design: A Comparative Review. Artificial Intelligence Review. 6. 263-283.
• Beynon-Davies P. (1992). The Realities of Database Design: the sociology, semiology and pedagogy of database work. Journal of Information Systems. 2. 207-220.
• Beynon-Davies P. (1992). Entity Models to Object Models: Object-Oriented Analysis and Database Design. Information and Software Technology. 34(4). April. 255-261.
• Beynon-Davies P. and Hutchings A.R. (1993). Modelling and Databases. European Journal of Operational Research. 64. 327-337.
• P.Beynon-Davies. Using an Entity Model to Drive Physical Database Design. Information and Software Technology. 34(12). December 1992. 804-812.
• Beynon-Davies P. (1994). Information Management in the British National Health Service: the pragmatics of strategic data planning. International Journal of Information Management. 14(2). April. 84-94.
• Tudhope D. Beynon-Davies P. Taylor C., Jones C. (1994). Virtual Architecture based on a Binary Relational Model: A Museum Hypermedia Application, Hypermedia, 6(3),174-192.
• Beynon-Davies P., Tudhope D.S., Taylor C., Jones C.B. (1994). A Semantic Database Approach to Knowledge-Based Hypermedia Systems. Information and Software Technology. 36(6). June. 323-329.
• Beynon-Davies P. (1995). Information Systems 'Failure': The case of the London Ambulance Service's Computer Aided Despatch System. European Journal of Information Systems (ISSN: 0960-085X). 4. 171-184.
• Beynon-Davies P., Bonde L., McPhee D., Jones C.B. (1997). A Collaborative Schema Integration System. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. (ISSN: 0925-9724) 6. 1-18.
• Beynon-Davies P. (1997). The Corporate Data Model: A study of organisational practice. Journal of Systems and Information Technology. 1(1). March.
• Beynon-Davies P. (1997). Ethnography and Information Systems Development: Ethnography of, for and within IS development Information and Software Technology. (ISSN: 0950-5849) 39(1). 531-540.
• Beynon-Davies, P. (1998). Human Error and Information Systems Failure: the case of the London ambulance computer-aided despatch system project. Interacting with computers (ISSN: 0953-5438). 11(1), 699-720.
• Tudhope, D., C. Taylor, Beynon-Davies, P. (1998). Classification and Hypermedia. Advances in Classification Research. R. Schwartz, Information Today. 6: 147-164.
• Beynon-Davies, P. and S. Holmes (1998). Integrating Rapid Application Development and Participatory Design. IEE Proceedings Software. 145(4), 105-112.
• Beynon-Davies, P., C. Carne, Mackay, H., Tudhope, D. (1999). Rapid Application Development: an empirical review. European Journal of Information Systems. 8(2), 211-223.
• Beynon-Davies, P., D. Tudhope, Mackay, H. (1999). Information Systems Prototyping in Practice. Journal of Information Technology (ISSN: 0268-3962). 14(1), 107-120.
• Beynon-Davies, P., Mackay, H., Tudhope, D. (2000). ‘It’s lots of bits of paper and ticks and post-it notes and things…’: A Case Study of a Rapid Application Development Project. Journal of Information Systems. (ISSN: 1350-1917) 10(3). 195-216.
• Tudhope, D., Beynon-Davies, P. and Mackay, H. (2000). Prototyping Praxis: Constructing Computer Systems and Building Belief. Human-Computer Interaction. 15 (4) .353-383.
• Mackay, H., Carne, C., Beynon-Davies, P. and Tudhope, D. (2000). Re-Configuring the User. Social Studies of Science. 30(5). 737-758.
• Tudhope, D., Beynon-Davies, P., Mackay, H. and Slack, R. (2001). Time and representational devices in Rapid Application Development. Interacting with Computers. 13(1). 447-466.
• Beynon-Davies P and Holmes S. (2002). Design Breakdowns, Scenarios and Rapid Application Development. Journal of Information and Software Technology. 44(10). pp 579–592.
• Beynon-Davies P. and Williams M.D. (2003). Method Diffusion as a Social Movement. Journal of Strategic Information Systems. (ISSN: 0963-8687) 12(1). 29-46.
• Beynon-Davies P. and Williams M.D. (2003). Evaluating Electronic Local Government in the UK. Journal of Information Technology. 18(2). 137-149
• Beynon-Davies P., Owens I., Williams M.D., Hill R. (2004). The Electronic Procurement of Ideas. The International Journal of Electronic Business (ISSN: 1470-6067). 2(1). pp 1–19.
• Beynon-Davies P. and Martin S. (2004). Electronic Local Government and the modernisation agenda: progress and prospects for public service improvement Local Government Studies (ISSN: 0300-3930). 30(2).
• Beynon-Davies P., Owens I. And Williams M.D. (2004). IS Failure, Evaluation and Organisational Learning. Journal of Enterprise Information Management (formerly Logistics and Information Management). 17(4). 276-282. Commended Paper.
• Beynon-Davies. P. (2005). Constructing Electronic Government: the case of the UK Inland Revenue. International Journal of Information Management. 25(1). 3-20.
• Beynon-Davies, P. (2006). Personal Identity Management in the Information Polity: the Case of the National Identity Card in the UK. Information Polity (ISSN: 1570-1255). 11(2). 3-20.
• Beynon-Davies P. (2007). Models for eGovernment. Transforming Government: people, process and policy (ISSN: 1750-6166). Vol. 1, issue 1.
• Hill R., Beynon-Davies P and Williams, M.D. (2008). Older People and Internet Engagement: Acknowledging Social Moderators of Internet Adoption, Access and Use. Information Technology & People. 21(2). 244-266. ISSN: 0959-3845 (Feature article Informed Librarian Online October 2008).
• Berger, H. and Beynon-Davies P. (2009). Assessing the Utility of Rapid Application Development for Large Information Systems Development Projects: a case study. Information Systems Journal. 19(6). 549-570.
• Beynon-Davies P. (2010). Personal Identity Management as a Socio-Technical Network. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management. 22(4). 463 – 475. ISSN: 0953-7325
• Beynon-Davies P. (2010). The Enactment of Significance: a unified view of information, systems and technology. European Journal of Information Systems. 19(4) 1-20.