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Ian Bayley attended Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby near Liverpool. He studied computing at Imperial College London and then the University of Oxford, where he studied at Balliol College to earn a DPhil in computing. He represented both universities on University Challenge — Imperial in the 1996–97 series and Balliol in the 2000–01 series. He is currently a lecturer in computer science at Oxford Brookes University having previously lectured in the School of Design, Engineering & Computing at Bournemouth University between 2002 and 2004.
As a result of a mispronunciation in Tallinn during the 2005 European Quizzing Championships, he is often known by the nickname of "Iron" Bayley.
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