Dec 17, 2025
I did a few slots for the BBC this year, all on the current state of AI in UK universities, and what it means for teaching and for students. There was a news article in March in which Kayleigh Harvey at BBC Scotland spoke to me and several Edinburgh students about the...
Dec 1, 2025
Over the last year or so I have been running a project with my colleague Javier Tejera to develop a new model for academic-led generative AI for teaching. No-one needs more enterprise AI platforms promising automation and ‘efficiency’ gains. What we do...
Nov 17, 2025
I took a paper to our university’s main education committee this November, setting out the basic issues facing institutions as we see increasing use of AI agents within learning management systems and other platforms. Most other universities are having similar...
Jul 17, 2025
I presented a paper at the excellent first European Conference on Critical EdTech Studies in Zurich this June. It set out to re-evaluate Haraway’s ‘Cyborg Manifesto’ (1985) – 40 years after publication – to understand what it might still...
May 23, 2025
This May we celebrated two major milestones – ten years since the launch of our Centre for Research in Digital Education, and a staggering 20 years since our Masters programme in Digital Education started recruiting. Over the last two decades we have had the privilege...
Mar 31, 2025
It was lovely to be invited to Switzerland this month, as part of the Villars Anticipation Workshop on Planetarised Humanity hosted by GESDA – the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator. The workshop focused on the transdisciplinary challenges of ‘planetarised...
