Sep 19, 2017
I have a new project running this year, along with the wonderful Jennifer Williams, Michael Gallagher, Lucy Kendra and colleagues, which aims to ‘design the future of digital education at Edinbugh’. Through a series of events, workshops, thinktanks...
Sep 18, 2017
After my Alt-C talk this September, which discussed the social value of anonymity within universities, David Kernohan from the excellent WonkHE kindly asked me to write a blog post covering some of the...
Sep 11, 2017
This year I’m going to be quite heavily involved with the new Edinburgh Futures Institute, which will be doing new kinds of interdisciplinary research to tackle complex societal problems, bring the social sciences and humanities to bear on data science, and...
Sep 11, 2017
I’m looking forward to this semester’s teaching on our MSc in Digital Education – between now and Christmas I will be co-tutoring with the brilliant Jen Ross on the Digital Futures for Learning Course, which takes an ‘open curriculum’...
Mar 8, 2017
I’m delighted to be part of an exciting new project led by colleagues Mark Naylor and John McCloskey in the School of Geosciences. Research for Emergency Aftershock Response is aiming to develop methods for getting information and support quickly to earthquake...
Aug 16, 2016
We’re proud to have a new web site for our Masters programme: in particular, we’ve worked hard with our students to pull together a showcase of outstanding student work, and also to highlight the terrific video produced by James Lamb for our 2016 Manifesto...
