teaching and supervision

I am not currently taking new PhD students – please check back towards the end of 2025.

I only accept PhD students who want to work on critical digital education, education futures and utopia, and am only able to respond to queries from potential applicants working within these specific areas.

Current PhD students

Stuart Allan: Enactments of digital pedagogy in an international online MBA

Fuji Lyu: Ethics education using game theory

Meenakshi Mani: EdTech engineers and the making of machine learning in education

David Reid: Exploratory user interfaces for remote laboratories in engineering education

Nishat Tasneem: From digital exclusion to digital inclusion: a research study exploring the processes and impacts which make a difference for marginalised households

Siqi Wang: Ethical considerations for the use of artificial intelligence in education

Chen Wu: China’s double reduction policy and its impacts on local practices: an ethnographic study

Previous PhD students

Michela Clari: In the hands of the user: changing patterns of participation and learning through the digital collections of the Commission on the Ancient and Historical Museums of Scotland

Noreen Dunnett: Re-imagining disengagement from learning: the sociomaterial practices of classrooms and digital game spaces

Peter Evans: The impacts of social media applications on the theory and practices of work based learning

Christopher Hambley: Learning space design and the negotiation of power

Srećko Joksimović: An analytics-based approach to the study of learning networks in digital education settings

Jeremy Knox: Critical posthumanist perspectives on the open educational resources movement

James Lamb: Meaning beyond words: multimodal assessment practices in the humanities and social sciences

Lulu Mahai: An ethnographic comparison of rural and urban students’ experiences of the Open University of Tanzania

Diego Rates: Learning Analytics in UK Higher Education

Jen Ross: Online reflective practices and performances in Higher Education

Philippa Sheail: The ‘edgeless university’ and the ‘extensible self’: institution and identity in online distance education

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MSc in Digital Education

I supervise dissertation students studying on the MSc in Digital Education based in the Moray House School of Education.