teaching

I accept PhD students who are doing work in the areas of critical digital education, education futures and utopia. I currently have space only for one more doctoral student, so if your work is specifically in these areas, and has a clear connection to my own work, please get in touch.

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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