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Centre for Sociodigital Futures

Investigating how different claims about digital futures shape our lives today

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SENSE: sensory explanations of nature in school environments

Turning phones into multi-sensory nature learning tools

GCRF Urban Disaster Risk Hub

Bringing multi-hazard disaster risk management to the centre of urban policy and practice

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Data Education in Schools

Developing data literacy and data citizenship skills to learners ages 3-18 years old

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Annual report 2022

Find out about our research community, projects, publications and work with the Edinburgh Futures Institute in 2021-2022

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How technology, culture, learning and policy intersect within research and practice in digital education.

Events

Infrastructuring Bio-Edu-Data Science
7 Jun 2023

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Tilting at windmills: Don Quixote as a metaphor for the relationship between generative AI and educational assessment
15 Jun 2023

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Refugee participation in higher education in Uganda: the nexus of brokers, barriers, and the digital
21 Jun 2023

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Education, platformization and the semblance of choice
29 Jun 2023

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News

1 Jun 2023	Present Futures Festival
31 May 2023	Getting digital assessment right. Times Higher Education event
25 May 2023	Book release: 'Performance in the Field: Interdisciplinary Practice-as-Research'
18 May 2023	Learning spaces blog
17 May 2023	In the news
12 May 2023	Winner! Data for Good Initiative of the Year

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Twitter

@huwcdavies

Keep seeing evidence of ‘cancel culture’ in reverse where academics who are committed to the war on woke/unilateral… https://t.co/7nfThRMUbM

Mon 5th Jun 2023 17:58

@huwcdavies

#TheGallowsPole is incredible TV. The capture of fly-on-the-wall immersion in particular feels an absolute game cha… https://t.co/mT92JXiW6Q

Sun 4th Jun 2023 23:21

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Also, the attacks on misrepresented concepts of post-modernism & structure led by Peterson, Lindsay et al., are an… https://t.co/U5dW1VHzpA

Sun 4th Jun 2023 13:13

@huwcdavies

RT @claudiakincaid: Is Sociology Worth Saving? A Conversation with José Itzigsohn and Vilna Bashi

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cc @huwcdavies

Sun 4th Jun 2023 13:09

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We need to organise against the onslaught of alt-sociology that claims to explain effects at a distance with soft c… https://t.co/7fmyv0X3IA

Sun 4th Jun 2023 13:08

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@krustelkram I’ve seen this convergence but it is was too late to include in the paper. Academic articles are turne… https://t.co/NvJk9CZuU2

Sat 3rd Jun 2023 21:49

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The Centre for Research in Digital Education is based in the Moray House School of Education and Sport at the University of Edinburgh, and conducts research, knowledge exchange and consultancy in key areas including digital education pedagogy and policy, open education, children and technology, learning analytics and museum learning.

Engagement

We work with many partner universities as well as policymakers, the cultural heritage sector, schools and other public and private sector organisations. Our partners value us for our critical approach to learning, teaching and technology in formal and informal education, and for the ways in which we combine our research with world-leading practice in digital education.

Centre for Sociodigital Futures

SENSE: sensory explanations of nature in school environments

GCRF Urban Disaster Risk Hub

Data Education in Schools

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Annual report 2022

MSc Digital Education

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