Dr Michael Gallagher

Senior Lecturer in Digital Education

Michael Gallagher is Centre co-director (Digital Education in the Global South), Senior Lecturer in Digital Education and the Programme Director of the MSc in Digital Education. He works in digital education in development contexts in collaboration with INGOs and universities largely in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. His research focuses on educational mobilities, how technology structures and manages these mobilities, and the impact of these movements on local knowledge practices and communities, particularly for forcibly displaced populations. Further to work on mobile and digital education, Michael has a research and professional focus on digital education in Ghana, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda. 

External link
https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/michael-gallagher

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Slides available for UoE IAD Learning and Teaching Conference

UoE IAD Learning and Teaching Conference slides

If you weren't able to attend the University of Edinburgh IAD Learning and Teaching conference, 20th June, you can now access presentation slides and watch the Keynote presentations here. Links to slides for presentations from Digital Education colleauges below:

'Near Future Teaching', Sian Bayne, Jennifer Williams and Michael Gallagher 

Launch of new Global Challenges Research Fund project

 

Colleagues from the Centre are collaborating in an exciting new cross-disciplinary research project led by the School of Geosciences at Edinburgh, which will be researching new ways to respond to earthquake and aftershock in crisis regions.

In partnership with Concern Worldwide, the University of Ulster, University of Plymouth, Leeds Beckett University and the British Geological Survey, we will be looking at how we might design educational interventions to help people make decisions before, during and after earthquake.