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. 

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