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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Online teaching workshop for Syrian academics in Turkey

Jen Ross, Jon Turner, Michael Gallagher and Hamish Macleod, September 2018

In early September 2018, members of the Digital Education research centre travelled to Istanbul to lead a three-day workshop on online teaching for a group of academics displaced to Turkey by the Syria crisis. The visit was orchestrated by Jon Turner, director of the Institute for Academic Development and one of the University of Edinburgh’s key links with the workshop organisers: the Council for At-Risk Academics (Cara - https://www.cara.ngo/).

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