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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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.

Launch of Centre for Research in Digital Education

 

The Digital Education Centre formally launched on 26th November at a party in the Scottish Storytelling Centre on the High Street, Edinburgh.

We had an excellent and well-attended night, and it was great to have so many colleagues, students and friends come and share the celebration.

We celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the MSc in Digital Education at the same time, and with graduation happening the following day, were able to welcome many of our graduands too.