Professor Jen Ross

Professor of Digital Culture and Education Futures

I am Centre co-director (Digital Cultures), and Associate Dean (Research Cultures) in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. In the Edinburgh Futures Institute, I am co-director of the MSc in Education Futures. I also teach on the MSc in Digital Education, and I am a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy. My research interests include education and cultural heritage futures, speculative methods, online distance education, digital cultural heritage learning, open education and digital cultures. I supervise masters and PhD students in these and related areas.

External link

http://jenrossity.net

Effie St John (the robot) joins the Centre for Research in Digital Education

Find out about our telepresence robot, 'Effie', enables students and colleagues to join in while off campus.

Seeking feedback on new postgraduate programme in education futures at the Edinburgh Futures Institute

Dr Jen Ross is leading the Centre's work on a new PG programme in Education Futures as part of the Edinburgh Futures Institute.

Centre Report 2019

Centre for Research in Digital Education 2019 report.

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership

The Madonna of the Annunciation, Francesco Allegrini (National Galleries of Scotland)

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership 'Unlike a Version: the lives of digitised artworks'

Application deadline 3 May 2019 (12pm). Eligible to UK/EU students. Covers UK/EU fees plus stipend.

The University of Edinburgh and National Galleries of Scotland are seeking a doctoral student for an AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership award, 'Unlike a Version: the lives of digitised artworks'.

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