We work toward a digital education future that has a transformative positive impact on access, participation and social mobility.
- Our research actively addresses issues of digital exclusion and social injustice.
- We prioritise work which benefits traditionally marginalised groups.
- We develop new methods and approaches which help address some of the more intractable aspects of marginalisation.
- Our research sees digital technology as having potential to contribute to the democratisation of education.
Examples of work
Connected Policy, Practice, and Accreditation: connected refugee education in Ugandan higher education. Bringing together universities, civil society actors and refugees to focus on support for refugee education in Uganda. Royal Society of Edinburgh funded.
Practitioner Networks and Digital Inclusion for Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa. Supporting 12 students annually to take our MSc in Digital Education and use it to lead change in their own countries. Mastercard Foundation funded.
Designing Conversational Assistants to Reduce Gender Bias. Developing a principled framework for designing and developing unbiased conversational personas. EPSRC funded.
Using large datasets to understand social stratification and education. Research which helps us understand the effect of higher education policy on social inequalities.