People

Centre Director, Professor Sian Bayne
Co-Director, Data Education in Schools - Professor Judy Robertson
Co-Director, Children & Technology – Professor Andrew Manches
Co-Director, Digital Cultures – Professor Jen Ross
Co-Director, Data Society – Dr Ben Williamson
Co-Director, Digital Education in the Global South – Dr Michael Gallagher

Dr Seongsook Choi

Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies
Seongsook is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Institute of Education, Community and Society in the Moray House School of Education and Sport.
s.choi@ed.ac.uk

Dr Peter Evans

Senior Lecturer
Pete works in the community media and cultural sectors, especially in formal and non-formal learning initiatives. His research interests are in social media and workplace learning.
peter.evans@ed.ac.uk
@eksploratore

Dr Rory Ewins

Lecturer in Digital Education
Rory leads on the course ‘Digital education in global context’ and leads and co-tutors on ‘An introduction to digital environments for learning’. His interests include online identity and its implications for academics.
r.ewins@ed.ac.uk
@speedysnail

Dr Michael Gallagher

Senior Lecturer in Digital Education
Michael works in digital education in Sub-Saharan Africa. His research focuses on educational mobilities, appropriate and open technologies, and the impact on local knowledge practices and communities.
michael.s.gallagher@ed.ac.uk

Professor Andrew Manches

Chair in Children and Technology
Andrew is Chair in Children and Technology and Director of the Children and Technology group. He is a past ESRC Future Research Leader and now leads the UK side of a $2.4million Science Learning+ project with the US (Move2Learn).
a.manches@ed.ac.uk

Dr Rovincer Najjuma

Lecturer in Digital Education and the Global South
Rovincer is a Lecturer in Digital Education and the Global South, focusing on refugee education and connected learning.

Paul Nisbet

Senior Research Fellow
Paul is a Senior Research Fellow and Director of CALL Scotland. His research interests include digital examinations and inclusive digital technology.
paul.nisbet@ed.ac.uk

Professor Jen Ross

Professor of Digital Culture and Education Futures
Jen is Centre co-director (Digital Cultures), and Associate Dean (Research Cultures) in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
jen.ross@ed.ac.uk
@jar

Dr Philippa Sheail

Lecturer in Digital Education
Phil's research interests are interdisciplinary, broadly based in the area of digital and higher education. Her current interests include media and information literacies (and how platforms shape information), and digital cultural heritage (digital volunteering and infrastructure).
p.sheail@ed.ac.uk
@philshe

Dr Ben Williamson

Chancellor's Fellow, Edinburgh Futures Institute
Ben is based in the Centre for Research in Digital Education though affiliated to Edinburgh Futures Institute. Ben's research examines the intersections of digital technologies, science, and data with education policy and governance.
ben.williamson@ed.ac.uk
@BenPatrickWill

Dr Cara Wilson

Lecturer in Children and Technology
With a background in Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design, Cara explores how to better support inclusion and diversity in the development of technologies which pervade children’s lives.
cara.wilson@ed.acuk

Jo Spiller

Director of Operations and Partnerships, Data Education in Schools
Jo works on the Data Education in Schools project with overall responsibility for the operational and strategic development of the programme
Jo.Spiller@ed.ac.uk
@spillerjaye

Our academic community supervises students across Schools. The doctoral students listed on this page include only those based in Moray House School of Education and Sport.

Associates are scholars from the University of Edinburgh and beyond, with whom we are actively working.

Laura Bissell

Athenaeum Research Fellow and Lecturer in Contemporary Performance Practice, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Koula Charitonos

Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University

Jillianne Code

Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of British Columbia

Amy Collier

Associate Provost for Digital Learning, Middlebury College, Vermont

Harry Dyer

Digital sociologist and Associate Professor of Education, University of East Anglia

Rebecca Eynon

Professor of Education, the Internet, and Society, University of Oxford

Tim Fawns

Associate Professor (Education Focused) at the Monash Education Academy, Monash University, Australia

Kobi Gal

Reader in Artificial Intelligence and Human-Machine Intelligence

Karen Gregory

Senior Lecturer in Digital Sociology, School of Social and Political Science

Kim Holflod

Educational Design researcher at The Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, and University College Copenhagen, Denmark

Petar Jandrić

Professor of Informatics, Zagreb University of Applied Sciences & Visiting Professor of Education, University of Wolverhampton, UK

Velda McCune

Deputy Director of the Institute of Academic Development

Rebecca Nambi

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Humanities and Language Education at the Makerere University’s School of Education

Carlo Perrotta

Associate Professor of Digital Education in the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne

Esther Priyadharshini

Professor of Educational Futures at the School of Education & Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia

Neil Selwyn

Professor in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne

Chris Speed

Chair of Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art

Javier Tejera

Senior Learning Technology and Design Advisor, Edinburgh Futures Institute

John Traxler

Professor of Digital Learning, UNESCO Chair in Innovative Informal Digital Learning in Disadvantaged and Development Contexts and Commonwealth of Learning Chair for innovations in higher education

Yi-Shan Tsai

Lecturer, Centre for Learning Analytics, Monash University

Anna Wilson

Reader in Interdisciplinary Research, University of Glasgow

Effie St John

Telepresence robot
Effie is keen to explore how the role of telepresence robot informs supports campus engagement.