Associates and visiting scholars

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

Research areas

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