Research output per year
Research output per year
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Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
I welcome enquiries about PhD supervision in the following areas:
1. Critical studies of educational technology in developing contexts.
2. Critical studies on broadening access to higher education through technology for marginalised groups in developing contexts, particularly for refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs).
3. Critical studies of the intersections of national policy, global indicators of educational development (SDGs, etc.), technology, and educational autonomy in developing contexts.
4. Futures approaches to community-led edtech development and emergent pedagogies
I am Senior Lecturer in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh, and a Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education. My published work includes critical perspectives on educational technologies, the mobilities of digital education particularly for marginalised groups, and futures educational research. I work often on connected learning in contexts of forced displacement.
I am Principal Investigator (PI) on the Mastercard Foundation-funded project Practitioner Networks and Digital Inclusion for Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa, PI on the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) funded Connected Policy, Practice and Accreditation: Connected Refugee Education in Ugandan Higher Education project, PI on the GCRF-funded Digital Education Africa cluster, and PI on the Digital Education for change makers in sub-Saharan Africa project. I am Co-Founder and Chief Digital Education Officer of Panoply Digital, a consultancy dedicated to appropriate use of educational technologies in developing contexts. I am a member of the Education Beyond Borders Operational & Advisory Group. I work with the Connected Learning in Crisis Consortium on forced displacement research throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.
I was Co-I on the Mastercard Foundation-funded Foundations for All project, and Co-I on the Universal Secondary Education in Asia Pacific project. I was the PI on the Exploring the Teacher Function: Continuing Interventions in Automated Teaching project and worked on the Near Futures Teaching project, and was formerly part of the NERC Research for Emergency Aftershock Response project. I was an Assistant Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, Korea for many years. I was a core team member of the Future University Lab at Una Europa (2019-2023).
My research focuses on the critical examination of the mobilities exhibited by groups and sectors in flux and how technology is used to both structure and manage these mobilities. Post-Brexit, with greater concentrations of international students, displaced peoples, and refugees, with the unbundling of labour and education, with a global edtech regime emerging in developing contexts that can unmoor local educational expertise and displace higher education as a vehicle for social mobility, this research focuses on frameworks to investigate these movements holistically and to begin to address the larger intractable challenges that may stunt educational progress in development contexts.
Education, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mobile Learning in Higher Education in South Korea: Charting Trajectories of Peripheral Participation, University College London
1 Oct 2012 → 17 Dec 2016
Award Date: 17 Dec 2016
Digital Education, Master in Science, University of Edinburgh
20 Sept 2009 → 11 Jul 2011
Award Date: 11 Jun 2011
Information Science, Master in Science, Drexel University
2004 → 2006
Award Date: 15 Jun 2006
Education, Bachelor of Education, Wright State Univ
1994 → 1997
Award Date: 17 Dec 1997
Member, Connected Learning in Crisis Consortium
2022 → …
Core Team Member, Una Europa
2020 → 2023
Consultant , UN Habitat
1 Mar 2019 → 2021
Co-Founder and Chief Digital Education Officer, Panoply Digital
1 Feb 2015 → …
Consultant, The World Bank
Jul 2014 → 2019
Member, Advisory Board, Beni American University
1 Feb 2012 → …
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Gallagher, M. (Chair), Najjuma, R. (Chair) & Charitonos, K. (Chair)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
Gallagher, M. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Gallagher, M. (Advisor)
Activity: Consultancy types › Work on advisory panel to industry or government or non-government organisation
Nambi, D. R. (Organiser), Gallagher, M. (Organiser), Najjuma, R. (Organiser), Akello, M. (Organiser) & Nanyunja, S. (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Gallagher, M. (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Knox, J. (Recipient), Wang, Y. (Recipient) & Gallagher, M. (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Gallagher, M. (Recipient), 1 Dec 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Najjuma, R. (Principal Investigator), Gallagher, M. (Co-investigator), Ggaliwango, M. (Co-investigator), Tibakanya, J. (Co-investigator), Raudha, N. H. (Co-investigator), Evans, P. (Co-investigator) & Nicol, S. (Collaborator)
3/10/24 → 1/11/26
Project: Research
Ggaliwango, M. (Principal Investigator), Gallagher, M. (Co-investigator), Tibakanya, J. (Co-investigator) & Nakayiza, H. R. (Co-investigator)
1/04/24 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
Gallagher, M. (Principal Investigator), Evans, P. (Co-investigator), Najjuma, R. (Co-investigator), Lamb, J. (Co-investigator), Davies, H. (Co-investigator) & Knox, J. (Co-investigator)
8/12/22 → 31/12/29
Project: Research
Gallagher, M. (Principal Investigator), Knox, J. (Principal Investigator), Evans, P. (Co-investigator), Falisse, J.-B. (Collaborator), Bayne, S. (Collaborator), Abaci, S. (Collaborator) & Najjuma, R. (Co-investigator)
2/05/22 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
Gallagher, M. (Principal Investigator)
1/03/19 → …
Project: Research
23/04/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Project or Organisational News Item
Gallagher, M. & Evans, P.
16/08/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Project or Organisational News Item
1/05/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Project or Organisational News Item
25/03/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities