Senior Lecturer
Willingness to take PhD students: Yes
I have over eighteen years working with children, first as a teacher, and then as an academic. My research focuses on the role of interaction in thinking, and the implications this has for early learning and new forms of technology. I have led a number of grants around children and technology including a recent ESRC Future Research Leader grant. In 2015 I span out a company from the Univeristy of Edinburgh to develop early learning technologies grounded on research.
My current interests are in the following:
Embodied Cognition and Learning
Children and Technology
Computing Education
Entrepreneurship education
Design of novel learning representations
I work with a number of learning science groups mainly in the UK and UK.
Currently I am involved in a US National Science Foundation grant looking at the role of the body in early science learning in museums with Miami Science Museum and the University of Illinois.
I teach and am course leader on the 20 credit Children and Technology Masters course in the School of Education.
I supervise a number of Master disseratation projects focused on chidlren and technology have currently have two PhD students based in Education and Informatics. I welcome any enquiries about supervision for Doctoral studies in the field of Children's Learning and Technology.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Festival/Exhibition
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Prize: Fellowships awarded competitively
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
Project: Research
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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