Professor John Gordon
Principal Investigator, School of Education and Lifelong Learning
Professor of Language Arts and Learning
John’s interest in teacher agency with EdTech derives from his experience as a teacher and as a teacher educator, including as director of the UEA Initial Teacher Education partnership for East Anglia. His research has addressed teachers’ talk and interactions around texts and resources, and informal learning for information literacy.
Professor Gerard Parr
Co-Investigator, School of Computing Sciences
Full Chair in Telecommunications Engineering
Gerard’s wide-ranging and recent academic research includes Digital Transformation. He attracted funding for an EPSRC Next Stage Digital Economy Hub called DIGIT and the EPSRC UK-India Future Networks Initiative. He is a Member of the UKRI-EPSRC Digital Security & Resilience Advisory Group and the EPSRC ICT Strategic Advisory Team.
Mrs Deirdre Medler
Co-Investigator, School of Education & Lifelong Learning
Director of Initial Teacher Education
Deirdre provides strategic leadership for the university’s ITE programmes. Her responsibilities include the development of partnership with schools, academies and trusts in the region, and networking regionally and nationally to represent and develop UEA’s profile and reputation as a high quality and innovative provider of ITE.
Dr Kristi Nourie
Senior Research Associate, School of Education & Lifelong Learning
Kristi is a former teacher whose work considers pedagogic agency with EdTech. Her research interests include technology’s effects on disciplinary literacy, teacher education and professional learning, and education ecosystems. As an Associate Tutor, she contributes to modules that explore current and future uses of EdTech in and beyond classrooms.
Helen Steward
Research Associate, School of Computing Sciences
Helen is a computer scientist and former teacher currently working at the Norfolk Computing Hub. Her research interests include the teaching of computing in schools, the curriculum, usability of websites and compliance with web accessibility guidance. She is also an Associate Tutor in the School of Education and Lifelong Learning.
Mrs Madeleine Mirza
Administrative Assistant, School of Education & Lifelong Learning
Maddy is an experienced Education Administrator and former Teacher. Her role is to coordinate meetings and events with partner organisations, including school focus groups, prepare resources and materials and field enquiries. She has worked in Universities, local government and schools across the UK.
Dr Kimberley Bartholomew
Co-Investigator, School of Education & Lifelong Learning
Associate Professor in Physical Education
Kimberley is an applied social psychologist with expertise in motivation and wellbeing. Her research is primarily guided by self-determination theory, which emphasises the need for autonomy/agency, and her more recent research explores the utility of technology and online platforms in intervention work with teachers and young people in educational settings.
Dr Robert Blair
Co-Investigator, School of Computing Sciences
Lecturer in Computing Sciences
As a Lecturer in Computing Sciences at UEA and Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton, Rob holds a doctorate in Web Science. With over 25 years in education, he specializes in leveraging technology for teaching and research, particularly social media and online CPD courses in Data Science and AI.
Dr Jeannette Chin
Co-Investigator, School of Computing Sciences
Associate Professor in Computing Sciences
Jeannette’s expertise lies in ubiquitous computing and real-time End User Programming systems development, leveraging everyday artefacts and connectivity. Research interests include HCI, UX and the development of interfaces sensitive to human mandate. Her recent work includes applying ML on big data to solve problems and enhancing teaching agency with technologies.
Dr James Craske
Co-Investigator, School of Education & Lifelong Learning
Lecturer in Education
James is a Lecturer in Education and the Course Director for MSc in Education Leadership and Management. His research encompasses an examination of education policy, drawing broadly from education, sociology, critical policy studies. His work illustrates the lifecycle of education policies, tracing their journey from state level to the classroom.
Dr Harry Dyer
Co-Investigator, School of Education & Lifelong Learning
Associate Professor in Education
Harry is a digital sociologist and educational researcher at the University of East Anglia. His research broadly explores the impact of social media on culture, public knowledge, and education. He serves as Editor of Digital Culture and Education, and is co-convener of the British Sociological Association’s Digital Sociology Study Group.
Dr Simon Hammond
Co-Investigator, School of Education & Lifelong Learning
Associate Professor in Education
Dr Simon P Hammond is an applied social psychologist and Lecturer in Education. His research examines how concepts of digital resilience, inclusion, participation and equality come to be experienced.
Dr Rudy Lapeer
Co-Investigator, School of Computing Sciences
Associate Professor in Computing
Rudy’s interest in teaching at A and GCSE levels stems from his role as his department’s Admissions Director where he organised internal and external workshops about state-of-the-art IT technology such as programmable robots, Virtual Reality, computer games and human motion capture, for local schools’ teaching staff and students.
Professor Bryan Maddox
Co-Investigator, Digital Education Futures Initiative Cambridge
Assessment Lead & Honorary Professor in Education
Alongside his role at DEFI, Professor Bryan Maddox is Executive Director of Assessment MicroAnalytics Ltd and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Educational Measurement, University of Oslo. An anthropologist by training, his current research focuses on the digital transition in educational assessment, with a particular interest in inclusion and diversity.
Dr Esther Priyadharshini
Co-Investigator, School of Education & Lifelong Learning
Professor in Education
Esther’s research lies in the intersection of educational futures, youth studies and schooling. She is interested in how teacher (or pupil) agency and their resourceful or mundane engagements with old and new technology can create new possibilities or unanticipated learnings in educational settings.
Dr Kate Russell
Co-Investigator, School of Education & Lifelong Learning
Associate Professor in Physical Education
Kate’s research focuses on gender and sexualities in sporting, leisure, PE, and teacher education contexts. Kate also researches wellbeing in teacher training and other educational settings including the role of mindfulness in supporting speech and communication in early years, and in the potential impact of mindfulness for teacher wellbeing.