My name is David White and I’m currently a Dean and a Reader at the University of the Arts London. My work and research are located at the intersection of education and digital. Having led on the initial direction of UAL Online I’m now focusing on how UAL responds to AI.
I’ve worked for the University of Oxford, the BBC Natural History unit BBC and the University of the West of England. Between 2020-26 I was the President of the Association for Learning Technology. I am a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
I enjoy making sense of emerging sociotechnical activity and applying this thinking in a context of higher education. My Readership is in ‘Postdigital Education’, a field of study which builds from the idea that the digital, social and physical are inextricably intertwined.
A few years ago, at the point social media went mainstream, I developed the Digital Visitors and Residents framework for understanding how we engage with the digital environment. In the intervening years I have continued to develop methods of responding to the influence and impact of the networked environment in education, often coming from a creative arts perspective.
I am regularly invited to speak on these topics and post my thinking-in-progress here on the blog. Alongside my day job I also paint, a creative practice which I describe as the antidote to email.
You can contact me via david@daveowhite.com or david.white@arts.ac.uk or LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-white-37582712
Why ‘daveowhite’? – David White is a spectacularly common name which means its always been taken as a profile in any platform by the time I try to sign-up. Daveowhite is my solution for this. The ‘o’ was inspired by the main character in North by Northwest and was Hitchcock taking a swipe at his producer David O. Selznik.