Things I contribute to or you might see me at:

2024

• April 24 – Feb25 Creative Education online seminar series for UAL Online 
• February 29th – Participant
  US Embassy – Lifelong Learning Roundtable  
• March 12th – Panel member
  Jisc Digifest – Frictionless learning: Creating learner-centred user experiences
• April 16th – Keynote
  Kingston School of Art – Deconstructive alignment and tech: Designing Creative Art & Design courses in an Artificial era
• April 17th – Co-facilitator
  Times Higher, Digital Education Week, Exeter – Designing accessible and inclusive education
• April 24th – Keynote
  Echo360 learning summit, LSE – Creating the conditions for educational video to flourish (without getting out of hand)
• April 30th – Panel member 
  House of Lords – Blended Learning Review report
• April – November, Convener / host
  University of the Arts London  – Creative Education Online conversational seminar series
• June 28th – Keynote
  Leeds Arts University – Post, Post Covid – (Digital) Art School
• September 3-5th – President of ALT
  Association for Learning Technology, Annual Conference, Manchester – Hosting awards ceremony and related sessions.

2023

• January 23rd – Invited Talk
  Liverpool Learning Summit -‘The digital state we’re in’
• May 18th – Invited Session
  UAL Research Network (for PhD students) – ‘Mapping our digital selves’
• July 12th – Keynote
  Arts University Plymouth, Teaching and Learning Day – ‘Belonging to what? – Creative teaching and learning in an era of disengagement.’
• September 6th – Hosting
  Association for Learning Technology annual conference, Warwick – Awards Ceremony
   
• November – Invited Lecture
  Sydney University, DIBERG Lecture Series – ‘Digital pedagogy: What can we learn from arts and cultural education in an era of information abundance?’
• December 3rd – Workshop
   ASCILITE Conference, Christchurch New Zealand – ‘Changing identities: exploring and describing the shifting landscape of Digital Education roles’
• December 4th – Keynote
  ASCILITE Conference, Christchurch New Zealand –  ‘Being effective isn’t authentic: Building digital education culture’

2020-2022 Pandemic 

This was an exceptionally busy time for me, as I helped take the University of the Arts London online. I also tried to keep track of what was happening to the field of Digital Education and blogged about Presence, Placemaking and various aspects of ’emergency remote teaching’.  During this period I was also asked to speak to these themes in many different fora and events. Below are a few examples in no particular order:

• Keynote for Online Educa Berlin
• Panel session for the British Council
• Workshops for Sheffield Hallam University
• Keynote for Luca School of Arts – video 
• Chairing panel session for the ELIA group of Art Schools
• Talk for Warwick University
• Keynote of Leeds Beckett University, Teaching and Learning Day
• Co-Keynote for Bristol Institute for Teaching and Learning
• Sessions for the Open Networked Learning course
• Talk for Valuing Ireland’s Teaching and Learning event
• Talk for Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
• Workshop for the Plymouth NHS trust education department
• Keynote for the ICERI conference
• Keynote for the University of Lincoln Digital Teaching and Learning event

2019

• January 8th – March 5th, co-design & co-host
  ‘Teaching Complexity‘ open, online seminar series
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• January 9th, Invited talk
  Multimedia, Information and Technology SIG, London 
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• January 29th & February  8th, Invited talk/workshop
  Online & f2f, Institute of Technology, Cork
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• March/April, UAL ‘Modual Catalyst’ co-host
  Design Museum, London
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• April 11th, Talk
  OER19 – ‘What does it take to establish Openness as an institutional value?‘, Galway
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• June 24th, UAL Digital Edge co-host
  Somerset House, London
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• July 10th, UAL ‘Platform’ event co-design and co-host
  Camberwell College of Arts – ‘Networked Making‘, London
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• September 13-14th, co-host/committee
  Digitally Engaged Learning conference, Texas State University, Texas
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• September 26th, Workshop
  ELIA conference ‘Conceptualizing the networked academy through our digital practices’, State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart
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• October 1st & 10th, Online workshop and Tweetchat
  Online Networked Learning  – Visitors and Residents session, Online
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• November 7th, Invited talk
  University College of Estate Management – ‘It’s not about being good with digital technology‘, Reading
• November 29th, Invited seminar/workshop
  National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, National Seminar Series – ‘Developing Digital Graduate Attributes Within, Across & Beyond the Curriculum’, National College of Ireland, Dublin.

2018

• January 19th, Invited speaker
  REMIX Summit, Museum of London.
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• Feb 21st, Invited speaker
  Session for MA Fine Art and Digital, UAL
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• March 22th, Invited speaker
  Birkbeck seminar series
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• March 23th, Invited speaker
  ‘Steamhack’ event, Culture and Enterprise Programme, UAL
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• April 6th, Keynote
  LILAC conference – “Posthuman literacies: reframing the relationships between information, technology and identity”, Liverpool
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• June 13th, Invited Speaker
  Michigan State Digital Humanities Summer School, London
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• June 21st, Keynote
  Dublin Institute of Technology, eLearning Summer School – “Letting go of the past: why old people love generation gaps”, Dublin 
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• July 26st, Keynote + institutional strategy
  Bezalel Academy of Arts – “Teaching creatively in the post-digital era”, Jerusalem 
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• September 18th, Invited speaker
  Steamhack event – “How do bodies and technologies interact?”, Central St Martins, UAL, London
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• September 26th, Keynote
  ChALS 2018 conference -“Questioning the ‘truth’ in an era of customised answers”, Göteborg, Sweden
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• November 14th-16th – Invited expert
  Uniarts – exploring how to develop teaching and learning practice in the creative arts, Helsinki, Finland

2017

• January 16th, Invited speaker, Digital Leadership
  Leadership Foundation event, London
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• March 24th, Invited speaker
  Trust and Digital Politics, Central St Martins, UAL, London
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• April 5th, Invited speaker
  Teaching and Learning strategy, Oxford Brookes, Oxford
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• April 25th, Invited speaker
  Teaching and Learning strategy, York St John’s University, York
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• May 31st, Host
  London School of Fashion, Graduate Business School away-day, London
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• June 6-7, Invited Panel member
  Society of College, National and University Libraries, Summer conference, Newcastle
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• September 14-15, Chair
  Digitally Enhanced Learning conference, London
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• October 18, Keynote
  Internet Librarians International conference, London
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• November 24, Keynote
  LIR annual seminar, Dublin
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• December 6-8, Workshop + Panel discussion with Marc Prensky
  Online Educa, Berlin

2016

• November 18th, Invited speaker
  Visitors and Residents mapping workshop, British Library, London
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• September 21-22, Conference chair
  Designs on eLearning, New School, New York
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• September 8th, Keynote (with Donna Lanclos)
  Association for Learning Technology, Annual Conference, Warwick Univeristy
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• July 13th, Keynote
  UK and Ireland’s Business Librarians’ Association Conference, Imperial College
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• June 24th, Invited talk, Digital & Work Based Learning
  London
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• June 20th, Invited talk, Theology and the Digital
  Seminar, The Queen’s Foundation – Birmingham
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• June 3rd, Invited talk, Teaching with Social Media.
  Platform event, London School of Fashion
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• May 25th, Invited expert, Openness Strategy
  Nottingham University
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• May 5th, Keynote
  M25 Consortium of Libraries, Annual Conference, Lambeth Palace, London
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• April 19-22, Invited Expert/Researcher
  Universitat Oberta de Catalunya – Barcelona
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• April 15th, Co-hosting the UAL/LSE ‘The Digital is not the Future’ event
  London School of Economics
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• February 29th, New Welsh Digital Curriculum Quality Assurance Group
  Welsh Government, Cardiff
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• January 21st, invited speaker
  BETT – London 

2015

• November 23rd, Invited Scholar Series
  National Institute for Digital Learning – Dublin, “Post-digital”
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• November 10th, invited panel member
  University College London, “Is Learning Technology Fit for Purpose?”
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• November 6th, invited talk
  British Library (for BL staff), Visitors and Residents
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• October 29, Keynote
  Universitas 21 Educational Innovation conference, Edinburgh
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• October 20-23, Workshop facilitation
  Jisc Digital Leadership Programme – Bristol
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• September 16/17, Conference chair
  Designs on eLearning, London
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• September 8/9, panel sessions
  Alt-C – Manchester, “Barriers to learners as agents of change” & “The Digital Student”
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• July 7, invited talk
  Academic Practice & Technology conference, Greenwich
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• July 2nd, invited expert
  Higher Education Commission, House of Lords
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• June 3, invited talk
  UCISA conference, Salford
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• May 12-15, workshop facilitator
  The New School & Carnegie Mellon + Pittsburgh Universities – “Visitors & Residents Mapping”
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• April 15, Keynote
  ICC Birmingham: Talis Insight (video of talk)
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• March 13, Visitors and Residents mapping workshop
  National University of Ireland, Galway – (Video discussion)
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• March 9/10, Panel debate and Digital Student session.
  ICC Birmingham: Jisc Digifest
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• January 27, midday GMT, online panel, “Online Academic Career”
  Google Hangout: jobs.ac.uk

2014

• December 5, Spotlight stage session – “Re-humanising elearning”
  Berlin: Online Educa
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• November 19, Invited talk  – “Expectations, locations”
  Warwick university Tel forum
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• October 21, Keynote
  London: Panopto annual conference
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• September 17, Keynote – “Cultural Flips”
  Texas: Designs on eLearning conference
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• September 2, parallel session
  Warwick: Association for Leaning and Technology conference
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• August 9, Keynote
  London: Wikimania – the international Wikipedia conference – blog post
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• April 18, Keynote
  Athens: AMICAL group of universities annual conference
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• March 12, Visitors and Residents Mapping workshop
  Birmingham: Jisc Digital Festival
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• March 7, Keynote
  Manchester: i2ic conference – libraries and the Web
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• January 9, Visitors and Residents Mapping workshop
  London: Jisc Netskills

I’ve also helped to run a number of workshops, and consultation events for the Jisc Digital Student project over the year. Various presentations can be found on slideshare.

Other recent talks include:

• Keynote at Bath University Learning and Teaching conference
• Keynote at Brookes University Learning and Teaching conference
• ‘Engage’ talk at the University of Oxford