2026
- March 24th, Host
Creative Education Online Symposium, UAL, Central St Martins - April 22nd, Invited speaker
Students’ creative AI practices, UAL/CHEAD event, Online
- June 17th, Panel member
Education Conference, University of the Creative Arts, Epsom - June, Facilitator/lead
UAL AI Principles workshops, UAL - June 23rd, Talk
Postdigital Backlash conference, Zagreb – ‘The Phantom Premise” (Video) - July 2nd, Host/talk
UAL AI and Creative Education symposium, Hellenic Centre, Marylebone (Write-up) - July 15th, Keynote
UCISA World Café event, UAL, Chelsea College of Art – AI at UAL
2025
- January 27th – Keynote
De Montfort University – Future Pedagogy workshop - February 21st – Invited Talk
Critical Studies of Education and Technology, UAL – Do we have grounds for hope? - May 1-2 – Host
Creative Education Online, UAL, Mini conference - July 1st – Talk
EdEx, UAL, London College of Fashion – UAL Online - July 25th – Host (President)
Association for Learning Technology Open Education – AI and Populism (revisited) - September 25th – Keynote
European Conference on Information Literacy, Bamberg – What is even real anymore? (post and video) - October 23-24 – President of ALT
Association for Learning Technology, Glasgow – Awards host and strategy workshop
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. - October 24th – Panel member
Metaverse book series launch, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford.
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
– - January 9th, Invited talk
Multimedia, Information and Technology SIG, London
– - January 29th & February 8th, Invited talk/workshop
Online & f2f, Institute of Technology, Cork
– - March/April, UAL ‘Modual Catalyst’ co-host
Design Museum, London
– - April 11th, Talk
OER19 – ‘What does it take to establish Openness as an institutional value?‘, Galway
– - June 24th, UAL Digital Edge co-host
Somerset House, London
– - July 10th, UAL ‘Platform’ event co-design and co-host
Camberwell College of Arts – ‘Networked Making‘, London
– - September 13-14th, co-host/committee
Digitally Engaged Learning conference, Texas State University, Texas
– - September 26th, Workshop
ELIA conference ‘Conceptualizing the networked academy through our digital practices’, State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart
– - October 1st & 10th, Online workshop and Tweetchat
Online Networked Learning – Visitors and Residents session, Online
– - 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.
– - Feb 21st, Invited speaker
Session for MA Fine Art and Digital, UAL
– - March 22th, Invited speaker
Birkbeck seminar series
– - March 23th, Invited speaker
‘Steamhack’ event, Culture and Enterprise Programme, UAL
– - April 6th, Keynote
LILAC conference – “Posthuman literacies: reframing the relationships between information, technology and identity”, Liverpool
– - June 13th, Invited Speaker
Michigan State Digital Humanities Summer School, London
– - June 21st, Keynote
Dublin Institute of Technology, eLearning Summer School – “Letting go of the past: why old people love generation gaps”, Dublin
– - July 26st, Keynote + institutional strategy
Bezalel Academy of Arts – “Teaching creatively in the post-digital era”, Jerusalem
– - September 18th, Invited speaker
Steamhack event – “How do bodies and technologies interact?”, Central St Martins, UAL, London
– - September 26th, Keynote
ChALS 2018 conference -“Questioning the ‘truth’ in an era of customised answers”, Göteborg, Sweden
– - 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
– - March 24th, Invited speaker
Trust and Digital Politics, Central St Martins, UAL, London
– - April 5th, Invited speaker
Teaching and Learning strategy, Oxford Brookes, Oxford
– - April 25th, Invited speaker
Teaching and Learning strategy, York St John’s University, York
– - May 31st, Host
London School of Fashion, Graduate Business School away-day, London
– - June 6-7, Invited Panel member
Society of College, National and University Libraries, Summer conference, Newcastle
– - September 14-15, Chair
Digitally Enhanced Learning conference, London
– - October 18, Keynote
Internet Librarians International conference, London
– - November 24, Keynote
LIR annual seminar, Dublin
– - 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
– - September 21-22, Conference chair
Designs on eLearning, New School, New York
– - September 8th, Keynote (with Donna Lanclos)
Association for Learning Technology, Annual Conference, Warwick Univeristy
– - July 13th, Keynote
UK and Ireland’s Business Librarians’ Association Conference, Imperial College
– - June 24th, Invited talk, Digital & Work Based Learning
London
– - June 20th, Invited talk, Theology and the Digital
Seminar, The Queen’s Foundation – Birmingham
– - June 3rd, Invited talk, Teaching with Social Media.
Platform event, London School of Fashion
– - May 25th, Invited expert, Openness Strategy
Nottingham University
– - May 5th, Keynote
M25 Consortium of Libraries, Annual Conference, Lambeth Palace, London
– - 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
– - February 29th, New Welsh Digital Curriculum Quality Assurance Group
Welsh Government, Cardiff
– - January 21st, invited speaker
BETT – London
2015
- November 23rd, Invited Scholar Series
National Institute for Digital Learning – Dublin, “Post-digital”
– - November 10th, invited panel member
University College London, “Is Learning Technology Fit for Purpose?”
– - November 6th, invited talk
British Library (for BL staff), Visitors and Residents
– - October 29, Keynote
Universitas 21 Educational Innovation conference, Edinburgh
– - October 20-23, Workshop facilitation
Jisc Digital Leadership Programme – Bristol
– - September 16/17, Conference chair
Designs on eLearning, London
– - September 8/9, panel sessions
Alt-C – Manchester, “Barriers to learners as agents of change” & “The Digital Student”
– - July 7, invited talk
Academic Practice & Technology conference, Greenwich
– - July 2nd, invited expert
Higher Education Commission, House of Lords
– - June 3, invited talk
UCISA conference, Salford
– - May 12-15, workshop facilitator
The New School & Carnegie Mellon + Pittsburgh Universities – “Visitors & Residents Mapping”
– - April 15, Keynote
ICC Birmingham: Talis Insight (video of talk)
– - March 13, Visitors and Residents mapping workshop
National University of Ireland, Galway – (Video discussion)
– - March 9/10, Panel debate and Digital Student session.
ICC Birmingham: Jisc Digifest
– - 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
– - November 19, Invited talk – “Expectations, locations”
Warwick university Tel forum
– - October 21, Keynote
London: Panopto annual conference
– - September 17, Keynote – “Cultural Flips”
Texas: Designs on eLearning conference
– - September 2, parallel session
Warwick: Association for Leaning and Technology conference
_ - August 9, Keynote
London: Wikimania – the international Wikipedia conference – blog post
_ - April 18, Keynote
Athens: AMICAL group of universities annual conference
– - March 12, Visitors and Residents Mapping workshop
Birmingham: Jisc Digital Festival
– - March 7, Keynote
Manchester: i2ic conference – libraries and the Web
– - 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