As an independent consultant I have worked in education and the third sector since 2010. During my tenure as CEO of the Association for Learning Technology I bid for and led a broad range of digital education projects in vocational education, open education and the digital heritage sector.
Since 2023 I work full-time as a consultant and executive coach, leveraging my extensive sector knowledge and experience working with organisations and leadership teams looking to improve their digital offering, strategic growth and resilient governance.
Do you have a project, priority or a problem that might benefit from my expertise? Get in touch and let’s talk how we could work together.
What’s my focus?
My specialism is Educational Technology and my work spans digital learning and teaching, leadership and impact evaluation.
Much of my work is focused on Open Education, such as open source tools, OERs, OEP & Open Access Publishing.
Current projects focus on digital sustainability and wellbeing, building leadership capabilities and staff development.
Selected Projects
Open Education Impact Evaluations
Industry Case Studies of Open EdTech
Translating the pioneering use of open educational technology into accessible case studies for a wider audience to help showcase impact and evaluate Open Educational approaches at scale.
Institutions: Harvard University, Stanford University
Client: Jim Groom, Reclaim Hosting, US
AmplifyFE
Long term project from 2020-24 leading work to establish and grow a professional network and CPD activities for vocational educators. I led the impact evaluation at the end of the initial funding period.
Funder: Ufi VocTech Trust, UK
Client: Association for Learning Technology, UK
Course Design, Teaching and Professional Development
Digital Wellbeing for Hybrid HE
Design, create and implement a course for staff seeking to increase digital capabilities and wellbeing in Hybrid Working in Higher Ed. This project is now in its third year.
Client: Digital Capabilities Team, University of Oxford, UK
Leadership in Digital Learning Essentials – Micro Credential
Digital Skills for Emerging Leaders’ is a new micro-credential course from the Digital Learning Institute that I developed together with Dr Lynne Taylerson.
Client: Digital Learning Institute, Ireland
Digital Teaching Professional Framework
I was part of the team that developed and designed the original Digital Teaching Professional Framework. My role focused on the overall framework, mapping it to relevant European frameworks and accreditation pathways.
Funder: Education and Training Foundation
Client: Sero Consulting
Leadership and Governance
N-TUTORR National Digital Leadership Network
Research and creation of the report: Global Trends Towards Flexible, Hybrid Working and its Impact for Digital Leadership in Higher Education
Client: N-TUTORR National Digital Leadership Network, Ireland
Digital Skills for Heritage initiative
I led this project which produced advice and resources for the heritage sector opening up different ways to share heritage online and help people to learn about the UK’s history.
Funder/Client: The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Discovery Project: Our Heritage, Our Stories
Towards a National Collection is supporting research that breaks down the barriers that exist between the UK’s outstanding cultural heritage collections. I was part of the Discovery Project: Our Heritage, Our Stories which focused on Linking and searching community-generated digital content to develop the people’s national collection.
Funder: AHRC
Client: University of Glasgow/ALT, UK