Biographies

Dr Sue Greener
Sue is a University teacher: HRM, Business Context, Research Methods and Learning & Development and has received a Teaching Excellence award from the University of Brighton and is Programme Leader for the Foundation Degree in Business. Sue is also the Course Director: online final year undergraduate course with students in diverse world regions, her researcher interests are focused on e-learning strategy, teacher development and reflective learning. Sue is the co-founder of the Business e-Learning Research Group and a member of the CROME research group on employment issues at Brighton Business School. Her Doctoral research focused on exploring students’ readiness for online learning. Sue holds a BA, MBA, EdD, FHEA and is a Chartered Fellow of CIPD. You can view a publication list at http://sueg1.wordpress.com

Sue Greener

Asher Rospigliosi

Asher lecturers on e-commerce, management information systems, IS strategy, public sector IS and digital marketing at the University of Brighton. His research interests extend to e-learning and innovation in SMEs. Asher is a co-founder of the Business e-Learning Research Group and a member of the CROME research group on employment issues at Brighton Business School. You can view a publication list at http://www.brighton.ac.uk/bbs/contact/details.php?uid=ar17

Asher Rospigliosi

Gráinne Conole
Gráinne is Professor of e-Learning at the Open University, with research interests in the use, integration and evaluation of Information and Communication Technologies and e-learning and impact on organisational change. She was previously chair of educational innovation at Southampton University and before that Director of the Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol. She has extensive research, development and project management experience across the educational and technical domains; funding sources have included HEFCE, ESRC, EU and commercial sponsors). Recently funded projects include the HEFCE-funded E-Learning Research Centre, the JISC/NSF funded DialogPlus digital libraries project and the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods. She serves on and chairs a number of national and international advisory boards, steering groups, committees and international conference programmes. She has published and presented over 200 conference proceedings, workshops and articles, including over 50 journal publications on a range of topics, such as the use and evaluation of learning technologies. She is editor of the Association of Learning Technologies journal, ALT-J.

Gráinne Conole

Donald Clark
Donald was CEO and one of the original founders of Epic Group plc, which established itself as the leading company in the UK e-learning market, floated on the Stock Market in 1996 and sold in 2005. Describing himself as ‘free from the tyranny of employment’, he is now a board member of Ufi LearnDirect (Government agency delivered e-learning to 2.8 million learners), Caspian Learning (learning games tool provider), LearningPool (content provider), Brighton Arts Festival, and a school governor. Donald has won many awards for the design and implementation of e-learning, notably the ‘Outstanding Achievement in e-learning Award’. He has advised on e-learning for The World Bank, United Nations and many other public and private sector organisations and is a regular speaker at national and international conferences … also a regular (and controversial) blogger on e-learning! http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/

Don Clark

Anne Boddington
Anne is Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Brighton. Educated and qualified as an Architect and subsequently as a Cultural Geographer, she currently leads a Faculty of .3,900 students and a portfolio that includes the Visual and Performing Arts, Architecture, Design, Media Studies, Literature, Languages and Humanities. She is also Co-director of the ADM HEA Subject Centre, which we are proud to host at the University. Anne is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and an affiliate member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and is an elected member of the executive for the Council for Higher Education in Art & Design (CHEAD). With over 15 years of Quality Assurance experience nationally and internationally she has acted as Chair, reviewer, adviser and as an external examiner at all academic levels (UG, PG, PhD) for professional bodies and associations (Quality Assurance Agency, the Architects Registration Board, (ARB); Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)) and is currently involved in an EU project entitled Corinthium that seeks to advance and promote quality enhancement, assurance and good governance of academic development and standards with colleagues from universities in Belgium, Spain, Czech Republic, Germany in Israel and Palestine. Her initial research interests were rooted in the design and development of the urban and cultural landscape and identity but have expanded to include the strategic design and development of learning and research space and its relationships to pedagogic practice and to educational strategies and governance. Her current interests include the relationships between education in Museum and Higher Education sectors, institutional entrepreneurial behaviour, its impact on governance and infrastructures and the convergence of design and innovation as it impacts on SME's in the Creative and Cultural Industries. She is currently working with colleagues from the University's Centre for Innovation Management (CENTRIM).

Anne Boddington

Dr Colin Egan
Colin is a senior lecturer in the School of Computer Science, at the University of Hertfordshire.  Colin has had an interest in accessibility and accessibility issues for a number of years and has presented his work to a range of International Conferences.

Colin Egan

Dr Amanda Jefferies
Amanda is a Reader in Technology Enhanced Learning at the University of Hertfordshire. She is passionate about promoting a positive learning experience for students in HE through careful choice of technologies, to enhance their engagement with studies. She is well-known for innovative research into understanding the student experience through using student constructed reflective video and audio diaries, a technique she refined through her JISC-supported ‘Learner Journeys’ STROLL project during 2007-2009. She has presented her research to international audiences across the UK, Europe and in North America

Amanda Jefferies

Dr Eugenijus Kurilovas
Eugenijus is a Research Scientist in Vilnius University Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, an Associate Professor in Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, and a Head of International Networks Department in the Centre of Information Technologies in Education of the Ministry of Education and Science of Lithuania. He has published over 50 scientific papers, 2 books chapters and 2 monographs, participated in many large scale international scientific projects. He is a member of 12 scientific committees of the international journals and conferences. His papers presented on ECEL-2008, 2009 and 2010 have been selected for publication in Electronic Journal of e-Learning.

Eugenijus Kurilovas

Dr Antonios Andreatos
Antonios is a Professor at the Computer Engineering Division of the Hellenic Air Force Academy. He received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Univ. of Patras, the M.S. in Computer Engineering from the Univ. of Massachusetts, the M.Ed in Adult Learning from the Hellenic Open Univ. and the Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the National Technical Univ. of Athens. Research interests include e-Assessment, Active Learning methods, ICT & Web 2.0 & Open Resources in Education, Didactics of Computer Engineering, etc. He has published over 60 papers in journals and conference proceedings and a book. He is also involved in the scientific committees of many conferences in his fields of interest.

Antonios Andreatos

Dr Keith Smyth
Keith is a Senior Teaching Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Higher Education at Edinburgh Napier University, where he leads the MSc Blended and Online Education (www.napier.ac.uk/ed/boe). Keith is interested in how simple uses of technology can enhance learning, and where blended and online approaches can underpin community and work-based learning, broader skills development, and more inclusive educational practices. He was heavily involved in the cross-institutional TESEP project (www.napier.ac.uk/transform) which focused on teaching, technology, and institutional change, and more recently in working with the University of Bolton to co-ordinate Taking Forward Change in Technology-Enhanced Education (http://strategycascade.wordpress.com).

Keith Smyth

Orlando Belo
Orlando (http://www.di.uminho.pt/~omb ) is an associate professor in the Department of Informatics at Minho University, Portugal. His main research topics are related with data warehouse design, implementation and tuning, ETL services, database preferences, and distributed multidimensional structures processing. During the last few years he was involved with several projects in the decision support systems area designing and implementing computational platforms for specific applications like fraud detection and control in telecommunication systems, data quality evaluation, and ETL systems for industrial data warehousing systems. More recently, he was developing some research work establishing OLAP usage profiles and optimizing OLAP selection methods, applying some of the techniques studied on these areas over typical e-learning scenarios.

Orlando Belo

Dr Stephanos Avakian

Stephanos is a Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at Brighton Business School. Prior to working at Brighton he taught and completed his PhD at Durham University where he was awarded the Geoff Lockett Scholarship by the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies. His research interests focus on the industry of management consultancy, the application of Information Systems that management consultants use in distributing advice and knowledge to clients, and the exercise legitimation as this occurs at the interpersonal and institutional level. His current research projects include a) the consumption of IT and general management consulting services by the public sector, and b) the role of perceptions of self-efficacy in the clients’ consumption of consulting services. He is also a member of the CROME research group at Brighton Business School.

Stephanos Avakian

Dr Barbara Newland

Barbara is a National Teaching Fellow with over 17 years experience of leading educational developments in Higher Education. She is a Principal Lecturer in the Centre for Learning and Teaching at the University of Brighton. Previously, Barbara was Blended Learning Co-ordinator at Glasgow Caledonian University, Manager of the Educational Development Services at Bournemouth University and the Learning Technology Team at Durham University. Barbara was the Project Director of the HEA-funded Pathfinder project on Innovative E-learning with E-resources (eRes http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/eds/eres/ ) and the HEFCE-funded Accessibility in Learning Environments and Related Technologies (ALERT http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/alert/ ) project. She is a member of the Steering Committees for the Heads of e-Learning Forum, Quality Assurance and Quality Enhancement in e-Learning (QA-QE) SIG and Supporting Sustainable E-learning Forum (SSeLF) and Association for Learning Technology Research Committee. Barbara’s current research interests focus on strategic educational developments, innovative use of e-resources in e-learning, threshold concepts and academic use of Web 2.0 technologies. She aims to apply her research through the development and implementation of university policies and strategies. Barbara publishes journal articles and book chapters and presents at national and international conferences.

Barbara Newland

Steve Kilgallon MSc, BSc, PGCE.

After obtaining a degree in Applied Physics and Maths from Manchester, Steve went on to receive an MSc in microwaves and opto-electronics from University College London. During this time he became interested in the educational process which led him to completing a PGCE and becoming a teacher of physics and maths. After several years teaching he became head of physics at a sixth form college in London. As a teacher he became interested in how technology could be used to enhance the teaching and learning processes, which led him to work in the school of computing at the University of Brighton. Currently he is working as an Educational and Technology Facilitator within the Creativity Centre at the University of Brighton where he works with students and lecturers to explore and develop new and creative learning experiences. His research interests include evaluating how technology is introduced and used in teaching and learning.

Steve Kilgallon

Dr Lyn Pemberton
Lyn is a Reader in Human Computer Interaction in the University of Brighton’s School of Computing, Engineering and Maths.  She has worked on many learning technology projects, mostly concerned with aspects of communication, writing and language learning, reflecting her background in language, AI and HCI. Most recently she has been involved in projects involving interactive television for learning, augmented reality and in particular mobile learning. The Technology Strategy Board-funded project Invisible Buildings used context-aware mobiles to encourage schoolchildren to play an archaeology-themed game based on the Time Team concept. Through two recent JISC- funded projects, CloudBank 1 and 2, she has been exploring mobile techniques for integrating material captured in everyday life into classroom teaching. This continues in her current EU-funded Lifelong Learning project SIMOLA, which provides situated support for language learner across six European countries plus Japan.

Lyn Pemberton

Prof Avril Loveless
Avril is Head of the Education Research Centre and teaches on the professional doctorate, PhD, postgraduate and undergraduate programmes at the School of Education. She is also involved with university wide research committees and groups. Her research and teaching weave together three areas of theoretical and empirical work: understandings of creativity; pedagogy and teacher knowledge; and ICT capability within an early 21st century education system. These themes developed from her practice as a classroom teacher, advisory teacher and teacher educator, and her research has been closely related to her professional practice.

Avril Loveless

Andrea Benn

Andrea is a Senior Lecturer with the Brighton Business School and joined the University in 2008 as course leader for the business programme at the Hastings Campus. Andrea lectures include Information Systems, E-Business and Business Practice.   New to the field of research, her current interests include problem based learning and integrating technology into the curriculum.  Andrea is also a member of Business e-Learning Research Group.

Andrea Benn

Dr Roy Williams
Roy Williams designs learning spaces and knowledge management applications at the Flexible Learning Studio in the Faculty of Technology at the University of Portsmouth, and he is also the e-learning coordinator for the Faculty. He researches and published widely on e-learning, knowledge management, both on the practical design and application, and on the theory of learning and knowledge management. He currently has a grant from the Higher Education Academy in the UK to apply the theories of complex adaptive systems and ecological affordances to learning. He is actively involved in the European and International Conferences on e-learning, knowledge management, and business research methods and has edited the Electronic Journal of e-learning. He has held posts of Professor and Chair of Communication, Visiting Professor of Education, Visiting Examiner, Executive Board member of the IBA, the South African Broadcast regulator, and set up the joint-venture publishing company, Sached Books Pty Ltd. .

Roy Williams

Updated 6 September 2011