Meet the Team

Director

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Keith Heggart

Senior Lecturer

Learning Design, Learning Analytics, Citizenship Education

Member

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Amelia Johns

Associate Professor

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Annie Agnew

Professional Learning

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Antonette Shibani

Senior Lecturer

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Bhuva Narayan

Associate Professor

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Camille Dickson-Deane

Senior Lecturer

pedagogical usability, individual differences, culture, contextual design, digitised learning and performance

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Damian Maher

Senior Lecturer

Teacher Professional Development, Mobile Pedagogies, Technology Enhanced Learning, Professional Learning Networks

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John Vulic

Lecturer

Learning design, instructional design, educationaltechnology

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Kirsty Kitto

Associate Professor

Learning Analytics, Learning Design, Quantum Cognition, Skills Modelling

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Mary Coupland

Mathematics Education, Critical and Creative Thinking, Teacher Professional Development

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Rick Flowers

Senior Lecturer

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Simon Knight

Associate Professor

Epistemic Cognition, Learning Analytics, Critical and Creative Thinking, Argumentation and Evidence use

Associate Member

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A. Baki Kocaballi

Senior Lecturer

Interaction design, Chatbots, human-ai interaction, UX,

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Amara Atif

Lecturer

Educational Technology, Design of Technology-Enhanced Learning Environments, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), Learning Analytics

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Amy Cotton

Director, CES

learning design, digital learning, early career development

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Andrea Stringer

Researcher

Coaching, Mentoring

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Basanta Raj Lamichhane

Associate Professor

Social Justice Pedagogy in Mathematics, Transformative Mathematics Education Practices, Socio-cultural and Political Dimension of Mathematics Education, De/postcolonial research approaches in Mathematics Education, Community Practices of Mathematics Education, Critical Mathematics Education

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Dr Janine Arantes (Aldous)

Senior Lecturer

Digital Education, AI Governance, Teachers’ Workplace Rights, Human Rights, Consumer Rights

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Elif Sahin

Educational Designer

Cultural competence and AI, Learning analytics, Multimodal learning with technologies

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Frederick Osman

President, Teachers’ Guild of NSW

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Gary Liang

Founder, CEO & CTO of Bloom AI

AI, Education, Pedagogy

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Heather Ford

Associate Professor

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Helen Benson

Senior Lecturer Pharmacy

Learning design

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Ian Farmer

Casual Academic

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Indra Mckie

Casual academic

conversational AI, design thinking, qualitative research

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Jaime Garcia

Senior Lecturer

Serious Games, Gamification, Games for Health

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Kim Martin (She/Her)

Lecturer - Education Futures Design and Technology

Digital Citizenship Inclusive Technology in education AI for good in education

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Kuva Jacobs

Co-founder, Emergent Learning

Human-centred approaches to design learning, Linking Learning to business outcomes, Learning myths, Using AI effectively to enhance learning design, Organisational adaptability

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Mais Fatayer

Learner Experience Design Manager

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Marco Angelini

Mathematics Education, Engineering education, Educational equity

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Mark Parry

Learning Designer and Digital Content Producer

Video, Podcast, Initial Teacher Education, Adult Learning

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Martin Z’Graggen

Course Coordinator/Learning Designer – Advanced Diploma of Hospitality Management WAI Sydney; Lecturer, Trainer/Assessor – Hospitality, Gastronomy & Foods Programs NSW

(Gen)AI in Education, Learning Analytics in Vocational Education and Training, Learning (instructional) Design, Workplace-based (educational) practices, Future-focussed and innovative teaching and learning practices

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Matthew Esterman

Director of Innovation and Partnerships

artificial intelligence; learning; education; technology

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Nhung Nguyen

Senior Lecturer in Learning and Teaching

learning design, science education, digital technologies in education

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Sangeetha Kutty

Lecturer- ICT, College of ICT, School of Engineering and Technology

ata Science, AI/Machine Learning, Generative AI, Social Media Mining

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Shaun Bell

Senior Learning Designer

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Soli Le-Masurier

Learning Designer and Casual Academic

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Spice (Xiaoxia) Wang

Senior Educational Practice Specialist

GenAI for learners and educators, Learning analytics in educational practices, International student experiences, Assessment design and practices

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Steven Kolber

Curriculum Writer

Teaching; Pedagogy; Professional Learning; Social Media; Democracy

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Suneel Jethani

Senior Lecturer, Digital and Social Media, UTS

Media Theory, Space, Time, Embodied Technology, Ethics, Design

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Suzana Sukovic

Director of Research and Publication, PLC Sydney

AI in education, epistemic wellbeing, transliteracy, lifelong learning

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Tshering Dorji

Associate Lecturer

Family wellbeing, Youth, Innovation, Education

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Zablon Pingo

Academic Lead and Digital Learning Designer

Learning Design, Professional Learning, Technology-enhance Learning, Privacy, Artificial Intelligence

Honorary Associate Member

Higher Degree Research Student

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Matali Nicholas Puteho

vocational education, culture, information systems

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Sophie Chinn (she/her)

PhD Candidate

Student feedback, learning outcomes, accreditation

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Yushang Cao

PhD Student

Educational technology, Second language writing, EFL teaching and learning

Past Member

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Jane Hunter

Teacher Professional Development, Technology Enhanced Learning, Technology Integration, Integrated STEM

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Simon Buckingham Shum

Learning Analytics, Hypermedia Discourse, 21st Century Learning Assessment, Writing Analytics and Argumentation Mining