User Research
Department for Education and Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA)
Between 2020 and 2023, I led the user research on: related party transactions, view my financial insights, subject access requests, T-Levels pulse survey, ESFA performance reporting dashboard, corporate dashboard.
Between 2022-2023, I have been the user-centred design lead for: school resource management self-assessment checklist, accounts submission coversheet, finance management and governance self-assessment, 16-19 tuition fund, senior mental health leads, college compare your curriculum planning.
Education-related projects
Since 2014 my attention has turned towards privacy, education, self-efficacy and technology. I was a Projects and Community Officer at Coventry University where I co-created and supported innovative teaching and learning projects until 2016. Projects including Towards Openness, PrivacyUG and Phonar Nation were born and managed in my spare time before I became a PhD researcher in late 2016.
Health Privacy Toolkit
In 2020, the Health Privacy Toolkit was piloted as part of an intervention study for my PhD research. Its aim is to bring an awareness to some of the challenges that we face when dealing with privacy online. It also provides a toolkit to help support individuals wishing to increase their self-efficacy.
5Rights Youth Juries Open Educational Resource
In 2017, I led a research project that created an Open Educational Resource for teachers and youth workers through a participatory design methodology. The 5Rights Youth Juries were originally created as a vehicle for a research agenda, collating young people’s opinions of the Internet and its uses. However, with its popularity and interest from educators, there was a growing need for the framework to be conditioned into a resource that teachers could use.
Privacy Underground (PrivacyUG)
Launched in 2016, PrivacyUG was an open and underground class that asks the question: what does privacy mean in the post-digital age? Having a (secret) physical and (public) online presence, the class built on open education and gamification pedagogies to create an embodied learning experience.
PrivacyUG has been recognised by the Internet Society, British Council and Computerphile.
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Towards Openness
In 2016 I co-founded Towards Openness which is a research driven knowledge base that seeks to provoke conversations and to advise decision makers towards building social and technological infrastructure for connected learning. We ran local and virtual workshops that tackled different problems and challenges that we face in open education.
Game Changers
Game Changers is free and open programme to empower participants with the means to turn their learning into a game. I designed and developed the original programme to act both as a teaching and learning resource Open education practitioner Maha Bali has written about Game Changer’s open ethos here.
Phonar Nation
The Phonar Nation class is built on a mobile device, to be taught from a mobile device to a mobile user. Students learn to speak clearly with images and engage a connected audience. They learn to leverage and to be empowered by the network rather than feeling anonymised by it. Phonar Nation is more than photography; it is visual literacy and digital fluency for a connected 21st century. I co-facilitated Phonar Nation (and its predecessor CaliPhonar) sessions virtually, supported local facilitators and ran local iterations between 2014 and 2016.
Photography-related projects
Between 2011 and 2014 I was an undergraduate in Photography. After falling out of love with taking pictures and becoming more interested in how digital technologies can enhance photography, I present these projects.
George Rodger Archives: Story 38
Almost 20 years since Magnum co-founder George Rodger’s death, I visited his archive that is hidden in Kent, kept by his wife Jinx. Story 38 takes on a mixed-media approach in retelling the story of the Nuba tribe, whom Rodger photographed in 1949.
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Archives want to be free
A symposium presentation project that explored what an open photography archive can mean in the post-digital age.
> Go to the project page