The deep blue of an endless sky Foaming waters lapping onto shore Bamboo swaying forth on a mindful evening Alone atop a mountain of expanse My soul breathes from an image set next to This place of worship.
Far from the currents of commerce Mindful of God’s watchful eye Playfully lapping the water beside the market And resting beneath the tomb of an ancient king
As the sun rests slowly behind those peaks Another day gives over to night I am no more than these trees, this grass, these rivers of green.
My name is Michael Sean Gallagher. I am a Lecturer in Digital Education at the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. I am Co-Founder and Director of Panoply Digital, a consultancy dedicated to ICT and mobile for development (M4D); we have worked with USAID, GSMA, UN Habitat, Cambridge University and more on education and development projects. I was a researcher on the Near Futures Teaching project, a project that explores how teaching at The University of Edinburgh unfold over the coming decades, as technology, social trends, patterns of mobility, new methods and new media continue to shift what it means to be at university. Previously, I was the Research Associate on the NERC, ESRC, and AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund sponsored GCRF Research for Emergency Aftershock Forecasting (REAR) project. I was an Assistant Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (한국외국어대학교) in Seoul, Korea. I have also completed a doctorate at University College London (formerly the independent Institute of Education, University of London) on mobile learning in the humanities in Korea.
