Myles Blaney recorded a podcast earlier today, our first since the pandemic began changing the nature of how and where we work, how and where we socialize. In the podcast we discuss working from home, adjustments, and care. We discuss the partnerships that we felt helped us transition as a university. It is meant to be decidedly personal in light of what has transpired. The basic message is take care everyone and hold fast for a brighter tomorrow. We will get there.
Also note the intro/outro music care of Garage Band and my iPhone.
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.
