OK, I lied in my previous post. I haven’t posted for awhile, but I am still trying to get back into it. Why has this suddenly become so difficult since settling into a life here?
I am more unsettled because I am settled.
Regardless, I am hoping this will spur me into creativity, at least of the writing variety.
Aside from the above, my only creative output for the last six months has been making my own booze, including Korean dong dong ju, a milky white rice liquor. I got the recipe online from a source unknown. He refers to it as booze and so do I so I feel a deep sense of han with him/her. My kibun is really good.
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.
