Current and recent projects

Project title: digitUL
Short description: A University of Leicester initiative to create an infrastructure for teams to work collaboratively in topics that fall under the broad scope of the Digital Economy and take advantage of funding opportunities that are made available by RCUK or other agencies.
When: Oct 2008 - ongoing.
Partners: Departments of Computer Science, Economics, Geography, Law, Management, Media & Communications, Museum Studies, Politics, Psychology, Sociology 
Role: Group member

Project title: Supporting learning and teaching on study visits with mobile and web-based tools
Short description: Develop and evaluate tools to support postgraduate teaching and learning on study visits.
When: Jan 2009 - ongoing
Partners: Alex Moseley
Role: PI

 Past projects

Project title: Myartspace
Short description: Mobile technologies to support students' learning during school museum visits.
When: Jan 2005 - Mar 2007.
Partners: Culture Online (funding); The Sea (design and development); CETADL (evaluation); The Urbis museum of urban life (Manchester), D-Day museum (Portsmouth), The Study Gallery (Poole) (pilot sites).
Role: Managing the evaluation team.
Outputs: Series of consultancy reports on evaluation of service - see publications.

Project title: Mobile learning tools for children with life-threatening allergies
Short description: design and build useful electronic tools to support anaphylactic allergy sufferers
When: Nov 2006 - Feb 2007.
Partners: University of Birmingham (Sandra Woolley); University of Nottingham (Mike Sharples); supported by a Cadbury Schweppes Foundation award.
Role: consultant (surveying use of mobile technologies in health services).
Outputs: consultancy report - see publications.

Project title: ReFLEx - Resources for Learning by Exploration.
Short description: semantic browsing technologies to support OU Library users.
When: May 2006 - Dec 2006
Partners: Institute of Educational Technologies, OU Library, KMi - all at the Open University, UK.
Role: consultant for the Institute of Educational Technologies working on requirements analysis.
Outputs: consultancy report - see publications.

Project title: MELISSA
Short description: Kaleidoscope NoE JEIRP project scoping the potential of mobile and context aware technologies in informal science learning settings.
When: May 2005 - Dec 2005.
Partners: Institute of Educational Technologies, the Open University, UK; University of Birmingham, UK.
Role: Research Fellow.
Outputs: project deliverables - see publications.

Project title: MOBIlearn
Short description: EU IST Framework 5 research and development project exploring context-sensitive approaches to informal, problem-based and workplace learning by using key advances in mobile technologies.
When: Jan 2003 - Mar 2005.
Partners: University of Birmingham, UK; Open University, UK; University of Tampere, FI; Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, I; University of Koblenz-Landau, D; University of Zurich, CH; Stanford University, USA; MIT OKI, USA; University of Southern Queensland, Australia; Education au limited, Australia, NOKIA Corporation, FI; COMPAQ Computer, IT; Sheffield Hallam University, UK; International Centre for Digital Content, UK; Deutche Telekom, D; Telecom Italia, IT; Telefonica I+D, SP; COSMOTE, GR; SPACE HELLAS, GR; Emblaze Systems, IL; Fraunhofer IFF, D; SFERA ENEL, IT; University for Industry, UK; Liverpool John Moores University, UK; University of Genoa, IT; pjb Associates, UK; University of Nottingham, UK.
Role: Research Fellow on Workpackage 4 - Pedagogical Methodologies and Paradigms; also input to workpackages 2, 3, 5 and 6.
Outputs: various project deliverables and other publications - see publications.

Project title: Children as Photographers - the digital study
Short description: concept design for new digital imaging technologies for children aged 10-13.
When: Jan 2002 - Dec 2002.
Partners: Kodak UK, University of Birmingham.
Role: Research Associate developing the Future Technology Workshop method; also design and testing of digital imaging technologies prototypes.
Outputs: project deliverables and other publications - see publications.