Current research students

• Natalia Auer
• Ali Ewing
• Brenda Padilla
• A.E. (Tony) Ratcliffe
  

Departmental research training

All researchers benefit from BDRA's regular research seminar programme, our Learning Futures Festival on research into e-learning, and visitors and networking from around the world. We offer one-to-one regular tutorial support, with experienced e-learning researchers and highly collegiate support and development.

PhD Research Proposal Skills Programme

This six-month programme, available either on-campus or wholly online, has been developed to enable scholars enable visiting scholars to acquire and develop the skills required to write a research proposal in the fields of learning design, learning innovation, learning technology, Open Educational Resources (OER) and e-learning.

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Facilities for research students

BDRA at the University of Leicester brings together an active, internationally renowned research community. Research students benefit from the expertise and scholarship of its core members of staff and the associate members of the Alliance who are actively engaged in research into e-learning.

In addition to office accommodation with up-to-date computing and IT facilities, and access to learning resources centre facilities, we benefit from the Media Zoo that provides a supportive (exclusive to staff and research students) and experimental research environment for learning technologies and dissemination of research activities.

What next

Before submitting your application, please contact Dr Alejandro Armellini, PhD Programme Coordinator, to discuss your research interests, your proposal and your expectations

Members of staff and their research interests

Professor Gráinne Conole

Learning design and online pedagogy, the use, integration and evaluation of Information and Communication Technologies and e-learning and impact on organisational change.

Dr Palitha Edirisingha

Informal learning through mobile technologies; weblogs, wikis, and other social networking for academic learning; processes of embedding e-learning; e-learning in developing countries; and learning in 3D virtual worlds such as Second Life.

Dr Alejandro Armellini 

Learning design and online pedagogy, teacher collegiality, technology adoption, educational technology, teacher education, e-learning in international contexts.