Dr Philippa Sheail
Lecturer in Digital Education
- Moray House School of Education and Sport, IECS
- University of Edinburgh
Contact details
- Email: p.sheail@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Moray House School of Education and Sport, SJ
- City
- University of Edinburgh (Holyrood Campus)
- Post code
- EH8 8AQ
Background
Phil Sheail is a Lecturer in Digital Education, and teaches on the MSc in Digital Education. Her research interests are interdisciplinary, based in the area of digital and higher education, but drawing on organisational theory, cultural geography, and social theories of time. Current interests include digital cultural heritage and the experience of digital volunteers.
Philippa's profile on Digital Education site
Qualifications
MA (Hons) English and Scottish Literature - University of Edinburgh
Diploma in Computing - Open University
MSc in E-Learning (with distinction) - University of Edinburgh
PhD in Education - University of Edinburgh
Responsibilities & affiliations
I am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA).
Postgraduate teaching
MSc in Digital Education:
- Information Literacies in Digital Education
- Research Methods
- Introduction to Digital Environments for Learning
- Dissertation supervision
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Research summary
In recent years, Phil has been developing research with academic libraries and the wider GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) sector. Her most recent research project in this area was 'Data Bodies in the Library' developed in partnership with the University of Edinburgh Library and the National Library of Scotland, with a particular interest in organising practices and the relationship between library technologies and physical space. She is currently developing ethnographic work on crowdsourcing, digital volunteers, and public pedagogy.
Current research interests
Digital Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries Digital/Smart Campus Information/Digital LiteraciesProject activity
- 'One's a crowd: the role of the digital volunteer in cultural heritage crowdsourcing'
- 'Data bodies in the library: interdisciplinary methods for understanding the future library as both ‘data lab’ and cultural institution' https://www.de.ed.ac.uk/project/data-bodies-library
- 'Library of Our Time': Research project with the University Library on student use of library facilites, services and resources http://www.de.ed.ac.uk/project/library-our-time
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SRHE Prize for Newer Researchers 2014: 'Global gatherings and digital divides: internationalisation and the digital in higher education'
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Centre Report 2021: Centre for Research in Digital Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7488/era/crde-001
Research output: › Commissioned report (Published) -
The Manifesto for Teaching Online
(242 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Centre Report 2020: Centre for Research in Digital Education
(15 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7488/era/crde-002
Research output: › Commissioned report (Published) -
Centre Report 2019: Centre for Research in Digital Education
(21 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7488/era/crde-003
Research output: › Commissioned report (Published) -
Temporal flexibility in the digital university: Full-time, part-time, flexitime
(18 pages)
In:
Distance Education, vol. 39, pp. 462-479
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2018.1520039
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Centre Report 2018: Centre for Research in Digital Education
(17 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7488/era/crde-004
Research output: › Commissioned report (Published) -
The digital university and the shifting time–space of the campus
In:
Learning, Media and Technology, vol. 43, pp. 56-69
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2017.1387139
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The ‘campus imaginary’: Online students’ experience of the masters dissertation at a distance
In:
Teaching in Higher Education, vol. 22, pp. 839-854
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2017.1319809
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Manifesto for Teaching Online 2016
(2 pages)
Manifesto for Teaching Online 2016 › Other contribution (Published) -
The motif of meeting in digital education
In:
TechTrends, vol. 59, pp. 37-43
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-014-0818-6
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)