Professor Siân Bayne
Professor of Digital Education
- Moray House School of Education and Sport, IECS
- University of Edinburgh
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 651 6337
- Email: sian.bayne@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Siân's website
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
I am Professor of Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh and Assistant Principal Education Futures.
I Direct the Centre for Research in Digital Education.
Qualifications
- MA (Hons) English Literature
- PhD 'Learning Cultures in Cyberspace'
Responsibilities & affiliations
Director, Centre for Research in Digital Education
Assistant Principal Education Futures
Postgraduate teaching
MSc Education Futures
Doctoral supervision
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
I am interested in taking PhD students who are interested in critical approaches to digital education and education futures.
Current PhD students supervised
Stuart Allan: Enactments of digital pedagogy in an international online MBA
Fuji Lyu: Ethics education using game theory
Meenakshi Mani: EdTech engineers and the making of machine learning in education
David Reid: Exploratory user interfaces for remote laboratories in engineering education
Nishat Tasneem: From digital exclusion to digital inclusion: a research study exploring the processes and impacts which make a difference for marginalised households
Siqi Wang: Ethical considerations for the use of artificial intelligence in education
Chen Wu: China’s double reduction policy and its impacts on local practices: an ethnographic study
Past PhD students supervised
Michela Clari: In the hands of the user: changing patterns of participation and learning through the digital collections of the Commission on the Ancient and Historical Museums of Scotland
Noreen Dunnett: Re-imagining disengagement from learning: the sociomaterial practices of classrooms and digital game spaces
Peter Evans: The impacts of social media applications on the theory and practices of work based learning
Christopher Hambley: Learning space design and the negotiation of power
Srećko Joksimović: An analytics-based approach to the study of learning networks in digital education settings
Jeremy Knox: Critical posthumanist perspectives on the open educational resources movement
James Lamb: Meaning beyond words: multimodal assessment practices in the humanities and social sciences
Lulu Mahai: An ethnographic comparison of rural and urban students’ experiences of the Open University of Tanzania
Diego Rates: Learning Analytics in UK Higher Education
Jen Ross: Online reflective practices and performances in Higher Education
Philippa Sheail: The ‘edgeless university’ and the ‘extensible self’: institution and identity in online distance education
Research summary
My research is interdisciplinary, focused on critical approaches to digital education and education futures.
Affiliated research centres
Project activity
For current and recent research projects, please see the Centre for Research in Digital Education website.