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The Disruptive Media Learning Lab is honoured to have hosted some of the leading minds and voices in innovative, experimental, and connected teaching and learning in higher education and beyond.

Graham Brown-Martin
Speaker, Curator & Writer
Graham Brown-Martin is the founder of Learning Without Frontiers, a global think tank that brought together renowned educators, technologists and creatives to share provocative and challenging ideas about the future of learning.
Cristobal Cobo
Associate Researcher - Oxford Internet Institute
Cristobal is an academic and works with a trans-disciplinary group of PhD specialists in areas of knowledge generation and transfer, digital skills, future of learning, creativity, innovation and digital culture. He has collaborated in these topics with more than 25 countries.
Bryan Mathers
Founder: Wapisasa
Bryan is the founder of the Wapisasa. A not-for-profit social business developed to benefit young people, whose potential for digital aptitude and employability has not yet been realised. Visit wapisasa.com to find out more.
Helen Beetham
Helen Beetham
Education Consultant: futures, e-learning, pedagogy & innovation
Gary Hall
Research Professor, media theorist & author
Gary is Professor of Media & Performing Arts, and Director of the Centre for Disruptive Media, at Coventry University. He is author of ‘Culture in Bits‘, ‘Digitize This Book!: The Politics of New Media‘, and ‘Open Education: A Study in Disruption‘.
Josie Fraser
Social & Educational Technologist
Josie works for Leicester City Council, leading on the technology strand of the city’s £340m Building Schools for the Future Programme, delivering new and refurbished schools for 23 secondary mainstream and special education communities.
Adrian Kirkwood
Consultant - Teaching & Learning with Technology
Adrian Kirkwood is a technology consultant specialising in teaching and learning.
Shay Moradi
Designer and Entrepreneur
Shay Moradi is a British–Iranian designer and entrepreneur based in the UK. He is a partner at Running in the Halls (RITH), acting as both Creative Director and Business Developer, and co-founder of Librarygame.
Peter Bryant
Head of Learning Technology & Innovation at London School of Economics
Peter Bryant is the Head of Learning Technology and Innovation at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Previously a Principal Lecturer in Educational Technology at the University of Greenwich.
Danny Carroll
Danny Carroll
Educational Designer, innovation and strategy.
Dany Carroll is an educational and eLearning specialist with a career focus on identifying and implementing educational technology initiatives that make a positive contribution to improving teaching and learning.
Dr. Seth Cooper
Dr. Thomas Cochrane
Academic Advisor and Senior Lecturer in Educational Technology.
Dr Thomas Cochrane is an Academic Advisor and Senior Lecturer in Educational Technology at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. His research interests include mobile learning, social media, international collaborations, communities of practice and new pedagogies.
Sam Hegarty
Project Officer: eLearning at UNSW Business School
Sam contributes to the Project Management and implementation of the Flipped Learning strategic initiative – including content redevelopment, staff development, support and evaluation at the University of New South Wales Business School.
David Seelow
David Seelow
Academic Advisor and Senior Lecturer in Educational Technology.
Dr. Seelow has expertise in classroom instruction, curriculum design, online learning, critical thought, and educational theory. He is founder of the Excelsior College Online Writing Lab, which has won four national innovation awards for distance education and one best of the web award.