Core team

Lead Investigator 

Dr Clare Dowdall

Clare is an experienced Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Exeter. Her research interests focus particularly on how children become writers in the digital age, and on the development of children’s language and literacy in formal educational contexts and beyond. Clare is Programme Director for the MA Education Online Programme, and teaches mainly on the dissertation and language and literacy modules for this Programme. Prior to joining the School of Education, Clare worked in Initial and Postgraduate teacher education at the University of Plymouth for 19 years.

Email: c.dowdall2@exeter.ac.uk

Co-Investigator 

Dr Judith Kleine Staarman

Judith is a Senior Lecturer in Education the Graduate School of Education at the University of Exeter and Programme Director of the MA Technology and Education Futures programme. She leads the ‘Digital Futures for Education’ and ‘Technology, Learning and Pedagogy’ modules and teaches on a range of MA, MSc and Psychology modules and supervises a number of MA, MSc, EdD and PhD students.  
Her research interests are around the processes by which people engage in teaching and learning processes together, through collaboration and dialogue – in particular with and around classroom technologies. Recently, she co-led a university-wide project to understand the ways in which ChatGPT may change teaching, learning and assessment in Higher Education. Prior to joining the School of Education, Judith worked at the Open University and Cambridge University, where she was involved in research projects on classroom technologies and pedagogy, including IWBs, online collaboration and Dialogic Teaching. 

Email:  j.kleine-staarman@exeter.ac.uk

Graduate Research Assistant 

Ms Assan Ali  

Email: aa1089@exeter.ac.uk