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Stephen Farrier

Stephen Farrier is a senior lecturer in educational development at Northumbria University. Stephen’s role includes academic development and research within the fields of new and innovative learning and teaching strategies. As an experienced academic he is known within this field throughout the UK, Europe and the international educational communities. Stephen’s experience extends through the domains of abstracted learning and adaptive technologies.

Since 1995 Stephen has regularly researched and delivered papers to the global community in relation to learning in the 21st century, inclusivity and mediated learning and has contributed to these debates by attending and presenting at international conferences and symposia in such diverse locations as the USA (Florida, Sloan-C, Memphis, and New York, ICEL), Canada, ICEL and Europe (Berlin, Online Educa, Nice Eden conference, and Enschede, Netherlands-Symposium on Global Education),  Paris France (UNESCO inclusive education Conference)

As part of his role as Academic Adviser he has currently been working with  The University Edinburgh (Moray House School of Education) for approximately 4 years. Stephen is also currently involved in the coordination of collaborative EU funded projects and the development of project areas in relation to national, transnational and international funding regimes.  Within Northumbria University his role currently involvesworking with schools and school representatives within the context of design, project management and risk assessment of distance learning. His other teaching specialisms are related to inclusivity, civil rights, and welfare rights. Stephens’s prior experience extends over an extended period from the early 1980s during which time he was involved with the development of community in relation to disadvantage and working with offending behaviour. His research interests’ include e-learning, distance and blended learning as well as adaptive learning and the role of assistive technologies, particularly in relation to disability and disenfranchisement. The latter was the subject of a conference presentation in June 2007 Naples. This was at the invitation for the European Distance Education Network.

stephen.farrier@northumbria.ac.uk