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Thanks for taking time to look at my site. I am an ESRC-funded PhD student in the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. My research and teaching interests are concerned with multimodality, assessment, digital cultures and learning spaces. You can contact me at j.i.lamb@sms.ed.ac.uk and follow me on Twitter at @james858499.
This is a summary of my Doctoral Research: ‘An ethnography of the digital shift across disciplines’ This thesis is concerned with the ways that the pedagogic and societal shift to the digital is affecting the nature of education. Taking the examples of undergraduate courses in American History and Architectural Design at a research-intensive university, I am investigating how the proliferation of digital technologies and networked content is influencing teaching and assessment, as well as the environments where learning takes place. I am using a broadly ethnographic and qualitative approach, with a particular emphasis on sonic materials and practices as a method of social inquiry. This approach, which is influenced by contemporary work in speculative research and the concept of the methods assemblage, is supported by interviews, observation and a digital journaling exercise. Other areas of current research include the learning spaces of online distance students, multimodal assessment, urban walking ethnography and sound within qualitative social research. I am a co-author of the Manifesto for Teaching Online. Teaching I co-teach the Education and Digital Cultures course within the MSc in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh and am a guest tutor in Assessment, Learning and Digital Education. I was a teaching assistant on the recent edX Social Research Methods MOOC. Before all of this I coordinated and taught an academic skills for students entering higher education. Details of other recent workshops and seminars can be found in my publications page. Other bits and pieces I also look after the Elektronisches Lernen Muzik and Composition: Conversations about Content and Form projects. 
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