About

I am a Teaching Fellow in Digital Education within the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. In January 2020 I will take up the permanent post of Lecturer in Digital Education (Education Futures), where I will be teaching and researching within the MSc in Digital Education and the Edinburgh Futures Institute. 

In August 2019 I completed my ESRC-funded Phd which investigated how the learning spaces of higher education are affected by the pedagogic and societal shift to the digital. The title of my thesis was 'Space, Sociomateriality, Sound. The Learning Spaces of Higher Education', which reflects my use of sonic methods as a way of investigating the relationship between technology, pedagogy and learning space. My thesis was presented in multimodal form, where written discussion was juxtaposed with sound maps, playlists, field recordings and photographs. Please get in touch if you want to know more about my thesis.

My most recent publications argued the case for multimodal feedback around assessment and explored the potential for digital technology to combine with walking ethnography as a method for understanding our urban surroundings. Forthcoming publications include a co-authored journal article and book concerned with the Manifesto for Teaching Online (both due early in 2020). Previous published research has included the ways that online distance students conceptualise the university and how learners use sound to negotiate space for learning.

I am a tutor on the An Introduction to Digital Environments for Learning course, and have previously taught on Education and Digital Cultures and Assessment, Learning and Digital Education, all within the MSc in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh.
Details of other teaching, seminars and workshops can be found on my publications page.

Beyond this, since 2012 I have overseen the Elektronisches Lernen Muzik project, which uses playlists to explore how music informs and inspires teaching, learning and research.

James Lamb
james.lamb@ed.ac.uk 
@james858499​