DR JAMES LAMB
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Publications

​https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2659-2003
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  • Lamb, J. (2025). Conceiving the Future Classroom Through Learning Futures, Postdigital and Learning Spaces Research. Postdigital Science and Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-025-00552-1
  • Lamb, J., Fawns, T., Noteboom, J., & Ross, J. (2025). Choreography and improvisation in hybrid teaching. Higher Education Research & Development, 44(1), 98–115. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2024.2435855
  • Bissell, L., Lamb, J. & Overend, D.  (2025). Postdigital Learning Journeys. Postdigital Science and Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-025-00539-y 
  • Carvalho, L., Freeman, C.G. & Lamb, J. (2024). Learning Spaces of Higher Education for Postdigital Citizens. Postdigital Science and Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-024-00504-1 
  • Lamb, J. (2024). Postdigital Sound. In: Jandrić, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of Postdigital Science and Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35469-4_75-1 ​
  • Carvalho, L., Czerniewicz, L. & Lamb, J. (2024). Positive, Postdigital Spaces for Learning. Postdigital Science and Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-024-00523-y 
  • Lamb, J. & Carvalho, L. (2024). Postdigital Learning Spaces: Towards Convivial, Equitable and Sustainable Spaces for Learning. Springer, Cham. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-59691-9​ 
  • Lamb, J., Oliveira, G., Overend, D., & Potter, J. (2024). Music in The Composition of Writing Space. In J. Lamb & L. Carvalho (Eds.), Postdigital Learning Spaces: Towards convivial, equitable and sustainable spaces for learning. Cham: Springer.  (pp 207-224).
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59691-9_12 (book chapter)
  • Carvalho, L., & Lamb, J. (2024). Materialities, Temporalities, and Mobilities: Exploring the Postdigital through our Writing Spaces. In J. Lamb & L. Carvalho (Eds.), Postdigital Learning Spaces: Towards convivial, equitable and sustainable spaces for learning. Cham: Springer. (pp 1-20).
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59691-9_1 
  • Lamb, J. (2024). The Postdigital Learning Spaces of a Transcontinental Train Journey. In J. Lamb & L. Carvalho (Eds.), Postdigital Learning Spaces: Towards convivial, equitable and sustainable spaces for learning. Cham: Springer. (pp 119-138).  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59691-9_7 
  • Lamb, J., & Carvalho, C. (2024). Towards Harmonious, Positive, Postdigital Spaces for Learning. In J. Lamb & L. Carvalho (Eds.), Postdigital Learning Spaces: Towards convivial, equitable and sustainable spaces for learning. Cham: Springer. (pp 225-242).
    ​ https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59691-9_13 ​
  • Lamb, J. (2023). Sociomateriality, Postdigital Thinking, and Learning Spaces Research. In: Jandrić, P., MacKenzie, A., Knox, J. (eds) Constructing Postdigital Research. Postdigital Science and Education . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35411-3_6 
  • ​Carvalho, L. & Lamb, J. (2023). Postdigital Learning Spaces. In: Jandrić, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of Postdigital Science and Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35469-4_13-1 
  • Lamb, J. (2023) The Music Playlist as a Method of Education Research. Postdigital Science and Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-022-00319-y (journal article)
  • Gallagher, M. & Lamb, J. (2023) Open education in closed-loop systems: Enabling closures and open loops. Distance Education. DOI: 10.1080/01587919.2023.2267475​ 
  • Lamb, J., Carvalho, L., Gallagher, M. & Knox, J. (2022). The Postdigital Learning Spaces of Higher Education. Postdigital Science and Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-021-00279-9 
  • Lamb, J. and Ross, J. (2021). Lecture capture, social topology, and the spatial and temporal arrangements of UK universities. European Educational Research Journal.  pp.1-22. doi.org/10.1177/1474904121993982  
  • Bayne, S., Evans, P., Ewins, R., Knox, J., Lamb, J., Macleod, H., O'Shea, C., Ross, J., Sheail, P., and Sinclair, C (2020). The Manifesto for Teaching Online. Cambridge MA (USA): MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/manifesto-teaching-online 
  • Ross, J., Bayne, S., Lamb, J (2019). Critical approaches to valuing digital education: learning with and from the Manifesto for Teaching Online. Digital Culture & Education, 11(1), 22-35 URL: https://www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-11/ 
  • Lamb, J., Gallagher, M. & Knox, J. (2018) On an excursion through EC1: multimodality, ethnography and urban walking. Qualitative Research https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794118773294 
  • ​Lamb, J. (2018) To Boldly Go! Feedback as Digital, Multimodal Dialogue. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction. 2(3), 49; https://doi.org/10.3390/mti2030049 
  • Gallagher, M., Lamb, J. & Bayne, S. (2016). The sonic spaces of online, distance learners. In L. Carvalho, P. Goodyear & M. de Laat (Eds.) Place-based Spaces for Networked Learning. Sydney: Routledge.
  • Gallagher, M. & Lamb, J. (2016) An Overview of Open Digital Practices. In Peters, M.A. (Ed) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. pp1-7 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_220-1 
  • Bayne, S., Gallagher, M. and Lamb, J. (2014) Being ‘at’ University: the social topologies of distance students. Higher Education. DOI: 10.1007/s10734-013-9662-4 

My ESRC-funded PhD thesis
  • ​Lamb J (2019) Space, Sociomateriality, Sound: the Learning Spaces of Higher Education. (Accession number 28047323) [Doctoral dissertation, University of Edinburgh]. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.

Reports
  • Response to Matrice de qualité des espaces d'enseignement et d'apprentissage​, UniDistance Suisse. March 2023
  • Futures For Our Teaching Spaces: principles and visions for connecting space to curriculum, University of Edinburgh. November 2022
  • Report from a fusion teaching workshop. Edinburgh Futures Institute. June 2021
  • Proposing values for the European university of the future. Future Unilab, Una Europa.  February 2021

Podcasts
  • 'Conceptualising the digital space', Future of Learning Environments series, July 2023, available via spotify.
  • 'Teaching Here And There', City University London. 16 June 2023, available via Spotify.
Conference presentations and workshops​
  • 'Propositions for the design of positive, postdigital spaces of learning'. Keynote presentation at  eduhub days 2024: Redefining Learning Spaces One innovation at a Time, Winterthur, 7 February 2024. 
  • 'Choreography and improvisation within hybrid higher education.' Keynote presentation at Building a Community of Practice to Rise to the Needs of the Future, University College Dublin, 21 August 2023.
  • 'Edinburgh Waverley to Braunschweig Hbf: A short experiment exploring the train journey as a postdigital learning space.' Participation and the Postdigital: Contemporary technologies and practices in education and urban life. 5 May 2023.
  • 'The Augmented reality of the postdigital city.' Participation and the Postdigital: Contemporary technologies and practices in education and urban life. 4 May 2023
  • ​'A postdigital reimagining of the university.' CUC2022. 28 October 2022.
  • 'Sociomateriality, learning spaces and the postdigital sensibility.' CUC2022. 27 October 2022.
  • 'Space, Time and Technology.' Keynote presentation at ‘Integrating digital technologies in teaching within the new spatial dimensions of learning spaces’, UniDistance Suisse, 24 February 2023
  • 'Provocations around digital education.' UniDistance Suisse, 24 February 2023
  • 'Multimodal assessment and feedback.' Keynote presentation at Lancaster University's Digital Assessment & Feedback: People, Places & Spaces conference, 26 July 2018.
  • 'Exit the classroom! Mobile Learning & Teaching.' Poster presentation at Edinburgh Learning and Teaching Conference, 20 June 2018. 
  • 'Multimodality and Mobile Learning in Bremen'. The 3rd Bremen Conference on Multimodality, 20 September 2017. ​
  • 'Constructing Meaning beyond Words: Multimodality, Assessment and Architecture', at The Visual and Multimodal Forum, Institute of Education, University College London, 27 April 2017. 
  • 'Sights, Sounds, Smartphones: Impromptu learning in the streets of Amsterdam'. Conference presentation at Visualizing the Street, ASCA Cities Project, Amsterdam, 6 June 2016. Co-author with Jeremy Knox. 
  • 'Acts of interpretation: tutor experiences of multimodal meaning-making in digital environments'. At Multimodality in Social Media and Digital Learning Environments, British Association of Applied Linguistics, London, 15 April 2016.
  • ‘Urban Flanerie as Multimodal Autoethnography’. At Multimodality: Methodological Explorations, London, 15 January 2015. Co-author with Jeremy Knox and Michael Sean Gallagher. 
  • 'Context and criticality in course design: using digital technology to support academic transition into university'. At the 23rd European Access Network Annual Conference, Edinburgh, 3 June 2014. Co-author with Alice Smith.
  • ‘Theory into practice: online assessment and feedback with the Learning Skills course on the LEAPS Summer School’. At the Scot-ELAs Annual Conference, Edinburgh, 3 May 2013.
  • ‘‘Campus envy’ and ‘being at university’: the geographies of education on the internet’’. Conference presentation at The 13th Annual Conference of The Association of Internet Researchers, Salford, 19 October 2012. Co-author with Sian Bayne.
  • ‘New geographies of learning: distance education and being ‘at’ Edinburgh’ (co-presenter). Conference presentation at Spaces of Dislocation, Glasgow, 24 May 2012. Co-author with Clara O'Shea.

Seminars, webinars and other workshops
  • 'Getting Digital Assessment Right'. Times Higher Education webinar. 14 June 2023.
  • 'Tuning into our learning spaces'. Workshop for the Learning Environments special interests group of the New Zealand Association for Research in Education (NZARE).  27 April 2022
  • 'Postdigital learning spaces of higher education – an online conversation'. Seminar for the Centre for Research in Digital Education, University of Edinburgh. 24 February 2022. 
  • 'How does sound shape our learning spaces?'. Live-streamed public engagement event. 10 August 2021
  • 'Digital technologies and the configuration of learning space.' Seminar for the Centre for Research in Digital Education. University of Edinburgh. 26 November 2020.
  • 'Text has been troubled.' Seminar to launch the Manifesto for Teaching Online, with Hamish Macleod, Christine Sinclair and Amy Collier. 15 October 2020.
  • 'Lecture capture, topology, and the spatial and temporal arrangements of the university.' Seminar associated with a special issue of European Education Research Journal. Online. 26 August 2020.
  • 'To Boldly Go! Multimodal Assessment and Feedback'. Invited presentation at Centre for Multimodal Communication, Southern Denmark University, October 2018.
  • 'Making research visual'.  Knowledge Exchange Office, University of Edinburgh. 6 June 2018
  • 'The Mobile Campus: Imagining The Future of Distributed and Digital Education at The University of Edinburgh', Workshop with Festival of Creative Learning, University of Edinburgh, 23 February 2018
  • 'Multimodality, assessment and language education'. Workshop at University of Leeds School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, 27 January 2018
  • 'Digital, multimodal, creative meaning-making'. Presentation within the Digital Transformations of Creative Meaning-Making event, University of Edinburgh, 24 November 2017
  • 'Stories of Transformative Multimodal Assessment'. Presentation at the Scottish International Festival of Storytelling, Edinburgh, 25 October 2017 
  • 'Multimodality and Assessment'. Presentation at Interweaving 2017, University of Edinburgh, 5 September 2017.
  • 'The Sonic Spaces of Online Distance Learners', University of Edinburgh. Online seminar for staff at University Edinburgh, with Michael Sean Gallagher, April 2017.
  • 'Searching for meaning beyond words: digital multimodal assessment'. Seminar for the Assessment, Learning and Digital Education course on the MSc in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. February 2017.
  • 'Wondering about the city: making meaning in Edinburgh's Old Town'. Seminar for the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburg, 18 November 2016.
  • 'Composing assessment in the multimodal classroom'. Webinar for Time to Assess Learning Outcomes in E-learning programme, 15 June 2015. Slides available here.
  • 'Look, Listen, Learn: using audio and visual data to understand the learning spaces of online distance students'. Webinar for Edinburgh University's Online Tutoring course, 30 March 2015. Co-author with Michael  Gallagher. Slides available here.
  • 'Transforming space into place: intimacy and multimodality in digital learning environments.' Webinar for Edinburgh University's Online Tutoring course, 8 April 2014. Co-author with Michael Sean Gallagher.​
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