Publications

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2659-2003

Journal articles

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. (2022) The Music Playlist as a Method of Education Research. Postdigit Sci Educ (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-022-00319-y
Lamb, J., Carvalho, L., Gallagher, M. & Knox, J. (2022). The Postdigital Learning Spaces of Higher Education. Postdigit Sci Educ. 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
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
Bayne, S., Gallagher, M. and Lamb, J. (2013) Being ‘at’ University: the social topologies of distance students. Higher Education. DOI: 10.1007/s10734-013-9662-4

Books and book chapters

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
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
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.

Encylcopedia entries

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
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

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

'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.' 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.