Mr David Parkes

National Teaching Fellow 2013 Mr David Parkes is a librarian and learning technologist by profession, with over 20 years experience in higher education, incorporating progressive responsibility in leadership and management. He is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), a Fellow and Academic Associate of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), a member of the HEA Deans' Network for Open practice and OER, and a member of the Advisory Board for the Educause/New Media Consortium Horizon Project. David is also a member of several professional bodies and advisory boards including the learning and Teaching JISC Experts group, a Speaker4Schools consultant, a trustee of a Theatre trust archive and Chair and Trustee of a Museum and Heritage Charity. Through his role David provides library, learning technology and learning support professional services for Staffordshire University. He is a writer, speaker and thought leader in ICT, libraries, educational technology, learning spaces and the future of libraries. David has a passionate, innovative, imaginative, enthusiastic, collaborative and evangelistic approach to his work, and its effect on learning, scholarship and strategy across his institution and beyond. He has a progressive accumulation of knowledge, expertise, authority, responsibility and experience as a practising educationalist gained from 25 years' primarily working as a librarian and ICT professional. David has always worked beyond any limitations of roles and his profession, exploring boundaries and challenging convention but always delivering sustainable, personalised and scalable ideas and solutions to support learning. Combined with this is a focused and disciplined theory practice philosophy of students as active participants in learning.