Richard Jones is an Associate Professor in the School of Business, Law and Computing at Buckinghamshire New University, responsible for leading computing courses, specialising in teaching Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and digital learning at graduate and postgraduate level. He is a chartered member of the British Computer Society, Fellow (FHEA) and a co-convenor of the SRHE.
His experience includes working in industry as a Computer Architect and UK Technical Manager and in research for the National Foundation for Cancer Research. He holds QTS and has taught in schools, colleges and universities. Richard’s educational leadership has been recognised with several awards: Nuffield Centre of Excellence, National Beacon, University Senior T&L Fellowship and two Inspirational Tutor awards for innovative teaching and research. He is known for expertise on the role of video in digital learning, supporting colleagues and newer researchers in using social media to build their academic identity, and his use of nascent technology to develop student-empowering digital learning paradigms.
Richard has presented at national and international events, published his ‘Window into Learning’ work for an international audience, and run numerous workshops on digital learning, e-assessment and social media and academic identity. He leads the University’s MSc in t-eL, providing many internal and external colleagues to develop their own digital learning expertise and become influential T&L leaders in their own right, for example, National Teaching Fellows, National Learning-Technology Award winners and Senior Managers in HEIs.
He is proud to have been recognised, internally and externally, for his tutoring, research and colleague collaboration work. His recent major funding grants include projects on Supporting Mentors in the Workplace, Digital Literacy in UK HEIs, Student Partnerships (Student as Change-Agents) in Teaching and Learning for enhancing employability have all informed the HE sector.
Richard has also developed learning spaces, online resources and digital learning artifacts to enhance student learning and underpin colleagues’ research work. He plans to continue developing support networks for research colleagues in the teaching and learning and digital learning areas, and extending his current research on ‘education paradigms’ as well as supporting students’ self-determination and graduate attributes for their future employability.