Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Neil Selwyn is a professor in the Faculty of Education, Monash University. His research and teaching focuses on the place of digital media in everyday life, and the sociology of technology (non)use in educational settings.
Neil has written extensively on a number of issues, including digital exclusion, education technology policymaking and the student experience of technology-based learning. He has carried out funded research on digital technology, society and education for the Australian Research Council (ARC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), British Academy, the BBC, Nuffield Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, Gates Foundation, Microsoft Partners in Learning, Becta, Australian Government Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT), Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN), Save The Children, Centre for Distance Education, the Welsh Office, National Assembly of Wales and various local authorities in the UK.
Neil is a regular keynote speaker at international conferences and a core member of the 'Digital Education Research' group within Monash.
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- Papers available through Academia.Edu
Research interests
Main research interests
- Digital technology and society
- The use of digital technologies in educational settings
- The role(s) that digital technologies play in people's everyday lives
- Digital technology and social exclusion
- Public policy making in the 'information age'
Current research and writing activities
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AI, automation and data-driven education
- Digital education futures
- Issues of environmental and social justice associated with digital technology use
- Digital labor and education
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Digital sociology of education
External positions
Visiting Professor, Goteborgs Universitet (University of Gothenburg)
1 Sep 2016 → 1 Aug 2017Keywords
- digital
- education
- policy
- sociology
- data
Projects 2013 2021
Getting Evidence Moving in Schools
Rickinson, M., Perrotta, C. & Selwyn, N.
4/02/19 → 30/06/20
Project: Research
Data-Smart schools - enhancing the use of digital data in secondary schools
Selwyn, N., Gasevic, D., Henderson, M. & Pangrazio, L.
1/01/19 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
Evaluation of the KNeo ESP Application
Sharma, U., Moore, D., Selwyn, N., Gasevic, D. & Hamdillah, C.
13/04/18 → 30/11/18
Project: Research
Out-teach Mobile Education Evaluation
Reimer, K., Pangrazio, L. & Selwyn, N.
4/04/17 → 6/11/17
Project: Research
Research Output 1996 2019
Public Opinions on Australian Schools & Schooling
Leahy, D. & Selwyn, N., 2019, Clayton Vic Australia: Monash University. 23 p.Research output: Book/Report › Other Report › Research
Open Access
File
What is digital sociology?
Selwyn, N., 2019, 1st ed. Cambridge UK: Polity Press. 152 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Other › peer-review
‘Personal data literacies’: a critical literacies approach to enhancing understandings of personal digital data
Pangrazio, L. & Selwyn, N., 1 Feb 2019, In : New Media and Society. 21, 2, p. 419-437 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Doing data differently? developing personal data tactics and strategies amongst young mobile media users
Selwyn, N. & Pangrazio, L., 15 Mar 2018, In : Big Data & Society. 5, 1, p. 1-12 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access
File
Education recoded: policy mobilities in the international ‘learning to code’ agenda
Williamson, B., Bergviken Rensfeldt, A., Player-Koro, C. & Selwyn, N., 21 May 2018, (Accepted/In press) In : Journal of Education Policy. 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review