Dr James Lamb

Lecturer in Digital Education

Biography

Background

I am a Lecturer in Digital Education within the Centre for Research in Digital Education and The Edinburgh Futures Institute at the University of Edinburgh, where I teach on the MSc in Digital Education and the MSc in Education Futures. I am co-editor of the Postdigital Science and Education book series (Springer), a co-author of the Manifesto for Teaching Online (MIT Press 2020), and run the Elektronisches Lernen Muzik project, where the relationship between music and learning is explored through playlists. At the current time (June 2026) I am involved with research projects explore postdigital learning journeys, hybrid education, slow scholarship, visual methods within education futures, and the sociomateriality of school science teaching. 

Qualifications

PhD (University of Edinburgh), funded by ESRC

MSc with distinction (University of Edinburgh)

BA degree with distinction (Edinburgh Napier University)

Postgraduate teaching

I currently teach on the following postgraduate courses on MSc in Digital and MSc in Education Futures:

  • Digital Education Spaces
  • The Future of Learning Organisations
  • Knowledge Integration and Project Planning 

I have previously taught on the following courses:

  • Critical Issues in Digital Education
  • Digital Education Design
  • Education and Digital Cultures
  • Digital Education Dissertation
  • Digital Education Methods

 

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Areas of interest for supervision

I am interested in supervising projects exploring any of the following areas:

  • Learning spaces 
  • Sound and music in education
  • Education futures
  • Multimodal teaching and assessment in higher education 
  • Postdigital education

I do not supervise projects focusing on AI in education, or language education.

Please look at my publications list and profile to establish whether I would be suitable to advise your project: https://www.james858499.net/publications.html

 

Current PhD students supervised

Nick Hood (audio pedagogy)

Ruohan Ma (multimodal feedback in assessment)

Isabella Sinn (postdigital writing spaces)

Chenxi Zhang (sonification in school science education)

 

Past PhD students supervised

Eddie Martin

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