Conference Co-Chairs and Plenary Speakers

Conference Co-Chairs

Jonathan Drori led the initial efforts to create bbc.co.uk. He came to the web from the TV side of the BBC, where as an editor and producer he headed up dozens of television series on science, education and the arts. After almost two decades at the BBC, he is now a director at Changing Media Ltd., a media and education consultancy, and a Trustee of Kew Gardens.

Sarah Sherman has worked in learning technology for over 10 years. She currently manages the Bloomsbury Learning Environment (a shared e-learning service for five London HE institutions). Sarah coordinates regional and national e-learning user groups and is involved in a number of JISC projects and activities.

Julie Voce is the E-learning Services Manager at Imperial College London. Julie is deputy editor of ALT News Online and a member of the ALT Publications and Membership Services Committees. She chairs the UCISA Academic Support Group and is involved with the biennial UCISA Survey of Technology Enhanced Learning.

Plenary Speakers

Plenary presenters will include: Eric Mazur.

Welcoming address: Nancy Rothwell.

Eric Mazur is the Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University. Mazur is an internationally recognised scientist and researcher in optical physics. In addition to his work in physics, Mazur is particularly interested in science education: he devotes part of his research group's effort to education research and finding verifiable ways to improve science education. He has been developing Peer Instruction as a method for teaching large lecture classes interactively for over 20 years.

Nancy Rothwell has since July 2010 been President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester where she still maintains an active research group in the field of neoroscience. Her current research focuses on the role of inflammation in brain disease and has identified the role of the cytokine interleukin-1 (IL-1) in diverse forms of brain injury. Nancy Rothwell is President of the Society of Biology, a non-executive director of AstraZeneca and a member of the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology. In 2004 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 2005 was honoured with a DBE.