Professor Rebecca Eynon, Professor of Education, the Internet and Society, is among the many excellent social scientists elected to the fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences right now.
Professor Eynon holds a joint tutorial submit on the Oxford Internet Institute and the Department of Education on the University of Oxford. Her analysis examines the injustices that may come up from the use of applied sciences in studying and training.
Professor Eynon mentioned: “I am delighted and honoured to be elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and join such an esteemed community. I am indebted to my academic colleagues, students, and collaborators from policy and practice who made this recognition possible.”
The Academy’s Fellowship contains round 1,700 main social scientists, elected for excellence of their fields and substantial contributions to social science for public profit by way of unbiased peer assessment.
Rebecca Eynon is a Sociologist of Education whose work sits on the intersection of training, expertise and society. In response to the uncritical hype that surrounds digital applied sciences and AI, her empirical analysis highlights folks’s experiences of utilizing applied sciences for studying throughout the life course and examines how and why injustices can come up from their design and use.
At the Department of Education, she convenes the Critical Digital Education Research Group, fostering sociological scholarship on the position of expertise in studying and training nationally and internationally. She sits on the editorial board of the British Journal of Sociology of Education, Information and Learning Sciences, and Learning, Media and Technology, and was co- editor of Learning, Media and Technology from 2011-2021.
She is a steering board member for the Swiss National Science Foundation Digital Transformation Programme, which investigates and presents coverage choices for digital and social change, and a world investigator for the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child, which is devoted to creating analysis knowledgeable constructive digital experiences for youngsters.
Professor Eynon at the moment leads the Towards Equity Focused Approaches to EdTech Project, a three-year research funded by the ESRC Education Programme. Through ethnographic analysis in colleges, the mission examines how EdTech is utilized in apply to discover how expertise can deal with – or inadvertently reinforce – inequities in training. The staff additionally works with lecturers, EdTech firms, policymakers, lecturers, college students and different members of the training group to inform extra socially simply and equitable design and implementation of expertise in class settings.
Professor Eynon is broadly printed and has engaged with a range of public, non-public and third sector organisations involved with points of inequity and expertise. Her work has been cited by coverage actors such because the Sutton Trust, the British Academy, the Royal Society, UNESCO, the OECD, the European Union, the United Nations, the World Bank, and assorted nationwide and regional governments. In the UK, the place most of her analysis is situated, she has given proof to the Education Select Committee and offered skilled enter into analysis by the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology and the Government’s Open Innovation Team.
Professor Eynon teaches on the MSc in Education (Digital and Social Change) on the Department of Education and the MSc in Social Science of the Internet on the Oxford Internet Institute. Across each departments, she supervises DPhil college students whose analysis focuses on digital training, expertise and social justice.