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Kathy Robinson

My CV

  • Education:

    Bishop Auckland Girls Grammar School.

  • Qualifications:

    BSc Psychology with Ancillary Statistics (London External), MA Online & Distance Learning (Open), PhD Educational Neuroscience UCL- IOE

  • Work History:

    MRC (Clinical Psychiatry then Computing & Statistics) National Hospital for Neurology, Neurosurgery. Open University

  • Current Job:

    PhD in Education Neuroscience – just completed

  • My Interview

    • What topics do you work on?

      The neuroscience of interpersonal interaction, face-to-face and at distance (using digital technologies).
      The history on neurophysiology
      Distance education

      What methods do you use?

      A toolkit approach – methods from qualitative, quantitative, EEG, ERP, and EMG

      Who was your favourite teacher?

      Mr Maguire for A level biology who was terminally ill yet continued to teach and inspire

      Me and my work

      I am interested in students’ experience when they are in a social learning context specifically their socio-emotional experience when communication with other students is mediated by a digital device.

      Typical day

      Attending seminars, writing. I try to take a trans disciplinary approach so I spend at least one hour per day following up twitter leads to research publications, webinars, blog entries from neuroscientists and learning technologists and also, mainstream education. I also blog from time to time.

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