Ben Williamson

Dr Ben Williamson is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh. His research examines the connections between digital technologies, data practices, and education policy, practice and governance. Recent and current research projects explore data-intensive biology in education and sociodigital learning futures. Ben is the author of Big Data in Education: The digital future of learning, policy and practice, an editor of the World Yearbook of Education 2024: Digitalisation of Education in the Era of Algorithms, Automation and Artificial Intelligence, and a co-editor of the journal Learning, Media and Technology.