About

Brief biog: Neil Selwyn has been researching and writing about digital education since the mid-1990s. He is currently a professor at Monash University, Melbourne. Recent books include: ‘Digital Degrowth: radically rethinking our digital futures‘ (Polity 2025), ‘Critical Data Literacies’ (MIT Press 2023, w/ Luci Pangrazio), and ‘Facial Recognition’ (Polity 2022, w/ Mark Andrejevic). 

Bluesky:  @neilselwyn.bsky.social / Masterdon: @neil_selwyn@mstdn.social

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Longer biog: Neil Selwyn is a professor in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne – having previously worked in the Institute of Education, London and the Cardiff School of Social Sciences. He has spent the past 30 years researching the integration of digital technology into schools, universities and adult learning.

Neil is recognised as a leading international researcher in the area of digital education – with particular expertise in the ‘real-life’ constraints and problems faced when technology-based education is implemented. He is currently working on nationally-funded projects examining the roll-out of educational data and learning analytics, AI technologies, and the changing nature of teachers’ digital work.

Neil has carried out funded research on digital technology, society and education for national research agencies and funders in the UK, Australia, US, Sweden and Uruguay, alongside projects for the BBC, Gates Foundation, Microsoft Partners in Learning, Save The Children, National Assembly of Wales and UNESCO. 

Neil is a regular keynote speaker at international conferences, is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and he also produces the ‘Education Technology Society‘ podcast. He is writing this in the third person.