DrMatt Smith
Reader in Digital Learning Contexts
Faculty of Arts, Business, and Social Sciences
- Reader in Digital Learning ContextsFaculty of Arts, Business, and Social Sciences
- 0190232 Ext.2889 (Work)
- University of Wolverhampton, Institute of Education, Gorway Road, Walsall, West Midlands, WS1 3BD, United Kingdom
RESEARCH INTERESTS
CURRENT INTERESTS:
Coordinator for the UNESCO Chair on Innovative Informal Digital Learning in Disadvantaged and Development Contexts.
Hub Lead for Digital and Lifelong Learning Contexts at the CREST, University of Wolverhampton.
Mobile and digital learning, particularly in the Globalised South; informal digital learning; development and disadvantage; digital literacy; decolonising research; empowering academic writing for under-represented groups; pedagogy; personal construct theory and participant-led research
CURRENT and RECENT PROJECTS:
* British Council Going Global Partnerships Grant for the development of a policy and framework for greater gender equality in Ukrainian HE leadership, Apr 2025 -
* UNESCO Intercultural Dialogue and Digital Competencies Project, Sept 2024 -
* UNESCO Affiliates programme, working with global partners, supporting supporting their work with disparate communities disadvantaged by one or more of these reasons: security, capacity, education, language, infrastructure, access and power, Jan 2024 -
* Tawaw Project on decolonialised research methodologies, ongoing
* TEFL-ePAL: Erasmus+ to modernize language teaching in Palestinian HEI, leading the development and implementation Work Package Jan 2019 – Dec 2022
* CiC: Erasmus+ to develop interactive collaborative coursework, Jan 2020 – Aug 2023
* HeadStart: mental health and resilience in CYP in Wolverhampton, Jan 2018 - Aug 2023
Please see my publications list for papers/chapters/books etc.
GRANTS
- GRANTFAVOURITEDepartment for International Development1 Mar 2020 - 31 Jul 2020
- GRANTFAVOURITEEuropean Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation1 Jan 2020 - 31 Jul 2022People funded by this grant:
- Hayes S,
- Smith M,
- Scott H
- GRANTFAVOURITEEuropean Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2022People funded by this grant:
- Scott H,
- Bartram B,
- Smith M
- GRANTGender Equality Partnerships20 Mar 2025 - 31 Aug 2026
- GRANTDevelopment of a policy and framework for greater gender equality in Ukrainian HE leadershipBritish Council1 Apr 2025 - 1 Apr 2026People funded by this grant:
- Smith M
- GRANTDigital Poverty Alliance1 Jun 2022 - 1 Jul 2023People funded by this grant:
- Smith M,
- Smale M
- GRANTZikamob - a model for health intervention using digital technologiesFAPESQ - Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa do Estado da Paraíba5 Nov 2020 - 4 Nov 2021People funded by this grant:
- Traxler J,
- Bond C,
- Smith M,
- Santos S
- GRANTUNSUCCESSFUL APPLICATION for Pickmob – Entrepreneurship and Informal Community Learning as key constructs for behaviour change and engagement in recycling and the prevention of arbovirusesNewton Fund Impact Scheme1 May 2020 - 1 May 2022People funded by this grant:
- Traxler J,
- Santos S,
- Johnson M,
- Amorim LA
- GRANTUNSUCCESSFUL APPLICATION for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Enabled Teaching Assistant for Enhanced PedagogyESRC National Centre for Research Methods, University of Southampton1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2022People funded by this grant:
- Amirfazli A,
- Royle K,
- Scott H,
- Smith M,
- Pryke S
- GRANTZikamobBritish Council18 Sep 2019 - 31 Oct 2019People funded by this grant:
- Traxler J,
- Bond C,
- Matheson D,
- Smith M
