Richard Millwood

Dr Richard Millwood FRSA, FBCS, is director of Core Education UK and Visitor in the School of Computer Science & Statistics, Trinity College Dublin. Current research interests include establishing a National Archive of Educational Computing, learning programming and computational thinking. He worked on OurKidsCode for families to develop creative use of computers together, and before that developed CESI•CS, a community of practice for computer science teachers throughout Ireland. He gained a BSc in Mathematics & Physics at King's College London in 1976 and first became a teacher in Mathematics and Computing. From 1980 to 1990 he led the software development of simulations in the Computers in the Curriculum Project at Chelsea College London. He then created Ultalab with Professor Stephen Heppell, the learning technology research centre at Anglia Polytechnic University, acting as head from 2004 to 2007. He then researched innovation in work-focussed online higher education in the Institute for Educational Cybernetics at the University of Bolton until 2013, gaining a PhD by Practice titled 'The Design of Learner-centred, Technology-enhanced Education'. Until September 2017, he was Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin for four years, directing the MSc in Technology & Learning and supervising six PhD students.