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Biographies of Conference Chairs, Programme Chairs and
Keynote Speakers
Conference Chairs
Dr Sue Greener is a University teacher: HRM, Business Context, Research Methods
and Learning & Development and has received a Teaching Excellence award from the
University of Brighton and is Programme Leader for the Foundation Degree in
Business. Sue is also the Course Director: online final year undergraduate course with
students in diverse world regions, her researcher interests are focused on e-learning
strategy, teacher development and reflective learning. Sue is the co-founder of the
Business e-Learning Research Group and a member of the CROME research group
on employment issues at Brighton Business School. Her Doctoral research focused
on exploring students’ readiness for online learning. Sue holds a BA, MBA, EdD, FHEA and is a Chartered
Fellow of CIPD.
Programme Chair
Asher Rospigliosi lecturers on e-commerce, management information systems, IS
strategy, public sector IS and digital marketing at the University of Brighton. His
research interests extend to e-learning and innovation in SMEs. Asher is a cofounder
of the Business e-Learning Research Group and a member of the CROME
research group on employment issues at Brighton Business School.
Keynote Speakers
Gráinne Conole is Professor of e-Learning at the Open University, with research
interests in the use, integration and evaluation of Information and Communication
Technologies and e-learning and impact on organisational change. She was
previously chair of educational innovation at Southampton University and before that
Director of the Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of
Bristol. She has extensive research, development and project management
experience across the educational and technical domains She serves on and chairs a
number of national and international advisory boards, steering groups, committees
and international conference programmes.
Donald Clarke was CEO and one of the original founders of Epic Group plc, which
established itself as the leading company in the UK e-learning market, floated on the
Stock Market in 1996 and sold in 2005. Describing himself as ‘free from the tyranny of
employment’, he is now a board member of Ufi LearnDirect (Government agency
delivered e-learning to 2.8 million learners), Caspian Learning (learning games tool
provider), LearningPool (content provider), Brighton Arts Festival, and a school
governor. Donald has won many awards for the design and implementation of elearning,
notably the ‘Outstanding Achievement in e-learning Award’.
Anne Boddington is Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Brighton.
Educated and qualified as an Architect and subsequently as a Cultural Geographer,
she currently leads a Faculty of .3,900 students and a portfolio that includes the Visual
and Performing Arts, Architecture, Design, Media Studies, Literature, Languages and
Humanities. She is also Co-director of the ADM HEA Subject Centre, which we are
proud to host at the University. Anne is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA)
and an affiliate member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and is an
elected member of the executive for the Council for Higher Education in Art & Design
(CHEAD). Her initial research interests were rooted in the design and development of
the urban and cultural landscape and identity but have expanded to include the strategic design and
development of learning and research space and its relationships to pedagogic practice and to educational
strategies and governance.
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