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Dr Richard Davies is Programme Leader for the MA Education Framework in the School of Education at the University of Hertfordshire, with a career spanning several roles in higher education research, evaluation, and academic development across the UK. Trained as a philosopher of education, he brings an analytic and critical perspective to long-term questions of policy, governance, and institutional change in education.
His work focuses on how educational institutions can respond intelligently to emerging pressures—including technological change, post-truth environments, interdisciplinarity, and shifting expectations of evidence and impact—without losing sight of their educational purpose. He has a particular interest in curriculum design that integrates STEM and the Arts (STEAM) in formal and informal contexts.
We are delighted to launch a new monthly online reading group on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) education. This series is designed to bring together researchers,...
Symposia presented under the theme Artificial and Human Intelligence IN THIS SESSION Artificial intelligence in education: moral panic or transformative technology? Richard Davies1, Mary...
A consistent refrain of colleagues is that research ethics committees seem to be committed to stopping research. Nothing could be further from the truth. The contemporary research ethics committee...
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