ProfessorJulian Sefton-Green

Professor

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education/Research for Educational Impact

BIO

I am interested in all things digital from a critical perspective. I have
worked and researched at many levels of the education system and on many
projects around the world. I have studied: classroom interactions, school
life, curricuulum change, creative media practices, youth community centres
and out-of-school digital cultures over the last 30 years. I am particularly
interested in forms of learning outside of the school, both in non-formal
learning institutions and in everyday social activities; and how these might
play a part in wider political projects of educational reform. I want to
explore how everyday uses of the digital intersect with social inequality in
order to enable learning in young people's cultural, creative, civic and
political lives.

I joined Deakin in 2017 as Professor of New Media Education having previously
held posts in the Department of Media and Communication at the London School
of Economics and in the Faculty of Education Research at the University of
Oslo. I have worked as an independent scholar in Education and in the Cultural
and Creative Industries; as a Media Studies teacher in an inner city
comprehensive in London and in higher education teaching undergraduate and
postgraduate courses, leading; teacher training degrees in media education. I
was also the Head of Media Arts and Education at WAC Performing Arts and Media
College - a centre for informal training and education - where I directed a
range of digital media activities for young people and co-ordinated training
for media artists and teachers.

Research Groups
[Platform Pedagogies](https://platformpedagogies.com)

[Young people's learning in digital worlds: the alienation and re-imagining of
education](https://www.uu.nl/onderzoek/education-for-learning-
societies/projecten-resultaten/young-peoples-learning-in-digital-worlds-the-
alienation-and-re-imagining-of-education)

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Professor
    Deakin University, School of Education

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    University of London
  • Master of Arts
    University of London
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Education
    University of London
  • Bachelor of Arts
    University of York (UK)

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • Curriculum and pedagogy
  • Specialist studies in education
  • Education policy, sociology and philosophy
  • Communication and media studies
  • Education systems

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Arts and Education

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE

  • School of Education

SPECIALIST RESEARCH GROUP

  • Research for Educational Impact