Dr Lisa Harris

Lisa joined the University of Exeter in October 2017 as Director of Digital Learning. She runs the Building Your Career in Tomorrow’s Workplace MOOC and modules in Digital Transformation (#BEMM190) and Digital Technologies and the Future of Work (#BEM2034). She is also an Education Incubator Fellow and a FutureLearn Fellow.

Lisa has led the development and implementation of innovative degree programmes in three UK Universities, utilising cross-faculty expertise supported by industry projects and online learning pedagogies. She has had input at a senior level to research, education and enterprise agendas: inspiring innovative projects to develop new educational programmes, multi-disciplinary communities of practice and industry partnerships. She achieved Higher Education Academy Principal Fellowship (PFHEA) in 2017.

Lisa was a Director of the Web Science Institute and a Director of the Web Science Centre for Doctoral Training at the University of Southampton. She developed and ran an MSc in Digital Marketing there in 2009, and the UK’s first e-commerce degree programme at Brunel University in 1999.

Lisa has been a contributor to a series of practical online marketing workshops for SMEs since 2007 under the title “Punch Above Your Weight”, and to Digital Literacy and Digital Marketing workshops for university staff and students. Accredited online MBA Tutor at the University of Liverpool.

Lisa has a PhD in the management of technological change in the banking industry from Brunel University, a MBA from Oxford Brookes University and a post-graduate diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing. She is a published author of many books and academic articles in both ‘old’ and ‘new’ media.

Specialities: digital literacies, digital transformation, MOOCs, online learning

Interests:

• Integrating digital literacies into the curriculum
• A socio-technical model of learning in HE
• MOOCs as catalysts for change in HE
• Social media marketing in the charity sector
• The role of digital media in cultural heritage

Qualifications:

• ACIB
• MBA
• MCIM
• PhD
• PFHEA