Richard Millwood BSc FRSA FBCS CITP

Richard is a founder and director of Core Education UK, a not-for-profit team devoted to innovation in learning and technology, across all phases and sectors in education. He combines this with a post as Reader in Distributed Learning in the Insitute for Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton where he is engaged in developing new frameworks for work-focussed, action-inquiry learning at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Recent research, consultancy and development contracts are with the UK Improvement & Development Agency, UNESCO, the UK Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, BECTa and Apple. Richard is also working to establish the National Archive of Educational Computing.

Richard co-developed the structure and ethos of Ultralab - one of the most successful innovation centres in learning and technology throughout the world, managing the research and development of Ultralab to build successful large-scale action research projects in education. He supported the creative, ethical and conceptual thinking at Ultralab and supervised PhD students in the field of educational computing. For ten years before joining Ultralab in 1990, Richard led software development in the Computers in the Curriculum Project after beginning his career as a school teacher in the late seventies.

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