ECS research group - Learning Societies Lab

Head of Group: Dr Hugh Davis
www.lsl.ecs.soton.ac.uk

We specialise in identifying leading-edge technologies and applying them to emerging models of research-led teaching in order to improve the learning experience. Our research considers all aspects of technology and how it can be used to empower people and organisations.

Staff

Dr David Argles: Design of virtual machines and network simulations for effective learning

Dr Hugh Davis: Service-oriented architectures for e-learning; personalised and adaptive learning

Lester Gilbert: e-learning; e-research; learning; service-oriented architectures

Dr Andrew Gravell: Empirical software engineering; evaluation of IT systems; e-business strategy

Dr David Millard: Hypermedia and knowledge interfaces; contextual information systems; mobile learning; social computing

Dr Thanassis Tiropanis: Virtual communities; Web 2.0; e-learning; role-based collaboration

Dr Mike Wald: Technologies for enabling and assisting access to learning

Dr Mark Weal: Web science; pervasive computing; hypermedia systems

Dr Su White: Models of institutional response to change; the qualitative evaluation of innovation

Dr Gary Wills: Personal information environments; virtual research environments; e-assessment; Semantic Web applications