Linda's academic and professional career has spanned Higher Education, teaching, and Museum Education. Recent experiences include being Dean and Head of Glasgow Caledonian University’s London campus and Dean of the Royal Docks Business School at the University of East London. She has benefitted from the opportunity to work across the UK HE sector in a wide range of Universities and teach at all levels.

David has since 2001 been an independent international higher education researcher, evaluator, consultant, staff and educational developer and writer. He has been a CDE Visiting Fellow since 2010. He is currently writing an online PGCertHE for a private UK University; with CDE contributing to a PGCertHE for the University of London; and co-writing a course on blended learning in higher education course for the Association if Commonwealth Universities in East Africa.   

Stephen Brown is Emeritus Professor of Learning Technologies at De Montfort University, a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Distance Education, University of London and Director of the learning media design consultancy Hyperworks Ltd.

Pete's recent research has been at the interface of open practice, OER development, widening participation and educational transitions. Pete has been working on a cross-sector project funded by the Scottish Funding Council.  The project was distinctive in considering the use of open educational resources, and in particular the use of open courses, through a social justice lens. Pete's recent research has been at the interface of open practice, open educational resources development, widening participation and educational transitions.

Benedetta is a professor of Marketing at the University of Durham. She has been the director of the distance learning programme BSc in Business Administration, University of London Worldwide.

Lynsie is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Accounting within the School of Management and joined the School in September 2010. Lynsie is also the Programme Director of the MSc Professional Accountancy, providing the academic direction of the School’s pivotal role in a venture between ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and the University of London.

Marco Gillies is a Reader in Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London. He was one of the founders of the BSc Creative Computing programme which pioneered a new view of computing as a creative discipline aligned with the arts. Marco was one of the instructors for Creative Programming, one of the first batch of MOOCs created by the University of London.

Jon is Director of Development Dreamers Ltd and is currently based in UK. Jon was one of the founding fellows of the University of London Centre for Distance Education, and has a keen interest in mobile learning, MOOCs, OERs and capacity development for distance education in developing countries.  

Professor Stylianos Hatzipanagos is the head of the Graduate School at the University of West London. He is a Fellow of the Centre for Distance Education at the University of London. He has been the recipient of three CDE Teaching and Research awards

Gwyneth Hughes is Reader in Higher Education at the UCL Institute of Education, where she leads and teachers on Masters programmes in higher education and supervises doctoral students. As a CDE fellow, she is part of the development team for the online Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching for University of London.

Dimitrios is a Visiting Professor in the School of Law, Centre for Commercial Studies and Commerce, at Queen Mary University and Director of the Online MBA Programmes at University of London. He has an extensive experience directly with course design and the delivery of a number of distance learning management programmes.

Patricia is currently the Associate Director (Learning & Teaching) in the Undergraduate Laws Programme for the University of London having joined in 2009. Patrica's work involves the development and implementation of the learning, teaching and assessment strategy for the programme specifically in relation to the embedding of e-learning technologies and the development of an interactive learning environment. 

Alan is a qualified accountant (FCCA, and ACMA), with a Doctorate in Education (Theme: Accounting Education in a blended learning context), two Masters degrees and a Higher Education Teaching Certificate. He is currently Deputy Director (Education) in UCL School of Management, and Lead of the Finance, Accounting and Economics Group.

Daksha is a medical Doctor and an Ophthalmologist by training and has worked across a range of clinical settings in East Africa. Daksha is the e-learning director for the Disability and Eye Group (DEG) at LSHTM, and am involved in developing open educational practice and massive open online courses (MOOCs) in eye care.

Matthew Phillpott is Digital Projects Manager at the School of Advanced Study (SAS), University of London. He leads on a variety of learning initiatives including running seminars and workshops on topics such as social media and data management, re-developing the History SPOT portal into a research skills offering for humanities students, and developing the Moodle VLE for internal students.

Philip Powell is Executive Dean, School of Business, Economics and Informatics Birkbeck, University of London’s and is also Pro Vice-Master for Enterprise and Innovation. Currently Professor of Management and before that holding chairs in information systems and information management at Bath and at Goldsmiths, his research has resulted in over 340 published outputs in the fields of information systems, management, operations, and higher education management. 

Simon is Reader in Diplomatic and International Studies in the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy. Alongside his research in Diplomacy and global history, with a particular focus upon on the US Embassy in London, and the diplomacy of sport, he has a strong interest in pedagogic matters particularly related to online learning and development of tutors. 

Jonathan P. San Diego BSEd MSc PhD FHEA is a Lecturer in Educational Technology and Healthcare Informatics at the Dental Institute and Director of the iTEL Hub (Informatics and Technology Enhanced Learning Hub) for both the Dental Institute and the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care at King’s College London.

Clare Sansom combines teaching postgraduate biomedical science, with a particular emphasis on distance education, with science writing and editing. She is one of the initial group of CDE fellows and has served in that capacity since 2005. She is involved in organising conferences and workshops for the CDE, particularly the annual RIDE conference, and she regularly blogs these events for the centre website.

Sarah has worked in the field of e-learning for over 17 years and currently manages the Bloomsbury Learning Environment (BLE) – a shared e-learning service for six London-based Higher Education institutions. Sarah is responsible for managing the coordination, implementation and development of Technology Enhanced Learning across the BLE partners, helping to support the use of the Virtual Learning Environment and associated technologies, such as lecture capture and web conferencing software.

Ayona is a veterinarian with a PhD in ruminant nutrition, an MA in Medical Education and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. Ayona has been a member of the Centre for Distance Education  (CDE) since 2008 and in 2014 was invited to Chair the Fellows group.

Alan Tait is Emeritus Professor of Distance Education and Development at the Open University UK. From 2013-2015 Alan was Director of International Development and Teacher Education, and before that was Pro-Vice Chancellor (Academic) at the Open University UK 2007-2012, and from 2004-2007 Dean of the Faculty of Education and Language Studies.

Christine is the Director for Distance Learning Programmes at the Royal Veterinary College and is responsible for academic and strategic leadership of the Programmes. Christine is the recipient of a teaching research award from the CDE, investigating factors impacting scholarship students’ learning experience, and has been undertaking a study that is exploring the impact of the University of London’s teaching, learning and assessment framework – ‘Track C”.     

Julie is the Head of Educational Technology based in Learning Enhancement and Development at City, University of London. She manages a team of 18 Educational Technologists and is currently responsible for overseeing key institutional projects in the areas of Learning Spaces, Lecture Capture and Learning Analytics. She has been working in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) since 2000, having previously held positions at Imperial College London as a E-learning Services Manager, UCL as a Learning Technologies Support Co-ordinator and UMIST as a Research Assistant.

Professor Helen Xanthaki is Professor of Law at UCL; Director of the International Postgraduate Laws Programme of the University of London; and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.

Endrit is a Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Birmingham. His interest is in distance and online education for entrepreneurship and vocational skill, the transition from university to work, virtual collaboration teams, augmented and mixed reality training at work.