Dr Kevin Burden

• The pedagogical application and impact of educational technology in schools, colleges and post-compulsory settings
• Mobile, ubiquitous computing and how learning can be augmented and transformed by the personalised, authentic and collaborative affordances of these technologies

• Technology Enhanced Learning group – FACE, University of Hull
• GW4 Alliance
• University of Technology, Sydney, STEM Teacher Futures Research Institute
• Chair of the University of Hull Digital Federation of Colleges, Technologies and Mobile Learning Network
• Co-founder of the iPAC mobile learning frame work which is widely cited and used to frame and evaluate projects using mobile technologies
• Led a large-scale European project with seven international partners developing a mobile learning toolkit for teachers and teacher educators training the next generation of teachers
• Now expanding his research into China, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia where he is supporting local partners in the implementation and evaluation of mobile learning solutions.
• Founder of the Mobile Learning Network for teacher educators and a co-founder of the MTech network, both of which support teachers and teacher educators in researching and developing their own practice in the use of mobile technologies.

Kearney, M., Schuck, S., Burden, K., & Aubusson, P. (2012). Viewing mobile learning from a pedagogical perspective. Research in Learning Technology, 20(1), 14406.

Burden, K., & Kearney, M. (2016). Future Scenarios for Mobile Science Learning, Research in Science Education (RISE), 46 (2) 287-308

Burden, K., Aubusson, P., Brindley, S & Schuck, S (2016). Changing knowledge, changing technology: Implications for Teacher Education Futures, Journal of education for Teaching: International research and pedagogy, 42 (1)

Kearney, M., Burden, K., & Rai, T (2015) Investigating teachers’ adoption of signature pedagogies, Computers & Education, 80, 48-57

Beauchamp, G., Burden, K., & Abbinett, E (2015). Teachers learning to use the iPad in Scotland and Wales: a new model of professional development, Journal of Education for Teaching, 41(2), 161-179.

Full list

• Advanced Perspectives in Educational Research
• Specialist Research in Professional Contexts (module leader)
• Ethical and Philosophical Frameworks in Educational Research
• Undertaking Critical Empirical Research

• Mobile learning
• Digital technologies
• Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Mixed Realities
• Teacher education futures
• Technology in fieldwork

Completed PhDs

• Hajah Noraiman Al-Ain Haji Jamain (2012) ‘Teacher’s views/perspectives on the use of Interactive Whiteboard in Primary schools in Brunei Darussalam’.
• Mohammed Alghamdi (2015), ‘An investigation into how Web 2.0 technologies can be used to enhance the educational supervision of teachers’.
• Amin Alzahari (2013), ‘Application of EMSs in Educational Supervision in the Schools in Saudi Arabia. How can we help supervisors' capacity to use EMSs more effectively in supporting supervision?
• Howard Scott (2016), Social Media fatigue v enhanced engagement. Exploring utopian myths and pragmatic realities of digital technology tools in education’
• Louise Shorthouse (2017) Visualisation and Immersive Learning in School

Current PhD supervisions

• Margaret Korosoc, Analytics and student retention
• Christine O’Dea, TBC
• Ella Zaouit Ait (EdD), Teacher Identity formation and Portrait Methodology
• Jaqui Bartam (EdD), What is visual literacy?
• Kate Bowyers (EdD), TBC
• Raona Williams(EdD), TBC

• Postgraduate Certificate in Education, (1982), Loughborough University
• MA in Education (1986), Institute of Education, London University
• University of Hull Teaching Fellowship (2012)
• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, (2013)
• National Teaching Fellow (2015)
• Visiting teaching scholar, University of Technology, Sydney (2008, 2012)
• Distinguished visiting fellow, University of Hong Kong (2015)
• University of Technology, Sydney, Distinguished Visiting Scholar award, (2017-18)

• BA Hons History, Lancaster University (1980)
• PGCE, Loughborough (1981)
• MA History, Institute of Education, University of London (1986)
• PhD, University of Hull, 2012

• External examining (PhD) at Galway University, NUI, University of Technology, Sydney, Hong Kong University,

Projects and grants (selected)

• Designing and Evaluating Innovative Mobile Pedagogies (DEIMP), EU Erasmus+ project, 2017-2020
• ‘From Hull to Hell and back’: tracking and documenting the experiences of the Hull Pals Battalions in World War I, Ferens Trust Fund 2017-2018
• A Vietnam-UK Centre of Excellence to design, construct and research the pedagogical impact of mobile digital textbooks in education, British Council Institutional Links Newton fund project, 2017-2019
• Learning without borders:exploiting the affordances of mobile technologies for learning in marginalised, remote and non-formal settings, British Council Early Careers Research workshop, 2017
• Girls into Global Science (GIGS), EU, Erasmus+ project, 2016-2019
• Research Engagement through Virtual Immersive Tools for Learning (REVISIT Learning) with Glasgow School of Art, AHRC, 2015-2017
• Mobilising and Transforming Teacher Educators; Pedagogies (MTTEP) EU, Erasmus+ project, 2014-2017
• British Council Research Links Early Career Workshop, Cairo, 2014
• iPad Scotland Evaluation, Apple, UK, 2012

• Senior teacher, Malet Lambert School, Hull (1990-99)
• Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of Hull (2010-2012)
• Reader in Education, Faculty of Education, University of Hull (2012-2014)
• Professor in Educational Technology, University of Hull (2016- )