Dr Darren Mundy

Professor Darren Mundy

Dean, Faculty of Arts, Cultures and Education

+44 (0)1482 462186 | D.Mundy@hull.ac.uk

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Arts Cultures and Education
  • Faculty of Arts Cultures and Education Office

Related groups

  • Faculty of Arts Cultures and Education Office

Summary

Darren is currently Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Cultures and Education, having joined the University in 2003 and progressed through roles such as Head of School, Associate Principal and Associate Dean. Darren is passionate for the use of technology in overcoming barriers to learning in Higher Education and other contexts.

Darren's work in the educational technologies area has moved from technologies designed to generate greater engagement with learning content (The Wild Thing; PAM-PAM; Augmented lectures etc.), through environments designed to facilitate different types of learning for students (The Euroversity project), to a focus on enabling individuals to develop the literacies they need to utilise technology and technology platforms in ways to strengthen their lifelong approaches to learning (The DETECT project, https://www.detectproject.eu/).

In addition to his work in the educational technology area Darren's has a disciplinary focus on research linked to information security, privacy and digital communications (primarily linked to the use of platforms e.g. social media, to engage users)

He has supervised several postgraduate students through to successful completion of studies at the University of Hull.

Darren has also been involved in a number of externally funded innovation projects focused around the innovative use of information technologies and digital media to support business services and has more than 45 published articles.

Darren was responsible for the initial authorship of Games Design provision at the University of Hull and has taught within the Screen area across modules linked to web design through to Games Art and Development for the past 20 years.

Recent outputs

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Journal Article

Examining the role of Social Networking Sites representation in optimising digital transformation: Challenges from the Egyptian Context

Mundy, D., & Arslan, M. (in press). Examining the role of Social Networking Sites representation in optimising digital transformation: Challenges from the Egyptian Context. Electronic Government,

Critical digital literacies at school level: A systematic review

Ilomäki, L., Lakkala, M., Kallunki, V., Mundy, D., Romero, M., Romeu, T., & Gouseti, A. (2023). Critical digital literacies at school level: A systematic review. Review of Education, 11(3), Article e3425. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3425

Anastasia Gouseti

Re-thinking technology and its growing role in enabling patient empowerment

Akeel, A. U., & Mundy, D. (2019). Re-thinking technology and its growing role in enabling patient empowerment. Health Informatics Journal, 25(4), 1278-1289. https://doi.org/10.1177/1460458217751013

Report

Schools' perceptions and experiences of critical digital literacies across four European countries - DETECT project report 2

Gouseti, A., Bruni, I., Ilomäki, L., Lakkala, M., Mundy, D., Elisa Raffaghelli, J., Ranieri, M., Roffi, A., Romero, M., & Romeu, T. (2021). Schools' perceptions and experiences of critical digital literacies across four European countries - DETECT project report 2. Erasmus+

Anastasia Gouseti

Critical Digital Literacies framework for educators - DETECT project report 1

Gouseti, A., Bruni, I., Ilomäki, L., Lakkala, M., Mundy, D., Raffaghelli, J. E., Ranieri, M., Roffi, A., Romero, M., & Romeu, T. (2021). Critical Digital Literacies framework for educators - DETECT project report 1. Erasmus+

Anastasia Gouseti

Research interests

- Educational Technology

- Social media

- eGovernment communications and web-based channel shift

- Internet/information/web security

- Privacy technologies

- eHealth

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Who moved my block? Projection Mapped Games Environments

Funder

AHRC Arts & Humanities Research Council

Grant

£11,420.00

Started

1 October 2019

Status

Complete

Co-investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

DEveloping TEachers’ Critical digital liTeracies

Funder

EC European Commission

Grant

£69,318.00

Started

1 September 2019

Status

Ongoing

Postgraduate supervision

I welcome applications in areas related to information security; eGovernment; social media; game design, and eHealth.

Completed PhDs

Dr Mundy has supervised eight postgraduate students through to successful completion of studies at the University of Hull.

- David Webster, PhD, 2010

- Robert Costello, PhD 2013

- Amna Asmi, PhD, 2015

- Yunxi Zhang, PhD, 2015

- Majed Balela, PhD, 2018

- Aisha Umar, PhD, 2019

- Mona Arslan, PhD, 2020

- Ahmad Alsolami, PhD, 2023

and has also supervised the following Masters by research students to completion.

- Qasim Umer, MSc by Research, 2013

- John Paul Bailey, MSc by Research, 2014

- Jason Hayhurst, MSc by Research, 2015

- Violeta Careva, MSc by Research, 2017

External examiner role

External Examiner (November 2020 - current) MSA Cairo – University of Bedfordshire, (Graphic Design and Media)

2020

External Examiner (November 2020 - current) MSA Cairo – University of Bedfordshire, (Graphic Design and Media)

External Examiner - Coventry University, London and Scarborough campuses (BSc Cyber Security)

2017 - 2022

External Examiner - Coventry University, London and Scarborough campuses (BSc Cyber Security)

External examiner - University of Ulster (Collaborative FSc in Computing, Multimedia and Business)

2013 - 2017

External examiner - University of Bolton (BSc Web Development programmes)

2013 - 2017

Other

Co-manager of EU Funded Euroversity Network

2015

Co-management of the EU-funded Euroversity Network with Dr Luisa Panichi (Università di Pisa) and Marina Mozzon-McPherson (University of Hull).

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