{"id":12758,"date":"2013-07-23T18:59:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T18:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/?page_id=12758"},"modified":"2026-03-24T16:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:15:07","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jen_sep14_bright.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nMy name is Jen Ross. I am Professor of Digital Culture and Education Futures \u00a0at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Edinburgh<\/a> in Edinburgh, Scotland. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13744\" src=\"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ross_jen_2026-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jen Ross\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ross_jen_2026-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ross_jen_2026-821x1024.jpg 821w, http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ross_jen_2026-768x958.jpg 768w, http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ross_jen_2026-1231x1536.jpg 1231w, http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ross_jen_2026-1641x2048.jpg 1641w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>I am \u00a0Associate Dean (Research Cultures) in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/arts-humanities-soc-sci\/research-ke\">College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences<\/a>, and co-director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.de.ed.ac.uk\">Centre for Research in Digital Education<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/efi.ed.ac.uk\">.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My research interests include education and cultural heritage futures, emerging technologies (including Generative AI), digital cultural heritage engagement and interpretation, open and online education, and issues of self-presentation, surveillance and trust. I supervise masters and <a href=\"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/?page_id=13067\">PhD students<\/a> in these and related areas.<\/p>\n<p>I founded the <a href=\"https:\/\/efi.ed.ac.uk\/programmes\/education-futures\/\">MSc in Education Futures<\/a> at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, and teach on both this and the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.education.ed.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSc in Digital Education<\/a> programme. I&#8217;m a senior fellow of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advance-he.ac.uk\">Higher Education Academy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This site has details of my teaching, writing and research activities. News and updates are available\u00a0in the <a href=\"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/?page_id=12760\">blog<\/a>. Please feel free to get in touch.<\/p>\n<p>email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jen.ross@ed.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jen.ross@ed.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>social media:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>bluesky \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/jenr.bsky.social\">https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/jenr.bsky.social\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>linkedin &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/drjenross\/\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/drjenross\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>mastodon \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@jaross\">@jaross@mastodon.social<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13516 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ross_bookcover-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"cover of the digital futures for learning book\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ross_bookcover-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ross_bookcover-681x1024.jpg 681w, http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ross_bookcover-768x1155.jpg 768w, http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ross_bookcover-1021x1536.jpg 1021w, http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ross_bookcover-1361x2048.jpg 1361w, http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ross_bookcover-scaled.jpg 1702w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>My book: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com\/books\/mono\/10.4324\/9781003202134\/digital-futures-learning-jen-ross\">Digital Futures for Learning: Speculative methods and pedagogies. Routledge<\/a>, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Jen Ross. I am Professor of Digital Culture and Education Futures \u00a0at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland. I am \u00a0Associate Dean (Research Cultures) in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and co-director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education. My research interests include education and cultural heritage &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12758","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12758"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13745,"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12758\/revisions\/13745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}