{"id":3608,"date":"2022-01-08T20:19:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T20:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?page_id=3608"},"modified":"2025-04-28T10:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T10:18:19","slug":"speaking-and-writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/speaking-and-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking and Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you would like to chat about the work I do speaking at conferences on digital and diversity topics, or about articles I write as guest posts for published blogs, please contact me\u00a0 by email at my university address.<\/p>\n<p>melissa.highton (at) ed.ac.uk<\/p>\n<p>My workplace profile, responsibilities and publications can be found in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/profile\/melissa-highton\">Edinburgh University staff profile<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Conferences<\/h2>\n<p>I try to keep track of my recent conference presentations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Invited speaker at National College of Ireland &#8216;Assuring Quality in Fully Online Programme Delivery&#8217;, April 2025<\/li>\n<li>Keynote speaker at Research in Distance Education and e-Learning <strong>(<strong>RIDE<\/strong>)<\/strong>University of London 2023 \u2018Provocations in researching blended learning\u2019, March 2023<\/li>\n<li>Keynote speaker at CONUL Research Libraries Conference 2022 \u2018Imagining the future and how we get there\u2019, May 2022<\/li>\n<li>Keynote speaker \u2018The Future of Learning and Teaching in HE in the Post Pandemic World\u2019 University of Durham Learning and Teaching Conference, Sept 2021<\/li>\n<li>Keynote speaker \u2018Open education on a post-pandemic planet\u2019 at Apereo Foundation international conference, June 2021<\/li>\n<li>Keynote speaker \u2018Sharing and collaborating our way out of the storm\u2019 for the European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN), May 2021<\/li>\n<li>Keynote Speaker \u2018Values-led Digital Leadership\u2019, Sheffield University, December 2020<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of these are <a href=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2021\/12\/29\/open-video\/\">avaliable to rewatch: https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2021\/12\/29\/open-video\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Media<\/h2>\n<p>Some media coverage of my contribution to conferences and events can be found below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/news\/chatgpt-experimentation-puts-universities-dangerous-position\">https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/news\/chatgpt-experimentation-puts-universities-dangerous-position<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/hub\/technologyone\/p\/creating-and-supporting-new-student-journeys-digital-transformation\">https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/hub\/technologyone\/p\/creating-and-supporting-new-student-journeys-digital-transformation<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"single__title\">Education technology is political \u2013 we need professionals to make it work (3\/09\/19)<a href=\"https:\/\/wonkhe.com\/blogs\/education-technology-is-political-we-need-professionals-to-make-it-work\/\">https:\/\/wonkhe.com\/blogs\/education-technology-is-political-we-need-professionals-to-make-it-work\/<\/a> WonkHE<\/p>\n<div class=\"ttfmake-embed-wrapper aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px;\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"9RojVJ59Hk\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/2019\/07\/maren-deepwell-marendeepwell-in-conversation-with-melissa-highton-honeybhighton\/\">Maren Deepwell (@marendeepwell) in conversation with\u2026 Melissa Highton (@honeybhighton)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; 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web editor&#8221; &#8212; The Student\" src=\"https:\/\/studentnewspaper.org\/university-of-edinburgh-to-employ-wikimedian-in-residence-web-editor\/embed\/#?secret=tCqHj42Ofc#?secret=I0YubjtoIK\" data-secret=\"I0YubjtoIK\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you would like to chat about the work I do speaking at conferences on digital and diversity topics, or about articles I write as guest posts for published blogs, please contact me\u00a0 by email at my university address. melissa.highton (at) ed.ac.uk My workplace profile, responsibilities and publications can be found in my Edinburgh University &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3608","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3608"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4552,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3608\/revisions\/4552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}