Basic details

Full Name

Joss Winn

Staff Profile

Biography

I’m a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Educational Research and Development, where I undertake research and development into the use and role of technology in higher education. Previously, I held posts as Audiovisual Archivist at Amnesty International, Project Manager for Amnesty’s Digital Asset Management system and worked in Collections Management as Moving Image Archivist at the BFI National Film and Television Archive. I returned to my home town of Lincoln in 2007 after living in the USA, Japan and London.
Qualifications

MA Film Studies with Archiving, University of East Anglia
MA Buddhist Studies, University of Michigan
BA Comparative Religion, SOAS, University of London
Departmental Responsibilities

I co-ordinate the work of LNCD, a cross-university group interested in technology for education and manage a number of research and development projects supported through external funding. I currently teach on the Level Three module in Online Journalism with colleagues from the School of Journalism.
Research Interests/Activities

Commons-based peer production, hacking, software craftsmanship, cybernetics and education, open source, open data, open access, open education.
Research group memberships

Co-ordinator of LNCD
Awards and grants

JISCPress (Rapid Innovation around ‘commentable documents’) £25, 972.96
ChemistryFM (Open Education) £17, 920.60
DUALL (Greening ICT – Consultancy) £1800
Total Recal (Rapid Innovation around student and staff ‘space-time data’) £28, 274.24
Linking You (Infrastructure in education and research) £14, 185
Jerome (Infrastructure in education and research) £36, 585
Open to Change (Greening ICT – Research partner) £1673
DIVERSE (Learning and Teaching Innovation) £39, 432
Orbital (Managing Research Data) £241, 505
ON Course (Course Data/Open Data) £89, 673
Web links

http://www.linkedin.com/in/josswinn
http://github.com/josswinn
http://joss.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk
http://josswinn.org
PHD Supervision

No
Keywords

Internet, Education, Open Source, Academic Commons, Hacking