Simon Knight

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I am am Associate Professor in the UTS Transdisciplinary School, member of the Centre for Research on Education in a Digital Society (UTS: CREDS), and its founding Director. I am a 2023 Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award (ARC DECRA) Fellow (DE230100065), and 2024 Discovery Project investigator (DP240100602).

I research how people learn to navigate uncertainty, disagreement, and evidence, and the mediating role of technology in that. My work has explored the use of data as a form of evidence, and design for learning towards epistemic and ethical reasoning.

I’m interested in how people think about knowledge, and take action on that knowledge. Evidence, and sound argumentation are under the splotlight, with increasing availability of data, alongside a growing mistrust in the media, politicians, and ‘experts’ more broadly. Understanding how people navigate their own, and others’ knowledge is one of the most pressing social issues of our time in order to develop a sustainable society. My research particularly focuses on how people and policies implicate views on ‘knowledge’, through the ways they find and talk about information, and define ‘knowledge’ in documents such as assessment policies.

Experience

  • 2024–present
    Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney
  • 2019–2023
    Senior lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
  • 2017–2018
    Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
  • 2015–2017
    Research Fellow in Learning Analytics, University of Technology Sydney
  • 2013–2015
    Trustee (voluntary), Wikimedia UK
  • 2012–2013
    Teaching Associate, University of Cambridge
  • 2011–2012
    Associate researcher, Nominet Trust
  • 2011–2012
    Social sciences teacher, Saffron Walden County High

Education

  • 2015 
    Open University, PhD Learning Analytics
  • 2012 
    University of Cambridge, MPhil Educational Research Methods (distinction)
  • 2011 
    UCL Institute of Education, MA Philosophy of Education
  • 2010 
    UCL Institute of Education, PGCE (Social sciences 14-19)
  • 2008 
    University of Leeds, BSc (International Hons) Psychology and Philosophy

Professional Memberships

  • British Psychological Society
  • Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain
  • Society of Learning Analytics Research

Research Areas

  • Specialist Studies In Education (1303)

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