Professor Chie Adachi is Dean for Digital Education. Chie is a passionate educator and researcher for the transformational power of digital education. She has a keen interest in educational technology which, together with her expertise in digital pedagogy, will allow Queen Mary to cement its position as one of the leading institutions in the digital education.
Professor Adachi joins us from Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia where she served as Associate Professor and Director, Digital Learning. In this role she led the Digital Learning team from the Deputy-Vice Chancellor Academic portfolio for the whole University. She has also contributed to design, development and delivery of the Graduate Certificate & Master in Digital Learning Leadership as fully online degree courses. Most notably, her MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), ‘Transforming Digital Learning: learning design meets service design’, which is available on FutureLearn has attracted more than 28,000 global learners and won multiple of inter/national awards, including: 2021 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence, Best Online Courses of All Time 2020 edition by Classcentral and 2019 Australasian Academic Development Good Practice Award Finalist.
Originally from Japan, Professor Adachi brings with her a truly international outlook. She completed her PhD in Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, and since worked at universities in the UK, Japan and Australia. She has spent her academic career working with researchers, teachers and partners from around the globe. Professor Chie Adachi has written extensively on the topic of digital education. https://www.qmul.ac.uk/digital-education-studio/