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Dr Carly Foster

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor at Northumbria's innovative London Campus and proudly affiliated to the Northumbria School of Design. 

An experienced HE professional with time served in both the private and public sector with professional roles supporting the journeys of customers (and more recently students). Now applying those strategic and people management skills in an academic role but with the same passion for identifying, designing and delivering effective solutions - digital or otherwise- to solve complex problems. Highly motivated and organised with strong analytical abilities to deliver on a variety of multidisciplinary innovation projects.

Currently researching on topics including:-

  • Service Design for analytics/ AI in Higher Education
  • Mental health profiling and analytics
Carly Foster

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Embedding AI in Higher Education: A Call for a Service Design Approach, Foster, C. 23 Jun 2023, AI, Blockchain and Self-Sovereign Identity in Higher Education, Cham, Switzerland, Springer
  • Student mental health profiling for targeted and personalised support interventions, Foster, C. 31 Jan 2023
  • The Use of Virtual Learning Environments in Higher Education—Content, Community and Connectivism—Learning from Student Users, Brown, G., Foster, C. 23 Jun 2023, AI, Blockchain and Self-Sovereign Identity in Higher Education, Cham, Switzerland, Springer
  • A systematic review on the deployment and effectiveness of data analytics in higher education to improve student outcomes, Foster, C., Francis, P. 17 Aug 2020, In: Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
  • Students’ Adoption of Learner Analytics, Palmer Foster, C. 11 Aug 2020, Adoption of Data Analytics in Higher Education Learning and Teaching , Cham, Swittzerland, Springer
  • Thinking Critically About Learning Analytics, Student Outcomes and Equity of Attainment, Francis, P., Broughan, C., Foster, C., Wilson, C. 17 Aug 2020, In: Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

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