Professor Mairéad Pratschke has been working at the intersection of digital technology and education for 25 years, as a designer, researcher, consultant, author and speaker. Irish born and raised in Canada, Mairéad has worked internationally, in the USA, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Belgium and Spain, and across sectors, from online and campus-based learning, to professional and executive digital education, to lifelong learning and edtech start-ups. Author of Generative AI and Education (Springer, 2024) she is focused on the future of work and learning, and how to meet the challenges and opportunities that this wave of technological change presents. She has been invited to deliver keynote talks on generative AI, digital education and the future of learning in Canada, the USA, the UK, Brazil, Hong Kong, Lebanon, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, South Africa and Singapore.

Mairéad is currently Chair in Digital Education at the University of Manchester; Visiting Professor at Abertay University in Scotland; Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Data Science Institute; and Research Fellow at the USA’s National AI Institute for Adult Education and Online Learning (AI-ALOE). She is a member of the AI-ALOE External Advisory Board, Ireland’s Digital Learning Institute’s Industry Advisory Council and an expert member of the Government of Portugal’s National Council on Pedagogical Innovation in Higher Education.

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