Dr Venetia Brown

Since 2012, my career in Higher Education has involved teaching English for Academic Purposes, Business English, research skills, and project-based classes to undergraduate and postgraduate students at Middlesex University and Kingston University. In 2015, I had the opportunity to teach English and ICT at the first women's university in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. I also worked as a Digital Literacy Coordinator at Richmond, The American University in London. My passion for blended learning and educational technologies inspired me to pursue a PhD in Technology Enhanced Learning in 2018. I have explored the impact of educational interventions on student engagement and teaching practices, providing valuable insights into practical strategies and program design. Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in Mixed Methods based at the Knowledge Media Institute, where I am involved in a UKRI-funded project exploring the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and justice, specifically how AI impacts, and will continue to impact, power relationships. In this role, I lead a qualitative study examining the pedagogical components of ethics and fairness in AI from a non-normative, intersectional lens with an interest in how AI researchers, who are often underrepresented in the literature, learn about and apply ethical principles and how researchers conceptualise the impacts of AI on culture and society. See here for more information: https://shiftingpower.kmi.open.ac.uk/

Other appointments:

2023 - Present: Academic Lead for the annual KMi Summer Scholarship for Black Students https://kmi.open.ac.uk/scholarship/ 

2022 - 2022: Research Assistant on the HERoS Horizons 2020 project, where I worked on instructional design, video scripting and e-resources for the project's MOOC  https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/health-emergency-response-to-a-pandemic-an-integrated-social-science-perspective

2022 - 2022: Education Consultant for The Centre for STEM Pedagogy, where I evaluated the online training programmes to coordinate a Badged Open Course for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning in STEM https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/scholarship-teaching-and-learning-stem/content-section-overview?active-tab=description-tab