Academy Fellow

Neil Selwyn is a professor in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne – having previously worked in the Institute of Education, London and the Cardiff School of Social Sciences. He has spent the past 30 years researching the integration of digital technology into schools, universities and adult learning.

Neil is recognised as a leading international researcher in the area of digital education – with particular expertise in the ‘real-life’ constraints and problems faced when technology-based education is implemented. He is currently working on nationally-funded projects examining the roll-out of educational data and learning analytics, AI technologies, and the changing nature of teachers’ digital work.

Neil’s work brings together several social science approaches to bear on digital technology and education – including sociology, media and communication studies – and he is recognised as one of the founding names in the field of critical studies of education and technology. He was an early contributor to the area of digital sociology, and is passionate about bringing social science perspectives into public, policy and industry discussions around the role of digital technologies in everyday life.

2023-2025: Honorary Research Fellow: Department of Education, University of Oxford

1. Selwyn, N. (2025).  Digital degrowth: radically rethinking our digital futures. Polity, Cambridge, UK

2. Pangrazio, L. and Selwyn, N.  (2023).  Critical data literacies. MIT Press, New York

3. Andrejevic, M. and Selwyn, N.  (2022).  Facial recognition. Polity, Cambridge, UK

4. Selwyn, N. (2019).  Should robots replace teachers? Polity, Cambridge, UK

5. Selwyn, N. (2019).  What is digital sociology? Polity, Cambridge, UK