Dr Elizabeth Heck is an interdisciplinary educator and researcher working across education, communications, and emerging technologies. She also has a background in community media arts and practice. Elizabeth has published in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in both Routledge and Springer books. She co-edited the collection, ‘Digital Disruption in Teaching and Testing’, published by Routledge, which explored the role of big data and emerging technologies in education and large-scale assessment. This collection was inspired by earlier collaborative research on the digitalisation of education for UNESCO. Other recent work includes the exploration of co-creative digital storytelling and place, in addition to working on various projects encompassing media literacy, multiliteracies, and multimodalities. Elizabeth has also been involved in various research translation activities, including developing curriculum and learning materials for school students based on interdisciplinary research and an exhibition at the intersection of wellbeing, multisensory methods, and health technologies, by leading international scholars.

First digital memory

Playing Donkey Kong on a handheld Nintendo ‘Game and Watch’.