Critical Studies of EdTech (CSET 2025) - Bristol

CSET2025 is a series of local academic meetings being held around the world in February 2025 on the theme of ‘Problematising education and digital technology’.

All CSET Meet-Ups address four common questions that will form the starting point for our discussions:

#1. What are the pressing issues, concerns, tensions and problems that surround EdTech in our locality? What questions do we need to ask, and what approaches will help us research these questions?

#2. What social harms are we seeing associated with digital technology and education in our locality?

#3. What does the political economy of EdTech look like in our region? What do local EdTech markets look like? How are global Big Tech corporations manifest in local education systems? What does EdTech policy look like, and which actors are driving policymaking? What do we find if we ‘follow the money’?

#4. What grounds for hope are there? Can we point to local instances of digital technology leading to genuine social benefits and empowerment? What local push-back and resistance against egregious forms of EdTech is evident? What alternate imaginaries are being circulated about education and digital futures?

The focus is on thinking together, discussing and exploring answers to these questions, rather than formal presentations and panels. Participants will work together to produce a short summary of discussions arising in response to the four key questions. The insights and outcomes from all the local meet-ups will be compiled into a public report.

For more information and details of other meetups, see the Invitation to Connect from Professor Neil Selwyn.

Attending:

The Bristol CSET 2025 Meet-Up is open to anyone involved in critical research in education and digital technologies, including academic researchers, independent/non-affiliated scholars and practice-based researchers.

Spaces are limited and offered on a first-come first-served basis. If you can no longer attend, please cancel your space.

A light lunch will be provided. Please indicate dietary requirements when you sign up.

For those in Bristol on the evening of 13 February, there will be an opportunity to meet for dinner (at your own expense). Attendees will be notifed of the time and venue.

The venue is wheelchair accessible. Please let us know of other accessibility requirements when you sign up.

Local organiser:

Dr Lyndsay Grant, University of Bristol, School of Education

Bristol Digital Futures Institute

Photo by Andrea De Santis on Unsplash

Host or Publisher School of Education, University of Bristol