Meet the team

• Moira Sarsfield

  

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  Moira Sarsfield Director of FoNS EdTech Lab

  Send email+44 20 7594 5476

  Location

  Room 544, Chemistry
  Sir Ernst Chain Building

  Role

  Moira leads the FoNS EdTech Lab and has supported Natural Sciences staff using technology in their teaching since 2003. She works with other teams across college, in particular ICT and other faculty EdTech Labs, to make sure appropriate technologies are in place to support teaching and learning.

• Kiran Gawali

  

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  Kiran Gawali Education Insight and Evaluation Analyst

  Send email+44 20 7594 3309

  Location

  Room 544, Chemistry
  Sir Ernst Chain Building

  Role

  Kiran is responsible for supporting learning analytics activities across the Faculty. She works closely with central departments to ensure that legal, ethical and technical requirements are met. She conducts programme-level analytics and provides advice and support on analyses at a module-level.

• Arthur Wadsworth

  

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  Arthur Wadsworth EdTech Delivery Manager

  Send email+44 20 7594 5250

  Location

  Room 544, Chemistry
  Sir Ernst Chain Building

  Role

  Arthur is responsible for delivery of online learning activities and experiences. He oversees the deployment, support and structure of the Faculty’s College-supported learning technologies. He also works closely with ICT to ensure that availability and delivery of technology is optimised.

• James Dunbar

  

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  James Dunbar EdTech Tools and Systems Manager

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  Location

  Room 544, Chemistry
  Sir Ernst Chain Building

  Role

  James leads on technical aspects of the EdTech Lab’s remit, developing new tools and processes to streamline and automate our activities and providing support for teaching and assessment of computational topics.

• Chiandra Jayasekera

  

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  Chiandra Jayasekera Learning Design Manager

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  Location

  Room 544, Chemistry
  Sir Ernst Chain Building

  Role

  Chiandra leads on learning design and pedagogic transformation, helping staff to develop new learning activities and experiences and implement changes in their modules. She works on learning design, scoping and managing projects, and finding innovative pedagogical practices for online and on campus programmes. 

• Jixuan Dong

  

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  Jixuan Dong Learning Technologist

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  Location

  Room 544, Chemistry
  Sir Ernst Chain Building

  Role

  Jixuan works in the delivery functional area of the team. Her daily work involves supporting the delivery of both UG and PG courses across the five departments in the Faculty, while also dealing with enquiries about the digital education tools that are currently in use at College.

• Liza Chan

  

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  Liza Chan Learning Technologist

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  Location

  Room 544, Chemistry
  Sir Ernst Chain Building

  Role

  Liza works in the delivery functional area of the team. She provides advice and support to academic and professional staff in the use of teaching/learning tools and works on college-wide projects in the selection of these.

• Dorian Guzu

  

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  Dorian Guzu Learning Technologist

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  Location

  Room 544, Chemistry
  Sir Ernst Chain Building

  Role

  Dorian's role involves several key responsibilities centered around setting up and managing educational and automation environments. Primarily, he sets up lab environments, configuring Docker-based Jupyter Notebook interfaces to support programming courses in Python and R Studio. Additionally, he is responsible for automating processes, including gathering examination information from an Excel spreadsheet stored in SharePoint using Power Query. This automation streamlines data collection and management for examinations.

• Gabriela Izurieta

  

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  Gabriela Izurieta Data Analyst

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  Location

  Room 544, Chemistry
  Sir Ernst Chain Building

  Role

  Gabriela’s role is focused on enriching the student learning experience through evidence and data analytics. In her role, she develops insights, visualizations and recommendations to inform and improve teaching and learning practices across the Faculty.

• Mishaal Husain

  

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  Mishaal Husain Project Manager (Assessment Data Analysis)

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  Location

  Room 544, Chemistry
  Sir Ernst Chain Building

  Role

  Mishaal's work is focused on extending assessment data analytics capabilities. In her role, she supports the planning, delivery, review of creating new data capabilities and maintaining existing ones. Additionally, she also supports the design and delivery of the fully online Machine Learning & Data Science programme.

• Lola Nezianya

  

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  Lola Nezianya Learning Technologist (LMS)

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  Location

  Room 544, Chemistry
  Sir Ernst Chain Building

  Role

  Lola is representing FoNS as a part of the Digital Education Platform Project with a focus on the selection and implementation of a new LMS platform. She works closely with other Ed Tech labs, department education offices, and ICT, whilst also providing training and support for educators to help optimize the use of technology to enhance the teaching and learning experience for staff and students within FoNS.

• Nina Williams

  

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  Nina Williams Learning Technologist (LMS)

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  Location

  Room 544, Chemistry
  Sir Ernst Chain Building

  Role

  Nina’s role is to support the successful selection, implementation, and adoption of a new LMS platform as part of the wider project team. She is involved in a range of activities throughout the lifecycle of the project with a focus on enhancing student experience and supporting staff in the delivery of high-quality and equitable teaching.

• Niels Boyadjian

  

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  Niels Boyadjian Faculty AV Support Manager

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  Location

  Room 544, Chemistry
  Sir Ernst Chain Building

  Role

  Niels joined the Faculty in 2015. As the Faculty’s AV Support Manager, Niels works closely with the Faculty’s Education Coordinator, Operations Officer, Learning Technologists and other partners, to provide direct AV support to teaching and learning activities within departments.

• Michael Edwards

  

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  Michael Edwards Faculty AV Technician (Physics and Maths)

  Send email+44 20 7594 1844

  Location

  Room 136, Mathematics
  Huxley Building

  Role

  Michael is responsible for providing front line support to lecturers, students, administrators and others on the use of the equipment provided in teaching rooms, particularly the lecture capture software. He is also responsible for reporting faults and ensuring that equipment is maintained to a high standard.

• Chris Woodsford

  

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  Chris Woodsford Faculty AV Technician (Chemistry and Life Sciences)

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  Location

  Room 554, Chemistry
  Sir Ernst Chain Building

  Role

  Chris is responsible for providing front line support to lecturers, students, administrators and others on the use of the equipment provided in teaching rooms, particularly the lecture capture software. He is also responsible for reporting faults and ensuring that equipment is maintained to a high standard.