Professor Keri Facer

Research summary

• Educational Futures
• Digital Cultures
• Social Justice
• University Public/Civic/Community Engagement
• Connected Communities

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Biography

Keri Facer is Professor of Educational and Social Futures at the University of Bristol, Graduate School of Education. She works on rethinking the relationship between formal educational institutions and wider society, in particular in relation to environmental, social and technological disruption.

Her personal blog, with a full list of previous projects, publications and talks is available here http://kerifacer.wordpress.com/

From 2002-2008 Keri was Research Director at Futurelab where she brought together researchers, educators, digital artists, computer scientists and young people to create prototypes of new approaches to education. She has led large scale curriculum design programmes and collaborated ...

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Selected publications

• Facer, K & Thomas, L 2012, ‘Towards an Area-Based Curriculum? Creating Space for the City in Schools’. International Journal of Educational Research., pp. 1-10
• Facer, K & Manchester, H 2012, ‘Mapping Learning Lives’. BBC

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View complete publications list in the University of Bristol publications system