Dr. Josie Barnard SFHEA

Dr. Josie Barnard SFHEA is Associate Professor of Creative and Digital Practice at De Montfort University, where she is School Lead for Digital Pedagogies. She is the award-winning author of six books and numerous prime-time BBC Radio 4 programmes. Her digital inclusion research is the subject of a Research Excellence Framework REF2021 Impact Case Study (Bridging the Digital Divide: Creativity research resulting in digital upskilling). It is represented by outputs including her book, The Multimodal Writer: Creative Writing Across Genres and Media (Bloomsbury, 2019). She is, alongside writers including Dame Penelope Lively, the subject of a chapter in Sue Gee’s Just You and the Page: Twelve writers and their art (Seren, 2021). Josie is invited co-editor of a Special Issue of the international journal Writing in Practice (2022) on her multimodal writing research. She collaborates with government departments and other key stakeholder groups to inform policy and develop digital inclusion.