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Sam Sellar, Dr

Dean of Research (Education Futures) and Professor of Education Policy at University of South Australia

Sam Sellar is Dean of Research (Education Futures) and Professor of Education Policy at the University of South Australia.

Sam’s research focuses on education policy, large-scale assessments and the datafication of education. He is currently co-investigator for an ESRC project investigating digital platforms in higher education (led by Janja Komljenovic, Lancaster University).

Sam has published more than 70 books, book chapters and journal articles, and he is Lead Editor of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. His forthcoming book is Algorithms of Education: How datafication and artificial intelligence shape policy, co-authored with Kalervo N. Gulson and P. Taylor Webb.

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