Job Title: Director of Flexible Learning, University of Manchester, UK

Simon Thomson is a "flipped academic" (Bruton 2012) and has a track record for developing and supporting digital pedagogic practice in Higher Education. His academic career has been dedicated to advancing teaching excellence (even before it became fashionable) and his work is entirely focussed on improving the staff and student experience in a learning and teaching context.

He has presented and published his work at a number of national and international conferences, predominantly in the areas of learning technology and open education.

A passionate advocate of open education almost all of his work is available under a creative commons license (where he is permitted to do so).

Simon was awarded a UK HEA National Teaching Fellow in 2014 in recognition of his work in Open Education and Digital Pedagogy. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, SEDA accredited in Embedding Learning Technologies and an Apple Distinguished Educator.