Keri Facer (BA (Cantab), M.Litt (Strathclyde), DPhil (Bristol)) is Professor of Education at Manchester Metropolitan University specialising in digital cultures, social justice and educational change.

She leads the CREATE research group, working closely with colleagues including Nicola Whitton, Cathy Lewin, Jonathan Savage and Duncan Silcock on a range of partnerships and projects concerned with rethinking education in the context of socio-technical change. She is currently working with university, schools, third sector, media and charitable partners to explore the creation of new public spaces to build capacity for economic, environmental and technological resilience.

For the last four years, Keri’s research focus has been in the area of educational futures. Between 2007-2009 Keri led a strategic foresight project for the Department for Children Schools and families. Called 'Beyond Current Horizons', the project was designed to enhance the capacity of UK education to understand and respond to potential developments in science, technology and society over the next 15-20 years (see www.beyondcurrenthorizons.org). This futures work is being continued with a two year ESRC seminar series exploring the role of futures research in education in partnership with colleagues at Nottingham, Exeter and London Universities. This work also underpins the CAL11 Conference that she is chairing in April 2011 that brings together researchers from multiple disciplines to address questions of educational futures, equity and sustainability. Keri’s most recent publication is Learning Futures: Education, Technology and Social Change (Routledge), which makes the case for rethinking the role of schooling in the context of demographic, technological, environmental and economic change.

From 2001 to 2008, Keri was Research Director at Futurelab, the UK's independent R&D lab for education (see www.Futurelab.org.uk). She started her research career at the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, where her research included roles on the ScreenPlay Project; the DFES Evaluation of the National Grid for Learning; and the ESRC TLRP funded InterActive Education Project. Keri has acted as referee or advisor to a diverse range of organisations including the the Baltic Arts Centre, The Royal Society, the BBC, The Times Ed, the RSA, BECTA, TDA, QCA and others.

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