Luis Pereira

Luis Pereira is Senior Lecturer in Educational Development in the Department of Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD) at City, University of London, where he is Programme Co-Director of the MA in Academic Practice. He has more than 20 years of experience in education as a lecturer, researcher, learning technologist and academic developer and has a strong background in digital media education and academic development and a genuine passion for driving innovation in the field. Luis completed his PhD in digital media education at the University of Minho (Portugal) in 2012. Prior to joining City in 2022, he worked at Imperial College London as a Senior Academic Developer, managing a team of academic developers, and at Coventry, Bournemouth, Oxford and Ravensbourne. His research is the result of the intersection between digital media, learning and digital society. He contributed learning materials to a MOOC on Media and Information Literacy developed by the United Nations University (UNU-GOV). He looks at digital and online education from a media/information literacies perspective.