Hi 👋😊! I’m Vidminas (most people call me Vid), a postdoc on the CHAILD project splitting time between the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford and the Institute of Education, University College London.
I am interested in technology and education, and more specifically researching and developing technologies that empower people. The current CHAILD project focus is about defining and designing for agency in children and young people’s use of AI tools.
Before this, I did my PhD at the Institute of Language Cognition and Computation at the University of Edinburgh. My then-supervisors are Professor Fiona McNeill and Professor Judy Robertson. The project was about better understanding and designing tools to help teachers search for educational resources.
I am always keen to chat about teaching and learning, human-computer interaction, participatory research, and designing applications for good, feel free to get in touch!
PhD in Informatics, 2021 - 2025 (expected)
University of Edinburgh
PgCAP Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, 2021 - 2023
University of Edinburgh
BSc Computer Science and Management Science (Honours), 2017 - 2021
University of Edinburgh
Supported an expert panel discussion and showcased video with interview excerpts about the meanings of “open” AI in open education.
Clips and full interviews are available on YouTube @OpenEdAI.
Ran an action lab (workshop) on “Reinvent the Wheel or Find the Needle? Technology for Addressing Resource Reusability Barriers”.
Presented short talk on “Practical approaches to freeing university material stockpiles”.
Supported presentation on new co-authored paper ‘You are you and the app. There’s nobody else.’ Building Worker-Designed Data Institutions within Platform Hegemony
Presented work-in-progress findings on “Practical approaches to freeing university material stockpiles”.
Presented “Learning resource hide and seek” in lightning talks round