Professor Sarah Jones
PhD, MBA, SFHEA
Pro Vice-Chancellor Education
Vice-Chancellor's Group
Role at Solent
Professor Sarah Jones joined Solent as Pro Vice-Chancellor Education. She is responsible for leading the education strategy and innovation in teaching and learning across the University.
Sarah is a Professor of Education Innovation and provides strategic leadership for all aspects of teaching and learning, student experience and student outcomes across the University.
Experience
Sarah is a Professor of Education Innovation and has held multiple strategic leadership roles across universities.
Sarah's practice and research sits within emerging technologies and the creative exploration of AI, VR and AR. Sarah's PhD defines the concept of 'storyliving' in immersive spaces and she has published extensively through journals and books within this space. Her immersive experiences have been shown at film festivals across the world and helped to define how narratives can be explored within alternate realities. Sarah has worked with the Royal Television Society, BFI, BBC within this space and advised the UK Government on immersive technologies.
As a future thinker on education innovation and practice, Sarah has led and successfully implemented a range of institutional-wide projects to improve the student experience for all. These include transforming curriculum to block delivery across an institution to establishing the HuffPost Centre for Journalism at BCU. In 2014, Sarah created the Global News Relay with students broadcasting around the world for twelve hours collaborating with other institutions in the US, India, Australia, Malaysia, Norway. This still continues nearly ten years on and is the subject of a forthcoming book on global collaborations by Routledge.
Sarah is an Apple Distinguished Educator which puts her among a group of global leading educators experimenting and utilising technology in the classrooms. She has worked with Google on a Digital News Initiative project, in collaboration with the Coventry Telegraph, building a VR game around the Blitz. Â Sarah was also a Google Jump Creator to explore virtual production practices.
