Before re-entering the education sector, Richard has co-founded and worked for ECEurope.com, a B2B eMarketplace that has previously been highlighted by Time Magazine as one of Europe’s hottest tech firms. Since working at ECeurope.com, Richard has been involved with the delivery of eLearning, undergraduate media and undergraduate education studies at Newman University. Current responsibilities include education undergraduate and postgraduate masters programmes; foundation degree professional practice top-up; and undergraduate work placement experience.

Richard’s is focusing his doctoral research on postgraduate educational practitioners’ attitudes towards technology, to uncover conditions for transforming dispositional technology beliefs within their study and practice.