Professor Angela McFarlane

Professor of Education, University of Bristol since October 2000, previously Director of the Centre for Research in Educational ICT at Homerton College Cambridge, and Director for Evidence and Practice at Becta.

Angela McFarlane designed and directed a number of highly successful educational science software development projects, and the resulting interactive resources all became commercially successful products. Her research has addressed the role of digital technologies in education, and has included work with national evaluation projects in the UK, and an international review with the OECD. She is an experienced writer and lecturer. Santillana, the major Spanish educational publisher, invited Professor McFarlane to present their 2001 annual lecture, and they have created a collection of her work translated into Spanish to mark this event. She has given public lectures at national events in the UK and beyond, including the BETT exhibition keynote in 2001, and the Barcelona City Education lecture in Spring 2002. She regularly contributes to international conferences and is editing a special issue of Assessment in Education on 'Assessment for the Digital Age'.

Angela is a graduate from the Bristol School of Biological Sciences, where she also obtained her PhD in 1982. She has been a school science teacher and worked for the government agency for educational technology. In between she ran a self-funding R&D unit in Cambridge, returning to Bristol in 2000. She is a regular columnist in the TES Online magazine.