Opening Out: Julie Voce & Betti Marenko

Overview

Bringing together external collaborators from across the global creative education sector and beyond, alongside internal active chairs, the series creates space for open, critical and generative conversations about creative arts education and its future. Sessions take the form of an online panel discussion or presentation, designed to encourage exchange, debate and shared learning.

In this session:

Join Dr Julie Voce (Head of Digital Education, Learning Enhancement and Development, City St George's University of London) and Dr Betti Marenko (Reader in Design and Techno-Digital Futures, CSM) for the final session in the Opening Out series.

The first half of each event will be dedicated to presentations and discussion led by our invited speakers. The second half will focus on questions and discussion from the audience. Ask your questions at the link here.

Speaker Bios

Dr Julie Voce is Head of Digital Education, Deputy Director, and Senior Lecturer in Educational Development at City St George’s, University of London. She leads institutional services and initiatives in educational technologies, digital accessibility, digital literacies and generative AI, and teaches on the MA Academic Practice in modules focused on digital education and open practice. Julie has worked in Technology Enhanced Learning since 2000 at institutions including Imperial College London, UCL, and UMIST. She holds a PhD from Lancaster University on institutional support for TEL and undertakes research on TEL adoption in UK higher education. Julie is a National Teaching Fellow, a CMALT assessor and a reviewer for Research in Learning Technology.

Dr. BettiMarenko is Reader in Design and Techno-Digital Futures at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, where she directs the Hybrid Futures Lab, a platform for design research at the intersection of philosophy, technology, and future-making, and leads the research group Technologies in Question. Her work explores uncertainty as a critical resource for imagining and designing new modes of being alive. She is the author of The Power of Maybes: Machines, Uncertainty and Design Futures (Bloomsbury, 2025), co-editor of Deleuze and Design (2015) and Designing Smart Objects in Everyday Life(2021). Her new research project Uncommon Ground focuses on design, translation and transdisciplinarity as technologies for planetary diplomacy

Hosts

Hosted by the Learning and Teaching Directorate, Staff Engagement Team

Who Should Attend

This workshop is open to all UAL staff and guests.

Where

This event will take place online. Please sign up using your UAL email and you will receive the link to the online event space on the day of the event.

Extra information

Registration Instructions

Please only register for yourself, if you wish to share with others please refer them to the event listing. Please note that this is for UAL Staff only. Only some of our events are open to students and / or people from outside UAL. Please check the 'Who Should Attend' section above to make sure you are eligible.

Event booking confirmation and reminders

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Tickets can be booked up to 30 minutes before the event. You will receive a “Starting Soon” email with the event link 15 minutes before the event begins.

Cancellation

If you can no longer attend this event we’d appreciate it if you could cancel your place within the booking system. This gives others the opportunity to take your space.

We reserve the right to cancel this event if we do not get enough numbers, or due to other circumstances outside of our control. You will be notified via email if this happens.

Accessibility

The Learning and Teaching Directorate strives to make both our physical and online events accessible for all our participants. If you would like to discuss your needs prior to booking please contact us: teachingexchange@arts.ac.uk.

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Image:Stories of Nablus, Zeina Soliman, 2024 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, UAL | Photograph: Zeina Soliman
For the purposes of distinguishing between events in this series, the Learning & Teaching Directorate added a filter and speaker names to the image, but have not altered the original artwork, which can be viewed onthe event series landing page, and as the second event image.