Puiyin Wong, SFHEA SCMALT PgCert MFA

Profile

Puiyin Wong is the Innovation & Scholarship Manager, a member of the Innovation, Learning & Scholarship Team. She is responsible for the development and enhancement of Educational Scholarship across QMUL. This includes supporting colleagues in developing their practice, managing projects, and running workshops related to Educational Scholarship. 

 With a background in creative arts and digital education in HE, Puiyin oversaw the curriculum development of online and low residency courses at Central Saint Martins (UAL). Previous to that, Puiyin co-led the strategic implementation and provision of digital education at the Royal College of Art.  

Puiyin is active in the HE and digital education community; she serves as a Trustee of ALT (Association for Learning Technology) and as the Vice-Chair of the ALT M25-LTG Special Interest Group. With a specialism in community building and practice sharing, Puiyin runs a number of popular projects, these include: 

#TELresearchers & #HEresearchers webinar series, where established educational researchers share with us their scholarly practice: https://telresearchers.substack.com/ 

My Liminal Pod is a podcast where Puiyin talks to her peers about interests and issues in HE and digital education: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/puiyin-wong 

Research

Research Interests:

Puiyin is a PhD candidate in the Educational Research Department at Lancaster University, where she is also the Doctoral Researchers Representative at the Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning. Her thesis explores the potential benefits to professional development in creating educational podcasts, for the podcasters themselves.  

More broadly speaking, Puiyin’s research interests include how technology can develop learning networks, subsequently how learners can benefit from the dissemination of knowledge in these networks freely and openly. She is particularly partial to anything Threshold Concepts and the Networked Learning Theory.  

Selected research papers 

Wong, P. (2022). Developing Digital Practice: The Influence of a Learning Network on Learners’ 

Threshold Concept Experience. [Manuscript in preparation]. 

Wong, P. (2022). Building Intercultural Student Communities with the Aid of Technologies [Manuscript in preparation]. 

Wong, P. (2021). Crossing the Thresholds in Affirming My Scholarly Identity as a Third Space Professional. [Manuscript in preparation]. 

Wong, P. (2018). Six Ways of Learning Digital. [Unpublished manuscript]. 

Recent conference presentations 

Wong, P. (2023, September 5-7). The Development of Learners’ Digital Practice in a Learning Network [Conference session]. ALT annual conference 2023, Warwick, UK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZodrCge7VY&list=PLxoWy14N6f8t9qwGzsRuFVNP3vamf8RhA&index=73 

Bligh, B., Wong, P., & Brindle, J. (2023, September 5-7). #TELresearchers: From Curiosity to a Community [Conference session]. ALT annual conference 2023, Warwick, UK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pimsOT_k01Y&t=523s 

Wong, P. (2023, July 4-6). Developing Digital Practice: The Influence of a Learning Network on Learners’ Threshold Concept Experience [Conference session]. Threshold Concepts 2023: The Roads Less Travelled, NSW/Online.  

Wong, P. (2022, September 6-8). Building Intercultural Student Communities with the Aid of Technologies? [Conference session]. ALT annual conference 2022, Manchester, UK.  

Wong, P. (2022, September 15-17). The Impact of Blended and Hybrid Learning in Intercultural Community Buidling of Students in Higher Education [Conference session]. RIDE 2022 Accelerating innovation, Online.  

Invited talks 

Lafferty, L., Campbell, L., & Wong, P. (2022, September 6-8). Opening Plenary/Keynote in reflecting the collective experiences during COVID-19 [Keynote address]. ALT annual conference 2022, Manchester, UK. 

Deepwell, M., Wong, P., & Voce, J. (2023, March 29-31). Empowering agency and expertise for EdTech futures [Conference session]. Ahead by Bett, London, UK. 

Graham, T., Nerantzi, C., Mathers, B., Wong, P., & Jandrell, M. (2020, December 15-16). Opening Plenary: Creativity and Visual Arts [Keynote address]. ALT winter conference 2020. Online.