Neil Selwyn

Neil Selwyn is a distinguished scholar of education, technology, and society whose work interrogates digital technology in learning and everyday life. He earned his PhD from Cardiff University in 1997. Since 2012 he has been a professor in the School of Education, Culture and Society at Monash University in Clayton, Australia. He is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (Oct 2023 to Oct 2027), Guest Professor at Lund University (Jan to May 2025), and was Visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg (Sep 2016 to Aug 2017). His research spans datafication and automation in education, the digital sociology of education, and technology’s intersections with sustainability, eco-justice, and labor.

• Recent Works

  • Selwyn, N. (2025) Digital Degrowth: Radically Rethinking Our Digital Futures. Polity Press.

  • Selwyn, N., Kaviani, F., Strengers, Y., Dahlgren, K., Cumbo, B., & Wagner, M. (2025). “We're already experts in school, right?”: Supporting students’ construction of future school scenarios. Futures, 166, Article 103541. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2025.103541

• Most cited work(s)

  • Selwyn, N. (2021). Education and Technology: Key Issues and Debates. Bloomsbury Academic.

  • Selwyn, N. (2004). Reconsidering political and popular understandings of the digital divide. New Media & Society, 6(3), 341-362. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444804042519

  • Selwyn, N. (2009). Faceworking: Exploring Students’ Education-related Use of Facebook. Learning, Media and Technology, 34(2), 157-174. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ856841

• Websites

  • Bluesky

  • Mastodon

  • Education Technology Society Podcast

  • Google Scholar