Professor Niall Winters is a practitioner-researcher concentrating on technological praxis for positive social change. He is the founder of Openstrand, a start-up focusing on widening access to global knowledges in the cultural sector, through the development of convivial technologies.

Niall was a Full Professor of Education and Technology at the University of Oxford, where he co-led the Critical Digital Education Research Group, directed the MSc Education (Digital and Social Change) and is a Visiting Fellow of Kellogg College. He has published widely on the equitable design and use of educational technologies, in particular for those at the periphery of society.