Dr Gabi Witthaus undertakes research and consultancy work on topics around inclusive online learning and teaching, with a particular focus on refugees in online higher education. She started her career in the NGO sector in South Africa in the 80s, teaching adult literacy in informal “night schools” in Johannesburg, where she also trained hundreds of volunteer tutors and industry-based trainers during and after the apartheid years. Gabi entered Higher Education in 2009, when she moved to the UK to join the Beyond Distance Research Alliance at the University of Leicester. Since then, she has contributed to dozens of successful funded research and development projects focusing on innovative technologies for learning, open education, hybrid teaching, micro-credentials and the recognition of prior online learning. Gabi divides her time between her consultancy work and her roles at University College London (UCL) as a Research Fellow - Education in Contexts of Mass Displacement, and the University of Birmingham’s Higher Education Futures institute as a learning designer. Gabi has a PhD in Higher Education, Enhancement and Evaluation from Lancaster University. She blogs about her research at https://artofelearning.org/.

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