Dr Lanze Vanermen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the Academy of Future Education, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. As a Pathway Leader, he is also responsible for the Teaching and Learning Pathway in the Digital Education Programme.

As an education researcher, he draws conceptual, theoretical, and methodological inspiration from science and technology studies (STS) to conduct qualitative analyses of how technologies and narratives change education in unexpected ways.

As an educator, he aims to bring people together and study both the social and materials aspects of educational issues. He has several years of experience teaching higher education programs in internationalised contexts.

Lanze is currently interested in critically mapping edtech and higher education ecosystems, in European and Chinese contexts, inviting people to (re)consider their adaptation in/to such environments.

Besides his professional interests, he is fond of (animated) movies and series.

Lanze's topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• edtech and higher education ecosystems
• artificial intelligence and automation
• digital education practices, platforms, and infrastructures
• data practices, visualisations, and infrastructures
• curriculum design and practice
• (post)qualitative, ethnographic, and participatory methods

Some of Lanze's teaching responsibilities entail:

• EDS405 Educational Leadership (Co-teacher, MA Global Education)
• EDS429 Curriculum Design in International Context (Module leader, MA Global Education)
• EDS432 Education in a Digital Scoiety (Guest lecturer, MSc Digital Education)
• EDS436 Syntegrative Learning (Mentor and guest lecturer, MSc Digital Education)
• EDS437 Research Project (Module leader, MSc Digital Education)
• EDS436 Syntegrative Learning and Research Project (Module leader, MSc Digital Education, AY2627)
• DE001 Introduction to Research Methods (Module leader, MSc Digital Education, AY2627)

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