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6310d3d6dc49180bbc21c498b5271ddc Description <p>Dr Lorraine Hudson BSc(Hons) PhD FHEA FRSA</p><p><span>I&#39;m a multidisciplinary researcher based within the School of Computing&amp; Communications. The main focus of my research is working with communities&nbsp;to address sustainable development challenges&nbsp;through the application of digital technologies, participatory design approaches and open education. I&#39;m also working with the OU Business School on place-based leadership in Smart Cities.</span><br /><br /><span>I manage the Smart Cities Course which was part funded by HEFCE as part of the education work package of MK:Smart, a&pound;16 million collaborative Smart City Initiative in&nbsp;Milton Keynes. I am the Co-author and Lead Educator for the course, which is hosted on two platforms:</span><br /><br /><span>&bull;<a href="https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/smart-cities" rel="nofollow">Smart Cities MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;6 week facilitated course hosted on FutureLearn.&nbsp;Since it was launched in over 36,000 people have registered for the course.&nbsp;</span><br /><span>&bull;<a href="http://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/smart-cities/content-section-overview">Smart Cities Badged Course</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;8 week course hosted on OpenLearn.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span>My research related to the MOOC has included<a href="http://oro.open.ac.uk/46951/">Smart Cities MOOC: Teaching citizens how to co-create smart cities</a>&nbsp;and<a href="http://oro.open.ac.uk/50900/">Mining a MOOC to examine international views of the&ldquo;Smart City&rdquo;</a>&nbsp;. MK:Smart ended in June 2017 but having secured funding from the Department for Business, Energy&amp; Industrial Strategy (UK Government) the courses will continue to run until 2020.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span>I worked as Research Consultant on the SmartDFrame project in 2015/16 conducting research on city approaches to the evaluation of smart city projects and programmes.&nbsp;The results were published in the report<a href="http://oro.open.ac.uk/46008/">A Tale of Evaluation and Reporting in UK Smart Cities</a>.</span></p><p><span>I&#39;ve worked for over 18 years in the sustainability sector in academia, local government and business and consultancy.&nbsp;I currently work part-time for the OU and freelance on smart cities and sustainability through Hudson Sustainability Consulting. I&#39;m also a Visiting Fellow in Future Cities at the University of Bristol in the Department of Computer Science.&nbsp;</span></p>
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