Dr Nicos Souleles works in art and design Higher Education since 1995. He lectured in universities in Australia, England, the United Arab Emirates and in recent years in Cyprus, and has graduates that won a number of professional awards (Royal Television Society), and have become distinguished professionally. During this time he was an External Examiner (EE) at the University of East London and Liverpool John Moores University. He is an invited EE for the University of the West of Scotland due to his expertise in curriculum development and quality control having engaged extensively with this area for over twenty years. His areas of interest cover educational research, technology-enhanced learning in art and design, design education and design for social change and social entrepreneurship. Since 2017 he delivers the only cross-disciplinary and cross-departmental unit (Introduction to Social Design, Innovation, and Social Entrepreneurship) at Cyprus University of Technology, where groups of students work collaboratively to address social challenges at their local level. Together with a small group of good friends they run the ‘Art+Design: elearning lab’ working on funded research projects in the areas of multiliteracies, curriculum development for the Third Sector, and Cultural and Arts Entrepreneurship for marginalised women.

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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1059-942X
Ερευνητικό εργαστήρι: www.elearningartdesign.org