Mirjam Hauck is Professor of Critical Digital Pedagogies and OU Academic Co-Lead for AI in Learning, Teaching and Assessment. Her academic home is the OU's School of Languages and Applied Linguistics. She is an OU EDI Champion, both at faculty level (WELS) and in the OU EDI Champions group. Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Access (EDIA) are also core to her work in the AI space. Her recent work focuses on critical AI literacy skills development understood as a subset of critical digital literacy and captured in this framework. She has published widely on the use of technologies for the learning and teaching of languages and cultures and across the curriculum, in Virtual Exchange contexts in particular. She receives regular invitations to give keynotes and to contribute to expert panels at conferences worldwide.
She is the President of the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), serves as Associate Editor of the CALL Journal and is a member of the editorial board of ReCALL and LLT. She is a founder member of UNICollaboration.org, a cross-disciplinary professional organisation ccommitted to promoting the development and integration of Virtual Exchange across all disciplines and interest areas in formal and non-formal educational settings, including Higher Education.
