Key details
Dr Michael J Day
Associate Professor in HE Learning and Teaching
Michael James Day, PhD is a British educational researcher and sociologist. He was awarded his MSc and PhD at the University of Southampton (QS2023, 78th), where he had the honour of winning an EPSRC Research Council iPhD (1+3) full studentship at the Web Science Institute (WSI). His PhD, Teaching the Web, investigated teaching about the World Wide Web in secondary schools. Michael has been a QTS qualified teacher for fifteen years, and in his mainstream education career served on a Middle Leadership Team, as Head of History, a Senior Leadership Team, as Head of Humanities and was the Whole-School Lead for Behaviour & Safety. On completing his PhD, Michael travelled across Asia and taught HE students from over twenty countries. He currently advises on academic skills projects in Thailand and is a mentor of early-career researchers in Myanmar. Working in South-Asia, including AY2018-20 as Head of Department at Payap University, Thailand, a non-profit university in rural Chiang Mai, fuelled his passion for educational equity for those marginalized. In AY2021-22, he became Associate Editor and Board Member of Springer Nature’s Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (SSCI, JCR Q2 Impact: 3.4), was honoured to be made a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (FRSA) for his work in Thailand and was an invited Visiting Scholar at Mahidol University’s Institute for Human Rights and Peace Studies (IHRP). At IHRP he supported a grant funded project to enhance higher educational development in Myanmar during the civil conflict. Across AY2021-23 he served as Assistant Professor of Education in the Department of Educational Studies at the Academy of Future Education (AOFE), within Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), Suzhou, China. Arising from his work at AOFE as a faculty-level assessment lead, Michael was made a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) in 2022. Since AY2023-24, he supports, as an Associate Professor, the leadership of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) at the University of Greenwich, London, UK.
Recognition
Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), Department for Education
Research / Scholarly interests
Education
Pedagogy
Educational Leadership
Technology Enhanced Learning
Web Science
Human Rights
Sociology of Education
Sociocybernetics
Media activity
Day, M.J. (2022). An Inspiration for Intercultural Learning Environment and Learner Empowerment. XJTLU Interview. https://www.xjtlu.edu.cn/en/news/2022/04/an-inspiration-forintercultural-learning.
Day, M.J., and Carr, L. (2015). Does Civil Society Need Martha Lane Fox as Online Champion?
The Conversation. https://www.theconversation.com/does-civic-societyneed-martha-lane-fox-as-online-champion-39602.
Recent publications
Peer Reviewed Journal Publications
Day, M.J. (2023, In Press). Towards Ethical AI in Universities: ChatGPT Technologies, Cultural Dimensions and Students with Mental Health Stigmas in Asian Higher Education Post COVID-19. Journal of Technology in Counsellor Education and Supervision. [TBC].
Phyo Aye, E., Mya San, E.E. and Day, M.J. (2023). Developing an Understanding of COVID-19 Pandemic Health Restrictions, Laws and Penalties in Myanmar. Journal of Human Rights and Peace Studies (HRPS), Volume 9, Issue 1. [THAIJO; TCI: Silver; OA]. https://so03.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/HRPS/article/view/261021
Low, D.S, McNeil, I. and Day, M.J (2022). Endangered Languages: A Sociocognitive Approach to Language Death, Identity Loss & Preservation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Sustainable Multilingualism, Volume 21, Issue 1. [SCOPUS SJR2021 0.132; Linguistics and Language Citescore (2022) 0.2; SNIP 0.55; OA]. https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/sm-2022-0011
Day, M.J., Low, D.S., Du Preez, S., and Skulsuthavong, M. (2022). Thailand’s Ajarn: Tracing Material-Semiotic Relationships in Thai Higher Education. Journal of Mass Communication, Volume 10, Issue 1. [THAIJO; TCI: SILVER; OA]. https://so03.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/masscomm/article/view/253768
Waters, T. and Day, M.J* (2022). Multicultural Mosaic? A Case Study of the Cultural Integration of International Students in Thai Higher Education during Thailand 4.0. Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies, Volume 22, Issue 1. [SCOPUS SJR2021 0.125 Arts and Humanities (Misc) (Q3); Citescore (2022) 0.2; THAIJO; TCI: GOLD; OA]. https://so02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/hasss/article/view/242516
Waters, T. and Day M.J* (2022). Thai Menschenbild: A Study of Chinese, Thai, and International Students in a Private Thai University as Measured by the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Volume 9, Issue 36 (2022). [SCOPUS SJR2021 0.42 Social Sciences (Misc) (Q2); AHCI; SSCI JCR 2023 3.5 (Q2); OA]. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01101-y#Abs1
Day M.J., Du Preez, S., Low, D.S., and Skulsuthavong, M. (2021). ‘Reinventing’ Thai Universities: Ajarn, Thailand 4.0 & Cross-Cultural Communication Implications for International Academia. Journal of Mass Communication, Volume 9, Issue 1. [THAIJO; TCI: SILVER; OA]. https://so03.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/masscomm/article/view/246159
Day, M.J and Skulsuthavong, M. (2021). Newton’s Socio-technical Cradle? Web Science, the Weaponisation of Social Media, Hashtag Activism and Thailand's Postcolonial Pendulum. JOMEC Journal, Volume 16, Issue 1. [OA]. https://jomec.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/10.18573/jomec.207
Low, D.S., Aung, M.A., and Day M.J. (2020). Cognitive Sociology: Developing the ‘Diversity Pathways’ Model in Cultural Neuroscience. Human Behavior, Development and Society, Volume 24, Issue 4. [THAIJO; TCI: SILVER; OA]. https://so01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/hbds/article/view/243179
Chapters
Day M.J., and Skulsuthavong, M. (2022). Turbulence in Thailand? The Thai Digital Civil Rights Movement and a Pro-human ‘Contract for the Web’. In Choesin, Y. (Ed.) Social Transformations in India, Myanmar and Thailand: Volume II, Identity and Grassroots for Democratic Progress.
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer.
Day, M.J. (2022). A Defining Moment? Working with IHRP and HRER Scholars in Myanmar During Crisis. In: Eain, L.P. et al. (2022). Voices from Myanmar During Crisis: Aspiring Academic Researchers Examine Contemporary Myanmar (Vol 1)
Day, M.J., and Skulsuthavong, M. (2021). Towards Social Transformation in Thailand: Orwellian Power Struggles and ‘Digital’ Human Rights Under the Socio-technical Thai Internet Panopticon. In Choesin, Y., Seekins, D., Takeda, M. (Eds.) Social Transformations in India, Myanmar and Thailand: Volume I, Social Political and Ecological Perspectives.
Presentations
Day, M.J., and Skulsuthavong, M. (2019). Web Science in SE Asia: Cultivating a ‘Thai Digital Renaissance’ Through (Re)Introducing an Interdisciplinary Science in Higher Education
Proceedings of the 7th Annual ANPOR Conference: Power of Public Opinion and Multicultural Communication Toward Global Transformation. Chiang Mai. Thailand. https://journal.anpor.net/index.php/proceedings/article/view/121
Day, M.J., Carr, L., and Halford, S. (2015). Developing the ‘Pro-human’ Web. Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci’15), University of Oxford. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Oxford, United Kingdom. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2786451.2786458