Oliver Quinlan

Who is Oliver Quinlan?

Oliver Quinlan is an author and manages digital education projects for UK 'innovation foundation Nesta.

Oliver gained a BA in History at the University of Sheffield, and completed a PGCE in Primary Education at the University of Warwick'. He previously taught at Robin Hood School in Birmingham, UK, before becoming a lecturer in Primary Education at Plymouth University. Here he led the ICT and Digital Literacy pathways for the BEd in Primary Education, as well as developing courses for Primary Computing.

He maintains a blog 'Oliver Quinlan: Learning, Teaching, Technology', in which he writes about learning technology and the pedagogy of Primary teaching. His first book 'The Thinking Teacher' was published in January 2014 by Crown House Publishing.

Oliver is a Google Certified Teacher, Google Apps for Education Certified Trainer, and presented at the first international Google Teacher Academy in London in 2010.

In September 2011 Oliver was awarded joint first prize in the Association of Learning Technologist's annual 'Learning Technologist of the Year award.

During his University studies Oliver was joint station manager of student radio station 'Sure Radio', and was instrumental in its move to full-time broadcasting and amalgamation with the other student media organisations at Sheffield Union. He was also nominated for a BBC student radio award for his dance and electronic music show 'Oli Q'.