Dr Katharine Jewitt is a Research Fellow and Lecturer at The Open University. She is Fellow of The Higher Education Academy, Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce, Fellow of the Society for Education and Training and Certified Member of the Association for Learning Technology (CMALT). She is the Administrator of the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE) and former Chair of the Evaluation of Learners’ Experiences of e-learning Special Interest Group (ELESIG) and the UK Digital Learning Community of Practice. Dr Jewitt has won several awards, including the SEDA-PDF Institutional Change Leader Award in 2016, supported by Jisc and appointed as a Microsoft Innovator Education Expert (MIEE) in 2015. She is recognised in the 2020 Edtech 50 Year book as "one to watch" in building the Edtech UK sector and listed in the 2019 periodic table of Further Education Educators on Twitter. She was voted in the Top 50 social media users by Jisc and shortlisted for The Education Technology Association (NAACE) Impact Awards for Leadership Impact in 2016. Dr Jewitt’s research interests focus on how technology enhanced learning can help people to develop key life skills and realise their full potential. For her PhD research, she worked with SMEs to use virtual reality to support apprentices’ work-based learning developing a three-way partnership between education provider, SME and apprentice. Her current research focuses on the strategic management of online learning in secondary schools during and beyond Covid19. Dr Jewitt is based in the department of Public Leadership and Social Enterprise (PULSE) at the Open University Business School.