Rebecca Mace

Senior Lecturer

Education and Inclusion

Contact Details

email: Rebecca.mace2@worc.ac.uk

Rebecca is an experienced educator with nearly two decades of teaching across a diverse range of settings, including state, independent, day, boarding, single-sex, and co-educational schools. For the past six years, she has focused her work in higher education. Rebecca’s research interests are strongly rooted in philosophy, education, and feminism and she has a particular interest in technology, particularly the application of AI in education. Rebecca completed her PhD at University College London, where her research explored how social media-dominated culture impacts the concept of self. She also spent a year as a part-time Research Associate at the University of Oxford's Internet Institute Digital Ethics Lab.

In addition to her teaching career, Rebecca has worked across a range of sectors, including Defence, National Security, and high-performance sports. Her diverse background allows her to bring a multidisciplinary perspective to her work in education and technology. Outside of her professional life, Rebecca is an avid runner and swimmer and has represented Great Britain in Aquathlon at the Agegroup level, competing in both World and European Championships.

Qualifications

  • PhD UCL. #knowthyself @selfie generation. A discussion: Philosophical foundations of self knowledge expressed through social media.
  • MPhil University of St Andrews. Liminal Space in Ritual
  • MTheol (hons) Theological Studies 2:1
  • SFHEA UCL
  • GTP QTS Newman College Birmingham
  • Certificate in Mental Health Issues in Education, Tavistock Institute
  • Post Graduate Certificate in Therapeutic Communication with Children, Tavistock Institute

Teaching and Research

Teaching Interests:

  • Social Media and Mental Health in adolescents (EDST1402)
  • Positionality EDST 1202 2202
  • Sustainability EDST 2203

Research Interests:

  • EdTech and EdAI
  • Continental Philosophy
  • Feminism
  • Epistemic Silencing and Voice

Publications

Mace, R. (2022). Teoría de la Educación: Reframing the Ordinary, Cyberspace and Education. Universidad de Salamanca. Available at

Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. (2021). Use of artificial intelligence in education delivery and assessment. Available at https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0712/

Mace, R. (2023). A real virtual self. In E. Setty, F. Gordon, & E. Nottingham (Eds.), Children, Young People and Online Harms: Conceptualisations, Experiences and Responses (Chap. 1). Springer Press.

Magne, V., Mace, R., & Vince, S. (2023). Using reflection to increase student engagement with feedback. New Vistas, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.36828/newvistas.215

BBC Radio 4 - Inside Science. (2021). Chatbot Plagiarism. Available at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gx1g

Mace, R. (2023) E-Powering Up education: AI in education. NCFE. Available at https://www.ncfe.org.uk/all-articles/ai-in-education

Mace, R. (2023) CPD Certification Service. The March of Technology: How to stay employable. Available at https://cpduk.co.uk/news/the-march-of-technology-how-to-stay-employable

Mace, R. (2020) Times Educational Supplement (TES) How to teach online safety through almost any subject. Available at https://www.tes.com/news/how-teach-online-safety-through-almost-any-subject

Mace, R. (2019) Times Educational Supplement (TES). Why schools should foster a sense of belonging. Available at https://www.tes.com/magazine/article/why-schools-should-foster-sense-belonging