Dr. Imogen Casebourne is the research lead at the Innovation Lab at the Digital Education Futures Initiative (DEFI) at the Bridge, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. She has a DPhil in Education (Oxon) and an MSc in Artificial Intelligence, during which she developed an AI program that wrote short stories (Sharples & Pérez y Pérez, 2023 p.8-10). She is currently co-editing a book for Springer on AI and Education and recently co-authored a paper on AI and Collective Intelligence (forthcoming). In 2023, she designed and taught a short introductory course on AI and Education for students at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. 

She works alongside DEFI’s futurist, UNESCO Futures Chair Dr. Abu Sitta, on DEFI’s Horizon Scanning and Futures thinking projects. She is also an award-winning instructional designer and is a co-convener of the BERA special interest group dedicated to AI and intelligence.