Role
As Flexible Learning Manager, Stuart leads the Flex team within the Centre for Academic Development and Quality and helps shape the university’s approach to flexible learning, digital education and AI-enabled learning. His work supports approaches that widen access, improve student outcomes, and respond to the changing needs of students and academic Schools.
The central part of his role is enabling collaboration between the Flex team and academic colleagues across the university. This includes supporting curriculum development for flexible and online learning, encouraging thoughtful use of digital tools, and helping ensure innovation in teaching and assessment continues to protect academic standards.
Alongside this, Stuart contributes to NTU’s developing approach to artificial intelligence in education. As universities respond to the rapid growth of generative AI, his work focuses on supporting practical, responsible and human-centred use of AI in learning, teaching and assessment. This includes contributing to institutional policy and guidance, supporting staff development, and working on university-wide initiatives that explore where AI can add genuine value while protecting academic integrity and the quality of the student learning experience.
Career overview
Stuart has worked in education for over 17 years, including more than 12 years teaching in further and higher education. He began by teaching multimedia and later became a senior course leader in that area, building a strong grounding in teaching practice that continues to shape his work.
From there, he moved into learning design, where he drew on both his teaching and media experience to support academic Schools in creating engaging, media-rich online modules. That work led to a senior learning design role and later to his current position overseeing NTU’s Flex team.
Across these roles, he has helped develop flexible learning at scale at NTU, including work with academic colleagues to redesign more than 200 modules through the FlexNTU initiative and embed flexible digital learning within mainstream provision. More recently, his work has also included contributing to NTU’s approach to AI in learning, teaching and assessment through guidance for responsible use, staff development around generative AI, and projects exploring where AI can add value without compromising academic integrity or quality.