MUGGLers in Chief

David Reid Matthews

David is a Faculty Liaison Learning Technologist in the Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning (CTEL) at King's College London, providing relationship management & support for local TEL teams in the Health Faculties & Library. He is also a Product Owner for an Agile Development Team focused on all things assessment. As such, David works between central IT and Faculty teams and stakeholders. He was previously the TEL Manager for the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and, before that, VLE Development Manager at Rose Bruford College. David supports and mentors annual cohorts of colleagues undertaking CMALT at KCL; and is particularity interested in policy and legislation around TEL. He has four children and, thus, no hobbies or outside interests.

Sultan Wadud

Wadud is a Learning Technology Manager for Learning and Teaching Enhancement and leads the Learning Design and Technology (LDT) team at SOAS, University of London.

Wadud is dedicated to promoting and supporting Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) across the institution. He manages TEL development, including the VLE, and collaborates with various departments to integrate TEL into academic and student development activities. Leading the LDT team, he ensures smooth implementation and staying up to date with the latest advancements in the field. 

Wadud enjoys representing SOAS at events, fostering partnerships and advocating for TEL's effective use.

Zaheer Daleel

Zaheer has re-joined King's College London after spending three years at Queen Mary University.

As a senior digital education manager, he leads the digital education team for the Centre for International Education and Languages (CIEL).

At several HEI's, Zaheer and his teams have enjoyed making substantial changes to learning technology provisions, processes, and output. He has a wealth of experience within Digital Education and is a keen collaborator at every turn. More recently, he worked on various immersive learning projects and is keen to explore these further.

Zaheer was formerly a teacher in a range of subjects and completed his PGCE and MEd at the Institute of Education. As a keen sportsperson and coach, he currently runs a non-profit sports academy which specialises in Football & Cricket and mentoring young adults throughout East London and Essex.

Julian Bream

Julian coaches digital transformation for academic, professional and leadership staff across London’s HE, FE and Adult Learning sectors. 

Joined the University of London Computer Centre in the 1990s - network outreach and web services helped spread the use of JANET and Jisc services to FE and beyond. At a 2002 conference saw Moodle for the first time and soon the ULCC Moodle hosting service was born.

The Moodle Roundtable started in 2011 and was recognised in the EdTEch50 yearbook in 2020.

Retraining as a professional coach, he continues to help professional services staff share practice, and with the BLE enables Bloomsbury-based digi ed teams reflect and focus.

Julian is also proud to say he is a Life Coach.

Catherine Mclean

Cat is a Learning Technologist at Queen Mary University of London and has been working within Higher Education for over 16 years. She very much enjoys being a Learning Technologist which means she is OK with explaining to people how to edit Moodle (when they've already been shown numerous times), fixing things five minutes before teaching starts, and saying "have you tried another browser" at least 12 times a day. 

By day, Cat works on digital accessibility, TEL projects, gets excited by data, and helps staff make technology work for teaching rather than against it. By night, she is probably still thinking about accessibility whilst staring at a basketball game, wondering if coaching junior basketball counts as 'pedagogy'. 

Cat is particularly interested in making digital learning less painful, more inclusive, and slightly less dependent on PDFs circa 2007. If she can get at least one colleague per year to stop typing "click here", then she is on the right track. 

Sarah Sherman

Founding MUGGLer

Sarah has been leading the Bloomsbury Learning Exchange, a centre for digital education serving seven universities, since 2007. In this role, she has led on many initiatives including the creation of an award-winning MOOC to advance academic development and courses to support digital skills awareness in students and teachers. 

She also works across the wider UK HE sector facilitating the sharing of good practice in Digital Education. 

Sarah founded MUGGL back in 2012, when the BLE partners migrated en masse from Blackboard to Moodle. It was her ambition to create a community of Moodle aficionados based across London HE institutions to share effective practice, solve challenges and celebrate successes.