The MirandaNet consultancy can call on the skills and talents of our 700 members who work as full time or part-time consultants on specific projects. Practising teachers and senior managers also join MirandaNet projects as co-researchers and/or action researchers as means of gaining up to date professional development that informs their current practices. The presence of practising professionals ensure the authenticity of MirandaNet research findings and case studies that are all available to the wider profession. The MirandaNet consultancy team, drawn from MirandaNet Fellows, have worked together on many research, development and dissemination projects since 1992 funded by companies, international government agencies, professional organisations and charities.
- Dr Christina Preston: the founder and Managing Director advocates the application of digital technologies as a catalyst for enhancing teaching and learning. She is the managing director of the MirandaNet Consultancy, the trading arm of the professional organisation, the international MirandaNet Fellowship, a not-for-profit professional organisation and Chair of Trustees of the World Ecitizens charity established by the MirandaNet Fellows in 2002. She designs and directs management of change projects with school clusters and regions using digital technologies as a catalyst and designs and runs courses for teachers based on MirandaNet research findings about what works best for practitioners and senior managers. In recognition of her work building networks of teachers she has won three international awards: the European Union of Women, Humanitarian Award; the Trnkova medal in the Czech Republic and the World Academic Council Humanitarian Award.
- Dr John Cuthell is the Research and Implementation Director for the MirandaNet Academy. He has worked in association with the WLE Centre, Institute of Education, University of London, and with the Centre for Educational Innovation & Technology, Bath Spa University, where he is a CPD Field Tutor. Since 2001 he has co-ordinated MirandaNet action research projects, initially supervising practitioners holding Best Practice Research Scholarships. John later worked for a number of years evaluating the impact of interactive whiteboards on teaching and learning, involving schools in Mexico, China, South Africa and the United Kingdom. He has also worked on e-learning and e-facilitation courses.
- Francis Howlett has been the MirandaNet Web Editor for over ten years. He has a background in Education as a Modern Foreign Languages and later Information Technology teacher, followed by a spell as an Advisory Teacher and then managing projects at NCET/Becta. Since leaving Becta he has worked freelance for a number of educational organisations. Much of his current work is divided between maintaining and developing web sites, and translating learned documents and press releases into English.