Stephanie (Charlie) Farley is the Open Education Resource Advisor in our Educational Design and Engagement team, providing support and training in the creation and use of OER across the University and maintains the Open.Ed webpages.

Charlie created the ISG Playful Engagement strategy in 2019 through an ISG Innovation Fund project. Other playful activities she’s involved in including leading on the 23 Things for Digital Knowledge programme, and running a variety of engaging game jams and gif workshops.

She also works closely with the Geoscience Outreach course organisers and students to facilitate the student creation of OERs in collaboration with local schools and community groups. You can view the OEGlobal award winning collection of student made OERs on our TES repository: University of Edinburgh’s Open.Ed Open Educational Resources on TES

Twitter:  @SFarley_Charlie

Ayaan Ahmed  is a Design for Change (ECA) postgraduate student working with the OER Service as a Playful Engagement Intern (2023/24). He is working on the ISG Playful Engagement strategy along with Charlie, with the aim to update it along the changes that have happened to the workspace since 2019.

Ayaan specializes in Textile and Fashion design, while he has also worked  ethnographically with the craft community in India. He is a Student Ambassador at the University of Edinburgh and works on creating an inclusive and welcoming student community at the University. 

he believes in the philosophy of ‘research as action’ which promotes making the research process as an active act of change making. He has been working on the strategy, while aiming to bring in design-oriented skills such as user experience empathy mapping and cultural probes, in order to make the research process playful and creative.

LinkedIn: @ayaan-ahmed-9174a81ab