Chie Adachi

Profile

Professor Chie Adachi is the Dean for Digital Education within the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and the Interim Academic Director for the Centre for Excellence in AI in Education at Queen Mary University of London. She provides strategic leadership both for the Faculty and AI Centre to advance the practice and paradigm of digital pedagogy and educational technologies, such as AI, into teaching at universities.

Within the Faculty, she leads the Digital Education Studio, a comprehensive multi-disciplinary team of academics and professionals to carry out both strategic and operational work of transforming digital education practices within the Faculty and beyond.

She holds the Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA) and also serves as a CODE (Centre for Online and Distance Education) Fellow at University of London.

Her MOOC, on FutureLearn, “Transforming Digital Learning: Learning design meets service design” has attracted more than 29,000 global learners worldwide and won multiple international awards, including ‘Best Online Courses of All Time 2020 edition’ by Classcentral. This short course provided a large-scale professional development opportunity for those teachers and professionals pivoting to teaching online globally through the pandemic. Formerly at Deakin University, Australia, her work involved in leading the multidisciplinary teams to drive a number of innovation projects for digital education within the university. She is also a co-founder of TELedvisors, Special Interest Group under ASCILITE.

Find out more about Chie:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chie-adachi/

Research

Research Interests:

Her research interests lie at the intersection of critical digital pedagogy, educational technology and interculturalism in re-thinking how they might enhance teaching and learning practice in higher education. She has published extensively on the areas related to digital education, digital assessment and feedback and leadership.

Examples of research funding:

SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS & AWARDS

2026 Roger Mills Prize for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (winner) – ‘CARE as value-led digital education transformation - Online MA Medical Education’ by Centre for Online and Distance Education (CODE), University of London, with Tom Hinks, Dr Annie Noble-Deny, Michael Page, Digital Education Studio team.

2025 Educational Excellence and Innovation in STEM award – ‘Healthcare Leadership Foundations’ course, by Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance Award, with Drs Vanessa Muirhead, Cecilia Gonzalez-Marin, Jorge Freire and the Digital Education Studio team.

Preparing Future Clinicians: An Innovative Co-created Framework for Embedding Artificial Intelligence in MBBS and BDS curricula. The President and Principal’s Fund for Educational Excellence, Queen Mary University of London (value GBP£20,000)

Healthcare Education Grant by Meta x Bodyswaps (value GBP£26,000)

“How might we enable human dimension learning in medical education?” – Della Fish Foundation grant – Educational opportunities for Postgraduate Medical Education in the Moral Mode of Practice (value GBP£100,000)

2024 “The Roger Mills Award for Innovation in Learning and Teaching” Joint-runner up, by University of London, “Innovating digital and transnational pedagogy in digital health – co-creation of an online programme between UK and Egypt”

2023 Excellence in Digital Health Education award, Medtech-world conference Malta

Empowering Skill-Based Education through Virtual Reality. The President and Principal’s Fund for Educational Excellence, Queen Mary University of London (value GBP£20,000)

What is flourishing made of?" - exploring and creating spaces and places for human flourishing. The President and Principal’s Fund for Educational Excellence, Queen Mary University of London (value GBP£20,000)

2022 Empowering Digital Health. In collaboration with Ain Shams University, Egypt. British Council, Going Global Partnership Grant. (value GBP£30,000 notified in January)

2021 University of Queensland, School of Business Education Grant: Co-creating Education Pathways: What do industry partners need from microcredentials? from University of Queensland (value AUD$10,000 notified in June)

Faculty Research Support Scheme: Mapping initiatives to support Vietnamese international students in online and blended learning delivered by Victoria-based universities and TAFEs’ from Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University (value AUD$9,826 notified in August)

Vice-Chancellor’s Award: Outstanding contributions to Education and Employability – Teaching Excellence, Transforming Digital Learning: The MOOC team, Deakin University

Vice-Chancellor’s Award: Outstanding contributions to the Way We Work – Assignment Extension Tool Remediation Project, Deakin University

Vice-Chancellor’s Award: Outstanding contributions to the Way We Work –Transition from a paper-based exam assessments model to computer-based assessments, Deakin University

2020 The Best Online Courses of All Time 2020 award: the MOOC Transforming Digital Learning by Class central

2019 Australasian Academic Development Good Practice Award finalist, Advancing Academic Development, CAULLT

2017 Vice-Chancellor’s Award: Outstanding contributions in teaching excellence – Teaching Team of the Year, as part of the FutureLearn project with the Graduate Certificate in Diabetes Education (with Faculty of Health, Deakin University)

Vice-Chancellor’s Award: Outstanding contributions in teaching excellence, as part of the FutureLearn project with the IT Leadership, ‘Career Smart’ MOOC, (with Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment, Deakin University)

Vice-Chancellor’s Award: Highly Commended, as part of the SmartSparrow, Personalised Learning project (with Faculty of Business and Law, Deakin University)

Australian Council on Open, Distance and E-learning (ACODE) Learning Technologies Leadership Institute – 5-day program attendance from Deakin Learning Futures, Deakin University (value AUS $3500 notified in August)

2016 Central Research Grant: ‘Practising and assessing Digital Literacy (Deakin Graduate Learning Outcome 3) through the use of educational technology’ from Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University (value AUS$10,000 notified in October)

2014 Internal Research Grant: ‘Language Aspirations and Identity at Batchelor Institute’ from Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education (value AUS $5240 notified in March)

Documentation Navlipi 2014 grant from Foundation for Endangered Languages (with Dr Sue Stanton and Rena Stanton) (approx. value AUS $1000 notified February)

Research Support Grant (one interstate conference and one international conference attendance support) from Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education (approx. value AUS$ 4000 notified January)

2013 Research Support Grant (conference attendance support) from Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education (approx. value AUS$ 2000 notified August)

Conference bursary grant from Western and Northern Aboriginal Language Alliance Wanala Conference (travel, accommodation and conference registration fee notified June)

2010 Research Support Grant from School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences (value GBP 500 notified June 10)

ESRC/RES810-21-0068 International Training and Networking Opportunities Grant: Summer School of Sociolinguistics 2010 (with Prof Miriam Meyerhoff and Anna Strycharz-Banaś) (approx. value GBP 40,000 notified May 2009)

2008 Research Support Grant from School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences (value GBP 500 notified 11^th December 08)

Publication Aid Scholarship from The Ministry of Education, Japan (value JPY 300,000 notified 6^th June 08)

IGALA: International Gender and Language Conference bursary (value NZ$ 350, notified 7^th May 08)

IGALA: International Gender and Language Conference Cable Price New Zealand Ltd Registration bursary (value NZ$ 150, notified 20^th March 08)

Research Support Grant from School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences (value GBP 612.40 notified 7^th May 08)

2007 Japanese federal governmental scholarship, The Ministry of Education. Three years tuition fees (GBP 10,000 annual), plus monthly stipend (GBP 700-1000 pm) and travel. Prior to applying for this scholarship, I was also involved with establishing the basis programme at Kumamoto University for students to be able to apply for the scholarship.

2005 Kumamoto University Studying Abroad Aid Scholarship (JPY 200,000 notified October 05)

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