Stephen’s “eyes on the horizon, feet on the ground” approach, coupled with a vast portfolio of effective large scale projects over three decades, have established him internationally as a widely and fondly recognized leader in the fields of learning, new media and technology.

Stephen has worked, and is working, with governments around the world, with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies, with schools and communities, with his PhD students and with many influential trusts and organisations.

In recognition of all this work, along with just 51 others including Damien Hirst, Jarvis Cocker, Harrison Ford, Lauren Bacall, Muhammad Ali, Stephen became an Apple Master in the 1990s.

Stephen was a founder board member for Teachers.TV – a UK public service TV and broadband channel for professional development of teachers; he sits on the board of the UK’s Skillset – guiding professional development and training in the Creative Industries; he sits on BAFTA’s Board of Trustees and Council having formerly chaired it’s Technical Innovation Jury, sat on its Film Committee, and sits on Channel 4 TV’s Education Advisory group. Indeed Stephen sits on quite a number of steering and advisory boards – like the UK Science Museum’s “Making Modern Communications Advisory Panel”. He is a member of the Adobe Education Leader Program. Stephen sits on the Advisory Board of Educurious Partners, Inc., and is Technology Advisor to the GEMS Education in Dubai.

Stephen holds the chair on New Media Environments at the Centre for Excellence for Media Practice at Bournemouth University, where all his PhD students are currently based – Stephen’s eclectic activities there range from support for new pedagogic approaches to air traffic control education through to helping develop a manifesto for media education.

Complementing the work designing on-line communities, Stephen is at the heart of a global revolution in physical learning space design, with a string of major new building projects worldwide including a 0-21+ academy in the UK and a complete makeover of a national education system in the Caribbean. His research project in 2003 exploring for CABE and RIBA in the UK on the impact of new pedagogies on the design of learning spaces kickstarted a new rhetoric of school design in the UK and beyond. Stephen is designing, with his daughter Juliette, a signature suite of school furniture with Isis.

Stephen is, and has been, a regular face on TV – from Newsnight to the BBC Breakfast sofa and Sky News, to Channel 4′s Things to Come – and on radio too: from BBC Radio 4′s You and Yours to the Steve Wright Show – or even back to Phil Miles on Australia’s Island Sound radio in 1992!