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Beth Chapman is not the type of academic who simply teaches “about” education; she actively re-designs what it means to learn, teach, and lead in a digital age. With a career that bridges university teaching, system partnerships, and cutting-edge research, Beth is recognised for bringing strategic foresight and design thinking into the heart of educational practice.

Her work sits at the intersection of data literacy, generative AI, teacher professional learning, and educational policy. Rather than treating these as separate silos, Beth designs integrated approaches that help teachers and schools make sense of complex systems. She is particularly interested in how digital tools and AI can be used authentically, ethically, and practically to improve teaching and learning… not as buzzwords, but as real solutions to everyday challenges.

Beth is contributing to the redevelopment of postgraduate education programs at UC, where she focuses on creating stackable, flexible, and future-ready pathways. These include micro-credentials and postgraduate courses that respond directly to the needs of teachers and education systems. Her approach is both pragmatic and innovative: she uses frameworks like design thinking to ensure that programs don’t just look good on paper, but actually work for the people who use them.

Her current projects include:

• Co-designing AI-enabled assessment and feedback systems that protect integrity while opening up new possibilities for learning.

• Leading research into teacher readiness for generative AI, grounded in behavioural frameworks like the Theory of Planned Behaviour.

• Developing authentic data-literacy tasks for preservice teachers that prepare them to use evidence in real schools, not just in assignments.

• Partnering with education systems and industry (including Google) to build professional learning ecosystems that bridge classroom practice and postgraduate study.

Beth’s scholarship is applied, strategic, and future-focused. She doesn’t just ask what education is, she asks what it could be, and then works with teachers, students, and systems to make that vision real.