Roberto Di Napoli is Professor of Higher Education Scholarship and Practice, and Head of CIDE (Centre for Innovation and Development in Education) at St. George’s, University of London. His role is to lead the Centre and to support academics and other professionals in the institution in all their educational activities. At St. George’s, he is also part of the Senior Management Team.
Over the years, Roberto has worked in many UK institutions such as University of Surrey, Kingston University, Goldsmiths (University of London), Imperial College London and the University of Westminster, holding various academic and managerial positions. After graduating in Modern Languages and Linguistics in Italy, he worked at University College Cork (Republic of Ireland) before moving to the UK. He received his PhD from the Institute of Education (London) with a thesis on academic identities supervised by Ron Barnett, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education.
Roberto has collaborated in a consultancy role with many international institutions including the University of Tashkent (Uzbekistan), the University of Barcelona (Spain), the UNESCO International Institute for Education Planning (Paris, France), the University of Transport Ho-Chi-Min City (Vietnam) and Lviv State University of Life Safety (Ukraine). Roberto was Visiting Professor at the University of Teramo (Italy) and will act in a consultancy role at the Università di Udine (Italy) in 2018-19. Roberto was also Fifth Educator in Residence at NUS (National University of Singapore) in 2016. In 2018, he is Visiting Fellow of the Alice and Peter Tan College at the same institution, working with students and colleagues on topics related to curriculum design and delivery. He has collaborated with the internationally renowned MEd in Surgical Education at Imperial College London since its inception, teaching sessions on educational theories and research, and supervising dissertations.
Roberto’s scholarly interests are, broadly, in academic and professional identities, educational development and the notions of space and time in higher education today.
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