Margarita Pérez-Garcia, an experienced independent researcher, also forms part of the core project team. She is responsible for theme 1 “the Digital identity landscape’ and theme 2 ‘Functional identities in use’. Within this framework of themes she will be working on the literature review, the mapping and analysis of identity related tools, and the collection via narrative inquiry of stories of the digital self.

Graham Attwell from Pontydysgu completes the team, and leads the work with our stakeholders: responsible for the organisation and animation of the workshops and the awareness campaign.

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• Deepen understandings about the diverse range of tools that compose the online identity panorama of services and uses elaborating what can be carried out with existing tools;
• Foster the exchange of information and practices in terms of online identity management practices in educational contexts;
• Raise the levels of awareness regarding the digital identity challenges and threats with related educational contexts through a dedicated web space/repository;
• Explore scenarios for the future development and deployment of online identities in relation to lifelong learning;
• Provide individuals with an open source self-representation device that can be plugged into major Open Source blogs to help establish lifelong learning related transactions such as competency representation and competency validation, amongst others. This plug-in will also be presented for delivery and integration into the WordPress.com blog hosting system;
• Disseminate the project results to the wider UK educational community and beyond.