AI UpskillHuman learning in an AI age

ABOUT US

Meet Joella
and Hemant.

We bring classroom teaching and education research together with curriculum design and digital development.

TEACHING & EDUCATION RESEARCH

Joella Lynch

Joella taught secondary science in the UK and Bhutan. She is now a PhD researcher at Northumbria University’s UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Citizen-Centred Artificial Intelligence.

She studies how teachers decide where AI belongs in their work, and what those decisions reveal about teaching. Her interests in curiosity and uncertainty inform her approach to facilitation and learning design.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Secondary teaching · Teacher development · Workshop facilitation · AI in education research

University research profile
Research presentation

Joella presented the first phase of her PhD research at the Cambridge AI in Education Summit on 15 October 2026.

Read the university’s account

CURRICULUM & DIGITAL LEARNING

Hemant Somasekharan

Hemant designs curricula, assessment and digital learning experiences. At the Royal Academy in Bhutan, he worked on assessment and teacher development and was a research lead in its collaboration with the University of Oxford.

His later work includes AI learning and assessment for senior professionals at Corndel and AI academic support at uLesson. He also develops educational tools and prototypes.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

MA International Perspectives: Technology in Education, Newcastle University, Distinction. MA Sociology, IGNOU. Bachelor’s in Print & Media Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology.

OUR APPROACH

AI should expand what
people can do.

We design opportunities to think independently and learn with other people. We consider AI’s role against that purpose.

01

Agency

Teachers and learners make decisions about the task and the assistance they use.

02

Research

We draw on published guidance and classroom experience, then examine how the design works in its setting.

03

Practice

Participants work on an activity they can adapt and try after the session.

04

Inquiry

Questions, experimentation and discussion give learners room to develop and revise their ideas.

OUR DEVELOPING THINKING

What changes when AI
can produce the answer?

We are exploring which thinking learners need to practise themselves and how AI assistance can contribute. Our work draws on research into human–AI hybrid intelligence.

Read the design questions and sources

The consultancy examples are separate from Joella’s PhD findings and participant data.

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