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Dr Fawad Khaleel is Head of Global Online and associate professor in Accounting & Finance at Edinburgh Napier University. His work sits at the intersection of digital education, academic integrity, equity in assessment and the political economy of higher education. He leads strategic development of transnational online programmes and global capacity-building initiatives, while championing research-informed pedagogy and ethical digital transformation across international education systems.
Fawad’s scholarship critically interrogates academic practice and policy, particularly in relation to student agency, digital readiness and the risks of managerial capture in higher education innovation. He is currently advancing a research agenda that challenges deficit-based narratives of student misconduct, proposing post-plagiarism frameworks and evidence-based approaches that foreground context, fairness and capability-building in assessment design.
Alongside academic leadership in the UK, Fawad collaborates internationally on inclusivity, digital literacy and sustainable education reform, with recent initiatives spanning Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Global South. He is committed to reimagining online learning as a site of shared authorship and co-agency, rather than passive participation or performative ‘student voice.’
His work advocates for a university culture in which technology, policy and pedagogy serve human flourishing, epistemic justice and genuinely democratic education.