Margaret Cox is Emerita Professor of IT in Education at King's College London and a member of the Kortext Advisory board and Honorary professor at the University of Portsmouth Dental Academy. She pioneered the use of computers in education from 1969 and has been researching and developing IT in education to the present day, also pioneering the use of haptics in Dentistry and other Health care disciplines since 2006. More recent research includes the hapTEL project (2007-2012), of which she was the principal investigator, developing and investigating the use of haptic devices to teach health-care skills to undergraduates, and the FundamentalGR project (2018-2020) for postgraduates and healthcare professionals, The hapTEL project was awarded numerous awards including the ESRC impact award in 2011 and Research Project of the Year by King’s College London in 2012. Cox was awarded the OBE in 2001 for outstanding contributions to computers in education, made Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2003 for outstanding contributions to physics education and awarded Fellowship of King’s College London in 2011 for exceptional services and achievements in Education and Dental Education. Professor Cox is past President of the National Conference of University Professors; joint Editor of the Section (1st and 2nd Editions) Researching IT in Education in the International Handbook on IT in Primary and Secondary Education (which formed the foundation of the Edusummits).
Margaret Cox is Emerita Professor of IT in Education at King's College London and a member of the Kortext Advisory board and Honorary professor at the University of Portsmouth Dental Academy. She pioneered the use of computers in education from 1969 and has been researching and developing IT in education to the present day, also pioneering the use of haptics in Dentistry and other Health care disciplines since 2006. More recent research includes the hapTEL project (2007-2012), of which she was the principal investigator, developing and investigating the use of haptic devices to teach health-care skills to undergraduates, and the FundamentalGR project (2018-2020) for postgraduates and healthcare professionals, The hapTEL project was awarded numerous awards including the ESRC impact award in 2011 and Research Project of the Year by King’s College London in 2012. Cox was awarded the OBE in 2001 for outstanding contributions to computers in education, made Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2003 for outstanding contributions to physics education and awarded Fellowship of King’s College London in 2011 for exceptional services and achievements in Education and Dental Education. Professor Cox is past President of the National Conference of University Professors; joint Editor of the Section (1st and 2nd Editions) Researching IT in Education in the International Handbook on IT in Primary and Secondary Education (which formed the foundation of the Edusummits).