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Dr Carly Foster

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor at Northumbria's innovative London Campus and proudly affiliated to the Northumbria School of Design. 

An experienced HE professional with time served in both the private and public sector with professional roles supporting the journeys of customers (and more recently students). Now applying those strategic and people management skills in an academic role but with the same passion for identifying, designing and delivering effective solutions - digital or otherwise- to solve complex problems. Highly motivated and organised with strong analytical abilities to deliver on a variety of multidisciplinary innovation projects.

Currently researching on topics including:-

  • Service Design for analytics/ AI in Higher Education
  • Mental health profiling and analytics
Carly Foster

Key Publications

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • A Whole University Approach to Mental Health: Use Cases for Student Mental Health Profiling, Foster, C. 2 Jan 2026, In: Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education
  • Nudging university students to counselling and mental health (CMH) services: staff perspectives on the implementation of a proactive wellbeing analytics intervention, Newham, J., Foster, C. 2 Jan 2026, In: Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education
  • Student Mental Health Profiling: Using Data for a Whole University Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing Support, Foster, C. 2 Jan 2026, In: Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education
  • The Summative Assessment of Generative AI Usage within Academic Writing in a Computing Foundation Year, Prickett, T., Foster, C. 7 Jan 2026, Proceedings of Computing Education Practice Conference (CEP’26), New York, US, ACM
  • Using data and analytics for student mental health and wellbeing, Foster, C., Caldwell, J. 13 Jan 2026, In: Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education
  • Embedding AI in Higher Education: A Call for a Service Design Approach, Foster, C. 23 Jun 2023, AI, Blockchain and Self-Sovereign Identity in Higher Education, Cham, Switzerland, Springer
  • Student mental health profiling for targeted and personalised support interventions, Foster, C. 31 Jan 2023
  • The Use of Virtual Learning Environments in Higher Education—Content, Community and Connectivism—Learning from Student Users, Brown, G., Foster, C. 23 Jun 2023, AI, Blockchain and Self-Sovereign Identity in Higher Education, Cham, Switzerland, Springer
  • A systematic review on the deployment and effectiveness of data analytics in higher education to improve student outcomes, Foster, C., Francis, P. 17 Aug 2020, In: Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
  • Students’ Adoption of Learner Analytics, Palmer Foster, C. 11 Aug 2020, Adoption of Data Analytics in Higher Education Learning and Teaching , Cham, Swittzerland, Springer

Further Information

  

Qualifications

Education MRes September 01 2018

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