Nick Riches
Learning Technologist at Newcastle University
North Tyneside, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNick Riches is a Visiting Research Fellow and learning technologist with over a decade of experience bridging linguistics, psychology, and educational technology. He spent 14 years as a Senior Lecturer in Speech and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, where he led education quality initiatives, taught quantitative methods, and supervised postgraduate research. His research background includes postdoctoral projects on language impairments and autism, yielding multiple peer-reviewed publications and applied diagnostic work on sentence repetition. Nick codes tools to make linguistic analysis accessible—authoring the MiMo GitHub project to help students visualise language structure and compute clinical metrics. He combines hands-on teaching, workshop design and data analysis with a pragmatic interest in how emerging technologies can reshape pedagogy. Based in North Tyneside, he brings academic rigor and practical edtech design to interdisciplinary teams.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Psychology at The University of ManchesterBachelor's degree English Literature, Bachelor's degree English Literature at University of NottinghamUniversity College London
Spanish, French
Github Skills (56)
markdown10
trello10
org-mode10
sublime-text10
sublime10
graph10
textmate10
clojure10
knowledge-management10
knowledge-graph10
sublime-text-plugin10
clojurescript10
rstudio9
ide9
development-environment9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nickriches/MiMo
Sep 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
nickriches/linguistics_course
Jul 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:175 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
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