Michael Rowe

Dr Michael Rowe is an Associate Professor and Director of Digital Innovation in the School of Health and Care Sciences at the University of Lincoln in the United Kingdom. After completing his physiotherapy training, he worked as a clinician in South Africa, the UK, and Ireland, before transitioning to academia at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, where he served as Head of the Physiotherapy Department and helped pioneer technology integration in professional education. His early research led to a PhD investigating the impact of blended learning in health professions education, laying the foundation for ongoing work exploring the intersection of technology and pedagogy.

Michael's scholarship focuses on the transformative potential of digital technologies in education, with particular interest in how they influence relationships between teachers and students in learning environments. Drawing on critical pedagogy and complexity science, his work focuses on the use of technological innovation to enhance both education and clinical practice while maintaining human-centred approaches to learning. Over the past three years, he has concentrated on the implications of generative AI in health professions education and clinical practice, contributing to institutional and professional guidance for AI integration in higher education and professional practice.