Norbert is Professor of Education and Vice-Dean Enterprise at the UCL Institute of Education (IOE), world-leading for education in QS subject rankings, with academic specialisms in the areas of educational technology, teacher education and development and language education. He has published widely and supervises postgraduate research students in these fields. His recent publications focus on human- and AI-mediated pedagogy.

He has held a number of substantive roles at university, faculty and department levels throughout his career including those of Pro-Director: Teaching, Quality and Learning Innovation at the IOE and of Pro-Vice-Provost Education at UCL. He has extensive experience in undertaking (externally funded) research and leading large-scale, system-level consultancy projects.

Norbert is also long-standing Editor-in-Chief of ALL’s flagship international, peer-reviewed research journal The Language Learning Journal published by Routledge (since 1999). Recent Special Issues of the LLJ co-edited by him include Language Education in the Curriculum: rethinking language education in the school curriculum in England and The OFSTED Curriculum Research Review for languages: what the research says and implications for policy and practice.

In his leadership role at the IOE he is chair of the Governance Board of the National Consortium for Language Education (NCLE) he recently convened a Symposium on AI and Language Education.