Our team has extensive experience across the worlds of exploration, education, technology and media production
Jamie Buchanan-Dunlop
Founder & Director
Jamie is the founder of Digital Explorer and an educator and expedition leader. Interested in how exploration could inspire young people to make a difference, Jamie trained to be a teacher and taught for five years. He was part of the government’s Fast Track Teacher programme after receiving his PGCE and was appointed Head of Citizenship at Eastbury Comprehensive, before leading on multimedia approaches to learning at London’s largest comprehensive, Crown Woods School.
His innovative approach to education has been recognized by the Royal Geographical Society, European Schoolnet and used as a UK case study as part of the government Next Generation Learning campaign. |
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Oliver Steeds
Director
Oliver is a critically acclaimed independent broadcast journalist and works with Channel 4’s Unreported World, Discovery Channel, ABC News, Travel Channel and Al Jazeera English, amongst others, travelling to nearly 100 countries including most nasty places. Most recently Oliver’s presents Solving History/ Mystery Investigator on the Discovery Channel.
He has been nominated for the Livingstone Award for Young Journalists, Emmys and Overseas Press Awards. |
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Will Goodlad
Director
Will is a former Publishing Director at Penguin UK. Previously, he worked at Text Publishing in Melbourne, for ELI Holdings in Chengdu and for the China Britain Business Council in Beijing. He is currently working exclusively on the oceans. |
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Sarah Hobbs
Programme Manager
Sarah has a background in Arabic and Anthropology and has organised various educational expeditions for young people around the world, including the Offscreen Journey to Pakistan in 2010. |
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The design and tech crew at One Darnley Road are the fantastic wizards who create all our websites and printed materials, including resources, and make sure everything looks beautiful!
We have worked with them since 2007. |
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