Phil is the Chief Innovation Officer for Project 20201 & the Associate Vice Provost at the University of Texas, Austin. Current work focuses on blockchains and badges in the context of documenting competencies & higher ed credentialing, learning analytics, emerging technologies and the design of physical learning spaces.

He is also a Foundation Honorary Professor at the Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

He is a lapsed biologist now learning scientist focused on emerging technologies, the cognitive interactions with them, & the spaces, physical and virtual wherein they occur.