Kurt Barling

Kurt Barling is a senior academic leader at Middlesex University London specialising in digital transformation, curriculum design and governance in UK higher education. Their current work includes designing human-assistive LLMs that preserve institutional memory, reduce administrative burden and support co-creation in programme development. Exploring how AI can preserve institutional memory and embed academic values in governance and quality assurance is now central to their work. He has previously guided AI innovation with Silicon Valley start-ups and is a former Special Correspondent at the BBC.