Morgan Fail

Morgan Fail is the Learning Coordinator for History at the Great North Museum: Hancock, part of Newcastle University and Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums. She is also a rep for GEM NE, leads a Home Education Cultural Engager network and is a board member for GEM (Group for Education in Museums).

Her role at her venue is to lead on the history programming for formal and informal learning through school facilitation and project delivery. A big focus of her work is ensuring that we have reach to those who aren’t always able to engage, specifically Home Educated children. As part of her membership within the Hadrian’s Wall Learning & Engagement network Morgan coordinates a large scale virtual event providing access to this World Heritage Site to a national and international schools audience.

Morgan has worked in the sector for over 15 years working in education roles in various venues, facilitating science, arts, history and local history activity.

Morgan Fail will be speaking at the Digital Learning Summit 2026 :

Collaborating virtual to the masses

Hadrian’s Wall Live is a free, three-day virtual event on Roman Britain for primary schools, run by one person with no budget and 12 partner speakers. Find out how it grew from 4,000 to nearly 20,000 engagements in two years, and pick up practical tips on multi-organisation collaboration, zero-budget event management and what makes live virtual workshops work for teachers and pupils. The session ends with time to reflect on the event’s future and your own opportunities for large-scale virtual engagement.