Marija Cubric is a Reader in e-learning at the University of Hertfordshire Business School  She received a BCs/MSc in Mathematics/Informatics from the University of Belgrade and a PhD in Computer Science from Concordia University in Montreal. Before academia, she worked on expert systems , network management  and agile software development in industries in Serbia, Canada and the UK.

In 2007 Marija was awarded a Blended Learning Teacher status by the UKRI (HEFCE) Centre for Excellence for development and promotion of innovative blended learning practices in Higher Education (2007-2011). From 2011 to 2015, she was the course director for ITMB, the first UK Tech Gold Degree. 

Marija has supervised 4 doctoral and more than 30 Master dissertations to completion.  She has published in  the area of information systems, and e-learning and has worked on national and international research projects (COST, JISC, HEA).  She is currenlty serving as a Journal Editor of EJEL (Scopus, ESCI, ABS), and a reviewer for several high-impact journals. She has  also worked as a consultant for the  EU Innovation Council, the British Computing Society, and the UK Tech.

In 2021 Marija was a visiting scholar at Concordia University Montreal researching AI implementation in  FinTech.

• Technological innovation
• Agile values, principles and practices
• E-learning 

• Agile Development for Managers
• Information Systems Management
• Project Management
• Design Science Research
• Principles of Programming

• Agile development and management consultant
• BCS SFIA editor for data management and analytics
• EJEL editor (journal indexed by Scopus, ABS, ESCI) 
• EU Innovation Council ICT expert for economic and technical evaluation of SME projects 
• TechUK accreditation consultant for ITMB apprenticeship degrees 
• Quality assurance adviser for online courses (University of Brighton, HBS)