Associate Professor Lucila Carvalho MSc, PhD, SFHEA

Qualifications

• Master of Science - Brunel University (1997)
• Doctor of Philosophy - The University of Sydney (2010)

Fellowships and Memberships

• Member, Higher Education Academy (Senior Member/Fellow) (2021)

Research Interests

My research focuses in the areas of design for learning and new media & technology, where I explore relationships between knowledge, physical and digital resources, and human interaction, searching for how these combine to form productive learning networks. The main drive for my research is to produce knowledge in a form that can be reused to improve the work of those involved in designing engaging educational opportunities in both formal and informal learning settings.

Thematics

21st Century Citizenship, Design – for Commerce, Community and Culture

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Curriculum and Pedagogy (130200): Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development (130202): Education (130000): Educational Technology and Computing (130306): Learning Sciences (130309):
Sociology (160800): Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology (160808): Sociology of Education (160809):
Specialist Studies in Education (130300):
Studies In Human Society (160000)

Keywords

Design for learning, networked learning, digital sociology, learning sciences, digital education, learning spaces

Teaching Statement

I teach and coordinate the following courses -

254101 - An Introduction to Social and Cultural Studies in Education - BA (Education) at Albany

261760 - Digital Education and Design for Learning (M Ed)

261765 - Trends in Digital Education (M Ed) 

Graduate Supervision Statement

Higher Degree Research Students

Current Students

• Jenny Green, PhD (principal supervisor) - Productive hybrid learning environments in times of transition. A multiple-case study in higher education
• Jessica Copping, PhD (principal supervisor) - Designing for social multimodal e-reading as a secondary education tool
• Izac Noh (associate supervisor) - Designing a framework for an AI enabled virtual world learning space
• Victoria Macann, PhD (associate supervisor) - The impact of the introduction of Digital Technologies in the New Zealand Curriculum in schools.

Previous Supervision

• Ann Simpson, EdD (awarded 2022) - Dialogic Activity: A Study of Learning Dialogues and Entanglements in a Vocational Tertiary Setting (associate supervisor) - Massey University
• Susan Sun, PhD (awarded 2020) - Online Language Learning: Design and Co-configuration (associate supervisor) - University of Sydney
• Pippa Yeoman, PhD (awarded 2016) - Habits and habitats: an ethnography of learning entanglement (associate supervisor) - University of Sydney
• Patricia Thibaut, PhD (awarded 2015) - Literacy and learning across physical and digital spaces: a case study in the blended primary classroom (associate supervisor) - University of Sydney
• Dewa Wardak, PhD (awarded 2015) - Traces on the walls and traces in the air: inscriptions and gestures in educational design team meetings (associate supervisor) - University of Sydney

Media

• 14 Dec 2020 - Magazine, Online
  Your Library Needs A Digital Strategy
  Invited piece for LIANZA- Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa Te Rau Herenga O Aotearoa

Other Links

• Personal webpage
• British Educational Research Association (BERA) Blog post- Exploring learning entanglement
• NZARE Blog post - Learning to teach in innovative learning environments
• CETE Blog post - Libraries in the digital age: from places of collection to spaces for learning and creation
• Google Scholar