Dr Carolina Valladares Celis
BA, MSc, PhD
Expertise
My work explores educational technologies at the nexus of policy and practice. My research critically examines tensions emerging across top-down initiatives and the sociocultural contexts where educational technologies are used.
Current positions
Senior Research Associate
School of Education
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Biography
For over a decade, I have dedicated my career to re-imagine and re-define our ways of interacting with and developing digital technologies for education and the wider society for fairer futures. Throughout these years, my scholarship has been grounded on extensive collaborations with the government, the industry and civil society and funded by a combined grant income of £100K from CONACYT, the Mexican Ministry of Education, the British City Council and Alumni Foundation.
Prior to my research career, I spent 5 years as an Educator in Mexico where I worked as a primary school teacher and a Lecturer at a Teacher Training College. In 2016 I pursued a master’s degree focused on the interconnected areas of technology, education and society. In 2021 obtained a PhD in Education where I explored emerging tensions across policy and practice on the use of digital technologies in Mexican primary schools. My research pioneered the use of an International Large Scale Assessment instrument (the IEA’s ICILS study) in the Mexican context and integrated case study evidence to enrich the findings. The study offered rich material to revisit current educational reforms in Mexico leading to several recommendations and collaborations with the Ministry of Education.
Parallel to my postgraduate studies I engaged in teaching and assessment at a variety of units for UG, master and PhD students in the fields of research methods in education and educational technologies. Furthermore, I collaborated on several interdisciplinary and international research projects such as the ICIPES and EdJAM, to mention a few.
Prior to my research career, I spent 5 years as an Educator in Mexico where I worked as a primary school teacher and a Lecturer at a Teacher Training College. In 2016 I pursued a master’s degree focused on the interconnected areas of technology, education and society. In 2021 obtained a PhD in Education where I explored emerging tensions across policy and practice on the use of digital technologies in Mexican primary schools. My research pioneered the use of an International Large Scale Assessment instrument (the IEA’s ICILS study) in the Mexican context and integrated case study evidence to enrich the findings. The study offered rich material to revisit current educational reforms in Mexico leading to several recommendations and collaborations with the Ministry of Education.
Parallel to my postgraduate studies I engaged in teaching and assessment at a variety of units for UG, master and PhD students in the fields of research methods in education and educational technologies. Furthermore, I collaborated on several interdisciplinary and international research projects such as the ICIPES and EdJAM, to mention a few.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures
Principal Investigator
Role
Researcher
Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/05/2022 to 30/04/2027
Digital inequalities and digital transformations in higher education across global north and global south contexts
Principal Investigator
Role
Researcher
Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
01/12/2021 to 31/12/2022
Publications
Recent publications
20/05/2024Sociodigital futures of education
Oxford Review of Education
‘Stuck at home’: digital and spatial inequalities and exclusions amongst marginalised students in Global South and North higher education contexts
Digital inequalities across higher education in the global south and global north since the start of COVID-19: A review of the literature
Digital inequalities across higher education in the global south and global north since the start of COVID-19: A review of the literature
Survey Data on the Impact of COVID-19 on Parental Engagement Across 23 Countries
Data in Brief
El estado del arte en el uso de tecnologías en las aulas Colimenses: ¿Cómo recibimos la pandemia?
La pandemia en las escuelas de Colima
Thesis
The development of Intercultural Competence between primary school children from Mexico and Spain
Supervisors
Award date
30/11/2016