Dr Paulina Ruiz Cabello
MA, PhD
Expertise
My work has focused on examining youth digital cultures, literacies, and identities in institutional and digital spaces, and developing relational and participatory methods.
Current positions
Lecturer
School of Education
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Biography
-Ph.D. in Education, University of Bristol, 2019.
-MSc in Social communication (Education and Communication pathway), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2010.
-Sociology degree, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2007.
Research
Paulina has significant experience conducting educational research in the intersecting fields of school education, digital cultures, literacies in motion, and identity studies in Chile and the UK. In the past 10 years, she has been involved in projects using a wide range of qualitative methodologies, including Ethnography and Case Studies. She is currently engaging with socio-material approaches and methods in the study of formal and informal digital literacies, and digital inequalities.
Teaching
Paulina is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and teaches MSc units, such as Introduction to Educational Inquiry, Designing Technologies for Learning, and Education in Times of Social and Technological change. I also teach the UG unit Digital Cultures and Participatory Learning.
Paulina has been supervising MSc-level dissertations for the last three years, mainly from the Learning, Technology and Society pathway.
Research interests
Paulina's research has focused on exploring youth digital literacies in institutional and everyday spaces, and how (if) everyday devices and practices (re)configure identities and discursive-material power relations online and offline. She is particularly interested in exploring the role of digital and mobile practices in the intersection of intimate, peers, and family realms. In her PhD, she examined the everyday use of Chilean students’ (15-16 years-olds) phones and the identities performed in the negotiation process they engaged in with peers, teachers, and other adults to keep using their devices within and across the school setting (online and offline).
Her current scholarly interests include ethnographic, participatory and creative methods; mobile and informal learning; digital inequalities; and socio-material approaches to the study of learning spaces and learners' (digital) mobilities.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Personal mobile technologies in secondary schools: developing international partnered efforts and participatory methods for debate and decision making
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
01/11/2020 to 31/05/2022
Publications
Recent publications
Thesis
"I'd would die without it"
Supervisors
Award date
01/10/2019