Summary
I am a Senior Lecturer in Digital Education at the School of Education at the University of Hull. My overarching research interest is in developing critical understandings on the digitisation of education. I am particularly interested in the areas of critical digital literacies, school platformisation, and teachers and students’ experiences of digital technology use in formal and informal educational contexts. I have long experience as a PI or Co-I in various research projects and I have conducted funded research within schools in the UK and abroad. Before joining the University of Hull, I worked as a researcher at the UCL Institute of Education.
I am currently the PI for two research projects funded by the BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants and the British Council. The first looks at school platformisation and digital inequalities, and the second aims to support Thai teachers with teaching English for communication.
Previously I was the PI for the DETECT Erasmus+ KA2 project that focused on supporting teachers with developing critical digital literacies (www.detectproject.eu).
Book Chapter
Re-thinking critical digital literacies in the context of compulsory education
Gouseti, A., Ilomäki, L., & Lakkala, M. (2024). Re-thinking critical digital literacies in the context of compulsory education. In H. S. Dunn, M. Ragnedda, M. L. Ruiu, & L. Robinson (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Everyday Life (261-281). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30438-5_15
Journal Article
Critical digital literacies at school level: A systematic review
Ilomäki, L., Lakkala, M., Kallunki, V., Mundy, D., Romero, M., Romeu, T., & Gouseti, A. (2023). Critical digital literacies at school level: A systematic review. Review of Education, 11(3), Article e3425. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3425
Exploring teachers' perceptions of critical digital literacies and how these are manifested in their teaching practices
Gouseti, A., Lakkala, M., Raffaghelli, J., Ranieri, M., Roffi, A., & Ilomäki, L. (2023). Exploring teachers’ perceptions of critical digital literacies and how these are manifested in their teaching practices. Educational review, https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2022.2159933
Mind the gap! Exploring teachers professional learning needs to cultivate critical data literacies
Elisa Raffaghelli, J., Gouseti, A., Lakkala, M., Romero Carbonell, M., Romeu, T., & Bruni, I. (2022). Mind the gap! Exploring teachers professional learning needs to cultivate critical data literacies. Formazione & Insegnamento, 20(3), 626–648. https://doi.org/10.7346/-fei-XX-03-22_43
Research interests
Digital technology use and schools
Critical digital literacies
School platformisation
Digital inequalities and exclusion
Digital technologies and climate change
Lead investigator
Project
Funder
Grant
Started
Status
Project
DEveloping TEachers’ Critical digital liTeracies
Funder
European Commission
Grant
£69,318.64
Started
1 September 2019
Status
Ongoing
Project
UK - Thailand Digital Innovation Grant
Funder
British Council
Grant
£4,404.00
Started
1 March 2023
Status
Ongoing
Project
The platformised school: widening opportunities or exacerbating inequalities?
Funder
British Academy
Grant
£9,693.79
Started
1 September 2023
Status
Complete
Co-investigator
Project
Funder
Grant
Started
Status
Project
ECPE PPF: Engaging young people in the circular plastics economy
Funder
Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council
Grant
£48,200.00
Started
1 October 2019
Status
Complete
Postgraduate supervision
I welcome PhD applications in the following areas:
- Critical exploration of digital technology use in educational settings
- Digital literacies
- Digital inclusion
- AI use in schools
Completed PGR supervisions:
Fauwaz Alali - A Case Study of Collaborative Learning and Usage of CSCL Tools Among Foundation Year Students at Hail University in Saudi Arabia (2023).
Paula Claughton - Disruptions in the narrative: an exploration of teaching assistants’ sense of belonging in the primary school landscape (2020).