About
Hello and welcome! This site is a public aggregator and personal organizer for my research work and interests.
I work in academia teaching courses on Psychology, Education, and Research Methods. I am also an Associate Editor of the Homo Virtualis Journal.
I consider myself as a Researcher-Practitioner and I realize these two dimensions as nurturing each other. I have an interdisciplinary research background (psychology, psychotherapy, complexity theory, computer science, learning sciences). My approach to research and teaching is participatory, design-based, and practice-focused. I am a licensed psychologist and a certified group psychotherapist and adult educator.
Research interests include, among others:
- Systems
theory and practice (second-order cybernetics); complexity epistemology
and applications on psychology, education and research.
- personal development and building resilience in complex techno-social systems; participatory group interventions
- Community empowerment; reflective practice and peer learning networks; Connected learning and digital storytelling.
- learning communities and learning rhizomes in modern techno-social landscapes; digital cultures and the psychology of the networked life;
- Qualitative research methods, Grounded Theory, participatory and community-based research methods, multimodal and art-based methods. Research as a transformative practice.
My PhD thesis focused on the study of learning as an acculturation process in the context of a virtual community of practice. My research approach in this thesis introduced an innovative remodeling of Grounded Theory that incorporates conceptual network analysis techniques and community detection algorithms (Networked Grounded Theory).
For a clearer picture of my approach to teaching take a look at the projects, at the publications and the presentations sections in this site. To have an idea about what inspires me in the "fast-forward" moving networked world we all live in today, take a look at my quote blog.
