Ms
Isabel
Machado Da Silva
Primary Department
School of Human Development
Role
Academic Staff
Phone number:
01 700
01 700 N/A
Email Address
isabel.machadodasilva@dcu.ie
Campus
St Patrick's Campus
Room Number
SPC MG10
Academic biography
Isabel is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Doctoral Candidate at the School of Human Development at the DCU Institute of Education. She is also a member of DCU Anti-Bullying Centre. She is part of the Doctoral Network “PARTICIPATE” Project, funded by the Horizon Programme of the European Commission – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). The wider PARTICIPATE project seeks to empower parents/guardians to better understand, and respond to, cyberbullying. Isabel's research directly explores how to enhance family-school partnerships to reduce and prevent online and offline bullying.
She completed a MSc in Education with International and Comparative specialisation at Stockholm University. For her master’s thesis she conducted a qualitative study on young people's sense of belonging at school during the COVID-19 pandemic. She earned a Bachelor of Laws and Political Sciences from the University Nice Sophia-Antipolis.
Isabel's most recent work looks into (cyber)bullying, parenting in the digital age, young people's digital lives, social stratification, belonging and AiEd. In her research, Isabel specialises in qualitative research and uses critical ethnography and creative methodologies such as PhotoVoice.
Research interests
Bullying and Cyberbullying; Social Stratification; Parenting in the Digital Age; Social Class; Young people's Sense of Belonging in Educational Institutions; Race, Ethnicity and Education; Childhoods in Global Contexts; Gender, Sexuality and Schooling; Ai Education; Global Educational Governance; Comparative-International Education.