About me: I am a visiting scholar coming from the Universidad Europea de Madrid (Spain). My degree was in Sport Science but my Masters and Phd was focused on Sociology so I am combining both fields in my lecturing and in research. Also, since my Phd I got involved in the study of the cognitive sciences, especially embodied cognition approaches (being enactivism my main reference).
A keen practitioner of any kind of corporeal activity (from swimming to climbing, from skateboarding to aikido), I am especially interested in the field of martial arts/combat sports and adventure activities.
Research interests: my current research interest is related to the study of skill acquisition through ethnographic studies informed by an embodied cognition approach. My main goals at EDRL are threefold: (i) to understand better the development of (mathematical) thinking from an embodied standpoint; (ii) to analyze the relationship between explicitly and implicitly embodied activities;(iii) to learn more about embodied design research applied to educational settings in order to transfer it to PE and sports.
Projects:
Skill acquisition in martial arts
Skill acquisition in climbing
Feldenkrais, embodied cognition and skill acquisition