Gisela Maria Dias Ferreira Oliveira (1D1B-2F8A-4F1B)

Curriculum Vitae

Gisela Maria Dias Ferreira Oliveira

Gisela Oliveira is a lecturer in education studies at De Montfort University, UK. There she is Programme Leader for the MA Education Practice and teaches and supervises students for the BA Education Studies, MA Education Practice and the Doctoral College. Previously, she worked as a researcher in the School of Education at the University of Leeds, in the project “Narnian Virtues: A Character Education English Curriculum”, funded by £1.1M from the John Templeton Foundation. In 2017 Gisela completed her Ph.D entitled “Transfer of Learning between Higher Education and the Workplace” at the University of Leeds, and prior to that she completed a Master by research at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Her doctoral thesis was funded by The University of Leeds and by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT - Portugal). Her research interests are learning and teaching in higher education, namely in issues related to transfer of learning, employability and the transition from education into work. She also developed a particular interest in qualitative research methods and more recently visual research methods in education.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Gisela Maria Dias Ferreira Oliveira

Citation names

Oliveira, Gisela
Oliveira, G.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 1D1B-2F8A-4F1B
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3353-1433

Email addresses

gisela.oliveira@dmu.ac.uk (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone

(+44) 0116 250 Ext.: 6578 (Professional)

Addresses

De Montfort University, The Gateway, LE1 9BH, Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Educational Sciences

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2018 - 2018 Concluded	Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Outros) Higher Education Academy (AdvanceHE), United Kingdom
2012 - 2017 Concluded	PhD in Education (Doctor of Philosophy) University of Leeds School of Education, United Kingdom "Transfer of learning between university and the workplace" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2009 - 2012 Concluded	Master in Training Management and Educational Administration (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal "Self-Regulation and Transfer of Learning: A study with trainees from Youth Education and Training (classification: 19/20)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18
2002 - 2007 Concluded	Licenciatura in Education Sciences (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal "Os Direitos Sexuais e Reprodutivos: Adaptação e Validação do Sexuality Questionnaire (classificação 18/20) " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	16

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017/03 - 2018/10	Researcher (Research)	University of Leeds School of Education, United Kingdom
	University of Leeds School of Education, United Kingdom
2008 - 2009	Research Assistant (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018/10 - Current	Lecturer (University Teacher)	De Montfort University Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, United Kingdom
	De Montfort University Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, United Kingdom
2018/01 - 2018/06	Lecturer (University Teacher)	University of Leeds School of Education, United Kingdom
	University of Leeds School of Education, United Kingdom
2017/01 - 2018/06	Lecturer (University Teacher)	University of Leeds School of Languages Cultures and Societies, United Kingdom
	University of Leeds School of Languages Cultures and Societies, United Kingdom
2013 - 2014	Tutor (University Teacher)	University of Leeds School of Education, United Kingdom
	University of Leeds School of Education, United Kingdom

Other Careers

	Category Host institution	Employer
2009 - 2013	Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior)	Índice ICT & Managment, Lda, Portugal
	Índice ICT & Managment, Lda, Portugal
2009 - 2009	Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior)	Universidade do Porto Reitoria, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Reitoria, Portugal
2008 - 2008	Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior)	MindForm – Vocational Training and Consulting, Portugal
	MindForm – Vocational Training and Consulting, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/01 - Current	Programme Leader for MA Education Practice	De Montfort University, United Kingdom
	De Montfort University, United Kingdom
2019 - Current	Member of the Institute for Research in Criminology Community Education and Social Justice	De Montfort University, United Kingdom
	De Montfort University, United Kingdom
2014/09 - 2015/02	Blue Book Trainee	European Commission DG Connect, Belgium
	European Commission DG Connect, Belgium

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2017 - 2018/10	Narnian Virtues: How Parents, Teachers and their 11 to 13 year-olds Learn to Cultivate Good Character through Engagement with the Novels by C.S. Lewis 60516 Researcher University of Leeds School of Education, United Kingdom De Montfort University Institute for Research in Criminology and Community and Social Justice, United Kingdom	John Templeton Foundation Concluded
2013 - 2017	Transfer of learning between university and the workplace SFRH/BD/99596/2014 PhD Student Fellow University of Leeds School of Education, United Kingdom	University of Leeds, School of Education Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2021/10 - Current	Education Studies Students’ experiences of the transition between university and the workplace in short-term placements No Code Principal investigator De Montfort University Institute for Research in Criminology and Community and Social Justice, United Kingdom	Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Oliveira, Gisela. "Placements as mediational transitions: an opportunity for negotiated, identity-shaping make belief experiences". In Understanding Education Studies: critical issues and new directions. United Kingdom: Routledge, 2023. Accepted
Conference poster	Oliveira, Gisela. "“Transfer of Learning in Higher Education”". Paper presented in CERIC Doctoral Conference 2014, Leeds., 2014. Oliveira, Gisela. "Transfer of Learning in Higher Education". Paper presented in ESSL Postgraduate Research Conference 2014, Leeds, 2014. Oliveira, Gisela. "Professional Success Starts (in) HEre!". Paper presented in Leeds Showcase Conference 2013, Leeds, 2013. Oliveira, Gisela. "Why should I* care about Learning Transfer in Higher Education? (* I = Students, Parents, Teachers, Employers, Higher Education Institutions & Governments)". Paper presented in Leeds University Business School (LUBS) Conference 2013, 2013.
Journal article	Oliveira, G.. "Developing a codebook for qualitative data analysis: insights from a study on learning transfer between university and the workplace". International Journal of Research & Method in Education (2022): https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727X.2022.2128745. 10.1080/1743727X.2022.2128745 Hart, Peter; Bracey, Olena; Oliveira, Gisela; Paul, Shirley-Anne S.. "Problematising conceptions of “effective” home-school partnerships in secondary education". Educational Studies (2022): 1-19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03055698.2022.2103651. 10.1080/03055698.2022.2103651 Oliveira, Gisela; Hart, Peter; Pike, Mike. "Teaching virtues through literature: learning from the Narnian Virtues character education research". Journal of Beliefs & Values (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13617672.2019.1689544. 10.1080/13617672.2019.1689544 Olena Gundarina; Hart, Peter; Oliveira, Gisela; Paul, Shirley-Anne S.. "Feature: Effective parent-practitioner partnerships in children’s secondary education". Education in the North (2019): https://www.abdn.ac.uk/eitn/journal/593. 10.26203/F5E5-PJ12 Oliveira, Gisela. "Employability and Learning Transfer: What do students experience during their placements?". Studia paedagogica (2015): 10.5817/SP2015-4-8
Manual	Oliveira, Gisela; Correia, Ana. Direitos Humanos em ação. Portugal: NOESIS. 2007. Published
Thesis / Dissertation	"Transfer of Learning between Higher Education and the Workplace". PhD, University of Leeds School of Education, 2017. https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/17719/. "Auto-regulação e transferência de aprendizagens: um estudo com formandos de cursos de educação e formação de jovens". Master, Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, 2011. https://estudogeral.sib.uc.pt/handle/10316/18517.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2021/02	Drawing in the Classroom: Using visual ethnography methods to promote and research learning in the context of a placement module	Education Research Webinar Series De Montfort University (Leicester, United Kingdom)
2019/07	Becoming a time-traveller: Using expansive framing to promote transfer of learning between university and the workplace	EDULEARN19 (Palma de Majorca, Spain)
2018/11	Piecing the Puzzle: A Qualitative Approach to Measuring Virtue in a Mixed-methods Project on Character Education	44th Annual Conference of the Association for Moral Education (Barcelona, Spain)
2017/05	The importance of expansive framing for transfer of learning between university and the workplace	CAYAG Spring Seminar Series University of Leeds School of Education (Leeds, United Kingdom)
2016/09	There’s no information desk or anything that you can go ask" -- How do students develop a figured world of work in placement experiences?	BERA (British Education Research Association) Annual Conference (Leeds, United Kingdom)
2016/07	"First Days"	Storytelling your research performance (Leeds, United Kingdom)
2015/09	Degree, Degree, Just a Picture on the Wall? Student’s Experiences of Learning Transfer between Higher Education and the Workplace	ECER - European Conference on Educational Research 2015 (Budapest, Hungary)
2015/05	My Data, Your Data, Our Data: A reflection on the process of data collection and analysis in a research about transfer of learning	RESONANCES - A Postgraduate Conference on Qualitative Research 2015 (Leeds, United Kingdom)
2015/05	Employability and Learning Transfer: A look into students' transitions between Higher Education and the workplace	CERIC Doctoral Conference 2015 (Leeds, United Kingdom)
2015/04	Writing to Remember: The role of field notes in starting and developing the data analysis process	RSEC - Research Students' Education Conference 2015 (Leeds, United Kingdom)
2014/09	Employability and Learning Transfer: What do students experience during their placements?	ECER - European Conference on Educational Research 2014 (Porto, Portugal)
2014/05	I code therefore I (begin to) understand: Developing a coding book for the analysis of interview and observation data	RSEC - Research Students' Education Conference 2014 (Leeds, United Kingdom)
2014/04	Learning the Hard Way: The Process of Data Collection and Analysis on a Research about Learning Transfer in Higher Education	ESSL Postgraduate Research Conference 2014, Leeds (Leeds, United Kingdom)
2014/03	"Thrown into the deep end”: A view into student´s transitions between Higher Education and the workplace	WRDTC Student Seminar Series LSSI, Leeds (Leeds, United Kingdom)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2019 - 2019	Organization of a one day on "Creatour - A workshop around employability, HE and creative approaches”, funded by Institute for Research in Criminology Community Education and Social Justice (2019/06/26 - 2019/06/26) Workshop (Co-organisor)	De Montfort University, United Kingdom
2017 - 2017	Organization of a one day interdisciplinary workshop on "Qualitative Data Analysis in Practice: Experiences, Challenges and Possibilities”, funded by LEAP Research Training Hub. http://qualitativedataanalysisinpractice.weebly.com/ (2017/02/27 - 2017/02/27) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Leeds Economics: Advances in Pedagogy (LEAP), University of Leeds, United Kingdom
2014 - 2014	Organization of a one day experts workshop on "Big Data Skills for Europe Expert Workshop", prepared by Unit F4- Knowledge Base, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, EUROPEAN COMMISSION. Brussels. (2014/12/09 - 2014/12/09) Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)	European Commission DG Connect, Belgium
2014 - 2014	Organization of the 2014 Research Students' Education Conference (RSEC), at the School of Education of the University of Leeds. https://pgrschoolofeducationleeds.wordpress.com/2014/03/15/rsec-conference-registration-is-now-open/ (2014/05/30 - 2014/05/30) Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)	University of Leeds, School of Education, United Kingdom
2013 - 2014	Organization of the Leeds Social Sciences Institute and The White Rose DTC 2014 Seminar Series (6 half-day seminars). http://wrdtc.ac.uk/wrdtc-student-research-seminars/ https://lssi.leeds.ac.uk/events/wr-dtc-and-lssi-student-seminar-series-session-2/ (2014/03/19 - 2014/03/19) Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)	University of Leeds Leeds Social Science Institute, United Kingdom
2013 - 2013	Organization of the 2013 Research Students' Annual Conference (RSAC), at the School of Education of the University of Leeds. (2013/05/09 - 2013/05/09) Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)	University of Leeds, School of Education, United Kingdom

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2022 - Current	Perspectives in Education	BA Education Studies (block teaching) (Licenciatura)	De Montfort University, United Kingdom
2020 - Current	Introduction to NVivo	Doctoral College (Doutoramento)	De Montfort University, United Kingdom
2019 - Current	Researching Education	MA Education Practice (Mestrado)	De Montfort University, United Kingdom
2019 - Current	Major Project/ Dissertation	MA Education Practice (Mestrado)	De Montfort University, United Kingdom
2019 - Current	Preparing for Professional Practice	BA Education Studies (Licenciatura)	De Montfort University, United Kingdom
2018 - Current	Global Comparative Education	BA Education Studies (Licenciatura)	De Montfort University, United Kingdom
2019 - 2020	Negotiated Study	MA Education Practice (Mestrado)	De Montfort University, United Kingdom
2018 - 2020	Thinking and Learning in Higher Education	(Licenciatura)	De Montfort University, United Kingdom
2017 - 2018	Learning about learning: Processes, complexities and theoretical perspectives	BA Childhood Studies (Licenciatura)	University of Leeds School of Education, United Kingdom
2017 - 2018	Advanced Portuguese Language	BA Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (Licenciatura)	University of Leeds School of Languages Cultures and Societies, United Kingdom
2016 - 2018	Portuguese Language Skills	BA Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (Licenciatura)	University of Leeds School of Languages Cultures and Societies, United Kingdom
2016 - 2018	Portuguese Language for Beginners	BA Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (Licenciatura)	University of Leeds School of Languages Cultures and Societies, United Kingdom
2014 - 2015	Processes of Learning, Thinking and Knowing	BA Childhood Studies (Licenciatura)	University of Leeds, School of Education, United Kingdom
2014 - 2015	Learning, Play and Games	BA Childhood Studies (Licenciatura)	University of Leeds, School of Education, United Kingdom

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2021 - Current	Journal of Education and Pedagogic Research, Gateway Papers	De Montfort University

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2021 - Current	External examiner for the MA Education and MA Educational Innovation, University of Warwick	University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Distinctions

Award

2014	First Prize for Poster Presentation Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (CERIC), University of Leeds, United Kingdom
2014	First Prize for Poster Presentation ESSL Postgraduate Research Conference, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Other distinction

2019	Small Grants (500£) Institute for Research in Criminology Community Education and Social Justice, De Montfort University, United Kingdom
2017	LEAP Research Training Hub Workshop Funding (500£) Leeds Economics: Advances in Pedagogy (LEAP), University of Leeds, United Kingdom
2015	PhD Scholarship Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2012	School of Education Scholarship University of Leeds, School of Education, United Kingdom