Biography
Elena Petrova (pen name: Lena Redman) is an educational researcher whose work explores multimodal and interdisciplinary approaches to knowledge production. She completed her PhD in Education at Monash University, Melbourne, where she examined multimodal and interdisciplinary methodologies for understanding learning and knowledge creation.
Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked as a secondary school teacher of Visual Communication and...view more
Elena Petrova (pen name: Lena Redman) is an educational researcher whose work explores multimodal and interdisciplinary approaches to knowledge production. She completed her PhD in Education at Monash University, Melbourne, where she examined multimodal and interdisciplinary methodologies for understanding learning and knowledge creation.
Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked as a secondary school teacher of Visual Communication and Multimedia.
Building on her PhD research, she developed the educational model Ripples@Work, which conceptualises learning as an ongoing pattern of interactions between self and environment. Within this model, the environment is understood as a dynamic interplay of natural, social, and technological dimensions.
She is currently a lead researcher in the Youth, Trust & Technology (YTT) joint project between UTS and UNSW.
She is the author of Knowing with New Media and I Really Do Care: Shouldn’t We All?
Her research interests include digital knowledge-construction methodologies, multimodal pedagogies, civic education, and youth political and subcultural movements in the age of digital media.
My Qualifications
Doctoral Study, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia
Thesis Title: Cinematic Bricolage as Knowledge-Production Methodology
Master of Education, Monash University, Australia
Thesis Title: Digital Media as a Tool for Creative Expression
Graduate Diploma of Education (Secondary)
Monash University, Australia
Bachelor of Production Set Design
Vlasov School of Fine Arts (Astrakhan, Russia).
My Research Activities
Lead researcher in the Youth, Trust & Technology project, examining how young people encounter deepfakes and co-developing strategies to address emerging forms of digital harm.