Cindy Kerawalla

Cindy is the EdD Programme Leader and a Lecturer in Childhood and Youth Studies in the Faculty of Education and Language Studies. She is also the Director of the Children’s Research Centre. Her research interests include technology-mediated learning and exploring the benefits of teaching young people (aged 9+ years) to be social science researchers in their own right. She has developed Talk Factory to support argumentation in schools (www.open.ac.uk/creet/main/TalkFactory) and MyShout! which young people can use to teach themselves research skills (www.open.ac.uk/blogs/MyShout/).

Cindy has worked with Girl Guiding UK to develop a new badge – Streets Ahead – that girls can work towards by carrying out their own community-based research project (so far around 10,000 Guides have done it!) (www.girlguiding.org.uk/guides/gfibadge/gfi/1725_GFI_StreetsAhead2012.pdf)

In her spare time, Cindy enjoys the lakes and the wildlife in Milton Keynes (there are lots more than you think!) She loves travelling, is addicted to holidays in Africa, and has been to some unusual places such as Svalbard high up in the Arctic Circle.