Aekaterini Mavri is a full-time member of the special teaching staff at the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts and a researcher at the Cyprus Interaction Lab, at the Cyprus University of Technology. Aekaterini holds a BA in Visual Communication Design, an MA in Design for Interactive Media - both from Middlesex University (UK) - and a PhD in technology-enhanced learning from the department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts of the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT). Her doctoral dissertation, titled “Cross-organizational Communities Of Practice In Design Studies: Enhancing Creativity, Collaboration And Pre-professional Identities In Higher Education”, concerns the design, enactment, and evaluation of cross-organizational (industry-academia) communities of practice (CoPs), integrated into higher education Design studies, in an aim to cultivate skills such as creativity, communication, and collaboration, as well as the development of real-world practice relevance, and pre-professional graduate identities.

Before joining CUT, Aekaterini worked as an interactive designer and project manager for several years in the web development industry. This relates to her current teaching activities at CUT which focus on web design and development (under and postgraduate levels), digital design, user experience design, inclusive design, and project management for multimedia projects.

Aekaterini’s research interests and future goals focus on the design, implementation, and evaluation of technologically-supported social learning models, such as cross-organizational CoPs, to enable effective university-industry collaborations to enhance learning outcomes and help form critical 21st-century skills.

She currently participates in the Assessmake 21 research project, which concerns “innovative digital solutions to assess 21st-century skills in maker spaces: schools & non-formal” under the Erasmus+ KA2 funding programme and in the COST action CA15221 [WeReLaTe] which addresses the challenges of creating effective models towards cohesive teaching, learning, research and writing development.



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Personal Website: https://mavri.cyprusinteractionlab.com/