Ana Maria Navas Iannini

Ana Maria is an Assistant Professor in Science Education in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University (SFU). Her work bridges science education and museum studies, with a particular focus on how informal educational settings - such as museums, science and discovery centres - nurture relationships between science and society, advance social responsibility, and foster care and civic agency. She has various publications on the science museum landscape, including the book Controversy in Science Museums: Re-imagining Exhibition Spaces and Practice. Her research has been supported by internal and external funding, including her current Canadian SSHRC-funded research that examines science museums’ responses to, and lessons learned from, the COVID-19 pandemic.