Ekaterina Pechenkina

Experience

• 2023–present
  Senior lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology
• 2021–2023
  Lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology
• 2016–2021
  Research fellow, Swinburne University of Technology
• 2014–2016
  Researcher, Swinburne University of Technology
• 2010–2014
  PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne

Education

• 2015 
  Swinburne University of Technology, Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching (Higher Education)
• 2014 
  The University of Melbourne, PhD
• 2005 
  Saratov State Technical University, B.A. (Honours - Cum Laude) Social Anthropology
• 2004 
  California State University Bakersfield, International Research and Exchange Board Scholar (Sociology)

Publications

• 2017
  Persevering, educating and influencing a change: A case study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander narratives of academic success, Critical Studies in Education
• 2017
  Research paradigms underpinning SoTL papers: A comparative analysis of two journals that publish SOTL, Methods and Paradigms in Education Research
• 2017
  Developing a typology of mobile apps in Higher Education: A national case-study, Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 33(4), 134-146
• 2017
  Using a gamified mobile app to increase student engagement, retention and academic achievement, International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education
• 2017
  Innovation-by-numbers: An autoethnography of innovation as violence, Culture and Organization
• 2017
  What do students want? Making sense of student preferences in technology-enhanced learning, Contemporary Educational Technology
• 2017
  Digital literacy and other factors influencing the success of online courses in remote Indigenous communities, Indigenous Pathways and Transitions into Higher Education
• 2017
  Lecture-recording technology in higher education: Exploring staff and student views across the disciplines, Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 33(4), 122-133
• 2017
  'It becomes almost an act of defiance’: Indigenous Australian transformational resistance as a driver of academic achievement, Race Ethnicity and Education
• 2016
  Designing Massive Open Online Courses to account for participant motivations and expectations, British Journal of Educational Technology
• 2016
  Digital badges as motivator in MOOCs – the Carpe Diem MOOC experience, Digital Badges in Education: Trends, Issues and Cases, Routledge
• 2016
  Staying quiet or rocking the boat? An autoethnography of organisational visual white supremacy, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal
• 2016
  'The birds of paradise sing without needing a supple branch': Joseph Brodsky and the poetics of exile, Cordite Poetry Review
• 2016
  Bring-Your-Own-Device or prescribed mobile technology? Investigating student preferences for mobile learning, In mLearn 2016, 15th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning, 24-25 October, Sydney, NSW
• 2015
  Who needs support? Perceptions of institutional support by Indigenous Australian students, The UNESCO Observatory Multi-Disciplinary E-Journal in the Arts, 4(1)
• 2015
  The space for social media in structured online learning, Research in Learning Technology
• 2014
  Evaluating the role of universities in the formation of centres of competence and entrepreneurship, Advanced Research in Economics and Management
• 2014
  Badges in the Carpe Diem MOOC, In Rhetoric and Reality: Critical perspectives on educational technology ASCILITE Conference. Dunedin, New Zealand, 23-26 November
• 2012
  Researching Indigenous Australian success in higher education: A case-study of an Australian university, Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia Newsletter, Vol. 34, Issue 2
• 2012
  In search of a culture of Indigenous academic success, The Australian Anthropological Society Newsletter; No. 126, June
• 2011
  Indigenous Australian Students’ Participation Rates in Higher Education, The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, Vol. 40, pp. 1-10
• 2011
  A case for culturally-safe environment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in Australian universities, Government Submission, Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
• 2011
  Background Paper on Indigenous Australian Higher Education: Trends, Initiatives and Policy Implications, Department of Employment, Education and Workplace Relations
• 2009
  Federal and State Government responsibilities in support of international students, Industry report, the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations
• 2006
  International students and the system of higher education: International experience, Vestnik Scientific Journal of Saratov State Technical University, Vol. 17, No. 4, Ed. 2; pp.146-150
• 2005
  International students as a factor of modernisation of regional education system, Region as seen by students, a collection of student essays
• 2005
  International students as a factor of economic development of Russian education, Societal aspirations and strategies of social change
• 2005
  Sociocultural transformations and the process of higher education globalization, Russia’s national security and the perspectives of contemporary development
• 2005
  Problems of Russian youth in the context of globalisation processes, Russia’s national security and the perspectives of contemporary development
• 2003
  Formation of societal values among youth in informal groups, Directions of the contemporary civilisation development
• 2002
  Action research into information resources for people with disabilities, Empowering democracy with(in) university – academia for critical thinking and inclusion
• 2000
  Social work and electronic resources in education, Information technologies in education
• 2000
  Digital resources on the issues of children with limited abilities, Gender, power, culture: socio-anthropological approach

Grants and Contracts

• 2016
  National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education

  Role:

  Investigator

  Funding Source:

  National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education

Research Areas

• Education (13)
• Higher Education (130103)
• Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Education (130301)
• Anthropology (1601)
• Social And Cultural Anthropology (160104)
• Educational Technology And Computing (130306)
• Education Systems (1301)