Ana Kubrusly is a PhD-candidate in Communication Sciences at NOVA University of Lisbon funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).
Her research focuses on children’s and adolescents’ experiences in digital environments, namely in terms of their wellbeing, literacy, and cultures.
Ana’s PhD is funded by an FCT individual grant hosted at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA) and at the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal. She is supervised by Professor Susana Batista and Professor Lídia Marôpo. To access details about her funding visit: https://doi.org/10.54499/PRT/BD/154767/2023
Her dissertation project, entitled “Digital wellbeing according to youth: perspectives, strategies, and recommendations”, aims to adopt a youth-centric and cultural perspective on digital wellbeing, employing mixed methods inspired by critical pedagogies to better understand how Portuguese adolescents conceptualize, manage, and imagine digital wellbeing.
Ana is also a research fellow at the Institute for Research on Digital Literacies and the Digital Futures Digital Literacies Lab (York University, Canada). Moreover, Ana is a member of the Futures + Literacies + Methods Lab and a writer in the CriA.On platform, aimed at sharing scientific information about children’s and adolescents’ digital cultures, skills, and rights.
