Physics Education Research at the University of Bologna: an overview from the perspective of a PhD student

I will show you who are the members of the Physics Education research group of the University of Bologna. Moreover, I will tell you about the projects in which we are involved now and all the past significnt projects that have helped to strengthen the direction and current identity of the group. Also I will indicate what are the main publications that have been made in these years.

All this will be done through the eyes and the narrative of a PhD student part of UNIBO research group. I have not certainly the presumption to know exactly (after two years) how to orient myself in all the rich and multi-dimensional research activities of my group.  But I will try to make you perceive the great commitment, thoughts and enthusiasm that I see every day in the challenging but wonderful research activity in Bologna.

Photo: Martina Caramaschi

Short Bio

Martina Caramaschi is a PhD student guest at CCSE from the University of Bologna (Italy) and she is part of the research group in Physics Education. In this seminar the Bologna’s members, projects and approach to PER will be presented to foster even more the mutual knowledge and to create a space for reflection on the identity of two different research groups.

The bi-weekly ODD seminar series at CCSE

The Open Discussions on Didactics (ODD) is a seminar series on Mondays at 13.00 every other week (odd week numbers).

The seminar is an informal arena to present and discuss learning theory, educational research and teaching experiences within computational science. To cater to the highly heterogeneous backgrounds and interests of students, teachers and researchers in our environment, we aim for seminars that introduce listeners to new ideas within a broad spectrum of aspects, and that invites reflection and discussion.

Presentations need not be mature and polished - to the contrary we hope that as many as possible wants to share undigested observations and reflections in short presentations of varied form and topics. We hope to have enough contributions to frequently have the meetings as lightning talk sessions, where three different speakers will each give a 5-10-minute presentation followed by discussion.

Published May 30, 2023 11:15 PM - Last modified May 30, 2023 11:15 PM