Karley Beckman

Karley Beckman is a Senior lecturer in Digital Technologies for Learning in the School of Education. Karley’s research explores children, young people and adult learners’ technology practice through a sociological framing to critically engage with issues of digital inequality, digital literacy and toward developing a theoretically informed understanding of the place of technology in our lives. Central to Karley’s body of research is a sociological framing to critically engage with issues of digital inequality, digital literacy and the use of digital data in schools toward developing a theoretically informed understanding of the place of technology in people’s lives. Through her work as an Associate Investigator in the Centre of Excellence of the Digital Child, Karley’s body of research will continue to investigate datafication and data literacy associated with children and young people’s digital practice as well as how families and schools may support and shape these practices. Karley’s research endeavours to protect children’s digital rights and empower children and young people in their digital technology practices in a rapidly changing world.