Dr Natasa Lackovic
Senior LecturerResearch Overview
Nata?a is a philosopher of media, communication and technology in education, an educational scientist, teacher and an international leader in visual and multimodal approahes/methods in higher education.
Notably, she has been developing multiple literacies (e.g. critical media/sustainability/postdigital/employability), relational and sociomaterial approaches to education and teaching. In particular, she has designed and evaluated a visual semiotic approach to metacognition, critical thinking and creative reflection, spearheading the applications of visual semiotics in/for higher education.
Two recent monographs (, 2020, Palgrave McMillan) and (, co-written with A. Olteanu, 2024, Routledge) present holistic outcomes of the above mentioned developments.
Overall, Dr Lackovi? has been developing methods and theoretical perspectives to bridging persistent dualisms in education, such as "image-concept", "concrete-abstract", "us-them" and "mind-body" in tackling pressing social, representational, and environmental crises. Her work aims to enhance analytical, creative, and transformative thinking and designs on a variety of important educational topics in teaching-learning and research.
Her controbutions include a number of novel concepts and approaches, such as: inquiry graphics (educational artefacts/pedagogy/research method), threshold graphics, multimodal inquiry, Identity +, PSC (production-signifciation-consumption) method, relational HE, postdigital semiotics, postdigital signs/living/bubbles, concepts-on-the-continuum, and more.
She is an inter(cross-)disciplinary scholar, who resists defining herself through looking into only one area or topic. If she was to position herself in a field or discipline, this would be a challenge, as there is always more than one to list: semiotics, media and communication, educational philosophy and science, visual and performative arts, sociomaterialism.
Professional Role
I am a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).
In my research, I am working on advancing our understanding of the role of embodiment, materiality (in both physical and digital representation form), images, art and artefacts in education and society. Passionate about matters of social justice, innovation, interdisciplinarity and relational ontology.
At Lancaster University, I am currently:? a co-Director of Social Futures Centre, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FASS)
Current Teaching
- PhD module Leader: I teach on the online Doctoral Programme in Higher Education Research, Evaluation and Enhancement (HEREE) and I lead the module ED.S842: "Enhancing Learning Teaching and Assessment".
- PhD Programme Leader - Doctoral Programme in Educational Research.
External Roles
- Co-Editor, Video Journal of Educational Pedagogy, Brill
- Editorial Board, the Postdigital Science and Education journal, Springer.
- Executive Committee (rep. Great Britain): International Association of Semioitc Studies (IASS)
- External Advisor, International Association of Visual Pedagogies
- Research Associate, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade
- Advisory Board (Why Still Education? International Confernece)
Web Links
Designer, co-ordinator, leader and copy right owner of the Lancaster University's interdisciplinary hub GNC web page, Graphic Novels and Comics Research, Outreach, Pedagogy (and Engagement) Network.
PhD Supervisions Completed
Experienced doctoral thesis supervisor, over 20 PhD theses supervised to completion.
Career Details
I have had more than 17 years of experience working in the field of Education, and more than 10 years working in the field of Higher Education.
I began work as Lecturer at Lancaster University in September 2014. Prior to that, I worked at the University of Nottingham as doctoral researcher (PhD) and Research Assistant/Fellow, where I completed my PhD in 2014, having been awarded a Visual Learning Lab and the Learning Sciences Research Institute Fellowship.
I was a European Council Erasmus Mundus Fellow at the UCL/Institute of Education, London (UK), where I graduated from an international MA degree in Lifelong Learning: Policy and Management in 2010.
PhD Supervision Interests
I am interested in supervising students whose interests relate to my work in visual, material and digital culture/research/pedagogy, multimodality, semiotics in education, socio-materiality, social justice/critical theory and critical media literacy. Other areas of interest include critical approachers to graduate employability, teaching-learning designs, student empowerment, art-based methods and post-truth/humanism/digital.
01/02/2023 → 01/08/2023
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01/03/2020 → 01/09/2020
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01/10/2019 → 31/01/2021
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01/02/2018 → 30/11/2018
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01/02/2018 → 30/11/2018
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01/01/2017 → 31/08/2017
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15/06/2015 → 31/01/2017
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- Centre for Higher Education Research and Evaluation
- Centre for Scholarship and Innovation in Management Education
- Centre for Social Justice and Wellbeing in Education
- Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning
- Institute for Social Futures Fellow
- Morecambe Bay Curriculum