Linda Bradley is a Senior Lecturer in higher education pedagogy at the Department of education, communication and learning, working at the Pedagogical Development and Interactive Learning unit (PIL). Her research concerns social interaction and the use of digital technology in learning and education.
Currently, her research focuses on digital and mobile learning in formal and informal settings with newly arrived migrants. One project concerns vocational learning with Swedish as a Foreign Language and one is a cross-cultural vocational learning project within teacher training, investigating women refugees’ trajectories in a new society in a collaboration with Lebanese American University in Beirut. Linda was project leader for Minclusion (minclusion.org), Integration med mobilen, a research and development project of mobile learning applications for newly arrived Arabic speaking migrants to Sweden with a focus on pedagogical approaches in digital technology for learning Swedish and about Swedish culture. Another interest is open learning and education where she has investigated open learning practices through her work in EU projects with the aim of developing pedagogical and methodological approaches to using digital tools for teaching and learning.
Linda’s background is within language learning and information technology. She has a long experience in technical communication and Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) for engineering students as well as Master Mariner students working at Chalmers University of Technology. In her research at Chalmers, she engaged specifically in student collaboration and peer response in face-to-face as well as digital environments.
At PIL she is teaching courses in pedagogy for teaching staff from all faculties at University of Gothenburg. Linda is also vice-president of the non-profit association Research-publishing.net.
