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Pippa Yeoman is a Senior Lecturer (Learning Spaces) in the office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education) at the University of Sydney. With over 1,500 hours of observational research, her work focuses on understanding and enhancing complex learning environments, especially those transformed by mobile technologies. She explores how people use tools to learn and how physical and digital spaces can be designed to support vibrant learning ecologies.
Her research interests include:
- Ethnography in educational contexts
- Design and curation of learning spaces
- Mobile and place-based learning
- The interplay between physical and digital environments in education
- Human interaction with learning tools and technologies
While no specific publications or awards are listed in the provided text, her work is deeply informed by both personal experience and extensive field research. She emphasizes the importance of intentional environmental design in education, drawing on John Dewey’s insight that we educate indirectly through the environments we create.
Pippa was inspired to enter academia by her sons’ learning journeys and her own upbringing influenced by a teacher mother and a nature-oriented father. Since joining the University of Sydney at the end of 2019, she has continued to evolve her understanding of learning, particularly in light of the challenges and insights brought by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and her personal experience with Long COVID.
She is actively engaged in advancing educational practice and theory, though no formal advising roles, grants, or lab affiliations are mentioned in the available information.
