Christina Gitsaki

Prof. Dr. Christina Gitsaki is the Research Coordinator at Zayed University, UAE. In the past, she served as the UNESCO Chair in Applied Research in Education in the UAE and later as the Associate Dean of the Foundations program at the Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE. Before coming to the UAE, she worked at The University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia, where she educated pre-service teachers and supervised Master’s and Ph.D. students in educational research. She has worked with Education Queensland and The Learning Federation of the Curriculum Corporation, Australia on state and federal education projects such as the creation of digital Learning Objects for K-12 ESL students. At Zayed she oversaw the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning course, the development of resources for research and she provides advice and mentorship to faculty who are interested in engaging in research on teaching and learning. Dr Gitsaki has coordinated Zayed's pilot study with Studiosity.