Find out what visitor Alexandra Farazouli discovered at CRADLE
4 April 2025
CRADLE was pleased to host PhD student Alexandra Farazouli in February and March 2025. She is a final-year doctoral student at Stockholm University’s Department of Education, funded by WASP-HS, where she researches emerging AI technologies and their ethical implications in higher education. Alexandra is also part of the AI expert group at the Centre for the Advancement of University Teaching (CeUL). In this post Alexandra reflects on her time at CRADLE and reports on her collaborations and memorable times.
Spending two months as a visiting researcher at CRADLE was an incredibly rewarding experience. It was the perfect setting to wrap up the final phase of my PhD—ideas blossomed into projects, collaborations took root, and friendships formed.
The CRADLE team is not only made up of brilliant scholars who generously share their expertise, but they also cultivate a warm, welcoming, and collaborative environment.
At CRADLE, feedback is more than a formality—it’s a way of thinking. I had the chance to engage in deep conversations, brainstorm new research directions, and get challenged! I’m especially grateful to Jack Walton for sparking new paths of inquiry, to Margaret Bearman for helping me sharpen my research focus, and to Tom Corbin for unpacking the ethical dimensions of dilemmas. I’m also very thankful to Jo Tai and Juuso Nieminen for raising the issue of ‘stuckness’ during the last doctoral seminar, highlighting that feeling stuck is not just a situation that junior researchers get caught in but a natural—and even necessary—part of the journey of being and becoming an academic.
Last, but not least, this visit wouldn’t be the same without the CRADLE doctoral students whom warm-heartedly welcomed me and made me feel part of their group. Türkan, Pearl, Kaiyu, and Xin, you have a special place in my heart and I hope we meet again soon!
About Alexandra Farazouli
Alexandra is a final-year doctoral student at Stockholm University’s Department of Education interested in the role of Computer Science in education and how digital technologies meet humanities. Through her research she aims to further explore, map and explain the ethical considerations emerging from AI and Machine Learning applications in higher education. Alexandra’s PhD research focus is on the ethics of emerging AI-driven technologies and their implications for educational practices and the different stakeholders in higher education.
Alexandra is a member of the Higher Education Learning Practices (HELP) research group in the Department of Education (IPD) and the Data Science research group in the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV) of Stockholm University.
