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Recent talks/workshops

Keynote Speaker at the

Digital Youth Work Conference, Scotland (February 2023)

Guest Lecture at the Humboldt University of Berlin (January 202
Speaker - DAI Digital Literacy Learning Circle (September 2023)
DIGY Podcast: interview on digital inclusion and youth participation (2022)
Speaker- The Citizens International Youth Summit 2022 in Sri Lanka - AI & Youth TALK (2022)
Trainer - Youth Digital Transformation Training for the European National Agencies Antwerp, Belgium (September 2022)
Trainer - Youth Digital Transformation Workshop for youth organisations in the Western Balkans (December 2022)
Speaker - Youth and Digital Transformation: Experts Panel organised by SALTO PI (September 2022)
Speaker - RAY Network's Panel on youth work in times of crises (October 2022)
Speaker - AI and Youth Workshop at EU-Council of Europe Youth Partnership's symposium in Albania (June 2022)
Speaker - Europe's Digital Principles for 2030: a panel discussion (May 2022)
Speaker - The Comparative & International Education Society Conference in Minneapolis, USA. The topic of the session: "Moving beyond the digital divide: Understanding digital inequalities and the effects on youth and digital literacy" (April 2022)
Speaker - the EU's UNDER 30s Podcast on the quality in [youth] digital transformation (March 2022)
Speaker - the EU's UNDER 30s Podcast on the limits of digital youth work (March 2022)
Speaker and Educator - Digital Youth Work in Eastern Europe & Caucasus workshop in Georgia (for youth national organisations from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine) (November 2021)
Speaker and Educator- Digital Inclusion Training for youth organisations from Romania, North Macedonia, Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Slovenia, and Croatia)(October 2021)
Guest - Universal Design in Life and Work Podcast (April 2021)
Speaker - KAIST & UN University seminar on Gender Digital Inclusion & Covid-19 (April 2021)
Speaker - EQUALS in Afghanistan- Information Session of EQUALS Global Partnership (January 2021)
Speaker - Youth Digital Inclusiveness Seminar (June 2021)

Articles/publications

Pawluczuk, A. (2022). Insights into Digital Transformation in the Youth Field Supported by the EU Youth Programmes. SALTO Inclusion and Diversity & SALTO Participation and Information. https://participationpool.eu/resource/insights-into-digital-transformation-in-the-youth-field-supported-by-the-eu-youth-programmes/

Pawluczuk, A. (2022). The emerging digital divides: Covid-19 and European youth work. United Nations University. https://collections.unu.edu/view/UNU:8678#viewAttachments

Pawluczuk, A. & Serban, A. (2022). Technology and the new power dynamics: limitations of digital youth work. The EU-CoE youth partnership. https://pjp-eu.coe.int/documents/42128013/116591216/Limits+of+digital+youth+work.pdf/732ddd6a-15cb-02a6-c336-efa9aa8154c0

Pawluczuk, A. (2022). Youth digital inclusion and democratic education: leaving no one behind. In Educational Briefing
2021 Going digital together: pathways to inclusive citizenship education online. https://understanding-europe.org/en/news/educational-briefing-2021-veroeffentlicht/

Pawluczuk, A. (2022). Digital Transformation in the Youth Sector: Mapping and Gapping of Existing Resources. SALTO Participation and Information.https://participationpool.eu/resource/digital-transformation-in-the-youth-sector-mapping-and-gapping-of-existing-resources/

Pawluczuk, A. & Lee, J. (2021). Girls' Digital Inclusion Programming: Insights from the Field. https://collections.unu.edu/view/UNU:8348#viewAttachments

Pawluczuk, A. (2021). Ahoy, adventure! Young people and the European digital transformation journey, SALTO Participation and Information (online article) https://participationpool.eu/resource/ahoy-adventure-young-people-and-the-european-digital-transformation-journey/

Pawluczuk, A., Lee, J. and Gamundani, A.M. (2021). "Bridging the gender digital divide: an analysis of existing guidance for gender digital inclusion programmes’ evaluations", Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPRG-11-2020-0158

Pawluczuk, A., Unwin. J, Spiesberger., P., & Unwin, T. (2020). Guidance Note 3 Digital technologies and girls’ education. In Education for the most marginalised post‑COVID‑19: Guidance for governments on the use of digital technologies in education. (The UNESCO Chair in ICT for Development and the EdTech Hub Report). https://edtechhub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Education-for-the-most-marginalised-Report-Guidance-note-3-v8.pdf

Unwin, T, Naseem, A., Pawluczuk, A., Shareef, M., Spiesberger, P., West, P., & Yoo, C. (2020).Education for the most marginalised post‑COVID-19. Guidance for governments on the use of digital technologies in education. (The UNESCO Chair in ICT for Development and the EdTech Hub Report). https://edtechhub.org/education-for-the-most-marginalised-post-covid-19/

Pawluczuk, A. (2020). European Digital Youth Work and the Covid-19 pandemic: What’s next?. SALTO Participation and Information. https://participationpool.eu/resource/european-digital-youth-work-and-the-covid-19-pandemic-whats-next/

Pawluczuk, A. (2020). Digital youth inclusion and the big data divide: examining the Scottish perspective. Internet Policy Review, 9(2). DOI: 10.14763/2020.2.1480

Pawluczuk, A., Yates, S., Carmi, E., Lockley, E., & Wessels, B. (2020). "Data citizenship framework: exploring citizens’

data literacy through data thinking, data doing and data participation". In the International Telecommunication Union, Digital Skills Insights 2020.

Pawluczuk, A., Hall, H., Webster, G., & Smith, C. (2020). Youth digital participation: Measuring social impact. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 52(1), 3-15.

Yates, S., Carmi, E., Pawluczuk, A., Wessels, B., Lockley, E., & Gangneux, J. (2020). Understanding citizens data literacy: thinking, doing & participating with our data (Me & My Big Data Report 2020). Me and My Big Data project, University of Liverpool. https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-and-social-sciences/research/research-themes/centre-for-digital-humanities/projects/big-data/publications/

Yates, S., Carmi, E., Lockley, E., Pawluczuk, A., French, T., & Vincent, S. (In Press). Who are the limited users of digital systems and media? An examination of UK evidence. First Monday.

Carmi, E. & Yates, S. J. & Lockley, E. & Pawluczuk, A. (2020). Data citizenship: rethinking data literacy in the age of disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation. Internet Policy Review, 9(2). DOI: 10.14763/2020.2.1481

Pawluczuk, A., Webster, G., Smith, C., & Hall, H. (2019). The Social Impact of Digital Youth Work: What Are We Looking For?. Media and Communication, 7(2), 59-68. doi.org/10.17645/mac.v7i2.1907

Pawluczuk, A., Hall, H., Webster, G., & Smith, C. (2019). Digital youth work: youth workers' balancing act between digital innovation and digital literacy insecurity. Information Research: An International Electronic, 24(1).

Pawluczuk, A., Webster, G., Smith, C., & Hall, H. (2017). Evaluating the social impact of youth digital culture co-creation: let's participate and play. In Proceedings of the 31st British Computer Society Human-Computer Interaction Conference (p. 32). BCS Learning & Development Ltd. doi.org/10.14236/ewic/hci2017.32

DrAlicja Pawluczuk

I'm a digital inclusion/justice thinker, doer, and creative maker. I currently work as an ICTD Research Fellow at the United Nations University, a Strategic Consultant in defining Digital Transformation at SALTO-YOUTH, and a researcher at the EU-Council of Europe Youth Partnership.

Since 2010, I have researched, co-designed, facilitated, and evaluated digital inclusion and education programmes internationally. I have experience working both on high-level projects and publications (e.g. United Nations University, ITU, EQUALS-EU, Council of Europe) as well as smaller-scale community-led projects (e.g. digital literacy workshops, digital rights).

I aim to cultivate authenticity, tolerance for ambiguity, critical thinking, and empathy in my work.

My knowledge and practice are not set in stone, but continue to evolve and respond to the ongoing changes related to digital transformation. My work is grounded in democratic, participatory, experimental, and interactive methodologies (both online and offline).

The key areas of my expertise include digital inclusion, gender digital inclusion, digital youth work, digital and data literacy. I have a track record of peer-reviewed publications and cross-disciplinary public engagement activities. I aim to share outcomes of my work in an accessible and fun formats (e.g. videos, infographics).