Raquel Scarpa-Gebara

Raquel is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut, teaching History of Educational Thought and Cross-Cultural Understanding and International Perspectives in the Culture of Schools, and a Researcher at the Science Education Department of European Schoolnet, where she contributes to European-level initiatives focused on innovation in STEM education, working within multi-partner consortia, supporting European Ministries of Education. In this role, she promotes cross-country collaboration and knowledge exchange and regularly authors and co-authors policy briefs and strategic reports. Raquel supervises Master's dissertations in Education at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil. She is a member of the British Educational Research Association (BERA), the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA), The National College, and AdvanceHE. 

Raquel holds a Master’s in Neuroscience and Behaviour from the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, and earned an MPhil with distinction in Educational Leadership and School Improvement from the University of Cambridge. Her dissertation on evaluating Lesson Study implementation in Kazakhstan was awarded the 2020 Jennings Prize for outstanding academic achievement by Wolfson College, Cambridge, and named Best Dissertation in Educational Leadership by the Faculty of Education. Awards and recognitions of achievement: Outstanding supervisors who do small-group teaching at the University of Cambridge for courses in the Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences undergraduate degrees, displaying an example of innovative teaching and inclusive practice (2024); Best Publication Cambridge Education Research e-Journal Editorial Board and Readership Award in recognition of outstanding paper (2021), Outstanding Student Contribution to Education Award conferred by the Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning (2021); Distinction and Jennings Prize for Academic Excellence, University of Cambridge (2020).