Dr Alexia Revueltas Roux

Research Associate

  • Child Life and Health - Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
  • Moray House School of Education and Sport

Contact details

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Moray House School of Education and Sport
University of Edinburgh (Holyrood Campus)

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 8AQ
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Child Life and Health
Royal Hospital for Children and Young People

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Biography

Background

Dr Alexia Revueltas is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow interested in learning, engagement and cognitive and socio-emotional development. She is currently working in  the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences and at Moray House School of Education in two different research projects. (See projects)

Alexia finished her PhD in Education and Learning Sciences at the University of Edinburgh in 2022. Her doctoral research examined the triangulation of different self-report, psychophysiological and observational  methods for capturing engagement in early years while being in a science centre.  Her PhD studentship was co-sponsored by the Mexican Science and Technology Council (CONACyT) and by the Move2Learn project, which is a UK/US collaboration to understand embodied science learning in the early years funded funded by the Wellcome Trust, the ESRC and the NSF.  

In 2016 she did her MSc in Human Cognitive Neuropsychology in the University of Edinburgh. Her dissertation focused on the influence of social contexts (competition-cooperation) in the executive functions of 5-8 year old children using NIRS (Near-Infrared Spectroscopy) as neuroimaging technique to analyse it.

Alexia studied her BSc (Hons) degree in Psychology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (2009-2013) with a particular interest towards neuropsychology. She focused her thesis on analysing the development of recognition of facial expressions of emotion in Mexican children and adolescents. She was also part of the Neuropsychology and Cognition Lab at the same institution for 4 years.

Professionally she has taught robotics to children in elementary school as extracurricular activities for 4 years. Interestingly children would never use a notebook to learn and remember what was being taught. This started her interest in a more interdisciplinary approach to understand how children learning complex topics like science and programming. 

Responsibilities & affiliations

- Member of the Developmental Psychology in Education Group

-Member of the Advanced Quantitative Research in Education Hub at MHSES

Research summary

I am interested in how children's cognition and emotion develops and how this development plays a role when it comes to learning and engagement with different learning activities.  My research mostly includes working with children directly or in learning scenarios or activities for children. This also involves an interest in children design,  in both research tools,  and intervention programmes and in apps and toys. I am also interested in the concept of embodied learning and how the body plays a significant part when it comes to learning. As part of cognitive development, she is interested in how learning is impacted and influenced in the presence of neurodevelopmental disorders.  I have used for my research a variety of methods, from psychophysiological tools like electrodermal activity (EDA) sensors, EEG and functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS), to observational coding of behaviour and co-production of resources with teachers and children. 

Current research interests

Cognitive neurodevelopment Embodied learning Co-production of learning resources for teachers.

Past research interests

Engagement in science learning emotional recognition and emotional development

Project activity

 

Past project grants

2021 - Co-I in the Scottish Public Engagement (ScotPEN) Grant for Move2Learn4Teachers looking at how primary teachers could incorporate resources for children's science learning based on an embodied cognition framework
https://www.move2learn.education.ed.ac.uk/

Organiser

Neurodevelopmental Disorder Annual Seminar (NDAS) 2022 - Edinburgh. Role: Organising Committee

Interweaving 2019 - Moray House School of Education and Sport. Role: Co-chair

 

Participant

  • The Power of Gesture in Science Communication – BIG EVENT: Skill sharing conference for STEM engagement professionals. Oral Session, (Meikleham & Revueltas Roux, July 2021)
  • What does engagement look like in early science learning? Understanding multimodality in engagement. Interaction Children and Design 2020. Doctoral Consortium
  • Exploring the relationship between engagement and learning: A new perspective. The 3rd Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development, September 2018. Poster Session.
  • Analysis of Mexican Children’s Recognition of Facial Expression of Emotion (2015). 43rd Annual Meeting INS (International Neuropsychological Society). February 2015, Denver, USA. Poster session. (Revueltas Roux, Pale Escobedo, Ramirez Flores)
  • Design of a Task on Recognition of Facial Expression of Emotions for Mexican Children and Adolescents. 1st World Congress of Facial Expression of Emotion. Oporto, POR, October 2014.  Poster session.
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