My work hinges on the ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence and justice. All research is pre-approved by the relevant Institutional Review Boards, and complies with best practices for informed consent and data protection.
In the Child Development Study, I have worked with Prof. Kerstin NoΓ«lle Vokinger on a legal and ethical framework compliant with Swiss standards for data protection and informed consent by vulnerable populations, and with Prof. Annuska Derks on qualitative assessments of the potential psychological and social impacts of the use of technologies through ethnographic research.
In Equidade.info, all informed consent and assent forms and technical notes are available on our website.
A representative sample of Brazilian K-12 schools surveys students, teachers and principals to reveal inequalities hidden by official statistics.
Brazilian House representatives and a Senator started using our data to pressure the Ministry of Education into doing more to foster anti-racism practices in schools.
Wearable technologies are powering high-frequency
data collection of children's non-invasive bio-markers in Malawi
[A VMLY&R Brazil production, shortlisted in Cannes 2021]
Wearable technologies are powering high-frequency
data collection of children's non-invasive bio-markers in Malawi
[A VMLY&R Brazil production]
Nudges via text messages (SMS)
improve learning and decrease student dropouts in Cote d'Ivoire
[A VMLY&R Brazil production]
Nudges via text messages (SMS) decrease student dropouts
in Brazil by over 75% during the COVID-19 pandemic
[Brazil's Social Entrepreneur of 2020 Award]
Nudges via text messages (SMS) doubled learning recovery rates
in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic
[Talk at the SΓ£o Paulo State Secretariat of Education]
How behavioral insights can help governments design better policies
and what are the key barriers to scaling them up
[Interview to the Ministry of Management and Innovation's
Behavioral Insights Team]
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