Carla Nascimento Luguetti

My overarching research and teaching focus on topics of sport pedagogy and social justice. Over the past seven years I have focused in understanding activist approaches within sporting contexts. Specifically, my line of research aims at co- creating activist sport pedagogical models for working diverse youth. The intent is to use sport as a vehicle for assisting youth to become critically aware of their communities? social issues. I believe my line of inquiry is rigorous, original and significant for the Sport Pedagogy area. An example of the impact of my research work is the international award I received for my 2017 paper ?The life of crime does not pay; stop and think!?: The process of co-constructing a prototype pedagogical model of sport for working with youth from socially vulnerable backgrounds which was presented by the American Education Research Association. In addition to this, I was invited to deliver a keynote at AIESEP 2019 in New York: ?Towards a Pedagogy of love: Exploring people?s experiences of an activist sport pedagogical model?. Although I am an early career researcher, I have a significant publication track record in collaboration with researchers from all over the globe (US, UK, Australia, Sweden and South America).