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Marina Mota holds a bachelor's degree in Design and a master's degree in Information Design from the Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil), with a focus on the planning and analysis of educational artifacts. In 2015, she co-founded a design studio, where she worked on branding, design thinking, and educational workshops. She later became an educational instructor at the Apple Developer Academy – UFPE, supporting higher education students in developing mobile applications that address societal challenges. In Portugal, she contributed to the Aveiro STEAM City project as a facilitator of educational activities and is currently a doctoral student in Education at the University of Aveiro, where she is also a member of the Research Centre on Didactics and Technology in the Education of Trainers.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Marina de Lira Pessoa Mota

Citation names

  • Mota, Marina

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
B117-7C66-B73C
ORCID iD
0000-0002-1939-9854

Email addresses

  • marinamota@ua.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Architectural design
  • Social Sciences - Educational Sciences - Education, General

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2019 - 2024
Ongoing
 Doctorate in Education (Doutoramento)
Major in Teaching Methodology and Curriculum Development
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal
2015 - 2017
Concluded
 Master's Degree in Design (Master)
Major in Information Design / Planning of Educational Artifacts
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Centro de Artes e Comunicação, Brazil
"Reading images to produce narratives: a study of an artifact for textual production" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2008 - 2013
Concluded
 Design (Bachelor)
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Centro de Artes e Comunicação, Brazil
"Interaction in Educational Social Network" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/11 - Current Researcher (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Research Centre on Didactics and Technology in the Education of Trainers, Portugal
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Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/02 - 2020/10 Educational Instructor at Aveiro STEAM City Project Fábrica Centro Ciência Viva de Aveiro, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2017/10/02 - 2019/07/01 Educational Instructor Apple Developer Academy, Brazil
Fundação de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
2015 - 2019 Co-founder and Designer Estúdio Cargo, Brazil
2014 - 2014 Designer Albie Design e Consultoria em Comunicação, Brazil
2010 - 2010 Design Intern Grande Recife - Consórcio de Transporte Metropolitano, Brazil
2010 - 2010 Design Intern Módulo Design & Ilustração, Brazil
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020/11/01 - 2024/10/31 Research Centre Didactics and Technology in the Education of Trainers
UIDB/00194/2020
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Investigação Didática e Tecnologia na Formação de Formadores, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing

Other

Designation Funders
2016/02 - 2017/06 Reading Activities at Schools
Processo : 483244/2013-9
Researcher
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Centro de Artes e Comunicação, Brazil
 Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Ulhôa, Andrea; Capela, Carina; Ribeiro, Erika; Mota, Marina. "Imagens que contam histórias: o Photovoice e a Foto-elicitação na investigação qualitativa [Images that tell stories: Photovoice and Photo-elicitation in qualitative research]". In Reflexões em torno de Metodologias de Investigação: recolha de dados, edited by Sá, Patrícia; Costa, António Pedro; Moreira, António, 53-72. Aveiro, Portugal: UA Editora, 2021.
    Published
  2. Mota, Marina; Sá, Cristina Manuela; Guerra, Cecília. "Systematic Literature Review Using Excel Software: A Case of the Visual Narratives in Education". In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 325-340. Springer International Publishing, 2021.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-70187-1_23
  3. Mota, Marina; Sá, Cristina Manuela; Guerra, Cecília. "Visual narratives in education: A systematic literature review". In Qualitative Research in Education: advances and challenges, 415-427. A Coruña, Spain: Ludomedia, 2020.
    Published • 10.36367/ntqr.2.2020.415-427
  4. Mota, Marina L. P.; Campello, Silvio B.; Souza, Angélica Porto C. de. "Reading images for telling narratives: an analysis of the Discursive Operations made with a story-telling game". In Selected Readings of the 8th Information Design International Conference - Information Design: Memories, 311-338. São Paulo, Brazil: Editora Blucher, 2019.
    Published • 10.5151/9788580393712-15
Conference abstract
  1. RODRIGUES, Lais Helena Gouveia; Mota, Marina; Guerra, Cecilia Vieira; Silvio Barreto Campello. "Constructing visual scientific narratives about health and well-being: reports of didactic with science students and teachers". Paper presented in XVII Congresso da SPCE Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciências da Educação, Porto, 2024.
    Published
  2. Mota, Marina; RODRIGUES, Lais Helena Gouveia; Guerra, Cecilia Vieira; Silvio Barreto Campello. "Narrativas visuais na educação em ciências: construção e implementação de um recurso didático em contexto não-formal". Paper presented in IX Seminário Ibero-Americano CTS & XIII Seminário CTS - Desafios da Educação CTS e Objetivos da Agenda 2030, Aveiro, 2024.
    Published
  3. Mota, Marina; Manuela Sá, Cristina; Guerra, Cecília. "DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERACTIVE LEARNING RESOURCE BASED ON COMICS USING A DESIGN THINKING APPROACH". Paper presented in 18th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Valencia, 2024.
    10.21125/inted.2024.0914
  4. Mota, Marina; Sá, Cristina Manuela; Guerra, Cecília Vieira. "A banda desenhada como recurso didático em contexto de educação não-formal em ciências: um estudo prático". Paper presented in XX Encontro Nacional de Educação em Ciência | VI International Seminar on Science Education, Covilhã, 2024.
    Published
  5. Mota, Marina; Sá, Cristina Manuela; Cecília Vieira Guerra. "A banda desenhada como recurso didático na comunicação e educação em ciência". Paper presented in SciComPt2024 - Linguagens e Vozes para uma Ciência Acessível (SciComPt2024), Braga, 2024.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Mota, Marina; Sá, Cristina; Guerra, Cecília. Corresponding author: Mota, Marina. "A banda desenhada na comunicação e educação em ciência". Paper presented in V Encontro de Jovens Investigadores em Educação (V ENJIE), 2022.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.48528/tr7a-j538
  2. Mota, Marina; Sá, Cristina Manuela; Guerra, Cecília. "As narrativas visuais na Educação: uma revisão sistemática de literatura [Visual narratives in education: a systematic literature review]". Paper presented in CIAIQ 2020, 2020.
    Published
  3. Mota, Marina L. P.; Campello, Silvio B.; Souza, Angélica Porto C. de. "The discursive operations made while creating narratives: analysis of an activity of producing children's books with kids". Paper presented in 9th International Information Design Congress, 2019.
    Published • 10.5151/9cidi-congic-2.0379
  4. Mota, Marina L. P.; Campello, Silvio B.; Souza, Angélica Porto C. de. "Reading images for telling narratives: a study of an artifact for textual production". Paper presented in 8th Information Design International Conference, Natal, 2017.
    Published • 10.5151/cidi2017-037
  5. Mota, Marina de Lira Pessoa; Lameira, Gregório Bacelar; Campello, Silvio Barreto; Miranda, Eva Rolim. "Contação de estórias e produção de sequências narrativas no formato de histórias em quadrinhos [Storytelling and production of narrative sequences in a comic book format]". Paper presented in 12º Congresso Brasileiro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Design [12th Brazilian Congress of Research and Development in Design], Belo Horizonte, 2016.
    Published • 10.5151/despro-ped2016-0205
  6. Lameira, Gregorio Bacelar; Mota, Marina de Lira Pessoa; Coutinho, Solange Galvão; Miranda, Eva Rolim. "Sequências textuais nos objetos educacionais digitais [Textual sequences in digital educational objects ]". Paper presented in 12º Congresso Brasileiro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Design [12th Brazilian Congress of Research and Development in Design], Belo Horizonte, 2016.
    Published • 10.5151/despro-ped2016-0195
  7. De Lira P. Mota, Marina; R. B. Barreto Campello, Silvio; R. S. de Oliveira, Raquel. "Atividade e Interação na Rede Social Educacional Redu [Activity and Interaction in the Redu Educational Social Network]". Paper presented in XXV Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Educação [XXV Brazilian Symposium on Informatics in Education], Dourados, 2014.
    10.5753/cbie.sbie.2014.219
  8. Raquel Rodrigues Santos de Oliveira; Turla Angela Alquete de Arreguy Baptista; Mota, Marina; Silvio Romero Botelho Barreto Campello. "Mapeamento e Análise de Atividade de Aprendizagem Colaborativa na Rede Social Educacional Redu [Mapping and Analysis of Collaborative Learning Activity in the Redu Educational Social Network]". Paper presented in Interaction South America, 2013.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Mota, Marina; Sá, Cristina Manuela; Guerra, Cecília. "Comics in science communication and education: development of an interactive learning resource". Paper presented in Encontro Nacional com a Ciência e a Tecnologia 2022, 2022.
  2. Mota, Marina; Daniela Marques; Ravara, Ascensão; Cecília Vieira Guerra. "Oceano e biodiversidade - Comunicar e educar em ciência através de science cartoon [Ocean and biodiversity - Communicate and educate in science through science cartoon". Paper presented in Congresso de Comunicação de Ciência - SciComPT 2021, 2021.
  3. Mota, Marina; Sá, Cristina Manuela; Guerra, Cecília. "Comics in science communication and education". Paper presented in Encontro Nacional com a Ciência e a Tecnologia 2021, 2021.
  4. Torres, Maria Juniene Souza; Oliveira, Vando da Silva de; Lemos, Clarissa Cabral de; Campello, Silvio Barreto; Mota, Marina de Lira Pessoa; Oliveira, Raquel Rodrigues S. de. "Reading Activity Systems in Schools". Paper presented in 12º Congresso Brasileiro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Design [12th Brazilian Congress of Research and Development in Design], 2016.
    10.5151/despro-ped2016-0513
Journal article
  1. Mota, Marina; Cristina Manuela Sá; Cecília Vieira Guerra. "Desenvolvimento de um recurso didático interativo em banda desenhada científica utilizando a abordagem design thinking [Development of an interactive didactic resource based on science comics using a design thinking approach]". New Trends in Qualitative Research (2025): https://doi.org/10.36367/ntqr.21.1.2025.e1211.
    10.36367/ntqr.21.1.2025.e1211
  2. Mota, Marina; Sá, Cristina Manuela; Guerra, Cecília Vieira. "Science Communication and Education Through Comics: Contributions of Portuguese Stakeholders in a Focus Group". Brazilian Journal of Education, Technology and Society (BRAJETS) 17 3 (2024): 1076-1101. https://www.brajets.com/index.php/brajets/article/view/1565.
    Open access • Published • http://dx.doi.org/10.14571/brajets.v17.n3.1076-1101
  3. Ramos, Ana Carolina do Nascimento; Mota, Marina de Lira Pessoa; Guerra, Cecília Vieira; Sá, Cristina Manuela. "Health education in the early years of schooling in Portugal: a perspective from the Portuguese official curriculum documents". Investigações em Ensino de Ciências 28 1 (2023): 176-189. http://dx.doi.org/10.22600/1518-8795.ienci2023v28n1p176.
    10.22600/1518-8795.ienci2023v28n1p176
  4. Daniela Marques; Teresa B. Neto; Cecília Guerra; Floriano Viseu; Ana Paula Aires; Marina Mota; Ascensão Ravara. "A STEAM Experience in the Mathematics Classroom: The Role of a Science Cartoon". Education Sciences (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci13040392.
    10.3390/educsci13040392
  5. Mota, Marina; Sá, Cristina Manuela; Cecília Vieira Guerra. "Comics in Science Communication and Education: A Systematic Literature Review". Revista Lusófona de Educação 51 51 (2021): 99-119. https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/rleducacao/article/view/7713.
    Open access • Published • 10.24140/issn.1645-7250.rle51.07
  6. Mota, Marina; Lameira, Gregório; Barreto Campello, Silvio; Rolim, Eva. "Storytelling and production of narrative sequences in a comic book format". Revista Educação Gráfica 21 1 (2017): 132-145. http://www.educacaografica.inf.br/artigos/contacao-de-estorias-e-producao-de-sequencias-narrativas-no-formato-de-historias-em-quadrinhos-storytelling-and-production-of-narrative-sequences-in-a-comic-book-format.
    Open access • Published
Magazine article
  1. Mota, Marina; Sá, Cristina Manuela; Cecília Vieira Guerra. "É possível comunicar e educar em ciência através da banda desenhada? [Is it possible to communicate and educate in science through comics?]", Diário de Aveiro & uaonline, 2023, https://www.ua.pt/pt/noticias/13/81301.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/08/26 Comics for Science Communication and Education: Developing a Resource for a Non-Formal Education Context Emerging Researchers' Conference
European Educational Research Association (Nicosia, Cyprus)
2024/05 Comics as a didactic resource in science communication and education. SciComPt 2024
Rede de Comunicação de Ciência e Tecnologia de Portugal (SciComPt) (Braga, Portugal)
2024/03 Development of an interactive learning resource based on comics using a design thinking approach 8th annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED 2024)
International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED) (Valencia, Spain)
2024/01 Comics as a didactic resource in a non-formal science education context: a practical study XX Encontro Nacional de Educação em Ciências / VI International Seminar of Science Education
Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI) (Covilhã, Portugal)
2022/03/29 Science Comics in Primary School Communication of Science and Technology in Education
Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2014 - 2025 Volunteered as an organizer, mentor, and facilitator for Techstars Startup Weekend (entrepreneurial education program), supporting startup development initiatives across Brazil and Portugal. (2014 - 2025)
Workshop (Other)
 Techstars, Brazil
2013/08 - 2015/07 Co-organized and facilitated workshops, group dynamics, and lectures on Social Impact Business for the CHOICE Movement, delivering entrepreneurial education programs across Brazilian universities. (2013/08 - 2015/07)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Artemisia, Brazil
2015/04 - 2015/05 Facilitated and co-organized 'Leadership in Practice' (16-hour workshop) for Fundação Estudar (Brazil), focusing on practical leadership techniques and essential soft skills development. (2015/04 - 2015/05)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Fundação Estudar, Brazil

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2025/05 - 2025/05 Facilitated the 1-hour Flash Course 'Comics as a Resource for Science Communication and Education,' designed for higher education teachers. The event was organized by the Pedagogical Innovation Center of the Polytechnic of Porto.
Seminar
 Flash Course Project
Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal
2024/07 - 2024/07 Facilitated the workshop 'Learning Science by Creating... Scientific Stories!' for Biology and Geology teachers, using a board game to develop scientific narratives. The session was held at the IX International Conference of Casa das Ciências, which focused on 'The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Education: Advantages and Risks.'
Casa das Ciências , Portugal
2023/09/29 - 2023/09/29 Facilitated activities on comics in science communication and education within the scope of Science@UA of the European Researchers' Night.
Festival
 Noite Europeia dos Investigadores
Fábrica Centro Ciência Viva de Aveiro, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2022/09/30 - 2022/09/30 Facilitated activities on comics in science communication and education within the scope of Science@UA of the European Researchers' Night.
Festival
 Noite Europeia dos Investigadores
Fábrica Centro Ciência Viva de Aveiro, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2019/08 - 2019/08 Facilitated the workshop on Service Design Thinking for startups at the Overdrives Innovative Business Accelerator, maintained by Faculdade UNINASSAU - Brazil.
Workshop
 Workshop of Service Design Thinking
Overdrives, Brazil
2018/11 - 2018/11 Facilitated the workshop "Design for non-designers" regarding the use of Design Thinking and human-centered methodologies in people's daily lives, at RECnPlay | Technology, Creative Economy and Smart Cities.
Workshop
 RECnPlay | Technology, Creative Economy and Smart Cities.
Associação Porto Digital, Brazil
2018/08 - 2018/08 Delivered a lecture on Business Design Thinking and the role of design in developing innovative projects and businesses, tailored for high school students from technical schools in Pernambuco, Brazil.
Meeting
 SESI Futuro (Future SESI)
Serviço Social da Indústria (SESI), Brazil
2017/12 - 2017/12 Facilitated the workshop 'Co-creation of Social Businesses' at RECnPlay | Technology, Creative Economy, and Smart Cities, introducing design methodologies and their role in developing sustainable social business models.
Workshop
 RECnPlay | Technology, Creative Economy and Smart Cities.
Associação Porto Digital, Brazil
2013/11 - 2013/11 Participation in the Interaction Design and User Experience workshop during Interaction South America (ISA2013).
Workshop
 Interaction South America (ISA2013)
Reset-Lab, Brazil

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2014 Caracterização e Desenvolvimento de Embalagem para linha de Brinquedos [Characterization and Development for packaging for toys]
(Thesis) Arguer
 Camila Santos Cavalcanti Albuquerque. (Other)
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Centro de Artes e Comunicação, Brazil

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2018/05 - 2018/05 1st Microduino Brazil Hackathon. Acting as one of the judges at the robotics event, with the theme “Technology in education: For interactive education”.
Evaluator
 Microduino Brasil, Brazil