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Completed the PhD in Translation and Language Sciences in 2020 at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, with an exceptional PhD thesis award. She is currently working as a junior researcher at CIDTFF, University of Aveiro under the individual CEEC scholarship. In total she published 10 articles in high-esteemed journals together with 5 book chapters. Her topic of research interest are: informal learning, online identity building, digital literacy, collaborative writing, and fan studies.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Liudmila Shafirova

Citation names

  • Shafirova, Liudmila

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
CA11-53F5-50BA
ORCID iD
0000-0003-3743-2029
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rTW-SKAAAAAJ&hl=ca
Researcher Id
ABH-9418-2020
Scopus Author Id
57193712255

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Educational Sciences
  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Linguistics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Russian (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2016/10 - 2020/07
Concluded
 PhD in Translation and Language Sciences (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Language Sciences
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
"Identity building and language learning opportunities in a brony fandom" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Excellent, cum laude
2019/01 - 2019/04
Concluded
 Teaching Russian as a Foreign language (Postgraduate Certificate)
Moskovskij gosudarstvennyj universitet imeni M V Lomonosova, Russia
2015/10 - 2016/07
Concluded
 Master in Discourse Studies: Communication, Society and Learning (Master)
Major in Linguistics
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
"Learning Russian Online: Perspective of the students" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 9,3 from 10
2013/01 - 2013/11
Concluded
 Comunication and education (Master)
Major in Communication
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
 10 from 10
2008/09 - 2012/06
Concluded
 Sociology and Social Anthropology (Bachelor)
Sankt-Peterburgskij gosudarstvennyj universitet Fakul'tet sociologii, Russia
 4,9 from 5
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/08/16 - 2029/08/15 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Investigação Didática e Tecnologia na Formação de Formadores, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Investigação Didática e Tecnologia na Formação de Formadores, Portugal
2021/10 - 2023/08/15 Postdoc (Research) Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Investigação Didática e Tecnologia na Formação de Formadores, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Investigação Didática e Tecnologia na Formação de Formadores, Portugal
2020/11 - 2021/07 Postdoc (Research) Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
2017/04 - 2020/08 Researcher (Research) Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
2016/03 - 2016/06 Research Assistant (Research) Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/11/01 - Current OralGrab. Grabar vídeos y audios para ensenyar y aprender
PID2022-141511NB-100
Invited Scientist Fellow
Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Ongoing
2022/08 - Current DEFINERS: Digital language learning of language teachers
TED2021-129984A-I00
Invited Scientist Fellow
Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
2020/11 - Current ForVid: Video as a language learning format in and outside schools
RTI2018-100790-B-I00
Post-doc
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Ongoing
2020 - 2023 DiCe.Lang: Educação para a Cidadania Digital e Aprendizagem de Línguas Estrangeiras
2020-1-DE01-KA203-005712
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Investigação Didática e Tecnologia na Formação de Formadores, Portugal
 Erasmus
2016/11 - 2018/03 Defandom: The fandom in the Spanish youth
PR08616
PhD Student Fellow
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
 Centro Reina Sofía Adolescencia y Juventud
Concluded
2016/10 - 2017/12 Digital Identities and Cultures in Language Education (ICUDEL)
EDU2014-57677-C2-1-R
PhD Student Fellow
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Concluded
2016/03 - 2016/06 Creation and development of articles in Wikipedia as a pedagogical practice (Creación y ampliación de artículos en la Wikipedia como herramienta docente y de evaluación)
68-Plaquid
Master Student Fellow
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
 Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Simões, Ana Raquel; Andrade, Ana Isabel; Moreira, António; Oliveira, David; Cabrita, Isabel; Martins, Filomena; Moreira, Gillian; et al. DiCE: lang teacher training package: multilingual guide. UA Editora. 2023.
    Published
  2. Shafirova, Liudmila; Araújo e Sá, Maria Helena. Corresponding author: Shafirova, Liudmila. Plurilingual approach in using videos in the classroom and beyond. Aveiro, Portugal: UA Editora. 2023.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Vazquez-Calvo, Boris; Shafirova, Liudmila; Zhang, Leticia Tian. Corresponding author: Vazquez-Calvo, Boris. "The Phenomenon of Fan Translation: Mapping the Territory". In The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Young Audiences, edited by M. Borodo; J. Díaz-Cintas, 403-415. Routledge, 2025.
    Published
  2. Boris Vazquez-Calvo; Shafirova, Liudmila; Leticia Tian Zhang. "Language learning on TikTok through an autoethnographic exploration of hashtags in Chinese, Italian, and Russian". In Identity, Multilingualism and CALL, Calico book series, edited by Kessler G.; Klimanova L. Sheffield, United Kingdom: Equinox, 2022.
    Under revision
  3. Daniel Cassany; Boris Vázquez-Calvo; Shafirova, Liudmila; Leticia Tian Zhang. "El hablar desde la didáctica: las destrezas comunicativas". In Manual de lingu¨ística del hablar, 783-804. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter, 2021.
    Published
  4. Shafirova, Liudmila. "Dibujos animados: bronies, otakus y The Simpson". In El fandom en la juventud española, edited by Daniel Cassany, 101-129. Madrid, Spain: Centro Reina Sofía para la Juventud y la Infancia, 2019.
    Published
  5. Boris Vazquez-Calvo; Shafirova, Liudmila; Leticia Tian Zhang; Daniel Cassany. "An overview of multimodal fan translation: fansubbing, fandubbing, fan translation of games, and scanlation". In n Insights into Audiovisual and Comic Translation. Changing Perspectives on Films, Comics and Video Games, edited by María del Mar Ogea Pozo; Francisco Rodríguez Rodríguez, 191-213. Cordoba, Spain: UCO Press, 2019.
    Published
  6. Shafirova, Liudmila. "Aprender una lengua extranjera en línea". In Prácticas de lectura y escritura en la era digital, edited by Denise Hernández y Hernández; Daniel Cassany; Rocío López González, 171-193. Córdoba, Argentina: Editorial Brujas, 2018.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Liudmila Shafirova; Maria Helena Araújo e Sá. "Fostering future educators’ plurilingual, learning, and algorithmic awareness of social media use". Language and Intercultural Communication (2025): https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2025.2456854.
    10.1080/14708477.2025.2456854
  2. Liudmila Shafirova; Maria Helena Araújo e Sá. "Students making videos on social media: exploring the potential of online videos for language learning". Texto Livre (2024): https://doi.org/10.1590/1983-3652.2024.51663.
    10.1590/1983-3652.2024.51663
  3. Liudmila Shafirova; Daniel Cassany. "Challenges of introducing video production tasks into the classroom". Technology, Pedagogy and Education (2023): https://doi.org/10.1080/1475939X.2023.2271931.
    10.1080/1475939X.2023.2271931
  4. Liudmila Shafirova; Maria Helena Araújo e Sá. "Multilingual encounters in online video practices: the case of Portuguese university students". International Journal of Multilingualism (2023): https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2023.2205142.
    10.1080/14790718.2023.2205142
  5. Shafirova, Liudmila; Daniel Cassany. Corresponding author: Daniel Cassany. ""Ya está! Me pongo a filmar": Vídeos para aprender en clase". Signos 54 107 (2021): 893-918. https://scielo.conicyt.cl/pdf/signos/v54n107/0718-0934-signos-54-107-893.pdf.
    Open access • Published
  6. Liudmila Shafirova; Kristiina Kumpulainen. "Online collaboration and identity work in a brony fandom: Constructing a dialogic space in a fan translation project". E-Learning and Digital Media (2021): 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/2042753020988920.
    Published • 10.1177/2042753020988920
  7. Liudmila Shafirova; Daniel Cassany; Carme Bach. "Transcultural literacies in online collaboration: a case study of fanfiction translation from Russian into English". Language and Intercultural Communication 20 6 (2020): 531-545. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2020.1812621.
    Open access • Published • 10.1080/14708477.2020.1812621
  8. Shafirova, L.; Cassany, D.; Bach, C.. "From "newbie" to professional: Identity building and literacies in an online affinity space". Learning, Culture and Social Interaction 24 (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85077062814&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.lcsi.2019.100370
  9. Shafirova, L.; Cassany, D.. "Bronies learning English in the digital wild". Language Learning and Technology 23 1 (2019): 127-144. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85063568909&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Open access • Published • 10.125/44676
  10. Shafirova, Liudmila; Daniel Cassany. "Aprendiendo idiomas en línea en el tiempo libre". Reset: Revista de estudios socioeducativos 5 (2017): 49-62. https://repositori.upf.edu/bitstream/handle/10230/36465/Cassany_resed_apre.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.
    Open access • Published
  11. Shafirova, Liudmila; Daniel Cassany. "Samostoyatelnoe russkogo yazuka s novumi tehnologiayami: perspectiva ispanskih studentov. Informal learning of Russian language with online resources: spanish learners' perspective". Russky yazuk za rubejom 2 (2017): 104-109. https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=29073856.
    Open access • Published
  12. Gómez, D.S.; Shafirova, L.. "Conversación en WhatsApp: aprendizaje y colaboración en lengua franca". Bellaterra Journal of Teaching and Learning Language and Literature 9 4 (2016): 23-40. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85016026269&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.5565/rev/jtl3.669
Magazine article
  1. Shafirova, Liudmila; Araújo e Sá, Maria Helena. Corresponding author: Shafirova, Liudmila. "(H)À Educação: Como 'Netflix e chill' podem transformar a aprendizagem de línguas", Diário de Aveiro, 2022
  2. Shafirova, Liudmila; Araújo e Sá, Maria Helena. Corresponding author: Shafirova, Liudmila. "(H)À Educação: Como 'Netflix e chill' podem transformar a aprendizagem de línguas. | (H)À Educação: How 'Netflix and chill' can transform language learning", Diário de Aveiro, 2022
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Shafirova, Liudmila. "Identity building and language learning opportunities in a brony fandom". PhD, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020. https://84.88.27.106/handle/10803/669341.
  2. Shafirova, Liudmila. "Aprender ruso en línea: perspectiva de los estudiantes". Master, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016. https://repositori.upf.edu/bitstream/handle/10230/27814/Shafirova_2016.pdf?sequence=1.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/11/28 Plurilingual awareness development through digital linguistic landscapes in the language classroom IALIC 2024
University of Bordeaux (Bordeaux, France)
2024/08/27 Social Media, Linguistic diversity and Language Learning: Bridging Activity at University Level ECER 2024
(Nicosia, Cyprus)
2024/03/21 Preservice language teachers, language diversity, and technology use MoMM Conference
(online, Germany)
2023/08/21 Bridging TV shows and Online Videos Watching Practices to Language Awareness and Multiliteracies in a University Classroom ECER 2023
University of Glasgow (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
2023/04/17 Multimodality and Plurilingual Computer-Assisted Language Education: Bibliographic Review The Second Language Multimodal Literacies symposium (L2ML)
The university of Arizona (Arizona, United States)
2022/11/24 Portuguese university students’ video practices and plurilingual competence nternational conference Digital Citizenship, Digital Wilds and Language Learning & Teaching
University of Salzburg (Salzburg, Austria)
2022/11/17 Plurilingualism and audiovisual communication in foreign language learning and teaching ACEDLE 2022
University of Aveiro
2022/09/07 Plurilingual competence and multimodal communication: in-class and out-of-class language learning and teaching IALIC 2022
University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/07/07 Portuguese university students language awareness in multilingual video consumption ALA: Language Awareness
Faculdade de Arquitetura, Artes, Comunicação e Design – Câmpus de Bauru of the Universidade Estadual Paulista (Brazil)
2021/04/28 Enseñar e aprender: ruso, chino e italiano en TikTok Comunicación y Pensamiento: La revolución de los prosumers: youtubers e instagrammers.
Grupo Comunicar (Online, Spain)
2021/03/29 Multilingual language learning practices in the digital wild: Russian and English #YouthMediaLife 2021
University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
2020/12/15 Etnografía digital como un método de investigar las literacidades en línea Máster Oficial Investigación en Educación
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
2020/12/07 Cultural and ideological discourses in #learnchinese videos and comments on TikTok TikTok Cultures in the Asia Pacific Symposium
Curtin University (Curtin, Australia)
2020/12/03 Language Education in Russia: school system and new developments in Russian as a Foreign Language 1st International Seminar of the Global Language Education Series
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2020/11/26 Doing ethnographic research on writing in online communities Master Erasmus Mundus Children's Literature, Media and Culture
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
2020/10/19 Three research inspired ways to bridge informal L2 digital literacies and telecollaboration L2DL 2020: Critical Transnational Dialogue and Virtual Exchange
University of Arizona (Arizona, United States)
2019/11/07 Transcultural identities and literacies in fan translation projects International Conference on Intercultural Learning in the Digital Age: Building up Telecollaborative Networks
SILVA research group, University of Valencia (Valencia, Spain)
2019/09/19 Localising the other: Perspectives from Chinese fansubbers and Russian-speaking fandubbers Translation in Transition 4
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)
2019/06/20 From a newbie to a professional crafter: identity and foreign literacy development of a brony fan AMODE, Approaches to Multimodal Digital Environments: from theories to practices
Project: Integrating multimodal digital literacy and English for international communication (Rome, Italy)
2019/03/19 Acercamiento etnográfico al aprendizaje informal en línea: el caso de comunidad brony XXIII Jornadas Interuniversitàries de Didàctica de la Llengua i la Literatura
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)
2018/06/20 Masha and the Bear as one of the resources for out-of-class learning of Russian The International Conference on Russian Studies
Universitat de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
2018/03/22 Collaborative and informal learning in a brony fandom Transmedia Literacy
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)
2017/06/28 Bronies y haters en la construcción de la nueva masculinidad en el fandom de dibujos animados III Simposi Internacional EDiSo, Desigualtats i nous discursos socials
EDiSo, Asosiación de Estudios sobre Discurso y Sociedad (Barcelona, Spain)
2016/11/25 Learning Russian as a fan of cartoons IALIC, Bridging across Languages and Cultures in Everyday Lives
IALIC (Barcelona, Spain)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/11/08 - 2023/11/08 Organization and participation in a seminar Cafe com CEEC. It was focused on giving information about the process of applying to Individual grant of CEEC. (2023/11 - 2023/11)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Investigação Didática e Tecnologia na Formação de Formadores, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2018/04/16 - 2018/04/20 Participation in a PhD course on Digital Ethnography
Other
 PhD course on Digital Ethnography
Aarhus Universitet, Denmark

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2022 - Current Frontiers of Education
2021 - Current E-Learning and Digital Media Sage
2021 - Current Language Learning & Technology
2020 - Current Language and Intercultural Communication Taylor and Francis

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2022 - 2023 ALA - Language Awareness Association Member

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2022/12/14 - 2022/12/16 ICEduTech

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/09/01 - 2025/06/20 Intervention Projects in Schools (Projetos de Intervenção Educacional III (PIE 3)) (Projetos de Intervenção Educacional III (PIE 3) (Bacharelato) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2024/10/10 - 2024/10/10 Online videos, Linguistic Diversity and Language Learning (Invited lecturer) Teaching French as a foreign language (Magister) Le Mans Université, France
2024/10/08 - 2024/10/08 Online videos, Linguistic Diversity and Language Learning (Invited lecturer) English Studies (Bachelor) Le Mans Université, France
2023/10/11 - 2023/10/11 From informal to formal language education (Invited lecturer) Teaching English in the 3rd cycle of Basic Education and in Secondary Education (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/07/10 - 2023/07/14 17ª Academia de Verão da Universidade de Aveiro / 17th Summer Academy at the University of Aveiro (Monitor científico / Scientific monitor) (Ensino básico 3º ciclo) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2023/06/28 - 2023/06/28 Workshop Methodological Insights: Participatory Approach within Ethnography in Education EERA Summer School (Doutoramento) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2023/04/19 - 2023/04/19 Multiplier event of Dice.Lang project - Education for digital citizenship in foreign language learning for in-service language teachers (formadora / trainer) (Outros) Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Investigação Didática e Tecnologia na Formação de Formadores, Portugal
2022/07/11 - 2022/07/15 16ª Academia de Verão da Universidade de Aveiro / 16th Summer Academy at the University of Aveiro (Monitor científico / Scientific monitor) (Ensino básico 2º ciclo) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2021/12/13 - 2021/12/13 From informal to formal language education (Invited lecturer) English Didactics and Curricular Development Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2019/10 - 2019/12 Language, Community and Ideology Language, Community and Ideology (Bachelor) Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
2019/03 - 2019/06 Language Pedagogy Language Pedagogy (Bachelor) Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
2018/01 - 2019/06 Case Study: Language and Education Language and Education (Bachelor) Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
2017/10 - 2017/12 Case Study: Language and Society Case Study: Language and Society (Bachelor) Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2022 - 2023 5ª Edição do Concurso nacional Kamishibai Plurilingue subordinado ao tema "Este lugar que tanto amo" / 5th edition of the national Kamishibai Plurilingual Competition on the theme "Este lugar que tanto amo" (Comissão avaliadora / Evaluation committee) Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Investigação Didática e Tecnologia na Formação de Formadores, Portugal
2021 - 2022 4ª Edição do Concurso nacional Kamishibai Plurilingue subordinado ao tema "Quem são os nossos vizinhos?" / 4th edition of the national Kamishibai Plurilingual Competition on the theme "Quem são os nossos vizinhos?" (Comissão avaliadora / Evaluation committee)
Evaluator
 Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Investigação Didática e Tecnologia na Formação de Formadores, Portugal

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024/06/06 - 2024/06/11 Parte do juro do 6o Concurso kamishibai plurilíngue intitulado "Sozinhos vamos mais depressa, juntos vamos mais longe!"/Part of the jury of the 6th Multilingual Kamishibai Contest titled 'Alone we go faster, together we go further! Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024/04/29 - 2024/05/03 Erasmus Plus Training Mobility Universität Hamburg, Germany
2018/09 - 2018/12 Pre-doctoral research stay in research group LECI. Supervised by Prof. Kumpulainen. Helsingin yliopisto, Finland
Distinctions

Award

2023 Extraordinary doctorate award
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
2020 International Doctorate Label
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
2020 PhD Cum Laude
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain