Dr Sara Hawley teaches on the MA in Digital Media (Education route) and the BA Media at the UCL Institute of Education's Knowledge Lab.  She also leads the BA Education Studies module, Media Education in Schools. Sara’s research covers literacy in the digital age, learner agency and digital divides. She gained her PhD, The Sociomateriality of Literacy, a Study of the Relationship between Institutions, Identity and the Internet in a Primary Classroom, at UCL.   An ethno-case study, it analysed the digital literacy practices of 8-9 year olds.  

Sara has also worked as a teacher and senior leader in a London primary school and was previously a BBC TV and radio producer.