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Stamatina is the Teaching Fellow and Programme Director for the Distance Learning (DL) provision at the School, overseeing two flagship degrees. These are: Museum Studies (Flex) and Socially engaged Practice. In her role, she collaborates closely with programme leads and colleagues across the institution to design and produce dynamic, media-rich learning materials. She also manages the ongoing review and enhancement of the School’s online programmes, ensuring they remain responsive to student feedback and evolving digital education trends.

A qualified professional coach, Stamatina integrates her coaching skillset into DL processes, offering tailored support to students in need and fostering an inclusive, empowering learning environment. She is passionate about leveraging coaching techniques to enhance student engagement, resilience, and academic success.

In addition to her leadership in curriculum development, Stamatina actively contributes to the broader DL community through research in digital learning, and supporting faculty in digital teaching best practices. Her work is driven by a commitment to accessibility, innovation, and student-centred design in distance education.

My research focuses on digital learning, with a unique emphasis on two complementary areas: informal science learning and the evaluation of initiatives for institutional change. I advance these strands through funding bids, research outputs, publications, and teaching. My interdisciplinary expertise in digital science learning, combined with my background in evaluating change initiatives, contributes significantly to the School’s innovative research culture.

I joined the School in 2019 as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow, bringing a new dimension to its Museum Studies research portfolio through my work on informal science learning. I continue to expand this research within the School and beyond, through collaborative projects, teaching, and scholarly initiatives.

Giasemi Vavoula, Cecilia Ekstrand, Torhild Skátun, Stamatina Anastopoulou, Gene Bertrand, Catherine Oualian. Staff training in the aftermath of a pandemic. Reverse Workshop at the ECSITE 2022 conference, Heilbronn, 2-4 June.

G Vavoula, S Anastopoulou, G Cantlow (2021). , Â鶹ÊÓƵ. ISBN: 978-1-912989-13-3 DOI: https://doi.org/10.25392/leicester.data.17113655.

Stamatina Anastopoulou, Giasemi Vavoula, Torhild Skátun (2021). Revisiting what is on offer: nourishing blended inquiry learning in the galleries and beyond. Workshop at the RISE-IMET 2021 virtual conference Emerging Technologies and the Digital Transformation of Museum and Heritage Studies. 2—4 June.

Giasemi Vavoula and Stamatina Anastopoulou (2020). . Â鶹ÊÓƵ, School of Museum Studies, ISBN: 978-1-912989-10-2 DOI: https://doi.org/10.29311/2020.69.

Wayne Holmes, Francisco Iniesto, Stamatina Anastopoulou, Jesus G. Boticario (accepted for publication) Stakeholder Perspectives on the Ethics of AI in Distance-based Higher Education. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning (IRRODL).

Yu-Tzu Wang, and Stamatina Anastopoulou (2020). The Development of Popular Music Heritage: exploring an AR exhibition. In Proceedings HERI-TECH 2020: The International Conference Florence Heri-tech: the Future of Heritage Science and Technologies, 13-15 May 2020, IOP Publishing.

Scanlon E., Anastopoulou S., Conole, G., Twiner A. (2019) Interdisciplinary work in technology enhanced learning: a design-based research approach. Frontiers in Education, Vol4.

Holmes, Wayne; Anastopoulou Stamatina (2019) What do students at distance universities think about AI? In: L@S '19: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, ACM, New York.

Wayne Holmes, Stamatina Anastopoulou, Heike Schaumburg and Manolis Mavrikis (2019). Technology-enhanced Personalised Learning: Untangling the Evidence. CALRG 2018 Conference, 18-19 June 2018, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

Koula Charitonos, Stamatina Anastopoulou, Agnes Kukulska-Hulme and Carolina Albuerne (2018). Evaluating the Frontline Immigration Advice Project. CALRG 2018 Conference, 18-19 June 2018, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

McAndrew, Patrick; Anastopoulou, Stamatina and Scanlon, Eileen (2018). Transformative approaches in distance online education: aligning evidence to influence the design of teaching at scale. In: L@S '18: Proceedings of the Fifth Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, ACM, New York, article no. 51.

Holmes, W., Anastopoulou S., Schaumburg, H. & Mavrikis, M. (2018). Technology-enhanced personalised learning: untangling the evidence. Stuttgart: Robert Bosch Stiftung.

Sharples, Mike, Scanlon, Eileen; Ainsworth, Shaaron, Anastopoulou, Stamatina, Collins, Trevor; Crook, Charles; Jones, Ann; Kerawalla, Lucinda; Littleton, Karen, Mulholland, Paul, O'Malley, Claire (2015). Personal Inquiry: Orchestrating science investigations within and beyond the classroom. Journal of the Learning Sciences, Vol. 24(2).