Dr Luciana De Martin Silva is a Principal Lecturer and the Teaching Development Scheme Lead at Hartpury University. She has extensive experience teaching from level 4 to 7 as well as leading three different academic programmes including undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Luciana has experience as an External Examiner/Validation panel member at four UK Institutions as well as Reviewer for different journals. She has also worked with a number of undergraduate and postgraduate students in a research project supervision capacity. This includes the supervision of a PhD to completion as well as currently supervising a PhD student at the University of Porto, Portugal.

From an industry perspective, Luciana has experience as a qualified PE teacher in Brazil and has experience as a Futsal Head Coach in a variety of settings including youth, national and international level. The highlights were winning a Gold medal in the World University Games in Beijing in 2001 with Brazil, FA Cup champion twice (2010 and 2015), co-leading the England Deaf Women’s Futsal team to 4th place in the Futsal European Championships in 2018 and recently winning the FA Women's Super Series Northern Futsal division in 2021.

Luciana also has experience engaging in community initiatives to enhance youth participation in sport and generate student placement opportunities. For example, she created opportunities for Hartpury students to engage in the delivery of Futsal sessions to hundreds of local girls during the winter months from 2014 to 2019 via the successfull partnership she created with the Gloucestershire County Girls Football League and a grant received from the Football Association.

Luciana’s main research interest is on teaching and learning, with particular focus on Higher Education, Sport Coaching and Physical Education. She has developed research with colleagues from different countries including Portugal, Brazil and the UK which resulted in a number of peer reviewed articles, book chapters and presentations at international conferences. 

Luciana currently leads modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level. The main focus of her teaching is on Pedagogy and the research process.