Dr Agnieszka Uflewska

  • Associate Tutor (School of Education)

Biography

Agnieszka Uflewska is an interdisciplinary researcher and educator working at the intersection of planet-centred transformative lifelong learning, ethics and epistemologies of AI-mediated education, and humane, relational pedagogies for academic flourishing. She holds a PhD in Education from the University of Glasgow, alongside advanced degrees in international relations, foreign service, and research methodologies. Her work bridges education, ethics, and global governance, with a sustained focus on future-oriented, inclusive, and sustainable learning systems.

Prior to re-joining the University of Glasgow in 2022, Agnieszka held academic and senior leadership roles in Warsaw, Poland, including Lecturer in Political Science, University Coordinator for Internationalisation, and Chair of the Disciplinary Commission on Academic Misconduct of Students. She oversaw international partnerships across Asia, North America, and Europe; coordinated the successful CEEMAN International Quality Accreditation (Dec 2021); and led the institution’s first UN Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Sharing Information on Progress Report (2021). 

Since returning to Glasgow, she has remained deeply committed to teaching, supervision, and relational mentoring, supporting postgraduate students in developing ethical agency, academic confidence, and distinctive scholarly identities in AI-mediated learning environments. Her research includes collaboration with Prof. Anna Wilson on the Leverhulme Trust-funded Waste Stories project, alongside independent work on spatial cognition in hybrid learning contexts, planet-centred transformative lifelong learning, and ethics and epistemologies of AI-mediated education, with particular attention to care, responsibility, and cultural plurality.

Research interests

  • Spacial cognition in hybrid learning contexts 
  • Ethics and epistemologies of AI-mediated learning 
  • Planet-centred transformative lifelong learning 

Publications

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2024

Wilson, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6928-1689, Robertson, George, Uflewska, Agnieszka ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8781-4423 and Humphreys, Penny (2024) Waste stories: networked imaginaries. Proceedings of the International Conference on Networked Learning, 14, (doi: 10.54337/nlc.v14i1.8097)

Uflewska, Agnieszka ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8781-4423 and Tordzro, Gameli Kodzo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9091-9309 (2024) Charting new horizons in lifelong education: planet-centred, peaceful and sustainable paradigms in the age of AI. In: Slade, Bonnie, Mayo, Peter and Bogossian, Thi (eds.) Adult Education and Difference. Series: International issues in adult education (36). Brill, pp. 191-211. ISBN 9789004692619 (doi: 10.1163/9789004692626_012)

Wilson, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6928-1689, Robertson, George and Uflewska, Agnieszka ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8781-4423 (2024) Waste Stories. Working Paper. Centre for Research & Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning (CR&DALL).

2022

Uflewska, Agnieszka ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8781-4423 (2022) Etyczne aspekty sztucznej inteligencji [Ethical Aspects of AI] webinar. [Website]

Osborne, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1609-385X, Maitra, Srabani ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1840-1294 and Uflewska, Agnieszka ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8781-4423 (2022) Smart learning cities promoting lifelong learning through working lives. In: Malloch, Margaret, Cairns, Len, Evans, Karen and O’Connor, Bridget N. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Learning and Work. SAGE Publications: London, pp. 376-389. ISBN 9781526491114 (doi: 10.4135/9781529757217.N24)

Uflewska, Agnieszka ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8781-4423 and Tordzro, Gameli K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9091-9309 (2022) Beyond the WEIRD education system in the age of AI. Postcolonial Directions in Education, 11(2), pp. 215-247.

2021

Uflewska, Agnieszka ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8781-4423, Lido, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6255-9905 and Dey, Soumi (2021) Innovative, interactive and individualised (i3) teaching and learning practice in higher and lifelong education. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 23(2), pp. 55-69. (doi: 10.5456/WPLL.23.2.55)

2016

Uflewska, Agnieszka ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8781-4423 and Grzymkowska, Magdalena (2016) Głodni wiedzy [interview]. Tydzień Polski,

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Articles

Wilson, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6928-1689, Robertson, George, Uflewska, Agnieszka ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8781-4423 and Humphreys, Penny (2024) Waste stories: networked imaginaries. Proceedings of the International Conference on Networked Learning, 14, (doi: 10.54337/nlc.v14i1.8097)

Uflewska, Agnieszka ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8781-4423 and Tordzro, Gameli K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9091-9309 (2022) Beyond the WEIRD education system in the age of AI. Postcolonial Directions in Education, 11(2), pp. 215-247.

Uflewska, Agnieszka ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8781-4423, Lido, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6255-9905 and Dey, Soumi (2021) Innovative, interactive and individualised (i3) teaching and learning practice in higher and lifelong education. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 23(2), pp. 55-69. (doi: 10.5456/WPLL.23.2.55)

Uflewska, Agnieszka ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8781-4423 and Grzymkowska, Magdalena (2016) Głodni wiedzy [interview]. Tydzień Polski,

Book Sections

Uflewska, Agnieszka ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8781-4423 and Tordzro, Gameli Kodzo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9091-9309 (2024) Charting new horizons in lifelong education: planet-centred, peaceful and sustainable paradigms in the age of AI. In: Slade, Bonnie, Mayo, Peter and Bogossian, Thi (eds.) Adult Education and Difference. Series: International issues in adult education (36). Brill, pp. 191-211. ISBN 9789004692619 (doi: 10.1163/9789004692626_012)

Osborne, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1609-385X, Maitra, Srabani ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1840-1294 and Uflewska, Agnieszka ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8781-4423 (2022) Smart learning cities promoting lifelong learning through working lives. In: Malloch, Margaret, Cairns, Len, Evans, Karen and O’Connor, Bridget N. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Learning and Work. SAGE Publications: London, pp. 376-389. ISBN 9781526491114 (doi: 10.4135/9781529757217.N24)

Research Reports or Papers

Wilson, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6928-1689, Robertson, George and Uflewska, Agnieszka ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8781-4423 (2024) Waste Stories. Working Paper. Centre for Research & Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning (CR&DALL).

Website

Uflewska, Agnieszka ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8781-4423 (2022) Etyczne aspekty sztucznej inteligencji [Ethical Aspects of AI] webinar. [Website]

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Grants

  • Leverhulme Trust (UK), Research Associate (2024, PI: Prof. Anna Wilson): Collaborated with Anna Wilson on the Waste Stories project, exploring cultural narratives of waste, sustainability, and learning.
  • University of Glasgow Research Scholarship (Master of Research and PhD, 2007–2017): Fully funded 1+3 postgraduate and doctoral research in Central and East European Studies, comprising an MRes year followed by PhD study, awarded on competitive basis. The scholarship included tuition fee coverage and a dedicated research and conference travel stipend. 

 

Supervision

Agnieszka adopts a tailored and relational mentoring approach: innovative, interactive, and individualised (i³), supporting students' academic flourishing, ethical agency, and sustainable scholarly development, while attending to well-being and holistic growth.

Currently, together with Anna Wislon and Sandy Brownlee (Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling), Agnieszka has been co-supervising one PhD student:

Additionally, since re-joining the University of Glasgow in Feb 2022, Agnieszka supervised around 40 postgraduate-taught students across the School's MSc and MEd programmes, supporting strong academic outcomes and developemnt of ethical, inclusive, and future-oriented educational practice. Selected student work is presented below:

AI-Mediated Game-Based Learning and Pedagogy
  • Chenyu Zhao (MSc, Educational Studies, 2025): Reimagining Chinese as a Second Language Teaching through Multiliteracies: AI-Enhanced Pedagogies for Non-Character-Based Learners.
  • Jiawei Mao (MSc, Educational Studies, 2025): From Technology-Driven to Context-Responsive: Rethinking AI-Gamified Learning in Chinese Education.
  • Xin Long (MEd, Educational Studies, 2023/24): Impact of Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) on Students’ Learning Experiences across Higher Education Institutions in China.
  • Ying Liang (MSc, Educational Studies, 2023): Impact of Generative AI on Transforming Learning and Teaching Experiences across Higher Education Institutions in China.
  • Wei Liu (MSc, Educational Studies, 2022): Educational Value of Digital Games for Early Education Classroom Practice in China.
Care-Based Planetary Education
  • Norma Umer (MEd, Educational Studies, 2025): Transforming Adult Literacy in Pakistan through AI-Supported Education: Insights from Social Reproduction, Digital Capital, and the Capabilities Approach.
  • Yingu Yang (MSc, Educational Studies, 2023): Humane Education and Human-Animal Interaction: Implications to Humane Primary Education in China.

Decolonial and Anti-Oppressive Education 
  • Zhao Wu (MEd (Educational Studies, 2024): Teaching for Resistance: Transforming English Language Teaching in Periphery States through Critical Pedagogy.
  • Wei Tang, (MEd, Educational Studies, 2024): Transforming English Language Teaching in China: Rise of China English and Global Englishes Perspective.
  • Maureen O’Neill (MSc, Educational Studies, 2022): ‘You Don’t Belong Here!’ The Role of Scots Language in Closing the Poverty-Related Attainment Gap in Scotland.
Education for Future-Ready Competencies 
  • Anran Zhao (MEd, Adult Learning, Community Development & Youth Work, 2023): Blended Learning Pedagogies for Development of the 21st-Century Skills among International Students in Higher Education in Scotland.
  • Yihao Zhang (MSc, Educational Studies, 2023): Flipped Classroom for Development of Collaborative Skills in Teaching English as a Foreign Language in China.
  • Huishu Hou (MSc (Educational Studies, 2022): Foreign Language Teaching through Literature as the 21st-Century Capability.
  • Xiaoxuan Kong (MEd, Educational Studies, 2022): Using Social Networking Sites for Developing the 21st-Century Skills in ESL/EFL Education.
Educational Psychology and Leadership for Learning 
  • Chaoqun Shi (MEd, Educational Studies, 2024/25): Imposter Phenomenon among Women in Chinese Higher Education Institutions: Causes, Manifestations, and Strategies.
  • Xuan Ma (MSc, Educational Studies, 2023): Impact of China’s One Child Policy on Educational Trajectories of Millennial Women in China.
  • Xinuyue Wang (MSc, Educational Studies, 2023): Overcoming Foreign Language Anxiety among Students in Chinese English Classrooms.
  • Xuan Zhang (MSc, Educational Studies, 2023): Enhancing Experience of Task-Based Language Learning through Social Constructivism in Foreign Language Classes in Chinese Higher Education.
  • Sylwia Szymczyńska (MEd, Adult Learning, Community Development & Youth Work, 2023): Experiences of Education among Students of Higher Education Institutions in Scotland during the Covid-19 Global Pandemic.
  • Yawen Song (MSc, Educational Studies, 2022): Role of Educational Practitioners in Reducing Students’ Test Anxiety in Chinese Higher Education.
  • Kejing Wu (MEd, Educational Studies, 2022): Overcoming Stress in Teaching Post-Covid-19: Online and Hybrid Teaching Impact on Occupational Stress across Higher Education in England
Inclusive Education for Holistic Development 
  • Jialu Zhu (MSc, Educational Studies, 2025): From Marginalisation to Empowerment: A Feminist Theoretical Analysis of Gender Inequity in Chinese Higher Education.
  • Xiaofan Lin (MSc, Educational Studies, 2024): Fostering Female Gender Equity in Education amidst China’s Aging Population.
  • Lyucqian Wu (MEd, Educational Studies, 2023): Cooperative Learning and Inclusion of Pupils with ADHD in China’s Primary Education.
  • Qianyi Hu (MSc, Educational Studies, 2022/23): Educational Experiences of Refugee Children in Scotland: Educational Equity and Multicultural Approach.
  • Min Liu (MSc, Educational Studies, 2022): Role of Inclusive Pedagogies in Education of Left-Behind Children in Rural China.
  • Yiwen Huang (MSc, Educational Studies, 2022): Role of Bilingual Online Programs in Fostering Inclusion in China.
  • Hengbin Qiao (MEd, Educational Studies, 2022): Shadow Education and the Challenge of Educational Equity in China.
 
 
 

 

Teaching

In the 2025-26 academic year Agnieszka teaches the following courses:

  • EDUC5406: Adult Learning for Transformation (Course Creator and Lead, course offered for students of MEd/PgDip Adult Learning, Community Development & Youth Work, and MEd/MSc Educational Studies)
  • EDUC5142P: Major Disseration (Supervision, MEd/MSc Educational Studies)

 In the past, she taught:

  • EDUC5410: Introduction to Educational and Social Research (MEd/MSc Educational Studies)
  • EDUC5935: Research Application (MSc Education, Online)
  • EDUC5156: Modern Educational Thought (MEd/MSc Educational Studies)
  • EDUC5406: Curriculum Development in Adult Education (Course Lead, MEd/PgDip Adult Education, Community Development & Youth Work)
  • EDUC51069: Perspectives on Youth and Young Adulthood (MEd/MSc Educational Studies) 
  • Advanced Research Methods (Course Lead, MSc in International Relations, Warsaw, Poland, online)
  • EDUC5908: Education Policy in Action (MSc in Education, Public Policy & Equity)
  • EDUC5414: Psychology of Adult Learning (MEd/MSc Educational Studies)
  • EDUC5409: International Issues in Adult and Continuing Education (MEd/MSc Educational Studies)
  • Multilingual Learning in Globalised World (MOOC Future Learn & University of Glasgow, online)

Professional activities & recognition

Prizes, awards & distinctions

  • 2018: Recognising Excellence in Teaching (RET) (University of Glasgow RET Fellowship)
  • 2018: Fellowship of Advance HE (Advance HE/ HE Academy)

Professional & learned societies

  • Research Network 4: National Strategies for Lifelong Learning Member (Poland), ASEM Education and Research Hub for Lifelong Learning

Selected international presentations

  • 2022: Ethical Aspects of AI (Innovatorium, Poland)
  • 2022: Beyond Technical Security: A Sustainable Ecosystems Perspective (Internet Development Initiative, Georgia, & CyBureau Institute for Cyber Policy Studies, Israel)
  • 2021: Changing Understanding of Spatiality and Its Implications for Foreign Relations (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland)
  • 2021/22: Digital Education for Inclusive and Sustainable Futures (UN Internet Governance Forum Youth Summit, Poland)
  • 2020/21: Developing Human-Centred Cyber Security Educational Ecosystems for Planetary Flourishing (ICCSS, Poland, multiple contributions)

Additional information

  • International invited speaker on education, ethics, AI, and (cyber)security across academic, policy and global governance contexts. 
  • Global mentor with the UN Internet Governance Forum, supporting UN Youth Ambassadors worldwide through intensive mentorships ahead of AGMs in Poland (2021) and Kenya (2022).
  • Peer reviewer for leading international journals, including the Journal of Adult and Continuing Education (SAGE) and Studies in Continuing Education (Routledge/Taylor & Francis).
  • Deeply committed to academic support by working with former, current, and prospective postgraduate students to foster academic flourishing, ethical agency and wellbeing across diverse educational journeys.