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Personal profile
Biography
Originally from Brazil, Dr Lucas Santos started his career as a language educator teaching English as an additional language for over ten years in language schools. He moved to Australia in 2012 to complete his PhD in Education focusing on how young Brazilians enact different identities in digital practices, and the culturally and socially shaped aspirations of young people in engaging in global and local issues.
In Australia, Dr Santos taught English for academic purposes for diverse cohorts of international students, and led the Academic English university wide programs at Monash University from 2017 to 2020. A central focus of Dr Santos teaching and research career has been on leveraging how educators can enable meaningful learning that considers the diverse identities’ learners bring to classes.
Since 2020, Dr Santos has been a lecturer at the Monash Intercultural Lab where he focuses on exploring how individuals develop intercultural capabilities that allow them to navigate diversity in personal and professional contexts. His main interests focus on how global issues, such as racism, diversity, and belonging, can be addressed through intercultural studies, with particular emphasis on sporting cultures and diverse workplaces.
Research interests
Dr Santos’ research interests are broadly in the field of intercultural studies. His research focuses on how difference is socially constructed and enacted across institutional, organisational, and community contexts. His current research interests explore:
- Sporting cultures and diversity
Dr Santos is currently investigating racism within the Australian Football League (AFL), with a particular emphasis on how fractures and tensions across in the wider Australian society reverberate through sports. He is also interested in the changing demographic shifts in cricket, driven by global migration patterns, and how it contests ‘sanctioned’ narratives of what sporting codes mean to different social groups.
- The scholarship of teaching and learning, interculturality and student voices
As a passionate educator, Dr Santos’ is interested in how interculturality can enable educators to rethink pedagogical practices in higher education, and enable students’ diverse voices to shape meaningful learning experiences. Focusing on innovations in teaching learning, such as virtual exchanges, intercultural teamwork and collaboration, Dr Santos explores the changing nature of the scholarship of teaching learning ensuring it addresses the diversity of students’ identities and needs.
- Professional learning, diverse workplaces and intercultural capabilities
Dr Santos is interested in exploring the conditions that enable inclusive workplaces and leadership practices, with a strong emphasis on the intercultural capabilities that employees, leaders, and graduates need to develop to enable them to address key global challenges that shape the future of work and communities of which they are part. His research focuses on sustainable professional learning, that supports organisational change and individuals’ sense of belonging, in the context of superdiverse communities.
Monash teaching commitment
I contribute to the teaching of the Monash Intercultural Lab's postgraduate units on intercultural competence.
APG5470 - Managing Multicultural Teams
APG5471 - Leadership in Intercultural Environments
These units, co-designed and co-coordinated with Dr Nadine Normand-Marconnet, are part of the Professional Enhancement Program allowing students to develop their intercultural capabilities for globalised and super-diverse workplace contexts.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research area keywords
- Intercultural Communication
- Teaching and learning in Higher Education
- Interculturality
- Sport and Diversity
- Intercultural Leadership
- Virtual mobility
- Students as Partners
- Identity and Belonging
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Engaging in intercultural dialogue to address global challenges: Developing a toolkit for capacity building in online intercultural exchange programs
Moreira dos Anjos Santos, L., MacQuarrie, T., Egan, F., Breaden, J., Normand-Marconnet, N., Tobias, S., McClennen, S., Heenan, T., Hamada, I. & Iwasaki, S.
1/07/23 → 31/12/24
Project: Research
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Monash Intercultural Lab-Scanlon Foundation Research Institute Summer School
Forgasz, R., Wilson, R., Normand-Marconnet, N., Van der Kamp, M., Garcia Ochoa, G., Manns, H., Moreira dos Anjos Santos, L., Volcic, Z. & Wickes, R.
1/01/21 → 30/06/23
Project: Other
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Masala Mates: The South Asianization of Australian Club Cricket
Moreira dos Anjos Santos, L. & Heenan, T., Jun 2023.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review
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Student empowerment for internationalisation at a distance: enacting the students as partners approach in virtual mobility
Breaden, J., Do, T., Moreira dos Anjos-Santos, L. & Normand-Marconnet, N., 2023, In: Higher Education Research & Development. 42, 5, p. 1182-1196 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Developing cultural intelligence to address intercultural misunderstandings: A practical interactional pragmatics approach in higher education
Murray, L., Normand-Marconnet, N. & Moreira dos Anjos Santos, L., Jun 2022, p. 62-62. 1 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review
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“It’s fun but it could be improved”: Chinese learners’ experiences with a peer-led active-learning based co-curricular language program
McFarlane, R., Prestia, J. & Moreira dos Anjos Santos, L., Jul 2021, p. 1-2. 2 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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Embedded Student Engagement Programs: Communication Skills in the Faculty of Arts and Monash Business School
McFarlane, R. & Moreira dos Anjos Santos, L., Jul 2019, STARS (Students, Transitions, Achievement, Retention & Success) Conference Proceedings. Monash University, p. 1-5 5 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other › peer-review
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Multilingual Education in Australia: An Intercultural Studies Perspective
Lucas Moreira dos Anjos Santos (Speaker)
22 Mar 2023Activity: Other Teaching Engagements and non-HDR Supervisions › Online content/ delivery
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Harnessing Cultural Diversity in the Workplace
Lucas Moreira dos Anjos Santos (Facilitator)
Sept 2022Activity: Other Teaching Engagements and non-HDR Supervisions › Executive education programs
Press/Media
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The Commonwealth Games and its discontents: Has Daniel Andrews done us all a favour?
Thomas Heenan & Lucas Moreira dos Anjos Santos
19/07/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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Ongoing racial abuse in the AFL… “it really puts us down and makes us not feel good"
Lucas Moreira dos Anjos Santos
17/05/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Jamarra Ugle-Hagan and football's cycle of racist abuse
Lucas Moreira dos Anjos Santos & Thomas Heenan
31/03/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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What can Australian sport take from the Azeem Rafiq case?
Lucas Moreira dos Anjos Santos & Thomas Heenan
26/11/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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Collingwood Football Club: What’s happened to the ‘Do Better’ report into systemic racism?
Thomas Heenan & Lucas Moreira dos Anjos Santos
10/06/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature