Miri’s lab, Students’ Understanding & Appropriation of Activism (STUDACT), explores and contextualizes how high schoolers of different backgrounds understand activism – and how their understandings differ within and among countries, curricula, contexts, student characteristics, and education systems. This research will support the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal for Global Citizenship Education, whose promise is to transform educational systems, empowering learners to build more peaceful, tolerant, inclusive, and secure societies.

STUDACT is collecting data in Poland, the United States, Italy, Australia, Germany, and the United Kingdon. The group provides its student research subjects with tools to develop an activist voice in areas ranging from climate change to human rights, leverage documentary filmmaking and social media, and collaborate with activist peers.

Miri completed her undergraduate work at Ben-Gurion University and her doctoral work at Tel Aviv University.