In her PhD research, Bernadette studies how designers engage with heritage environments and how they, together with heritage institutions, give shape to polyvocality in mixed reality experiences.
She currently works as a lecturer-researcher at the research group Creative Media for Social Change (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences), where she lectures and designs courses in the subjects: Design Research, User Research, Communicating Design, Philosophy of Media and Technology, Thesis (CO-CB / CMD), and assessor of the HvA Master Digital Design.