Karina Price is a science communicator, scientist, and educational Virtual Reality (eduVR) innovator.
In 2015, she founded the pioneering eduVR initiative, Virtual Plant Cell, in her role as the Education and Outreach Program lead for the world-leading plant research Centre, The ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (PEB) at the University of Western Australia (UWA). Karina has led research studies, in partnership with secondary schools, to evidence the educational value of VR in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education. Now, sitting in a niche position at the intersection of the education sector, STEM academia and the VR/XR technology industry,
Karina has established herself as a unique expert in the use of VR for quality and contemporary STEM education applications. In 2021, she launched STEM XR at UWA. The vision is for STEM XR to become the go-to “place” that enables educators to bring quality, curriculum-mapped STEM extended reality (XR, including virtual and related immersive reality) experiences into classrooms around the world.
