[3] In 2022, Daiute was named a Fulbright Specialist[4] on projects related to social change and human development under extreme hardship.
Supported by a Fulbright grant shared with the University of Naples Federico II Law School, Daiute has worked with lawyers and their asylum seeking clients to improve the credible fear interview process.
During this period, she served as a senior educational advisor in the research and development stage of the popular TV show for kids Ghostwriter, which aimed to make reading and writing fun.
For that research, Daiute developed dynamic storytelling inquiry, which she continues to extend with colleagues in a wide range of countries.
Dynamic storytelling inquiry is research within locally meaningful practices including narratives and other expressions by diverse participants in social or educational change, such as policy makers, teachers, community, organizations, and young people who are often the subjects of interventions.
After receiving her doctoral degree, she won a research grant from the Spencer Foundation to study middle school students’ uses of writing technologies.
[12] She also received an Apple Education Foundation to conduct a study on the psychological aspects of children's keyboarding skills that would enable their control over communication media as it evolved.
[21] DNI can be applied to many types of communication beyond formal stories, including interviews, focus groups, and social media interactions.
[22] Working with archival, ethnographic, practice-based, and child/youth stories, Daiute developed a unique approach to collaborative action research based on a cultural-historical approach, works of Vygotsky and Bakhtin, and Katherine Nelson's analysis of language development as occurring in social and cultural routines of daily life.
Daiute's approach offers a way to look at the developmental processes of children and youth who are growing up surrounded by social or political violence and interacting with those contexts via their uses of discourse genres as cultural tools for managing self-society relationships.
[23] Daiute used dynamic narrative inquiry in multiple research interventions, conducted in Brazil, Colombia, Italy, Serbia, and the United States.
[1] Her work has produced insights on the life of refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented, and multiply-discriminated youth at risk, demonstrating how young people actively engage in reflection about traumatic events and generate constructive responses to violence.