Research Active Academic Staff
There are currently 48 research active academic staff at the School of Education.
Dr Elias Avramidis
Special Educational Needs (SEN), SEN policy and practice, special education, inclusion, inclusive education, disability, children's perspectives, peer interactions, moderate learning difficulties, emotional and behavioural difficulties, autism, dyslexia, self-concept, self-esteem, self-efficacy, learning environment, primary education
Dr Karen Aylward
teaching about Jesus in RE, teaching biblical narrative in RE, teaching world religions, children's learning in RE, dialogue and RE, knowledge and understanding in RE.
Dr Phil Bayliss
special education, inclusion, disability, learning disability, peer interactions, autism, discourse analysis, language and literacy
Mr Rob Bowker
Eden Project, informal learning, school gardening, learning through art, children's drawings
Professor Bob Burden
children's reactions and attitudes to aspects of schools and schooling, childhood mental health, childhood feelings of well-being, development of children's sense of identity-self concept and self-esteem, children's cognitive development, school improvement with reference to the notion of 'thinking schools', social and emotional consequences of dyslexia
Dr Kerry Chappell
dance education, creativity in education, collaborative & communal creativity, creative teaching, teaching for creativity, student voice, learning conversations, school transformation, future education
Ms Sue Chedzoy
physical education, dance , pupils' voice , transition from primary to secondary school, student teachers' perceived confidence to teach, theory of planned behavior
Professor Anna Craft
creativity in education, perspectives on creative teaching, teaching for creativity and learning, creative partnership, creativity and cultural development, collaboration in creativity, creativity in musical composition, creativity in written composition, possibility thinking in creativity, creativity and wisdom, creativity in education and cultural saturation, imagination, creativity and innovation - distinctions and relationships, future learning systems in relation to creativity, analysis of policy on creativity in education, inter-relationships between creativity and thinking skills
Mr Leslie Cunliffe
Learning , assessment, thinking skills , meaningful differences, sustainability, nihilism, transcendence, gallery education, demandingness, embodiment, empirical aesthetics, virtue, epistemic and creative responsibility, ethics, complexity, wonder, assessment, warrant.
Professor Patrick Dillon
sociocultural theory, ethnography, e-learning, creativity, cross-disciplinarity, cultural studies, design education, educational multimedia
Dr Kim Diment
formal and informal learning, jobs without training, arts based educational research, shakespeare in schools, initial teacher education
Professor Paul Ernest
mathematics education, philosophy of mathematics education, philosophy of mathematics, semiotics of mathematics, ideology and mathematics education, mathematics and special needs, esp. gifted and talented, globalization and mathematics education, gender and mathematics, the aims of teaching mathematics, theories of learning mathematics, social constructivism and mathematics
Dr Ros Fisher
activity theory, socio-cultural theory, teacher change and development, literacy education, early literacy, children's language, primary teaching, reading, writing
Dr Rob Freathy
historiography, history of education, religious education, education for citizenship
Mr Nick Givens
education, initial teacher education, initial teacher training, pre-service training, pre-service teacher training, trainee teachers, student teachers, teachers, schools, equality, equalities, inequalities, sexualities equality, sexuality, sexualities, sexual orietnation, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, LGB, LGBT, LGBTQI, homophobia, heterosexism, gender normativity, 'race', ethnicity, Black and minority ethnic, BME, minority ethnic, ethnic minority, race equality, ethnic diversity, racism, institutional racism, 'mainly white', low diversity, social justice, post-structualist, post-modern, post-colonial, feminist, queer theory
Dr Gill Haynes
14-19 curriculum, 14-19 policy and practice, Higher Education's engagement with the 14-19 reforms, vocational education and training, disaffected and disengaged young people, collaborative partnerships, equal opportunities - policy and practice,
Sarah Hennessy
music education, creativity, musical development, arts, education policy, international perspectives on music education, arts partnerships, arts evaluation, informal and non-formal learning in music
Lindsay Hetherington
Systems theory / complexity theory applied to education, geoscience education, science education, cross-curricular and interdisciplinary learning and pedagogy, concept mapping, conceptual ecology
Associate Professor Cathie Holden
citizenship education, futures education, global education, global dimension, social justice
Dr Cheryl Hunt
critical reflective practice, spirituality, professional learning, lifelong learning, adult and community education, teaching and learning in higher education, autoethnography, auto/biographical research, life history research, ways of knowing, use of metaphor
Dr Susan Jones
Gender, writing, classroom interaction, classroom talk, teacher talk, developing writers, underachievement, boys
Mr Will Katene
subject knowledge, knowledge bases, collaborative learning, physical education, initial teacher education
Dr Judith Kleine-Staarman
Classroom discourse, collaborative learning, dialogic teaching, educational technology, interactive whiteboards, interactive teaching, learning communities
Dr Shirley Larkin
metacognition, metacognitive environments, cognitive development, collaborative learning, early years, primary school environments, phenomenology, theories of learning, research with young children, research ethics, qualitative research, basic quantitative research
Dr Hazel Lawson
inclusion special educational needs diversity pupil participation severe learning difficulties SEN
Dr Robert Lawy
post-compulsory education, identity, learning, citizenship, democracy, transformation, young people, work
Dr Martin Levinson
gypsies, romani studies, marginal groups, cultural identity, childhood, home/school education discontinuities, identity, culture, cultural/educational dissonance, home-school-interface, literacies (school-based, community based and personal), alternative forms of play, orientations towards time and space; cultural experiences of childhood
Dr Malcolm MacDonald
discourse analysis, discourse theory, intercultural communication, literature and language education, English for special purposes, second language acquisition, ELT curriculum
Dr Flora Macleod
lifecourse, archive datasets, Longitinal, identity, agency, learning, learners, biographical learning, life history, survey, family and community learning, combining methodologies, experimenatl design, literacy, reading, intergenerational learning, widening participation, situated learning, horizons for learning, life pathways, latent class modeling, event history modeling, learning contexts, learning cultures, parental involvement as a model of citizenship
Dr Fran Martin
geographical and environmental education, development of effective teachers of primary geography, global education, global citizenship, sustainable development education, teaching and learning about climate change, global school partnerships, ethnogeography, teacher development, early career teachers, teaching and learning in the early years
Mrs Carol Murphy
mathematics education, primary, calculation strategies, arithmetic, mathematical thinking, analogical reasoning, student teachers subject knowledge in mathematics
Professor Debra Myhill
language, literacy, grammar, writing, creativity, interaction, gender
Professor Brahm Norwich
Special Educational Needs (SEN), inclusive education, children's perspectives, SEN pedagogy, dilemmas of difference, moderate learning difficulties, SEN policy and practice, future schooling SEN/inclusive education, special educational needs, SEN/disability policy and practice, psychology, psychological, inclusion
Dr Deborah Osberg
complexity theory, poststructural theory, emergence, epistemology, representation, democracy, freedom, ethics, responsibility
Associate Professor Keith Postlethwaite
teacher education, professional education, professional learning, simulation in medical education, quantitative methods, action research, activity theory, differentiation, able pupils, science education, mixed methodologies, cultural theories of learning, activity theory
Ms Sarah Rich
identity,culture,interculturality,classroom interaction,language teaching methodology
Professor William Richardson
further education colleges, education in post-war Britain, policy and policy failure, history of education
Professor Wendy Robinson
history of education, history of teaching, history of women's education, pedagogy, student teachers, effective teaching, gifted and talented education, student voice, documentary research methods, historical methodology, oral history, life history
Ms Linda Rolfe
arts education, dance education, teaching, learning, creativity, secondary, primary
Dr Jo Rose
collaboration, team reasoning, decision making, multi-agency, inter-professional, professional teams, networks, identity, group processes
Dr Nadine Schaefer
Sociology of Childhood and youth,Rural youth,gender relations,participatory research,Children's Geographies,post-socialist transformation process,identity formation ,High modernity,Risk society
Dr Nigel Skinner
initial teacher education, science education, learning, pedagogy, continuing professional development, virtual learning environments
Dr Penni Tearle
Change management, ICT in schools, e-learning, implementing ICT, evaluation, ICT and PE, school gardening, mixed methods, research methods, case study
Dr Salah Troudi
Critical applied linguistics,Language teacher education,Curriculum issues in TESOL,Language policies and language of instruction,Teachers' voices,Action research
Professor Rupert Wegerif
ICT, dialogic, socio-cultural, computer supported collaborative learning, Technology enhanced learning
Dr Anthony Wilson
children's poetry writing,poetry pedagogy,children's creative writing,creative writing pedagogy,poetry written for children
Dr Elizabeth Wood
early childhood education, early childhood learning, early childhood pedagogy and curriculum, role of play in early learning and development, developing a pedagogy of play in early childhood settings, impact of national curriculum policies on teachers' beliefs and practices (Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1), policy and practice in early childhood education, gender and under-achievement
Dr Susan Young
early childhood, music, arts, creativity