Mark Hellen MA
Mark joined the department after having worked as a primary school teacher in Islington, East Anglia and Tower Hamlets, where he was responsible for ICT in a beacon school for ICT. As a teacher Mark’s main interest was primary ICT, although he also had responsibilities for Science, Art, Modern Languages and extended schools. He is currently responsible for ICT within the department.
Mark has an MA in ICT in Education from the Institute of Education where he is currently studying for a PhD, which is focussing on how children deal with information in the online context; the “I” in ICT. He also has research interests in other aspects of ICT, particularly the use of moving images in education, the effects of online media on literacy and issues relating to copyright and creativity for children in the digital age. Additionally he is researching the effects of the school environment on the development and socialisation of transgendered children and their senses of identity.
Selected publications
(2009) Transgendered Children in Schools. Liminalis − Zeitschrift für geschlechtliche Emanzipation. Berlin. Vol. 2
(2008) Transgendered Children in Schools: A critical Review of ‘Homophobic Bullying: Safe to learn – Embedding anti-bullying work in Schools’. Forum. Vol. 50 (3).