Staff and their Research Interests
Patricia Alexander
Teacher identity; special education needs/inclusion; ethnicity and race; mathematics education.
Jim Anderson
Bilingualism; teaching and learning; community languages within mainstream and supplementary education; information and communications technology in learning community languages.
Dennis Atkinson
Art and design education; subjectivity, identity, representation, language and practice in education using hermeneutics; post-structuralism, critical theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis.
Anna Carlile
The effects of permanent exclusion from school on young people, families and professionals; the development and implementation of education policy at national and local levels; inclusion policy and practice, especially around SEN and particularly autism; power, gender, class and ethnicity in school; identity and social justice in education; multi-agency working; and ‘behaviour management’ in the classroom.
Yangguang Chen
Comparative
Education with focuses on educational policy; curriculum development and
citizenship education; equalities of opportunities, particularly in
relation to educational policy for social inclusion and ethnic minority
achievement.
Bill Crow
Rhetorics surrounding musical creativity and the articulation of technology in music education.
Paul Dash
Art and design education in children of Caribbean origin; representation of black people in Western art; Caribbean art teaching; teaching resources.
Sue Dixon
Mathematics Education; Subject
Knowledge; Self help processes and models of recovery
Rosalyn George
Gender; girls’ friendships; girls’ bullying and aggression; gender and schooling; girls’ ethnic identities; schooling and teacher identities; race and schooling; children of refugees and asylum seekers in schools; international students.
Eve Gregory
Cultural contexts and literacy practices of young children; bilingualism, early literacy and family involvement; family literacy history and learning practices.
Alison Griffiths
Trainee Teachers' perception of diversity.
Jonathan Hall
Phenomenology to create genuine dialogical relationships between teachers and learners doing justice to the notion of knowledge as a construction.
Mark Hellen
Computer games in primary school; the use of
blogs in primary school; transgendered children in schools; the nature of
information and children's relationship with information; internet searching
behaviour of children; PSHE and ICT; gender stereotyping and ICT.
Steve Herne
Curriculum models for art education; effect on policy and practice; international art education; artists in schools; artefact-based learning.
Julia Hope
Children’s literature about refugees; child asylum seekers in detention; family learning for refugee parents; bilingual support in schools.
Sheila Hurley
Primary teacher trainees specialising in modern foreign languages.
John Jessel
Learning and cognitive development, particularly in relation to the use of ICT in writing and intergenerational encounters.
John Johnston
Critical pedagogy and the use of visual linguistics to interface with issues of place, identity and socio/political division. Specific interests centre on the communicative nature of urban environments as places of pedagogical value.
Clare Kelly
Young children’s language and literacy development; interpretations of literacy in families across cultures and communities; links between home and school.
Charmian Kenner
Bilingualism; creating multilingual literacy environments in primary school; young children learning to write in more than one language; family learning.
Amanda Kipling
Development
of primary drama; drama for healing; peer mentoring; innovative practice
in the initial training of drama teachers.
Claudine Kirsch
Foreign language learning in primary schools; language learning strategies; primary education; teacher education; bilingualism.
Betty Liebovich
Attrition rate of males in early years education; early years’ student perception of advocacy in teaching; parent/family involvement in early years education.
Heather Mendick
The ways that people contruct their identities in relation to popular
culture and education, particularly mathematics education;
intersections of gender and social class; feminist post-structural and
psychoanalytic methodologies.
Vicky Obied
Bilingualism and biculturalism; and poetry; analysis of
cultural perspectives in relation to language learning and the conflicts which
might arise from contrasting cultural and social practices; multifaceted
learning of pupils within English.
Carrie Paechter
Contemporary art and design
practices in schools; cultural contexts and the constructions of
identity, space and place, sound art, the use of visual methodologies
within qualitative research and rural and isolated education.
Tara Page
Art and design; special educational needs; conceptions of art and design education programmes; photography within qualitative research and rural education.
Tiffany Prince
Science education and religion (including the teaching of evolution); teacher development and ethics.
Colton Paul
Issues of language; how cultural and social factors impact children’s performance; culture, race, social and power relations on children’s attainment.
Sarah Pearce
Race and racism in primary education; ‘whiteness’; practitioner research.
Maggie Pitfield
Drama within the English curriculum; KS3 Literacy Strategy and its influence on curriculum practice; flexible routes into teaching.
Emma Snowden
Teaching and learning in secondary science education; health and
wellbeing; culture and ethos of the school; the implementation of whole
school policy associated with Every Child Matters.
Anna Traianou
Sociocultural theories and teacher expertise; science education; sociology of scientific knowledge; qualitative research methodology.
John Wadsworth
Early years education; development of early years policy and
practice with particular reference to integrated provision for young
children and families; European perspectives of early childhood provision;
gender constructions in the early years classroom, men in early years and
primary education.