Staff research interests (Education)
Teacher identity; special education needs/inclusion; ethnicity and race; mathematics education.
Patricia Alexander BSc PGCE MA
Bilingualism; teaching and learning; community languages within mainstream and supplementary education; information and communications technology in learning community languages.
Dr Jim Anderson BA PGCE PhD
Art and design education; subjectivity, identity, representation, language and practice in education using hermeneutics; post-structuralism, critical theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis.
Professor Dennis Atkinson PhD
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.
Anna Carlile LIB Hons CTC
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.
Dr Yangguang Chen
Rhetorics surrounding musical creativity and the articulation of technology in music education.
Bill Crow LTCL PGCE MA
Art and design education in children of Caribbean origin; representation of black people in Western art; Caribbean art teaching; teaching resources.
Dr Paul Dash DipAD MA MPhil PhD
Mathematics education; subject knowledge; self-help processes and models of recovery.
Sue Dixon BSc(Hons/QTS) MA(Ed)
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.
Professor Rosalyn George BA MA PhD
Cultural contexts and literacy practices of young children; bilingualism, early literacy and family involvement; family literacy history and learning practices.
Professor Eve Gregory BA DipEd PGCE PhD
Trainee teachers’ perceptions of diversity.
Alison Griffiths BA MA
Phenomenology to create genuine dialogical relationships between teachers and learners doing justice to the notion of knowledge as a construction.
Jonathan Hall BA PGCE MA
Computer games in primary school; the use of blogs in primary school; transgendered children in schools; the nature of information and children’s relationships with information; internet-searching behaviour of children; PSHE and ICT; gender stereotyping and ICT.
Mark Hellen BA MA PGCE
Curriculum models for art education; effect on policy and practice; international art education; artists in schools; artefact-based learning.
Steve Herne DipAD ATC MPhil
Children’s literature about refugees; child asylum seekers in detention; family learning for refugee parents; bilingual support in schools.
Julia Hope BA PGCE MA
Primary teacher trainees specialising in modern foreign languages.
Sheila Hurley BA PGCE
Learning and cognitive development, particularly in relation to the use of ICT in writing and intergenerational encounters.
Dr John Jessel BSc PGCE MA PhD
Art and design education; social justice, human rights and development; politics, conflict transformation and social cohesion; arts as a learning tool to interface with key areas of society to foster attitudinal change and greater understanding.
John Johnston BA MA PGCE PGDip
Conflicts over education policy in Britain and Europe; the teaching of English; the educational meanings of ‘creativity’.
Professor Ken Jones BA MA PGCE PhD
Identity construction through narrative, particularly syncretic identities involving several different cultural heritages.
Dr Chris Kearney BA PGCE Dip MA PhD
Young children’s language and literacy development; interpretations of literacy in families across cultures and communities; links between home and school.
Dr Clare Kelly BA MA PhD
Bilingualism; creating multilingual literacy environments in primary school; young children learning to write in more than one language; family learning.
Dr Charmian Kenner PhD
Development of primary drama; drama for healing; peer mentoring; innovative practice in the initial training of drama teachers.
Amanda Kipling BEd MAEd
Foreign language learning in primary schools; language learning strategies; primary education; teacher education; bilingualism.
Dr Claudine Kirsch BA MA PhD
Attrition rate of males in early years education; early years’ student perception of advocacy in teaching; parent/family involvement in early years education.
Dr Betty Liebovich EdD
The ways that people construct their identities in relation to popular culture and education, particularly mathematics education; intersections of gender and social class; feminist post-structural and psychoanalytic methodologies.
Dr Heather Mendick BA MA PhD
Bilingualism and biculturalism; 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.
Dr Vicky Obied BA MA PhD
Gender identity; gender role and embodiment; school space; gender and schooling; school curriculum; tomboys; intersex issues; teacher collaboration; learning gender.
Professor Carrie Paechter BA PGCE MEd PhD
Art and design; special educational needs; conceptions of art and design education programmes; photography within qualitative research and rural education.
Tara Page BA GradDipEd MEd
Science education and religion (including the teaching of evolution); teacher development and ethics.
Tiffany Prince BSc PGCE MA
Issues of language; how cultural and social factors impact children’s performance; culture, race, social and power relations on children’s attainment.
Colton Paul BA PGCE MA
Race and racism in primary education; ‘whiteness’; practitioner research.
Dr Sarah Pearce BA PGCE PhD
Drama within the English curriculum; KS3 Literacy Strategy and its influence on curriculum practice; flexible routes into teaching.
Maggie Pitfield BEd MA
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.
Emma Snowden BSc MA PGCE
Interrelation of knowledge, learning and practice; sociocultural perspectives of understanding teacher expertise; relationship between research, policy-making and practice; qualitative research methodology; international students.
Dr Anna Traianou BA MPhil PhD
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.
John Wadsworth BAEd DipEd MAEd
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