Staff in the Department of Educational Studies

Dr. Patricia Alexander

Patricia is a tutor for the PGCE Secondary Mathematics and coordinator for the Mathematics Subject Enhancement course.

Dr Jim Anderson

Jim has a broad interest in language-and-culture education and critical and creative approaches to pedagogy.

Professor Dennis Atkinson

Dennis is an internationally published academic whose most recent book focussed on art, equality and learning.

Dr Anna Carlile

Anna’s areas of research and teaching cluster around social justice and institutional prejudice.

Marian Carty

Marian teaches on the PGCE Secondary ML programme.

Dr Yangguang Chen

Yangguang researches into the field of educational bilingualism, focussing on implications of educational policy.

Dr Yu-Chiao Chung

Dr Sheryl Clark

Sheryl has research interests in gender, sport, identities, youth, schooling and girlhood.

Una Coyne

Una currently teaches on both the Primary PGCE and BA Education, Culture and Society courses.

Dave Dennis

Dave is the Course Coordinator for the Secondary Science PGCE having been a classroom practitioner for 32 years.

Sue Dixon

Professor Rosalyn George

Rosalyn's research interests coalesce around issues of social justice and equity in schools and Higher Education.

Dr Yael Gerson

Dr Francis Gilbert

Francis approaches Creative and Life Writing from an educational perspective to understand how it is taught.

Anna Grant

Anna works on the Primary PGCE and Education, Culture and Society, specialising in Maths and Children’s Literature.

Professor Eve Gregory

Eve's interests are in early childhood bilingualism, family literacy and a sociocultural approach to literacy learning.

Alison Griffiths

Alison’s research centres on diversity, focussing on strategies to prepare students for today’s diverse classrooms.

Eve Harding

Eve has an interest in cognitive and social psychology and, specifically, the contact hypothesis and attitude research.

Dr Julia Hope

Julia’s research interests are in children’s literature, refugee education and children’s literature about refugees.

Dr Aminul Hoque

Aminul's work focusses on issues of multicultural Britain, youth policy, religion, race relations and Islamic feminism.

Professor Ken Jones

Dr Natacha Kennedy

Amanda Kipling

Amanda researches the healing nature of the arts in schools, which forms the basis of her doctoral study.

Dr Kirstin Lewis

Kirstin’s work explores how ‘race’ and social class shape children’s experiences in the education system.

Dr Betty Liebovich

Betty’s current research focusses on the history of the open-air nursery, focussing on the Rachel McMillan Nursery.

Dr Vally Lytra

A common thread running through Vally’s research and practice is a focus on bilingualism and bi-literacy in homes.

Dr Vicky Macleroy

Vicky's expertise is in language development and her research focusses on language, literacy and applied linguistics.

Dr Miranda Matthews

Miranda researches issues of freedom, autonomy and representation in the arts and learning.

Dr Liz Morrison

Liz is Head of the Secondary PGCE programme and teaches Secondary Science.

Dr Tara Page

Tara Page is an artist researcher teacher who explores the entanglements of practice, pedagogy, place and belonging.

Dr Sarah Pearce

Sarah is currently researching the impact of recent policy making on attitudes to Islam in schools.

Dr Maggie Pitfield

Maggie’s schools-based research focuses on the contribution of educational drama practices to learning in English.

Professor Len Platt

Len’s major interest is in the politics of text and the ways culture performs in politically strategic ways.

Dr Veronica Poku

With extensive experience in primary education, Veronica researches the experiences of being Black in British society.

Dr Judith Rifeser

Judith’s work focusses on teaching intercultural understanding and languages with and through film(making).ma

Dr Cristina Ros i Solé

Christina’s current interest are in the 'ordinary' and 'everyday' in language learning and the intercultural experience.

Professor Michael Rosen

Poet and children’s author, Michael’s research areas include processes of naming and the poetics of everyday speech.

Vicki Ryf

Vicki’s research interests centre on creativity and English teaching in the Early years and primary classroom.

Susi Sahmland

A teacher of German, Spanish and French, Susi’s interests are in primary languages, bi-lingual learners and coaching.

Dr Esther Sayers

Professor Farzana Shain

Farzana researches and teaches in the field of sociology of education. She specialises in educational inequalities (with a particular focus on racialised and gendered inequalities) and also education policy and politics.

Camilla Stanger

Laura Teague

Laura’s current research focusses on pedagogy, counter politics and subjectivities.

James Titley

An experienced KS1 and KS2 teacher, James has interests in coaching and mentoring, social class, social identities.

Professor Anna Traianou

Anna has interests in the nature of the relationship between knowledge, policy making and professional practice.

Neil Walton

A former teacher of art and design, Neil’s interests are psychoanalytic aesthetics and the history of art education.

Dr Andrew Wilkins

Andrew has worked as a research associate/fellow on several projects including ESRC, HEA and EU Tempus-funded projects.

Martin Williams

Martin teaches on the BA Social and Cultural Studies programme.

Dr Thomas Zacharias

Thomas researches into ‘race’ and racism, the production of difference in political discourse and diaspora identities.