Department of Educational Studies staff
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Staff list
Patricia Alexander
p.alexander (@gold.ac.uk)
Patricia is a tutor for the PGCE Secondary Mathematics and coordinator for the Mathematics Subject Enhancement course.
Dr Jim Anderson
j.anderson (@gold.ac.uk)
Jim has interests in theories and methods of second language learning, multilingualism and new literacies.
Atkinson, Dennis
d.atkinson (@gold.ac.uk)
Dennis is an internationally published academic whose most recent book focussed on art, equality and learning.
Rose Brougham
r.brougham (@gold.ac.uk)
Rose has been actively involved in education for 25 years and has written on the role of form tutors in school.
Dr Anna Carlile
a.carlile (@gold.ac.uk)
Anna’s areas of research and teaching cluster around social justice and institutional prejudice.
Dr Yangguang Chen
y.chen (@gold.ac.uk)
Yangguang researches into the field of educational bilingualism, focussing on implications of educational policy.
Dr Sheryl Clark
sheryl.clark (@gold.ac.uk)
Sheryl has research interests in gender, sport, identities, youth, schooling and girlhood.
Dave Dennis
d.dennis (@gold.ac.uk)
Dave is the Course Coordinator for the Secondary Science PGCE having been a classroom practitioner for 32 years.
Professor Rosalyn George
r.george (@gold.ac.uk)
Rosalyn's research interests coalesce around issues of social justice and equity in schools and Higher Education.
Dr Francis Gilbert
f.gilbert (@gold.ac.uk)
Francis approaches Creative and Life Writing from an educational perspective to understand how it is taught.
Anna Grant
Anna.Grant (@gold.ac.uk)
Anna works on the Primary PGCE and Education, Culture and Society, specialising in Maths and Children’s Literature.
Professor Eve Gregory
e.gregory (@gold.ac.uk)
Eve's interests are in early childhood bilingualism, family literacy and a sociocultural approach to literacy learning.
Alison Griffiths
a.griffiths (@gold.ac.uk)
Alison’s research centres on diversity, focussing on strategies to prepare students for today’s diverse classrooms.
Eve Harding
e.harding (@gold.ac.uk)
Eve has an interest in cognitive and social psychology and, specifically, the contact hypothesis and attitude research.
Mark Hellen
m.hellen (@gold.ac.uk)
Mark has interests in ICT, particularly the use of moving images in education and online media’s effect on literacy.
Dr Julia Hope
j.hope (@gold.ac.uk)
Julia’s research interests are in children’s literature, refugee education and children’s literature about refugees.
Dr Aminul Hoque
a.hoque (@gold.ac.uk)
Aminul's work focusses on issues of multicultural Britain, youth policy, religion, race relations and Islamic feminism.
Dr John Jessel
j.jessel (@gold.ac.uk)
John’s research activities are on the social and cognitive processes that underlie children’s learning and development.
Amanda Kipling
a.kipling (@gold.ac.uk)
Amanda researches the healing nature of the arts in schools, which forms the basis of her doctoral study.
Dr Kirstin Lewis
k.lewis (@gold.ac.uk)
Kirstin’s work explores how ‘race’ and social class shape children’s experiences in the education system.
Dr Betty Liebovich
b.liebovich (@gold.ac.uk)
Betty’s current research focusses on the history of the open-air nursery, focussing on the Rachel McMillan Nursery.
Dr Vally Lytra
v.lytra (@gold.ac.uk)
A common thread running through Vally’s research and practice is a focus on bilingualism and bi-literacy in homes.
Dr Vicky Macleroy
v.macleroy (@gold.ac.uk)
Vicky's expertise is in language development and her research focusses on language, literacy and applied linguistics.
Matthews, Miranda
m.matthews (@gold.ac.uk)
Miranda researches issues of freedom, autonomy and representation in the arts and learning.
Dr Liz Morrison
l.morrison (@gold.ac.uk)
Liz is Head of the Secondary PGCE programme and teaches Secondary Science.
Dr Tara Page
t.page (@gold.ac.uk)
Tara Page is an artist researcher teacher who explores the entanglements of practice, pedagogy, place and belonging.
Dr Sarah Pearce
s.pearce (@gold.ac.uk)
Sarah is currently researching the impact of recent policy making on attitudes to Islam in schools.
Maggie Pitfield
m.pitfield (@gold.ac.uk)
Maggie’s interests include flexible learning models in ITE: the experiences and roles of student-teachers and mentors.
Professor Len Platt
l.platt (@gold.ac.uk)
Len’s major interest is in the politics of text and the ways culture performs in politically strategic ways.
Dr Veronica Poku
v.poku (@gold.ac.uk)
With extensive experience in primary education, Veronica researches the experiences of being Black in British society.
Dr Nicola Rollock
N.Rollock (@gold.ac.uk)
Nicola draws on Critical Race Theory and Bourdieu as frameworks for her research into race equality in education.
Dr Cristina Ros i Solé
cristina.ros (@gold.ac.uk)
Christina’s current interest are in the 'ordinary' and 'everyday' in language learning and the intercultural experience.
Professor Michael Rosen
m.rosen (@gold.ac.uk)
Poet and children’s author, Michael’s research areas include processes of naming and the poetics of everyday speech.
Susanne Sahmland
S.Sahmland (@gold.ac.uk)
A teacher of German, Spanish and French, Susi’s interests are in primary languages, bi-lingual learners and coaching.
Dr Esther Sayers
esther.sayers (@gold.ac.uk)
Esther’s research with youth programmes aims to improve understanding of how a more inclusive society can be built.
Emma Snowden
e.snowden (@gold.ac.uk)
Emma is interested in exploring how pedagogy outside of the classroom impacts on the student learning experience.
Teague, Laura
l.teague (@gold.ac.uk)
Laura’s current research focusses on pedagogy, counter politics and subjectivities.
James Titley
j.titley (@gold.ac.uk)
An experienced KS1 and KS2 teacher, James has interests in coaching and mentoring, social class, social identities.
Dr Anna Traianou
a.traianou (@gold.ac.uk)
Anna has interests in the nature of the relationship between knowledge, policy making and professional practice.
Dr Patrick Turner
p.turner (@gold.ac.uk)
Patrick’s teaching and research spans the sociology of youth and education, urban spaces and racial identities.
John Wadsworth
j.wadsworth (@gold.ac.uk)
John’s expertise is in the area of early childhood education and contributes to the PGCE programme and the BA Education.
Neil Walton
n.walton (@gold.ac.uk)
A former teacher of art and design, Neil’s interests are psychoanalytic aesthetics and the history of art education.
Martin Williams
m.williams (@gold.ac.uk)
Martin teaches on the BA Social and Cultural Studies programme.
Dr Thomas Zacharias
t.zacharias (@gold.ac.uk)
Thomas researches into ‘race’ and racism, the production of difference in political discourse and diaspora identities.