PhD students
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Ameena Gamiet
PhD Student
agami001 (@gold.ac.uk)
Ameena Gamiet is the Head of English at a middle school in Berkshire and has worked as a primary school teacher and English Subject Lead for several years.
Anusika Sivaganeshan
PhD Student
asiva002 (@gold.ac.uk)
Anusika is a part-time PhD candidate in the faculty of Education.
Mette Lindahl-Wise
PhD Student
mlind004 (@gold.ac.uk)
Mette Lindahl-Wise holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Southern University, Denmark, and a MA in Anglo-American Literary Relations from UCL.
Molly Pardoe
PhD Student
mpard001 (@gold.ac.uk)
Molly Pardoe is currently a PhD candidate at the Centre for Arts and Learning.
Mubash-sharah Khan
PhD Student
mkhan010 (@gold.ac.uk)
Mubash-sharah is currently undertaking her PhD with the Educational Studies Department.
Ioannis Athanasiou
PhD student
ioannis.athanasiou (@gold.ac.uk)
Ioannis is being funded by the Department of Educational Studies to explore museum interventions with young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Kimberley Foster
PhD student
Kimberley.Foster (@gold.ac.uk)
Kimberley Foster’s PhD research is within Arts Practice and Learning (Department of Educational Studies).
Sanju Unjore
PhD student
sunjo002 (@gold.ac.uk)
Sanju Unjore is funded by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (UK) to undertake a study on the education system in Mauritius.
Thomas Quehl
Past PhD student
tqueh011 (@gold.ac.uk)
Thomas Quehl’s PhD research is based in the Department of Educational Studies and explores teacher agency in multilingual pedagogies.
Clare Stanhope
Past PhD student
ed607cs (@gold.ac.uk)
Clare is currently studying for her PhD in Arts Practice and Learning. She draws on feminist, new materialist theory and creative pedagogical practices in order to disturb dominant sexist representations of the female body, and develop alternative forms of feminist sensory arts practice.
Angela Gigliotti
Past PhD student
agigl001 (@gold.ac.uk)
Angela’s research interests developed through experiences as a teacher working with adjudicated youth in San Diego, California over the past 20 years.
Katharina Kayser
Past PhD student
edp01ks (@gold.ac.uk)
Katharina Kayser is interested in multilingualism in the primary school classroom.
Cátia Verguete
Past PhD student
cribe010 (@gold.ac.uk)
Cátia has completed her PhD in Education focusing on the processes of (re)-creation, interpretation and appropriation of language policies.
Kelly Worwood
Past PhD student
ed603kw (@gold.ac.uk)
Kelly's research interests include social inequality in statutory education and wider society.
Chunwen Su
Past PhD student
csu051 (@gold.ac.uk)
Chunwen's research study aims to investigate how Chinese teenagers adapt to learning in a new educational system.
Steven Dixon-Smith
PhD Student
sdixo002 (@gold.ac.uk)
Steve is being funded by the Economic and Social Research Council to conduct sociolinguistic research that problematizes categorisations and notions of identity employed in equality initiatives in Higher Education.
Allison Zionts
MPhil/PhD student
azion002 (@gold.ac.uk)
Allison is a full-time teacher at a secondary school in South London and a part-time PhD student exploring decisions around LGBTQ+ inclusive policies and practices in single-sex schools in England.
Busra Akgun Ezin
Mphil/PhD student
bakgu001 (@gold.ac.uk)
Busra is interested in language learning and maintenance in multilingual families.
Sara Shahwan
PhD student
sshah026 (@gold.ac.uk)
Sara Shahwan is interested in children’s interaction with poetry and the environment.
Jessica Boyd
MPhil/PhD student
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Jessica is a music teacher by trade and has taught in secondary schools across London for over 10 years.
Devina Paramdeo
MPhil/PhD student
dpara001 (@gold.ac.uk)
Devina is a full-time PhD student and her thesis focuses on gentrification and its relationship to parental school choices
Sam Holdstock
PhD student
shold001 (@gold.ac.uk)
Sam teaches English at a secondary school in London. He is also a part-time PhD candidate, researching the possibilities for Interactive Fiction in the secondary school English classroom.
Terri Newman
PhD student
t.newman (@gold.ac.uk)
Terri's research employs practice-based methodologies to investigate collaborative pedagogies and communities of praxis in Art and Design Education/
Harry Oulton
MPhil/PhD student
hoult001 (@gold.ac.uk)
Harry is currently in the second year of his creative writing PhD. He is re-writing a Robert Louis Stevenson novel from the 19th century as a way of exploring the methodology of adaptation as it applies to Children’s Literature.
Klaudia Matasovska
PhD student
kmata005 (@gold.ac.uk)
Klaudia is an Associate Lecturer in Education, Inclusion and SEND at the University of Derby. She also works as a researcher at Goldsmiths. She is a former Special Educational Needs teacher and a PhD student in the Department of Educational Studies.
Ben Dixon
PhD student
bdixo001 (@gold.ac.uk)
Ben Dixon is studying a PhD in Education. His research focuses on skateboarding and education, with a focus on diversity and inclusion.
Helen Jones
PhD student
hjone007 (@gold.ac.uk)
Helen’s PhD research centres on children’s self-published comic making in after school comics clubs, using Action Research as her methodology.
Lidiya Petrova
PhD student
lpetr002 (@gold.ac.uk)
Lidiya’s research interests lie primarily in the area of foreign language teaching and learning in various contexts, as well as the importance of cultural awareness for effective cross-cultural communication.
Jacqueline Glen
PhD student
ed302jg (@gold.ac.uk)
Exploring the Voices of Black and Brown Teaching Assistants, Investigating Power and Status.
Heidi Kukkonen
Visiting PhD candidate
hkukk001 (@gold.ac.uk)
Heidi is a visiting PhD candidate from the University of Agder, Norway
Shahina Sultana
MPhil/PhD student
ssult003 (@gold.ac.uk)
I am a full-time PhD student and my research investigates “Digital Literacies as a Bridge to Maintaining Heritage Language Among Bangladeshi Immigrant Families in East London”.
Serphina Simmons-Bah
MPhil/PhD student
ssimm001 (@gold.ac.uk)
Seraphina is a PhD student in the Department of Educational Studies.
Alice Penfold
MPhil/PhD student
apenf001 (@gold.ac.uk)
Alice's PhD research centres on representations of identity in young adult fantasy fiction, exploring how gender and language impact the shaping adolescent identity.