Name | Areas of expertise |
Alan Huang |
- second/foreign language learning and teaching
- metacognition and learning
- teacher professional learning
- educational technology
- TESOL and applied linguistics
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Alastair Wilson |
- education and social disadvantage
- education/lifelong learning and disability
- processes of mentoring/evaluating mentoring
- education and disability
- experience of disability/mental health
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Anna Beck |
- teacher education reform and educational change
- educational politics and policy, policy-making, policy networks, democratic network governance
- methodological approaches: actor-network theory, network ethnography, interviewing policy 'elites'
- teacher professionalism, teacher agency and 'teachers as researchers'
- teacher attitudes to inclusion
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Anna Robinson |
- Autism, disability and mental health
- Trauma
- Empathy informed approaches to practice
- Expressive and creative arts for self-representation
- Autistic voice, rights, inclusion
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Claire Cassidy |
- philosophy with children/practical philosophy
- children and childhood studies
- human rights education/children's rights
- children's voice, participation, and citizenship
- inquiry and critical thinking
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David Lewin |
- philosophy of education
- technology and education (conceptual and philosophical approaches particularly)
- religion, spirituality and education
- mindfulness and contemplative practices
- ethics, values, virtues and moral education
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David Kirk |
- curriculum development and change
- curriculum history
- models-based practice in physical education
- Bernstein and the social production of pedagogic discourse
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Edward Sosu |
- socioeconomic disadvantage and educational trajectories
- developmental trajectories in childhood
- teacher beliefs and teacher effectiveness
- quantitative methods
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Helen Marwick |
- social and emotional development
- communicative and imaginative development
- autism - communication, conceptual development, imagination, play
- children’s and young people’s mental health and well-being
- early years wellbeing and relationships
|
Ian Rivers |
- equalities/diversity
- mixed methods
- bullying and harassment
- health and education
- children's understanding of politics
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Ingeborg Birnie |
- minority languages in education
- minority language revitalisation and maintenance
- languages in teaching and learning
- early years education
- ethnographic and observational data collection methods
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Joan Mowat |
- social and emotional behavioural difficulties
- inclusion and inclusive practice
- school climate and ethos promoting positive relationships, school discipline, motivation, self-esteem, self-efficacy, resiliesocio-economic disadvantage, marginalisation, stigmatisation and labelling ce
- issues around marginalisation, stigmatisation and labelling
- educational leadership
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Joanna McPake |
- bilingualism and bilingual education
- language learning and teaching
- Gaelic-medium education
- minority language revitalisation
- language education policy
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Jonathan Delafield-Butt |
- autism, infant and child development
- intersubjectivity, embodiment, social and emotional development
- serious games in learning and assessment
- machine learning and data science analytics
- interdisciplinary research between engineering, psychology, psychiatry, and education
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Kate Wall |
- school-university research partnership
- student perspectives on all aspects of education
- visual methodologies (especially for eliciting the views of young children)
- innovative pedagogies for developing metacognition
- professional learning through practitioner enquiry
|
Lee Coutts |
- Education policy
- Critical policy analysis
- Positioning theory
- National improvement framework
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Lorna Arnott |
- early years education and early experiences
- young children and technology (digital childhoods - particularly young children)
- innovative methodologies (particularly consulting with children and child-centred approaches)
- creative play and young children's creativity
- young children's peer cultures and social play
|
Markus Klein |
- social inequalities in education
- child development
- social mobility
- comparative research
- secondary data analysis
|
Paul Adams |
- education policy
- pedagogy
- PSHE and citizenship
- educational theorising
- positioning theory
|
Sue Ellis |
- language and literacy teaching and curriculum
- education policy & change in complex contexts - variation, scaling up, implementation and adaptation
- turnaround pedagogies
- teacher knowledge landscapes identity and agency
- poverty, the attainment gap and policy development
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Virginie Theriault |
- community education (informal and non-formal education)
- literacy as social practice and literacies across different contexts, spaces and times
- young people in a situation of ‘precarity’; Young people not in education, employment or training
- participatory and ethnographic approaches
- programme evaluation in the field of adult education
|
Vivienne Smith |
- literacy: reading, writing
- critical literacy
- children's literature
- talk/interaction
|
Eugenie Samier |
- Educational and public administration (emotional, political, maladministration, ethical dimensions, identity, policy, organisation studies)
- Leadership (critical theory, feminist, authentic, cross-cultural, historical, biographical)
- International and comparative (with a specialisation in Islamic, neoliberalism, globalisation, populism critiques)
- Qualitative, indigenous and culturally sensitive research methods
- Postcolonial studies & cultural security studies in education
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Yvette Taylor |
- sexuality (including identities, citizenship)
- gender
- class (identities, spaces, inequalities, cultures)
- religion
- educational inequalities (especially gender, class, sexuality, religion)
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Farid Bardid |
- motor development and learning
- health-related factors of children’s motor skills and physical activity (esp. psychosocial and cognitive factors)
- developmental trajectories of health (esp. motor skills and physical activity)
- pedagogy in physical activity, physical education and sports
- development and evaluation of movement programmes
|
Jane Essex |
- STEM education
- inclusion/ disability
- outreach
- teacher education
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Karen Lowing |
- Scots language, Scottish studies, Scottish literature
- cultural studies
- sociolinguistics
- language and literature
- philosophy of education (methodology; Scottish education)
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Karsten Kenklies |
- LGBT issues in educational theory (conceptual or historical non-empirical research)
- Intercultural comparison in educational theory (conceptual or historical non-empirical research)
- Hermeneutic Pedagogy (conceptual or historical non-empirical research)
- Aesthetics & educational theory (conceptual or historical non-empirical research
- Japanese education (conceptual or historical non-empirical research)
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Maddie Breeze |
- gender, sexuality, feminist and queer theory
- sociology of emotions, feeling, and affect
- sociology of education, sociology of knowledge
- youth studies, political participation, citizenship, social change
- ethnographic methods, participatory and creative methods
|
Saima Salehjee |
- STEM education
- identity (science identity)
- narrative identity and weight of culture
- transformative learning
|
Dr Zinnia Mevawalla |
- social inclusion in early childhood
- inclusive education in the early years
- social justice education in early childhood
- resistance and dignity work in the early years
- critical qualitative research methods for listening to children
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Dr Dario Banegas |
- Content and language integrated learning (CLIL)
- Initial English language teacher education
- Culturally-sustaining pedagogies in TESOL
- Curriculum and materials development in second language education
- Language teaching research
|
Stavros Nikou |
- learning technologies
- mobile and ubiquitous learning
- technology acceptance
- teacher digital competencies
- STEM education
|
John Davis |
- childhood
- inclusion
- disability
- integrated working
- social justice
- anti-discrimination and rights.
|
Iain Moore |
- STEM Education
- Management and leadership
- Pupil leadership
- Digital pedagogy
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