| Name | Areas of expertise |
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| Dr Paul Adams |
- education policy
- pedagogy
- PSHE and citizenship
- educational theorising
- positioning theory
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Dr Laela Adamson
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- language-in-education policy and practice in sub-Saharan Africa and other postcolonial contexts
- the Capability Approach
- education and international development policy and practice
- education and social justice
- diversity, recognition and belonging in UK schools, including decolonisation of the curriculum
|
|
Dr Celia Antoniou
|
- second/foreign language pedagogy
- TESOL student/teacher agency and motivation
- TESOL teacher training/development
- L2 curriculum and materials development
- L2 learning technologies
|
| Dr 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
|
| Dr 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
|
| Dr Ingeborg Birnie |
- Gaelic (medium) education
- language policy in education
- minority languages in education
- bilingualism in education and society
- language learning and teaching (including CLIL)
|
| Dr 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
|
| Dr Angela de Britos |
- bilingualism and bilingual education
- biculturalism and cultural studies
- English as an additional language/ ESOL
- immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers
- teaching and learning of modern (foreign) languages
|
| Prof 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
|
| Dr Jane Essex |
- STEM education
- inclusion/ disability
- outreach
- teacher education
|
| Dr Jonathan Firth |
- memory, metacognition and teacher professional learning
- evidence-informed approaches to learning, study skills, and assessment
- use of field experiments, metacognition research, meta-analysis and systematic review
- teaching of school (pre-tertiary) psychology, including online teaching
- the psychology of learning, including learning theories
|
| Dr Katja Frimberger |
- informal art-making practices (film & theatre) and education
- phenomenological research into pedagogical practice - with the aim to understand the lived experience of education (as embodied, relational, spatial practice)
- philosophical/methodological questions around the arts in/as education
|
| Dr Navan Govender |
- critical literacies
- multiliteracies, multimodalities and critical visual literacies
- transmodality
- gender and sexual diversity in representation
- critical (multimodal) discourse analysis
- social semiotics
- social justice education
|
| Dr Stephanie Hardley |
- socioecological models and whole school approaches to health and wellbeing promotion
- socioeconomic disadvantage, stigma, and education effects
- curriculum and policy discourse analysis
- interdisciplinary work - using psychology, sociology, public health, and education theories to conceptualise school health promotion
- qualitative research methods
|
| Dr Alan Huang |
- second/foreign language learning and teaching
- metacognition and learning
- teacher professional learning
- educational technology
- TESOL and applied linguistics
|
| Dr Katie Hunter |
- educational Inequality
- adult and Community Learning
- mentoring Interventions
- reading and literacy interventions
- qualitative Research
|
| Dr Sharon Hunter |
- educational studies
- Sada and Surrealism, queer theory, and the work of Georges Bataille
- inclusion, human rights and social sustainability
|
| Dr Mariya Ivancheva |
- higher education, leadership and management
- academic and teaching labour
- digital education and automation
- gender/race/class/intersectional inequalities and social justice in education
- global historical and geopolitical topics in education including socialist/alternative experiments
|
|
Dr Thomasz John
|
- TESOL and intercultural communication
- globalisation/internationalisation of higher education
- global English and English as a medium of instruction
- social justice in English language teaching
- curriculum and materials development in second language education
|
|
Dr Ambika Kapoor
|
- Social and Environmental justice and children's geographies
- Children's voice and agency
- Global Childhoods (with a focus on the Global South)
- Rights based policies related to children
- Ethnography and research methods with a focus on children's voice
|
| Dr 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)
|
| Prof David Kirk |
- curriculum development and change
- curriculum history
- models-based practice in physical education
- Bernstein and the social production of pedagogic discourse
|
| Dr Markus Klein |
- social inequalities in education
- child development
- social mobility
- comparative research
- secondary data analysis
|
| Dr 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
|
| Dr 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, resilience, socio-economic disadvantage, marginalisation, stigmatisation and labelling
- issues around marginalisation, stigmatisation and labelling
- educational leadership
|
| Joanna McPake |
- bilingualism and bilingual education
- language learning and teaching
- Gaelic-medium education
- minority language revitalisation
- language education policy
|
| 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
|
| Dr Iain Moore |
- STEM Education
- management and leadership
- pupil leadership
- digital pedagogy
|
| Professor Peter Mtika |
- student teaching, mentoring and practicum,
- teacher preparation, professional learning, inclusion, equity, and social justice
- teacher education institutions and school partnerships
- international education and sustainable development
- teacher education policy and practice
|
| Dr Stavros Nikou |
- learning technologies
- mobile and ubiquitous learning
- technology acceptance
- teacher digital competencies
- STEM education
|
| Professor João M Paraskeva |
- educational theory, policy and reform
- critical theory
- anti-colonial and decolonial theories
- identity, inclusion, difference and equity
- advanced/itinerant curriculum theory
- higher education
|
| Professor Ian Rivers |
- equalities/diversity
- mixed methods
- bullying and harassment
- health and education
- children's understanding of politics
|
|
Dr Nicola Robertson
|
- education in, and through, objects of popular culture
- expressions of fandom and identity formation/self-reflection
- philosophy of education (particular interest in francophone philosophy)
- education and philosophies of technology
- robotics and artificial intelligence (current and speculative uses in education)
|
| Dr Anna Robinson |
- autism, disability and mental health
- trauma
- empathy informed approaches to practice
- expressive and creative arts for self-representation
- autistic voice, rights, inclusion
|
|
Professor Carol Robinson
|
- children and young people's voices, experiences and participation
- children and young people's rights and human rights education
- the translation of the UNCRC into policy and practice
- children as researchers
- student engagement in higher education
|
| Dr David Roxburgh |
- the teaching of Mandarin Chinese as second/ third language in Scottish primary schools
- the teaching of Chinese culture in Scottish primary schools
- comparative education with a Chinese/ Scottish focus
- study abroad experiences of student teachers
- the promotion of STEM learning in the primary school
|
| Dr Rebekah Sims |
- mixed-methods research
- TESOL
- practitioner enquiry
- culturally sustaining pedagogies
|
| Dr Edward Sosu |
- socioeconomic disadvantage and educational trajectories
- developmental trajectories in childhood
- teacher beliefs and teacher effectiveness
- quantitative methods
|
| Prof Yvette Taylor |
- sexuality (including identities, citizenship)
- gender
- class (identities, spaces, inequalities, cultures)
- religion
- educational inequalities (especially gender, class, sexuality, religion)
|
| Prof 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
|
| Dr Yuchen Wang |
- inclusion and diversity in education
- student/pupil voice
- international development
- technology
- research engagement and impact
|
| Dr Alastair Wilson |
- educational inequality
- school & community based development
- school and community mentoring
- learning disabilities
- qualitative research design
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