Department of Education

Postgraduate research students

Current research

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) students

Student Research Topic Title Supervisor
Siti Abdullah Investigation of Student Centred Learning
Gill Barrett An investigation into how white working class students break the trend of underachievement and accomplish academic success
Chloe Blackmore Developing the "Developments" in Development Education: an ethnographic case study
Helen Byrne An Investigation of the Different Modalities of Schooling and their Implications for Health Education
  • Prof Harry Daniels
Therese Clemo Action Research into the Development of a Teacher Training Programme that permanently transforms the pedagogue into a Logician and Practitioner of Theoretical Thinking
Matthew Cottrell Educational Workforce Reform
Mario Cutajar An analysis of inter-school working in state-maintained colleges in the Maltese islands.
Nicola De Martini Ugolotti If I Climb a Wall of Ten Meters: Children of Inmigrants Negotiating Social Exclusion and Change in Turin's Public Spaces.
Constantine Dimitriou The effect of tutor feedback on student's essay writing
Joanne Eastlake Exploring the interface between competing ideologies and uncovering systemic contradictions to study the process of change in teacher education activity in the languages of the wider world in the UK context.
Robert Ellchuk Gaining understandings in the coach-athlete relationship: Four case studies with Cerebral Palsy athletes and their coaches.
William Finlayson The 'field' of lacrosse: Embodiment, gender and class.
Darren Garside Conventions of philosophical thinking and children
Fadeela Jeragh A Study of Exploring the Contribution of Field Experiences to Student Kindergarten Teachers' Professional Learning
Asma Mohammed Ease S.E Jooaan Jooaan The advantages andlimitations of using Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Sharina Klaasens Explore the ways in which those who are the focus of ecosystemic interventions make meanings of the interventions and themselves
Elsa Lee How does participation in green groups in primary schools contribute to children's developing action competence?
David Leighton An Enquiry into Professional Education and its Relationship to Institutional Practice in an Addition Treatment Agency
Shona McIntosh How do schools offer Training Teachers affordances for acting more or less agentically?
Miriam McSweeny An investigation into the link between social contexts and thedevelopment of cognition in the Institute of Technology sector in Republic of Ireland
Meyrav Mor What is an appropriate early childhood development curriculum for children in the Himalayas?
Najwa Mursi Inclusion for ASD students in mainstream primary schools in KSA: is it working?
Denise Newnham Changing the concept of the object in a voluntary organisation
  • Prof Harry Daniels
Alin Olteanu Diagrammatic Reasoning in Learning
Amanda Pavey A Phenomenologically Inspired Journey into the Lived Experience of Motor Neurone Disease.
  •  Dr Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson
Oliver Picton International school students' constructions of local place: understandings of the local area and senses of belonging
Katherine Raithby The educaiton of gifted pupils in modern foreign languages
William Roberts Voices from the margins: A narrative exploration pf the multiple realities of coaching.
Benjamin Rockett Exercise and Animal Based Interventions in the Treatment of Depression
Paul Rogers Does the organisation of knowledge in Primary Schools have a formative effect on perceptions of organisation of knowledge in a secondary school?
Gihane Sadek Arab Students Attitudes Towards Western Culture and their Motivation to Learn English as an International Language (EIL)
Philip Sampey How has the "school story" genre of children's literature in Britain responded to changing social and educational contexts of the period 1939 - 1980?
Maria Sanz The new state-education relationship under the impact of globalization in Peru
Emma Seal Identity juggling: I'm a woman, I'm disabled and I'm a Paralympian
Susan Sharpcott Implicit Theories of Golf Ability: The Effects on Student Interaction.
Anna Sowter Water use, wellbeing and the role of learning
Askat Tleuov The development of oral skills: An investigation of teacher and student cognition about teaching oral English in Kazakhstani state secondary school EFL classrooms
Elnaz Toloue Kashefpakdel The Private Returns to Higher Education for those from Disadvantaged Backgrounds: the effects of the Goverment's HE funding policy in the UK.
Ying-Hsiu Trefalt An investigation of learning control on effective online training outcomes in IT Companies in Taiwan
Timothy Walters A New Framework for Ethical Education in Cambodia: An Interdisciplinary Analysis
Xin Zhao How the prosody of teacher-student dialogue indicates the degree of mutual understanding between the teacher and students in the IRF sequence in an EFL class in China

Doctor of Education (EdD) students

Student Research Topic Title Supervisor
Sarah Birchley Sense making in Higher Education management and administration
Catherine Boross De Levay The hidden potentials that positioning theory as an analytical framework can offer to understand the professional identity and social engagement of the expatriate teacher in the context of international schools
Pierre Boross De Levay What CDA and the new model can reveal about international schools as organisations
Michelle Brinn Exploring Intercultural Understanding within Home School Communication in an International School
Chesterfield Browne Three become one - a collision of cultures: an investigation into the effects of a merger on organisational learning, practices and culture using an activity theory framework
  • Prof Harry Daniels
Simon Browning An investigation into the current practices and educational theories that underpin the teaching of palpation in osteopathic education: a Delphi study
Christine Bryan An analysis of schools as organizations from the perspectives of affective-emotional zones
Peter Coles A Research Enquiry to ascertain the extent to which managerialism has permeated headship in England
Helen Dunford An autoethnographic account of a British educator's experiences in the US private sector
Kyriakos Kyriakou The skills required for a Cypriot as a European citizen: the role of education
Sheila Leahy Collaboration to widen participation – a waste of time and effort?
Iara Lindemann To what extent does the International Baccalaureate Creativity Action Service programme (CAS) have an impact on students’ lives and enable them to become global citizens?
Elizabeth Molton Physical education, power and the cultural politics of the young Turkish body
Ian Morris How can Botswana sub degree vocational qualifications become a viable option in tertiary education when a majority of parents see the academic degree route as preferable or the gold standard?
Susan Munday Can they communicate? An investigation into business graduates communication needs at the workplace in the United Arab Emirates
Stephen Munns Social interaction and identity in the classroom
Misbah Naqvi Educational research for a richer understanding: the impact of English language on my culture as a Pakistani - a case study
 
Sahirah Ohlsson How the stakeholders in two case schools in Cyprus understand shared leadership and the benefits from it
Nicholas O'Leary The influence of occupational socialisation on Physical Education teachers’ interpretation and delivery of Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU)
Jayne Pletser Removing barriers to learning, enabling international schools to respond to diverse needs: identifying the climate and conditions
Brian Poole Perspectives on the EdD from academics at English universities
Rachel Ravid Israeli parents’ of young HFASD children and AD children experience of early years school choice – personal and social meanings
Antoinette Rock To what extent does the curricular content of the Certificate in Counselling course of the Open Campus of the University of the West Indies fulfil the needs of course participants: improving my practice to enable more relevant and effective teaching and learning, ensuring more productive outcomes for the students
Paul Sheppard An analysis of the nature of the governance of international schools and the potential for securing appropriate governance
Catherine Simon Understanding the ‘Big Society’ – exploring the origins of the concept and its relationship to Education
Fran Sokel Effective teaching of English in the Israeli elementary school today: investigating key elements of practice
Paul Vare Looking for Learning: applying cultural-historical activity theory in the context of a school's efforts to become more sustainable
John Wells How schools implement and monitor the development of the attributes of the IB Learner Profile among the school community: A case study of International Baccalaureate (IB) schools in Bogota, Colombia

 

 
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