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Education
Expertise: Research methods, social and emotional education, critical multiculturalism, world religions.
Completed student projects:
- Changing Mindsets? Evolution of a Rehabilitation Programme for Chemically Dependent Male Street Adolescents in a Major Indian City
- Nature of the Relationship Between Individual Learning Styles of Female Police Officers and their Relationship with Career Aspirations and Experiences
- Organisational practices that support the promotion of children's emotional well-being in an Early Years setting
Current student projects:
- A regional study of how the educational experiences of Muslim young women affect their life choices
- Critical and relational pedagogical possibilities: a comparative study of practitioners' and children's experiences in different settings
- The Interaction between Professional Cultures and Collaborative Working within Children's Centres: analysis and ways forward
Expertise: Applied psychology; Transpersonal psychology; Martial arts (history, philosophy, psychology)
Current student projects:
- An investigation of how children's perspectives, of their early childhood settings are collected and used to inform service design and decision making
Expertise: Special and inclusive education in the developing world; Initial teacher education in the developing world
Expertise: Education and social sciences
Completed student projects:
- Can Cultures Really Change? The Impact of Specialist Sports College Status on an English High School
Current student projects:
- Academic Leadership of Middle Managers in Further Education
- The policy and practice impact of work-based learning on access to higher education: a health and social care perspective
Expertise: Collaboration in Curriculum Development (HE, FE and Business); Higher Education: Policy and Practice; Post-Compulsory Education; Widening Participation; Employability and careers education
Expertise: education of gifted, talented and highly able pupils; effective pedagogies for creative arts learning; the development of musical ability; music psychology
Expertise: Biology teaching
Expertise: Linguistics (especially Sociolinguistics), Critical Pedagogy (especially Adult Learning), Employability in HE, Disability in HE
Current student projects:
- Keeping Students! A Case Study of Motivational Drivers for Adults Studying HE in FE in an English Rural County
Expertise: religion and society, especially religion and education; the history of Religious Education in the 1960s and 70s
Current student projects:
- Religious Education: Teachers and Curriculum Change in England, 1961-1979
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Do Leaders Find Ethical Decision-making Problematic? A Qualitative Study of Not for Profit Organizations
Expertise: Educational Development; HE Initial and CPD; Learning Development; Skills development; Negotiated Learning
Completed student projects:
- 'Killer Butterflies': Command, and Infantry Combat Morale in the 19th (Western) Division during the Great War
- The Management of Road Traffic in a Rural County: Herefordshire 1919-1939
- The 1/7th Battalion King's Liverpool regiment and the Great War - the experience of a Territorial Battalion and its home town
Current student projects:
- Is Personal Development Planning delivering on its teaching & learning claims? The student experience of PDP at a UK university
- All in the Mind: Conceptualising Emotional Intelligence, knowledge construction and leadership development amongst student nurses
- The role of e-portfolios in promoting reflection and transformation of practice for trainee teachers in Primary Information and Communication Technology
Expertise: Change management in education/HEIs; Policy and practice in education; Inclusion and social justice in education; Learning and teaching in schools (language and literacy, reading, writing, speaking and listening); Professional Development Schools/Creating Learning communities; Children’s literature
Expertise: Higher Education
Current student projects:
- Should I stay or should I go? The influence of emotional labour on midwifery student's decisions to complete their professional education.
- Will Realising Digital Harmony During Transition into HE Improve Student Experience and Achievement?
Expertise: Concepts of educational justice and exploring policy in practice. Educational cultures and re/creating cultures. The experience of educational research for the student
Current student projects:
- A critical evaluation of the teaching materials located on the Early Years Foundation Stage website that emphasise 'quality'
Expertise: Student assessment
Current student projects:
- Leadership and Language: Modelling the Emergence of Meaning in Organisational Change
- A Study of Learning strategies used by overseas students in Higher Education Courses conducted in the UK
Expertise: Diversity, equality and inclusion issues in education; Approaches to difficult and controversial issues in primary education; Citizenship and PSHE in primary education; Relationships and sex education (primary); Religious education and children’s spirituality; The pedagogy of Holocaust education in the primary year education studies; Widening participation, first generation and non-traditional students in higher education
Current student projects:
- An Exploration of the Kenyan teachers' professional identity and its role in the context of educational change
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