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School of Education

Staff Research Areas

The table below lists staff within the School of Education and their areas of research. To find out more about a particular staff member, including research and publication information, please click on their name. 

Staff Member

Research Interests

Bagley, Carl

  • Rural Education
  • Education Policy
  • Ethnography

Barmby, Patrick

  • Mathematics Education
  • Attitudes Research
  • Rasch Analysis

Beckmann, Jens

  • Cognitive Flexibility
  • Dynamic Testing
  • Complex Problem Solving

Beckmann, Nadin

  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Educational Psychology
  • Psychometric Assessment
  • Performance Feedback

Bolden, David

  • Mathematics Education
  • Teacher Epistemologies

Burd, Liz

  • Technology Enhanced Learning
  • Computing Education
  • Assessment

Elliott, Joe

  • Reading Disability/Dyslexia
  • Behaviour Problems in Children
  • Cross-cultural Influences in Learning and Behaviour

Glaesser, Judith

  • Sociology of Education
  • Inequality in Education
  • Comparative Education

Higgins, Steve

  • Digital Technologies and Learning
  • Meta-analysis and Research Evidence in Education
  • Classroom Interaction and Discourse in Primary Schools

Holmes, Prue

  • Intercultural and International Education
  • Language Learning and Teaching
  • Qualitative Research Methods/Ethnography

Kind, Vanessa

  • Chemistry/Science Education
  • Teacher Education
  • Pedagogical Content Knowledge Development

Kokotsaki, Dimitra

  • Music Education
  • Creativity
  • Teacher Education

McCusker, Sean

  • Public Understanding of Data
  • Digital Storytelling
  • Assessment

Merrell, Christine

  • Early Years Education
  • Monitoring and Assessment
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Newton, Doug

  • Creativity
  • Cognitive Engagement in Learning
  • Science and Technology Education
  • Peer Review

Newton, Lynn

  • Primary/Middle School Science Education
  • Questioning and Communicating for Effective Teaching and Learning
  • Creativity and Engagement in Primary/Middle School Curricula

Parton, Anthony

  • Art History

Rattray, Julie

  • Student Learning in Higher Education
  • Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
  • Child Development and Education
  • Relationship between Motor and Cognitive Development
  • Conceptual Development

Remedios, Richard

  • Motivation
  • Unconscious Learning
  • Experimental Research

Richardson, Martin

  • Harry Potter
  • National Identity
  • History of Education
  • Citizenship

Roberts, Ros

  • Practical Work/Investigation in Science Education
  • Teaching and Assessment of Evidence in Science Education
  • Fieldwork in Science Education

Simpson, Adrian

  • Mathematics Education
  • Higher Education
  • Psychology of Reasoning

Smith, Richard

  • Philosophical Issues
  • Therapy
  • Not Knowing

Stevens, David

  • The teaching of English in an Arts Context
  • Holistic and Critical Approaches to Teacher Education
  • Romantic and Critical Pedagogical Traditions

Thurston, Allen

  • Peer Learning/Tutoring
  • Improving Teaching and Learning
  • School Improvement
  • Visual Impairment

Tymms, Peter

  • Assessment
  • Monitoring
  • Educational Effectiveness
  • ADHD

Walker-Gleaves, Alan

  • Educational Technology
  • Social and Emotional Effects of Technology
  • Teachers' Technology-related Beliefs and Practices

Walker-Gleaves, Caroline

  • Special and Inclusive Edcuation
  • Teachers' Beliefs and Practices
  • Narrative and Phenomenological Research

Wall, Kate

  • Pupil Views of Learning
  • Enquiry-based Learning
  • Visual Methodology

Waugh, David

  • Primary English
  • The Teaching of Reading and Writing