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Welcome to the Durham University Media Guide to Expertise, a resource for journalists seeking informed comment on a wide variety of topical issues.
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Education
Prof Rob Coe
Professor, School of Education
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 44184
Director, CEM Centre
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 44184
Specialist expertise:
- Assessment
- Evaluation of policy impact
- Examination standards
Prof Joe Elliott
Professor, Principal of Collingwood College, School of Education
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 48412
Principal, Collingwood College
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 45011
Specialist expertise:
- Childen with special educational needs, e.g. ADHD, dyslexia and conduct disorders
- Education practices in different countries
- Many issues to do with children's development, behaviour and learning, both in relation to UK and internationally
- Teacher and parent skills in relation to behaviour management
Prof Steve Higgins
Director of Research, School of Education
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Specialist expertise:
- Expertise regarding the effective use of information and communications technology (ICT) for learning in schools.
Dr Vanessa Kind
Senior Lecturer, Director Science Learning Centre North East, MSc Science Education Pathway Leader, School of Education
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 48369
Specialist expertise:
- I have expertise in secondary science education and teacher education.
Dr Kris (Fire) Kovarovic
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology
Specialist expertise:
- Experiences of an international educator
- Mammalian evolution and adaptations
- Plio-Pleistocene evolution in Africa
- Teaching evolution
- Women in palaeoanthropology, palaeontology and related fields
Professor John McLachlan
Associate Dean of Medicine, Phase 1 Medicine
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 40323
Medicine, Pharmacy and Health, School of
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 40323
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 40323
Co-Director, Centre for Medical Education Research
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 40323
Medicine and Health Postgraduate Programmes
Specialist expertise:
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and health claims in general
- Education in healthcare, including training doctors, and assessment (including exams and testing) of all kinds
- Embryology. All aspects of human development, including abnormalities and their causes, IVF, genetic engineering in humans, termination of pregnancy, stemm cells and cloning
Dr Christine Merrell
CEM Centre, Reader, School of Education
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Director of Research and Development, CEM Centre
Mobile telephone: 0783 4567748
Specialist expertise:
- Monitoring the attainment and progress of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). These are severely inattentive, hyperactive and impulsive children. I have monitored their progress in primary school and evaluated strategies to help
- Monitoring the development, attainment and progress of children from pre-school up to the end of the primary years
Dr Malcolm Murray
IS Manager (LT), Computing and Information Services
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 42767
Specialist expertise:
- Experienced user, developer and administrator of online learning environments such as Blackboard