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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.
To find an expert in a specialist area, please use the 'search' facility to search by keyword or expert surname.
Subject specialists
Parent category: Education
Prof Helen L. Ball
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Sleep Lab
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Specialist expertise:
- Breastfeeding
- Evolutionary paediatrics
- Health consequences of sleep loss
- Infant care practices
- Sleep and obesity
Dr Andrew J. Davis
Honorary Research Fellow, School of Education
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 48430
Specialist expertise:
- assessment, inspection, tracking standards
- maths in primary schools
Prof Steve Higgins
Director of Research, School of Education
Medicine, Pharmacy and Health, School of
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Centre for Medical Education Research
Specialist expertise:
- Expertise regarding the effective use of information and communications technology (ICT) for learning in schools.
Dr Dimitra Kokotsaki
Lecturer, School of Education
CEM Centre
Mobile telephone: +44 (0)777 3643369
Home telephone: +44 (0)191 3736505
Specialist expertise:
- educational research, music education
- educational research, music education, psychology of music
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
Prof Jim Ridgway
Emeritus Professor, School of Education
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 48393
Specialist expertise:
- assessment
- educational change
- mathematics education
- thinking skills
- use of computers in school
Ms Ros Roberts
Senior Lecturer, PGCE Secondary Programme Director, School of Education
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 48394
Specialist expertise:
- biology:
- public understanding of science
Dr David Stevens
Senior Lecturer, MTL Pathway Leader, School of Education
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 48396
Specialist expertise:
- secondary English
Dr Peter A. Warburton
School of Applied Social Sciences
Dean of Experience Durham, Experience Durham
Specialist expertise:
- physical education
- physical education and sport
- sporting partnerships
- University sports facilities