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PhD Supervision - Areas of Interest

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  Paul Ashwin

  I am interested in receiving PhD proposals in most areas related to knowledge, curriculum, teaching, learning and assessment in higher education, particularly those relating to students' and academics' experiences of higher education.
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  Sue Cranmer

  I am interested in receiving PhD proposals in most areas related to digital technologies, education and learning. I'm particularly interested in digital inclusion; disengagement; disability; accessibility; social uses of digital technologies; digital literacy; online safety.
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  Sondra Cuban

  new media and technologies, Adult learning and education, women's studies/gender studies, migration studies, qualitative research, ethnographic studies.
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  Mary Hamilton

  Adult language, literacy and numeracy education (ALLN) and the new literacy studies; Informal adult learning and everyday practices across the lifespan; Use of Literacies and Technologies among older people Policy issues in ALLN, global and comparative perspectives; media representations of educational issues; Participatory research methodologies; institutional ethnography Use of visual data in research and computer assisted qualitative analysis.
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  Ann-Marie Houghton

  On areas associated with my research interests but in particular in the next few years on inclusive curriculum development, the academic and learning experiences of disabled learners, transitions issues into education and the workplace, especially for disabled graduates, from a multi-agency perspective the policy agenda of Schools that will encompass family and intergenerational learning from Faith Schools agenda
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  Carolyn Jackson

  All aspects of gender and education. For example,single-sex and co-educational learning environments, girls' in- and out-of-school lives,concerns about boys' 'underachievement', constructions of gendered learner identities, gender and teacher identities, gender and the curriculum, gendered identities in Higher Education. Social psychology of teaching and learning, especially motives for learning or not learning, fear of failure, how classroom environments and peers shape approaches to learning and learner identities. Fear in education - the effects of fear onall aspectsof school and university life.
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  Don Passey

  Uses and impacts of technologies and technology-based resources in formal educational environments Uses and impacts of technologies and technology-based resources across informal and formal learning environments Specific aspects of learning and how these are impacted by technologies How technologies are used by and impact young people who find it hard to learn or who are vulnerable Uses of data management and data handling in school-based and lifelong learning contexts
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  Colin Rogers

  Motivational processes in education; Teacher expectations and their effects; Transition into Higher Educatuion; Assessment systems and appraoches to learning; The impact of ICT on student motivation
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  Murray Saunders

  Educational policy implementation and change; Work and the curriculum; National and international policy evaluation, evaluation theory and method, evaluation of complex change processes e.g. e-learning. Informal learning in communities,
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  Julie-Ann Sime

  The development of competence and expertise in professional learning Cognitive approaches to the design of learning technology; Games and simulations in teaching and learning; The use of multiple representations in thinking, teaching and learning with technology; Use of qualitative simulations in learning environments Adoption of new technologies in teaching and learning, e.g. Second Life and other virtual environments.
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  Malcolm Tight

  Changing patterns of academic work; The nature of the academic experience; The history and meaning of higher education; Alternative modes of study; The postgraduate and research student experience; Mature and 'non-traditional' students; Comparative studies; Patterns of participation; The role of learning in adult life
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  Paul Trowler

  Higher education policy-making and policy implementation; The analysis of organisational and professional cultures in universitities, particularly as they relate to change-management processes; The reception and impact in differing social contexts of learning, teaching and assessment policies and practices; Discourse and identities in higher education; ethnographic research methodologies.
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  Jo Warin

  I would be interested in receiving proposals on: The development of identity through the school years Parenting (especially with a focus on gender) The home-school relationship Gender issues in education (particularly those concerned with issues about male staff in early years education) Early childhood

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