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Higher education HE (7)

Ashwin, Paul

I am interested in recieving PhD proposals in most areas related to students' and academics' experiences of higher education. The research of my current and past doctoral students includes work on:

• Academics' conceptions of creativity in teaching and learning in higher education;
• The relations between art and design tutors' conceptions of their professional practice and their teaching practice;
• Threshold concepts in prosthetics and orthotics;
• Students' and tutors' experiences of learning support in higher education;
• Student identities in higher education;
• The research student experience in higher education;
• How academics experience the relations between their academic work and parenting
• Chinese students' experiences of UK higher education
• The student experience of postgraduate marketing education
• The assessment of competence
• Students' experiences of time in on-line learning environments

Houghton, Ann-Marie

On areas associated with my research interests but in particular in the next few years on widening participation and the academic and learning experiences of disabled learners, or Black and Minority Ethnic students, from a multi-agency perspective the policy agenda of Schools that will encompass family and intergenerational learning from the perspective of the Extended Schools or Faith Schools agenda and finally the transitions issues into education and the workplace, especially for disabled graduates.

Jackson, Carolyn

All aspects of gender and education. For example, single-sex and co-educational learning environments (see videos on this page), 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 and sociology 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. Intergroup relations.

Fear in education - the effects of fear on all aspectsof school and university life.

Parchoma, Gale

I am especially interested in proposals from potential doctoral students in the areas of networked learning, technological affordances, social negotiation and social capital in online learning environments, identities in online learning environments, formal and informal online learning communities.

Saunders, Murray

• 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,

Tight, Malcolm

• 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

Trowler, Paul

• 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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