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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
- Learning and remembering, especially with respect to the roles of practice and repetition,learning from text, multimedia learningand/or interest and motivation;
- Issues related to effective learning of statistics, maths and/or science;
- Constructive nature of perception, memory and reasoning, including investigation of biases;
- Memory improvement strategies;
- Remembering names.
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.
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.
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
- Motivational processes in education
- Aspects of group based learning
- Problem based learning
- Teacher expectations
- 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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