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Core Staff Interests
Dr Paul Ashwin
Research interests include: approaches to teaching and learning in higher education, phenomenographic research methodology, academic development in higher education, critical pedagogy in higher education, and peer learning in further and higher education. Web page
Professor Mary Hamilton
Specialises in adult language, literacy and numeracy education and the new literacy studies. Interested in informal adult learning and everyday practices; policy issues in ALLN and comparative perspectives; media representations of educational issues. Particular interests in participatory research methodologies, the use of visual data in research and computer assisted qualitative analysis. Web page.
Professor Murray Saunders
Educational policy implementation and change; work and the curriculum; national and international policy evaluation, evaluation theory and method, informal learning in communities and specialises in the evaluation of complex change processes e.g. e-learning. Web page.
Professor Malcolm Tight
Specialisms include: 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. Web page
Professor Paul Trowler
Specialisms include: 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. Web page.
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