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David Archard

Archard, David Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

Contemporary political philosophy

Legal philosophy

Applied ethics - especially in the areas of children and the family; sexual morality

Paul Ashwin

Ashwin, Paul Educational Research

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;
The pedagogic discourse of nursing;
Threshold concepts in prosthetics and orthotics;
Midwives use of a personal learning system to support their continuing professional development after graduation;
How the practices of nurse educators structure the curriculum;
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
Conceptions of mathematics of primary initial teacher training students
Academics' conceptions of the first year experience in higher education
Students' experiences of time in on-line learning environments
Dyslexic students' experience of supportive technologies in higher education

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Ashworth, Jenn English and Creative Writing

Fiction - the novel / short story collections. Particularly interested in projects that engage with a 'sense of place' (including the no-place of cyberspace), first person fiction and the instability / unreliability this mode of story-telling engenders, that cross over with memoir and autobiographical writing, or use epistolary forms.

Elaine Aston

Aston, Elaine Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

Elaine supervises PhD programmes of research in the field of feminism, theatre, theoryand performance; contemporary theatre & performance

Richard

Austen-Baker, Richard Law

Law of contracts; contract theory, especially relational contract theory; history of contracts; outsourcing/insourcing contracts; framework (umbrella) contracts.