Research Degrees
Research Degree Completions
20011/2012
Brian Eyres
Snapshots of Apprenticeship: Examining Training Interventions to Inform Practice (MA)
David Gouldin
The Discursive Construction of Professional Identity in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (Ed Doc)
Mary Greaves
Practitioner Research-a Journey in Optimistic Disappointment (Ed Doc)
Alexander Isola
Attitudes Towards, and Beliefs About, People with Disabilities in Nigeria (PhD)
Darren Kilroy
Discursive Practices in Contemporary Emergency Medicine (PhD)
Islay McEwan
When do I get to run on with the Magic Spong? A Bourdiesian Analysis of Practitioner Discourse and Shifting Emplotments in Elite Sports Medicine in the United Kingdom (Ed Doc)
Steven Naylor
Managed Tensions: a case study of Discourse and Practice in a Secondary Art School (PhD)
William George Taylor
Shifting Sands and the Rise of the Technocrat: the Professionalisation of Sports Coaching in the United Kingdom (Ed Doc)
20010/2011
Mervat Babair
Using England's Experience in ICT to Develop Saudi Teachers' Pedagogic Strategies (PhD)
Michael Dunne
The Nature of Learning Primary Science through Fieldwork Learning (Ed Doc)
Jo Anna Johnson
Situated, Action-Focused Education (Learning) and Sustainable Lifestyles as Answers to Socio-Economic Issues (PhD)
Haneyah Saadawi
Individualised Learning and Emotional Intelligence in Science Learning and Teaching at Intermediate Female Schools in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (PhD)
Patricia Simmons
The Impact of a Secondary School’s Culture(s) on the Personal Development and Academic Attainment of Young People who are identified as and/or identify Themselves as Marginalised
Jeremy Douglas Sleith
Access for All?: An examination of current and future models for pupil access and curricular enrichment activities (PhD)
Gillian Yeowell
How Does the UK Physiotherapy Profession meet the Needs of an Ethnically Diverse Population? (PhD)
2009/2010
Charlotte Chadderton
A Study of Racial and Cultural Issues in Secondary Schools in Manchester and the Impact on the Identity of Ethnic Minority Pupils (PhD)
Samera Kashkary
The Impact of Attending Kindergarten on the Mathematical Attainment of Primary Age Children in Makkah, Saudi Arabia (PhD)
2008/2009
Andrea Capstick
'I'm Wondering Now if I'm the Only Person Who Remembers': Using Film and Narrative Biography to Resist Social Amnesia in Dementia Studies.
Belinda Joy Copitch
Roots and Routes:Identity Development of Researcher and Researched in a Jewish Youth Movement Context
John Cummings
Emotional and Social Aspects of Children's Dance in Mainstream Schools
Sandra Hiett
Teaching Cultural Diversity through an English art education: Developing an interpretive model of critical studies within initial teacher training
Jillian McCarthy
The Effects of E-Learning on Nurse Identity Construction
Deborah Moore
Creativity and the New Technologies: developing a model of interaction to inform practice and pedagogy in the educational system
2007/2008
Cathie Pearce
The Interactive Learning of Children and Adults
Silvester Marinsek
Factors affecting decisions concerning parental complaints in Slovenian primary and secondary schools
Susan Wareing (Ed.Doc)
An Examination of the Shifting Identities of teacher education within the framework of national education policy: a study in power relations manifested in professional discourse
Zhiyan Guo
Young children as cultural mediators: a study of Mandarin speaking Chinese families in the UK
Wafaa Mohammed Abd-el-Aal
Towards practising constructivism in pre-service science teacher education programmes in Egypt: lessons from the British Experience
Icarbord Tshabangu
Citizenship education and organizational democracy: an evaluative study of a democracy and school leadership in Zimbabwe's schools
Sally Clegg
The Changing Role of this Supply Teacher: Assessing the Impact of the National Strategies, Professionalisation, Globalisation and Workforce Re-Modelling on the Traditions of Supply Teachers' Work
Joanne Cliffe
Emotional Intelligence and School Leadership: Testing for and Evaluating the Role of Emotional Intelligence in a Group of Female Secondary School Leaders
Christina Macrae
Making Space: Organising, Representing and Producing Space in the Early Years Classroom
Bernadette Ni Aingleis
An Exploration of the Development of Partnership in Learning to Teach in Ireland
Harriet Graham
How Cultural Differences Shape the Teaching and Learning of Children with PMLD in Ghana and the UK
2006/2007
Julia Downing
A meta-evaluation of an HIV/AIDS palliative care education strategy in rural Uganda
Martin Hanbury
Learning to live with leadership : an exploration of the development of one headteacher in the context of a nascent school community
Marcus Hopkins
Reflexive Learning: Interactions with Politically Inspired Ex-Prisoners,
Community Educators, and Victims & Survivors of Paramilitary Violence.
Martin Suter
Constructing the reflective practitioner : a critical account
Susan Sing
Making sense of the apostrophe : young children's explorations into the world of punctuation
Caroline Wassouf
The development of key stage 2 children's understanding of grammatical punctuation
John Stephens
Telling stories of inclusion: a study of relationships and the construction of identity of students and staff in a local education authority pupil referral unit
2005/2006
Graham Hughes
The academic-vocational divide : its social, cultural and political dimensions and its impact on 'vocational' students
Diane Coffey
Seeking the individual child writer: the writing behaviours of young children from low-income families.
Helen Perry
Researching action against domestic abuse.
Tony Birch
Pedagogic Development Work: An Investigation Using Activity Theory into ICT
in Primary Schools (1999-2003)
Carol Packham
"Doing us out of a job?" Identifying the roles and characteristics of professional youth and community workers, with particular reference to volunteers and active citizens.
Rachel Homes
Theatre of the self: subjectivity as performance
2004/2005
Silva Roncelli-Vaupot
Perceptions on 'effective' head teacher's leadership of Slovene schools of second phase of education
Linda Chamberlain
Converting policies into practice in a primary school : examining school improvement and ethico-political dilemmas of a senior manager
Malcolm Godwin
What, how and from whom student nurses learn in clinical practice.
Brigid Downing
Developing the nature and the role of quality argument in primary science lessons through the use of concept cartoons
Pat Dodd-Racher
Lay Inspectors, Educational Values and Policy Change - The Significance of Emergent Outcomes.
2003/2004
Linda Radford
Teachers through the looking glass : an enquiry into the public image of teachers
Sarah Pearce
Examining whiteness in theory and practice : a practitioner research study of teaching in a multi-ethnic primary school
Lorna Roberts
Shifting identities : the researcher's and trainee/novice teacher's evolving professional identity
2002/2003
Kath Kelly
The early detection of dyslexia in bilingual pupils
Heather Riding
The annihilation of the lesbian self: an event without a witness
Tony Shallcross
Education as second nature : deep ecology and school development through whole institution approaches to sustainability education
Nada Trunk Sirca
Understanding the interwoven processes of institutional evaluation and continuous improvement : an action research study
Justina Erculj
School culture in Slovene primary schools : aspects of the local and the global
Janice England
Promoting inclusivity of disaffected pupils.
Diane Saxon
Meeting the challenge of the information age in further education : conceptualising professional practice in information and learning technologies.
2001/2002
Helen Colley
Unravelling myths of mentor : power dynamics of mentoring relationships with 'disaffected' young people.
Una Hanley
Facing another way
Janice Jarvis
Learning preferences of undergraduates and PGCE students in relation to subjects of study
Lance Lewis
Khepra : cultural developmental group-work : an evaluation : effective ways of working with school pupils of Afrikan descent.
Heather Piper
A contrarian approach to qualitative inquiries: cases, causes and conclusions
John Powell
Teaching across the social divisions : an exploration of the construction of identities in a masters in teaching course.
Andrej Koren
Decentralisation : centralisation and autonomy in the Slovenian school system : a case study of 'constructed' views.
2000/2001
Brian Corbin
A case study : developing pedagogical content knowledge as situated practice on a concurrent initial teacher education
Pat Leuze
Influences on aspects of creativity disclosed through the life histories of older people
David Withey
Opportunities for gender equality in design and technology : an evaluation of the Newley Secondary Schools' Technology Initiative (1993-98)