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Education - Staff Research Profiles & Recent Publications

Professor Julian Stern

Professor Julian Stern - E:j.stern@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Education and religion, schools and universities as learning communities, spiritual development, homework, leadership, religious education, computing in education.

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Anita Backhouse - E:a.backhouse@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Cognitive acceleration in the Early Years Foundation Stage through to KS3.  Observational assessment of children in Scientific Enquiry at KS2.  Collaborative group work in HE workshop sessions.

Dr Adrian Brockett

Dr Adrian Brockett - E:a.brockett@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Islam in UK schools; Islamophobia – with a view to establishing reliable measures to gauge whether attitudes are getting better or worse; Islam in the West in general.

Dr Brockett also has research interests and publications in theology and religious studies.

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Dean Beecham - E:d.beecham@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

The role of the Primary Headteacher, Music Education and the role of the NQT and the induction year.

Jeff Buckles

Jeff Buckles - E: j.buckles@yorksj.ac.uk  

Research interests

Ethical leadership and its exploration through paradoxes and tensions in Headteacher dilemmas.

Dr Mike Calvery

Dr Mike Calvert - E: m.calvert2@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Citizenship, managing change, professional identities, pastoral care.

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Jenny Carpenter -E:j.carpenter@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Empowering students to reflect on their learning about learning to teach in a school setting.  This research looks at ways in which students can lead the post-observation discussions with mentors and focuses on an enquiry-based learning approach, with the student at the centre.

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Caroline Elbra-Ramsay - E:C.ElbraRamsay@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

The use of formative assessment within HE particularly strategies adapted from primary practice; Qualities of effective teachers; Assessment tracking within ITE to inform the target setting process; Leading partners in Literacy

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Heather Elliott -E:H.Elliott@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

The importance/ benefits of outdoor play for young children (Foundation Stage) -Forest Schools -practitioners understanding of play

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Ros Evans - E:r.evans2@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Evaluation of the impact of the 'Inspiring Mathematics Champions' project on the career paths of participants.

Donald Giles

Professor Donald Gillies - d.gillies@yorksj.ac.uk

Research interests

contemporary education policy, state education policy, critical discourse analysis, the work of Michel Foucault

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Marie Helks - E:m.helks@yorksj.ac.uk

Research interests

The practice and perception of metalanguage in the context of the primary classroom.

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Mike Hickman - E:m.hickman@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

The use of podcasting to encourage greater levels of trainee discussion and involvement in maths.  Podcasting for assessment.

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Ann Jones - E:a.jones@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

The nature of peer support within part-time postgraduate study.

Tony Leach

Dr Tony Leach - E:t.leach@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Investigating professional learning communities, the processes of psychological contracting within the workplace, workforce reform and the processes of job-redesign, the processes of knowledge creation and transfer and entrepreneurial learning in the workplace and graduate employability.  

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Madelaine Lockwood - E:m.lockwood@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Professional change and development and how this can be facilitated: supporting individuals through their learning journey.  This includes professionals within Early Years settings, colleagues in ITT and trainee teachers.

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Dr Tim Lucas - E:t.lucas@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Scandinavian Early Years and Primary Education, Men in Primary Schools, Music Education.

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Linda Mason - E:l.mason@yorksj.ac.uk

Research interests

The potential use of podcasting to encourage greater levels of trainee discussion and involvement in mathematics sessions.  Developing approaches to assessment feedback (both formative and summative) that encourage student ownership and open dialogue.

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Sally Maynard - E:s.maynard@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Primary Modern Foreign Languages.

Jean McNiff

Professor Jean McNiff - E:jeanmcniff@mac.com

Research interests

Living educational theories and practice based action research.  Generative transformational forms of epistemology for a new scholarship of educational knowledge for the development of sustainable social orders.  Contributing to international interdisciplinary networks of practitioner-researchers.

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Margaret Meredith - E:m.meredith@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

ICT in Teacher Training in Peru.

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Kate Metcalfe - E:k.metcalfe@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Keither Parker

Keither Parker - E:k.parker@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Developing the critical engagement of postgraduate trainee teachers with educational issues; teaching and learning strategies within Higher Education; developing school partnerships through active collaboration; secondary school leadership; educational attainment in relation to social deprivation.

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Peter Raymond - E:p.raymond@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Promoting creative approaches to teaching and learning in primary ITE (PhD Registered); The use of paired placements for school experience in initial teaching education; VLE to promote enquiry based collaborate learning.

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Dr Kathy Ring -E:k.ring@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Young children drawing at home, pre-school and school:  the influence of the soci0-cultural context, early years education, young children’s

Sam Shaw

Samantha Shaw - E:s.shaw@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Transitions to adulthood of young people, methodological innovations in youth research, visual methods and voice.

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Paul Smith - p.smith1@yorksj.c.uk 

Research interests

The changing identities of teaching assistants, apprenticeships and developing CPD for non-graduate groups in the Wider Children's Workforce. and work-based learning.

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Val Stephenson - v.stephenson@yorksj.ac.uk

Research interests

Investigation into the range of Visual Art Activities embraced within Partnership Primary Schools; Identification of exhibition/display work to support students in their learning within Art Modules.

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Val Stephenson - v.stephenson1@yorksj.ac.uk

Research interests

Children and young people with dual and multiple exceptionality.

Dr Margaret Wood

Dr Margaret Wood - m.wood@yorksj.ac.uk

Research interests

Pupil Voice:  Young People as Researchers, The global dimension in the HE curriculum. Developing Community of Enquiry Approaches to Learning in Higher Education.