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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
Sondra Cuban
Dr Catherine Fritz
Psychological study of learning and remembering, especially with respect to the role of practice and repetition, including laboratory and real world experiments; Maths and science learning; Constructive nature of perception, memory and reasoning; Memory improvement strategies; Remembering names. 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.
Dr Carolyn Jackson
Areas of research interest include: transitions in education; social psychological aspects of teaching and learning, particularly in relation to academic self-concept; gender issues in education; the PhD examination process. Web page. (not available 2008– 2009)
Dr Gale Parchoma
I am a practitioner and a researcher in technology enhanced learning, and have been active in this field since the 1990s. I have designed e-learning environments for a range of academic disciplines and researched the effectiveness of those environments. In 2004, I received a national award for demonstrating advancement of e-learning in Canada. Web Page
Professor Colin Rogers
Development and maintenance of motivation in schools and other educational contexts, social interaction and attainment, and gender differences in attainment. 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.
Dr Julie-Ann Sime
Cognitive approaches to the design of learning technology; team training; simulation-based training; the use of multiple representations in reasoning and the implications for learning technology; use of qualitative simulations in learning environments. 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.
Dr Jo Warin
The role of gender within the formation of identity/ies; early years care and education; home-school links; family relationships and impact on identity formation; research methodologies especially qualitative methods. Web page.
Maria Zenios
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