Departmental Research
| CRD
staff research projects |
Details of staff research projects can
be found on the School's research web pages where they are listed
under the following research themes:
| Research
Centres within CRD |
| CRD
staff research interests |
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Eric
Brown
Research
interests include mathematics; use of advanced calculator to
the upper secondary schools.
[ further information ]
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Danny
Burns
Research
interests include technology in education; electronics education;
design education.
[ further information ]
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Dr
Tom Conlon
Research
interests include technology based education and information
systems.
[ further information ]
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Dr
Joan Cutting
Research
interests include TESOL; pragmatics; codes of academic discourse
communities; spoken grammar; teacher training and EFL.
[ further information ]
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Richard
Dargie
Research
interests include history teaching: history teacher education:
history textbooks, their history and development; use of maps
in history teaching.
[ further information ]
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Richard
Easton
Research
interests include development of reading/writing skills in first
foreign language; development of learner autonomy through use
of learner-centered language learning portfolios; development
of literacy across the school curriculum; translation studies.
[ further information ]
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Ian
Forbes
Research
interests include using technology (CAS computer algebra systems)
in the teaching of mathematics (a book published on this jointly
with European colleagues); gender imbalance in the teaching
profession. Working
on a submission for research into the gender imbalance in primary
teaching. Use of hand held technology versus palm top - joint
bid with the Open University currently under discussion.
[ further information ]
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Tony
Gemmell
Research
interests include art education; secondary education.
[ further information ]
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Amanda
Gizzi
Research
interests include primary art education; using the work of artists
to enhance education; disciplined based art education; developing
visual arts through exhibitions as part of a research profile.
[ further information ]
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Professor
Morwenna Griffiths
Research interests include social justice, philosophy and
the interaction of educational theory and practice, especially
through action-research and self-study. Her recent research has
included both philosophical theorising and empirical investigation,
related to social justice, public spaces, the nature of practice,
feminisation and creativity.
[ further information ]
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Gillies
Haughton
Research interests include discourse; teacher education (ELT);
language and culture; language test design and evaluation.
[ further information ]
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Neil
Houston
Research
interests include music education; music psychology; ethnomusicology.
[ further information ]
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Bob
Kibble
Research
interests include science and ICT; astronomy education; formative
assessment in science; modelling in physics education.
[ further information ]
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Tom
Laing-Reilly
Research
interests include musical understanding and the curriculum.
[ further information ]
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Tom
Macintyre
Research interests include technology in mathematics education;
numeracy developments in the primary stage; initial teacher education
(primary and secondary).
[ further information ]
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Heather
Malcolm
Research interests include methodology, especially associated
with evaluating innovation; education in developing countries
and social justice.
[ further information ]
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Susan
V. McLaren
Research interests include The Development of Professional Practice.
Susan researches international dimensions of Technology Education;
creativity and thinking skills though everyday products; design centred
pedagogy; integrated and synchronised learning, interaction between
subject area; assessment ; policy, philosophical and pedagogical
issues of designing and values education; multi-dimensional/ multi-expression
assessment; issues of teachers and student teachers dealing with
change - technical education to design and technology/technological
capability; emerging technologies and materials, pedagogical initiatives.
She
has been the meta-evaluator for the Scottish aspects of UK wide research
projects such as the Leonardo Effect Project funded by NESTA, and
Roboteers in Residence, funded by NESTA and BBC.
[ further
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George
Meldrum
Research interests include outdoor education; ethnography;
the meaning of wilderness experiences for young people; education
for sustainable development; citizenship education and earth
science education.
[ further information ]
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Lynne
Pratt
Research
interests include primary children’s creative writing and
meta cognition; children's literature particularly maturational
and crossover fiction.
[ further information ]
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Ruby
Rennie
Research
interests include online learning - pedagogical concerns; CALL:
teacher education in TESOL; hypertext and language/discourse.
[ further information ]
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Dr
Pauline Sangster
Research
interests include listening; language and literacy; Learning.
[ further information ]
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David
Thomson
Research
interests include mathematics; young children's acquisition of
mathematical concepts; international comparisons of mathematical
achievement; educational policy in relation to primary maths
education.
[ further information ]
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Dr
Hugh Trappe-Lomax
Research
interests include language description for language teaching; language
change and language teaching; avoidance strategies in academic discourse;
reporting in academic discourse.
[ further information ]
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Zoè
Williamson
Research
interests include digital learning environments and the role
of new technologies in education; the professional development
of teachers, Chartered Teacher study and the nature and role
of action research in the classroom; a developing interest in
the use of visual methods.
[ further information ]
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