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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Dr Joan Cutting
Research
interests include TESOL; pragmatics; codes of academic discourse
communities; spoken grammar; teacher training and EFL.
Further information / Profile
page
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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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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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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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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
information |
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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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Dr
Bróna Murphy
Research interests include TESOL and teacher education; discourse
analysis; spoken corpus linguistics (pedagogic application); sociolinguistics.
Further information / Profile page
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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
Hamish Ross
Research
interests include environmental and sustainability education;
pupil voice, participation, public spaces and citizenship; curriculum
policy and interdisciplinary teaching; identity, narrative enquiry
and representations of self, society and environment in education.
Further
information / Profile page
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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 / Profile page
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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 / Profile page
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