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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Seán
Doyle
Research interests include scientific literacy; learning outdoors
and beyond the classroom for primary and secondary pupils (with
particular reference to place, self and community); global citizenship
in education; inclusive science education; and teachers' continuing
professional development especially within inclusive science and
biology education.
Current projects include the comparison of the
emphasis of outdoor education between international curricula and
in teacher education, the comparison of training and professional
development models used in other countries and of teacher educators'
values with reference to global citizenship and sustainability
education.
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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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
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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