Departmental Research
| Education
& Society 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 Education & Society |
 Introductions
to each of the centres/units listed above
| Education
& Society staff research interests |
Dr
Katie Cebula
Research interests include development of social cognition
in children with developmental disabilities (Down's syndrome
and fragile X syndrome); adjustment in families with children
on the autism spectrum; interventions for children with autism
spectrum disorder; experiences of students with disabilities
in initial teacher education.
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Dr
Mike Cowie
Research
interests include school management; leadership and governance
(particularly professional development in this area).
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Dr
Linda Croxford
Research
interests include analyses of inequalities in provision of
education and training; measuring trends in curriculum & attainment;
quantitative analysis; comparative analysis; survey data analysis;
methods for monitoring school differences.
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Dr
Gari Donn
Research
interests include increasing importance of globalisation of
knowledge industries on formation of discourses surrounding
curriculum and gender; educational administration; educational
leadership and the state; relevance of critical social theory
for an understanding of educational change in local, national
and international and global contexts.
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Alan
Ducklin
Research
interests include gender and attainment; access; participation;
Further education and adult education in its broadest sense.
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Dr
Sotiria Grek
Research
interests include museum studies; adult education; education
governance; education and European integration; analysis
of educational policy discourses; political economy of education;
education and social change.
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Dr
Lorna Hamilton
Research
interests include ability and setting; able children; pupil
voices; organisation of learning; institutional identity and
individual constructs.
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Cathy
Howieson
Research
interests include secondary and post-secondary education, particularly
vocational education and training, guidance and choice and
the transition process through education, training and the
labour market; post-16 education and training systems; the
IUS project.
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Dr
Cristina Iannelli
Research interests include social stratification in education
and the labour market; social mobility; youth transitions;
cross-country comparative analyses; quantitative data analysis.
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Professor
Bob Lingard
Research
interests include sociology of education; educational policy;
gender equity and schooling; boys and schooling; educational
reform; globalisation and educational policy; postcolonial
theory and education; federalism and education in Australia;
productive pedagogies.
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Dr
Pat McLaughlin
Research
interests include social issues and social problems. The focus
to date has been on alcohol and drug issues, and vulnerability
with particular reference to policy/responses. Sociology of
education particularly in relation to institutional research/evaluation
on higher education and professional practice. Research methods
and methodology, in particular the use of ICT for research
data. Scottish society. Evaluation of outdoor education programmes.
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Dr Marta Moskal
Research interests include local and regional policy and immigrants and ethnic minority cultures in European context. Main research studies and consulting projects are on topics linked with identity, multiculturalism, migration, immigrants culture and language, language policy, educational policy, social policy and quality of life.
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Barbara
Normand
Research
interests include monitoring English language performance of
pupils at three stages; developing and piloting Scottish baseline
assessment procedures for pre-school and primary one children.
Also, involvement in updating Edinburgh Reading Tests.
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Dr
Jim O'Brien
Research
interests include teacher education, particularly continuing
professional development; school leadership, school effectiveness
and improvement; study support initiatives; parents and school
boards; guidance and pastoral care.
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Professor
Jenny Ozga
Research
interests include education policy; education
governance; teachers’ work/professionalism;
gender and management; social inclusion/exclusion.
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Professor
Lindsay Paterson
Research interests include the sociology of education (especially
educational expansion in the past thirty years); the sociology
of nationalism; Scottish politics and Scottish culture.
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Professor
David Raffe
Research
interests include secondary, post-secondary
and continuing education and training; transitions
in youth, including participation, progression
and pathways in education and transitions into
and within the labour market; vocational education
and training; comparisons of education and
training systems, especially in European and
other OECD countries; "Home International" comparisons
within the UK.
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Dr
Joanne Williams
Research
interests include developmental psychology research including
child cognitive development and learning (e.g. naïve concept
development in biology, health, physics and psychology), social
development (e.g. bullying, peer group processes and influences),
and early adolescent transitions (pubertal processes, problem
behaviours, health-risk behaviour and health).
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