Departmental Research
| Educational
Studies 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 Educational Studies |
 Introductions to each of the centres listed above
| Educational
Studies staff research interests |
Dr
Jo Ailwood
Research interests include early years education (especially critical
engagements with play and the work of early childhood educators),
early childhood education for environmental sustainability, children's
participation and rights, Foucault and the development of his theories
(especially genealogies and governmentality), policy analysis.
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Dr
Stuart Aitken
Research interests include educational technologies and special educational
needs/disabilities in relation to severe communication difficulties;
effectiveness of low tech and medium tech methods of intervention;
identify, assess and intervene where combined effects of specific
learning difficulties in literacy and severe visual impairment; spectrum
of issues relating to deafblindness and multisensory impairment legislation;
policy relating to children and young people with special educational
needs.
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Dr
Rowena Arshad
Research
interests include study of government and equality agenda;
refugee issues; mentoring; race equality; equality-policy and
practice within education (schools and tertiary education);
social capital and schools, experiences of minority ethnic/refugee
pupils in schools; teacher experiences of delivering equality;
inclusion within schools.
Further information / Profile page
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Dr
Shereen Benjamin
Research
interests include the sociology of special education; the intersection
of multiple differences (primarily gender, social class and
additional support needs) in schooling; moderate learning impairments;
the application of feminist postructuralist theories in understanding
additional support needs; the formation of teacher identities
through initial teacher education; interagency working; critical
policy analysis.
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Dr
Jane Brown
Research
interests include challenging behaviour and behaviour management
in schools, violence in schools, citizenship, school
safety and surveillance technologies, qualitative methods
and research ethics.
Further information / Profile page |
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Dorothy
Caddell
Research
interests include early education; home-school
relations; role of ITE in preparing students
for working in partnership with parents; student
perceptions of school experience.
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Professor
David Carr
Research
interests include philosophy of education; ethics,
virtue ethics and moral education; the nature
of professionalism and professional ethics; knowledge,
education and curriculum theory; aesthetics;
arts education (especially dance, music and literature);
education of the emotions.
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Dr
John Davis
John
Davis has a wealth of practical experience of carrying out
participatory projects with children and young people for a
variety of service providers, voluntary organisations and disabled
people's organisations. Many of these projects were carried
out during his time as senior consultant at the Children and
Social Inclusion Consultancy, Edinburgh. His research experience
includes ethnographic research projects as in the areas of
childhood studies, curriculum innovation, disability, education,
health, and sport. Most recently he has been involved in research
examining staff roles and interagency working in early years
services.
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Pamela
Deponio
Research
interests include specific learning difficulties in particular
the co-occurence of specific learning difficulties; children
with additional support needs.
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Sheila
Edward
Research
interests include lifelong learning; inclusion; professional
practice.
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Andy
Hancock
Research
interests include social context and bi-lingualism; bi-lingual
education comparing literacy experiences of Chinese children
in and outside school.
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George
Hunt
Research
interests include chidren's literature; critical literac;
classroom discourse; primary education in developing countries.
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Dr
Moira Leslie
Research
interests include early education; thematic work; intervention.
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Gywnedd
Lloyd
Research
interests include inclusion and exclusion; education and social
welfare policy; law and young people’s rights; the construction
and use in practice of labels and categories of deviance; the
identification and development of supportive professional practice
with children and young people in difficulty in and out of
school; inter-agency and multiprofessional working.
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Ann
MacDonald
Research
interests include genderrimary teaching as work; women
teacher's lives, identities, and culture; religion and
the production of Scottish identities.
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Dr
Gale Macleod
Research
interests include young people who have attracted the label
SEBD; the role of special schools in a policy climate of inclusion;
measuring effectiveness of special provision; the uses and
abuses of an 'alternative' curriculum.
Further information / Profile page
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Dr
Morag MacNeil
Research
interests include bilingualism; at risk groups; inter-disciplinary
research; health education.
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Dr
Gillean McCluskey
Interests
include restorative approaches; exclusion from school;
discipline and behaviour management in schools; the connections
between excluded pupils and the generality; groupwork with
young people; education for marginalised groups in
general and for gypsy/travellers in particular.
Further information / Profile page
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Matt
McGovern
Research interests include accreditation of work place
learning; the challenges and opportunities of using ICT
in learning and teaching.
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information
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Andrew
Mellor
Research
interests include inclusion and exclusion school ethos.
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Sally
Millar
Research
interests include research into education of children with
severe speech, language and communication difficulties who
use augmentative communication; process of literacy acquisition
in pupils who have no speech and who use augmentative communication;
symbol based communication systems; training and support needs
of teachers of pupils using aug.comm.; implementation and integration
of aug.comm within the curriculum.
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Paul
Nisbet
Co-inventor
of the CALL Smart Wheelchair. Research interests include robotics;
assistive technology and specialised access systems for students
with additional support needs; ICT to support access to the
curriculum for dyslexic students. Currently developing electronic
examinations for students with ASN, with the Scottish Qualifications
Authority.
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Rachel
O'Neill
Research
interests include Language policy and British Sign Language
in education, BSL glossaries and definitions for curriculum
subjects, literacy and deaf learners, structure of BSL
academic discourse, deaf students' transitions to work
and higher education, access by handshape to BSL online
dictionaries.
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Dr
Pauline Padfield
Research
interests include Travellers’ families; exclusion; inclusion;
interrupted learning and ICT.
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John
Ravenscroft
Research
interests include visual impairment; epidemiological research;
the nature of representation; primate cognition; evolution
of the casual mechanism of cognitive growth; child development.
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information
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Professor
Sheila Riddell
Research interests include inclusion and diversity; equality
and human rights; lifelong learning.
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Gillian
Robinson
Research interests include teacher CPD; chartered teacher
development; practitioner inquiry and collaborative action
research.
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Professor
Mary Simpson
Research
interests include educational policies and their impact in
schools; classroom learning; educational assessment; ICT and
pedagogy; school organisation and management.
Further
information / Profile page
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Joan
Stead
Research
interests include inclusion/exclusion; restorative practices
in education; ADHD; multi/inter-agency working and qualitative
methodologies.
Further information / Profile page
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Dr
Bob Stradling
Research
interests include history classroom teaching Inter-disciplinary
research, health education.
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Dr
Sue Walters
Research
interests include the educational experiences of multilingual
pupils (particularly British Bangladeshi pupils, and of
minority ethnic pupils); literacy (particularly learning
to read in multilingual contexts); health and literacy;
identity and subjectivity and their construction in classroom
and community contexts; ethnography and ethnographic methods.
Further information
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Allan
Wilson
Research
interests include information provision; use and development
of internet; publications production
and voice recognition systems.
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information
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Professor
Jennifer Wishart
Research
interests include learning and psychological development in
children with Down's syndrome/other genetically-influenced
learning disabilities; behavioural phenotypes; social cognition
in children with learning difficulties; motivation, self esteem
and learning; health understanding, health needs and health
behaviours in children with special educational needs.
Further information / Profile page
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Kevin
Wright
Research
interests include autism; inclusive and special education;
augmentative communication and critical discourse analysis.
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Terry
Wrigley
Research
interests include school development (especially schools
in challenging circumstances); democratic schools; school
self-evaluation methodologies; active learning for active
citizenship.
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