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The Moray House School of Education
Department
of Higher & Community Education |
Departmental Research
| Higher & Community
Education 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 the department |
| Higher & Community
Education staff research interests |
Dr
Charles Anderson
Research interests include student learning and teaching
in higher education with a specific focus on discussion groups,
evaluation and the processes of dissertation/thesis supervision;
talk in educational settings.
Methodology: Approaches to qualitative research with a particular
focus on analysis and evaluation methodology.
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Dr
Sian Bayne
Research interests include online education; digital cultural
studies in relation to education; discourse, narrative and
textual analytic approaches to educational research.
Further information / Profile page
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Dr
John Bamber
Research interests include youth work; widening access
to HE; voluntary sector management; teaching and learning
in HE; work-based learning.
Methodology: Qualitative research methods, particularly interested
in participative approaches in which subjects become researchers
of their own situations.
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Dr
Kuang-Hsu Chiang (Iris)
Research interests include complexity of doctoral education
- research training structures and doctoral students' research
experiences; disciplinary differences in teaching and learning
in higher education; research and teaching relationship;
university-industry partnership and its impacts on doctoral
education; European doctoral education; academic and student
research cultures in universities.
Methodology: Qualitative, quantitative, theory-testing,
second-hand data, literature and policy analysis.
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Dr
Jim Crowther
Research interests include processes of learning in social
movements; the politics of policy discourses in adult education,
lifelong learning, social inclusion and citizenship; the
policy and practice of adult literacy; adult education and
social change; the relationship between informal contexts
for learning and formal educational processes and institutions.
Project details: Learning
through ICTs in Social Movements, PEN
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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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Professor
Noel Entwistle
Research interests include
student learning, educational
psychology.
Methodology: Psychometrics (inventory design and quantitative analysis),
phenomenography (interviewing and qualitative analysis).
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Peter
Evans
Research interests include work-based learning theory & practice;
strategic learning & development; eLearning; social media
and learning; workforce development in the creative industries;
knowledge work and the 'knowledge workforce'; integration
of work and learning environments.
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Dr
Rory Ewins
Research interests include IT and its political, social,
cultural and educational impact, related issues of intellectual
property, online censorship, web standards, and changes
in university teaching and research methods.
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Dr
Ian Fyfe
Research interests include youth studies, education for
citizenship, political participation, youth work and social
action, qualitative research methodology.
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Vernon
Galloway
Research interests
include adult education and social
action; democracy and citizenship;
participative educational methods.
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Professor
Jeff Haywood
Research interests include
investigation of effectiveness
of ICT in enhancing learning
(especially in higher education);
cultural and political factors
in uptake and use of ICT in
education; evaluation of national
and institutional strategies
for implementation of ICT-supported
education; development of benchmarks
for measuring effective use
of ICT in education; adult
basic skills development through
ICT; qualitative and quantitative
data capture and analysis (especially
through use of ICT).
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Professor
Dai Hounsell
Research
interests include how and what students learn in higher education
(particularly in relation to essay-writing, oral presentations
and other forms of coursework assignment), and implications for
teaching-learning and assessment strategies.
Methodology: Searching and reviewing the literature qualitative
methods (espec. designing, conducting and Analysing semi-structured
individual and group interviews), surveying changing practices,
research design and project management, dissemination and impact.
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Dr
Miesbeth Knottenbelt
Research interests include documenting
key skills/profiling; attrition
rates in HE: reasons, responses
by institutions.
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Dr Myra Kandemiri
Research interests include evaluation
research, evaluation in learning, training
and development, environmental education,
education for sustainable development.
Methodology: Evaluation, qualitative, quantitative
data capture and analysis, policy review,
individual and focus group interviews,
online surveys.
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Dr
Hamish MacLeod
Research interests include the development and use of learning
technologies in higher education, and in the cultivation
and measurement of "IT fluency" among undergraduate groups;
the psychological and social impact of computing and information
technologies; gender as a factor in determining engagement
with, and attitudes towards, technology, and in the use of
computer-mediated communications in support of teaching and
learning.
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information / Profile page
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Brian
Martin
Research interests include museums, heritage and "cultural" education;
The international student in HE; Management issues in HE;
Staff development in HE.
Methodology: Secondary analysis; evaluation (impact) studies;
biographical method; action research.
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Ian
Martin
Research interests include analysis and critique of policy
discourses; constructions of citizenship and their educational
implications; relationship between adult education and lifelong
learning; traditions of social purpose and civic engagement
in adult and community education; popular education and social
change; political economy of education: issues of power,
distribution, outcome and equity; education for 'democratic
renewal' in Scotland today.
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information
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Dr
Ken McCulloch
Research interests include young people and non-school, non-formal education,
including youth work and outdoor/adventure education; young people's citizenship;
educational work to help young people become critical social actors.
Methodology: Sociological, qualitative, ethnographic.
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Jen
Ross
Research interests include online reflection, e-portfolios,
museums and cultural institutions online, e-learning, higher
education, learning technologies, identity and performativity.
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Mae
Shaw
Research interests include community work history, theory, policy and practice;
politics of policy; politics of care; social movements and social action.
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Professor
Lyn Tett
Research interests include participation in, and access to, post-compulsory education;
gender issues in education; family literacy; the relationship between schools
and community education; partnerships with parents; inter-professional collaboration.
Qualitative research methodologies.
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Claire
Valentin
Research interests include strategic human resource development; professional/academic
educational programmes; politics of management knowledge; corporate social responsibility
and ethical management; critical pedagogy; management in voluntary and public
sectors; critiques of organisational learning informed by critical theory and
postmodern perspectives.
Methodology: Qualitative approaches.
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