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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
Areas
of interest: 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
Areas
of interest: Learning in digital environments and e-learning,
digital pedagogies, online identity, the cultural impact
of the digital on learning and teaching, poststructuralist
perspectives on research.
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Dr
John Bamber
Areas
of interest: 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)
Areas of interest: 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
Areas
of interest: 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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Dr
Kate Day
Areas
of interest: Evaluation and teaching and learning in Higher
Education. I am currently engaged as an associate director
in a four year ESRC/TLRP project about Enhancing Teaching-Learning
Environments in Undergraduate Courses. I am also continuing
with research into dissertation writing and supervision within
professionally-oriented Masters degrees.
Methodology: Evaluation; questionnaire design; interviewing; qualitative
analysis.
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Alan
Ducklin
Areas
of interest: Gender and attainment;
access; participation; further
education and adult education
in its broadest sense.
[ further information ]
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Professor
Noel Entwistle
Areas
of interest: Student learning,
educational psychology.
Methodology: Psychometrics (inventory design and quantitative analysis),
phenomenography (interviewing and qualitative analysis).
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Dr
Rory Ewins
Areas
of interest: 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.
[ further information ]
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Dr
Ian Fyfe
Areas
of interest: Youth studies, education for citizenship,
political participation, youth work and social action,
qualitative research methodology.
[ further information ]
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Vernon
Galloway
Areas of interest:
Adult education and social action;
democracy and citizenship; participative
educational methods.
[ further information ]
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Denise
Haywood
Areas
of interest: Information and communications technology perspectives
in higher education. European comparisons of ICT skills and
attitudes among students and staff; evaluation of on-line
learning experiences; e-learning, gender and technophobia.
Methodology: Qualitative and quantitative data capture and analysis,
evaluation, interviewing.
Project details: VICTORIOUS, MASSIVE, VM-BASE, LEaD
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Dr
Jeff Haywood
Areas
of interest: 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.
[ further information ]
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Professor
Dai Hounsell
Areas
of interest: 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
Areas of interest:
Documenting key skills/profiling;
attrition rates in HE: reasons,
responses by institutions.
[ further information ]
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Dr
Hamish MacLeod
Areas of interest: 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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Brian
Martin
Areas of interest: 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
Areas
of interest: 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
Areas
of interest: 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.
[ further
information ]
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Dr
Velda McCune
Areas
of interest: Students' experiences of learning in higher
education. Teaching-learning environments in higher education.
The development of students' ways of learning and studying
in higher education. Students' experiences of writing essays
and giving oral presentations.
Methodology: Individual and group interviews; qualitative analysis;
inventory design and quantitative analysis.
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Jen
Ross
Areas
of interest: Online reflection, e-portfolios,
museums and cultural institutions online, e-learning, higher
education, learning technologies, identity and performativity.
[ further information ]
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Mae
Shaw
Areas
of interest: Community work
history, theory, policy and
practice; politics of policy;
politics of care; social movements
and social action.
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information ]
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Professor
Lyn Tett
Areas
of interest: 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.
[ further
information ]
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Claire
Valentin
Areas
of interest: 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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