Profile
Pamela
Munn is an internationally renowned researcher
of over 20 years standing. She has attracted substantial
research funding of well over £2 million
from a range of bodies, including the Economic
and Social Research Council, SEED (and its predecessors),
local authorities, and charities, including the
Leverhulme Trust and the Gordon Cook Foundation.
She is a member of the editorial boards of seven
academic journals and regularly reviews articles
and grant applications. She currently chairs the
groups managing the implementation of the Applied
Educational Research Scheme, a £2 million
scheme funded by SHEFC and SEED to enhance educational
research capacity in Scotland. She is a member
of the Steering Group of the ESRC's Teaching and
Learning Research Programme.
She began as a secondary school teacher of history, teaching
in comprehensive schools in London, before taking up a career
in higher education. She worked in the universities of Stirling
and York, and was Depute Director of the Scottish Council
for Research in Education, before becoming Professor of Curriculum
Research at the then Moray House Institute of Education in
1994. She was Dean/Head of School of The Moray House School
of Education, The University of Edinburgh, from 1 August
2002 to 31 July 2007.
She has been a member of a number of national committees
which have aimed to influence policy developments in education.
She chaired the committee on Education for Citizenship in
Scotland and currently chairs the Advisory Group on the Implementation
Programme. She was a member of the Discipline Task Group,
of the Curriculum Review Group, and of the Second Stage Review
of Initial Teacher Education. She has strong links to children's
charities, having been Vice Convenor of Children in Scotland
and a member of the Scottish Reference Group for Barnardo's.
She continues
to research and publish widely, particularly in
the area of school discipline, and one recognition
of the quality of her research was an invitation
to be Visiting Professor in the Graduate School
of Education, University of Tokyo, in 2000. She
recently led a team researching teachers' perceptions
of indiscipline and of the success or otherwise
of aspects of the Discipline Task Group's recommendations
set out in its report, Better Behaviour, Better
Learning. She also acted as a consultant to the
group advising the Scottish Education Minister
on the collection of statistics on indiscipline.
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