Staff in the Department of Educational Studies

Dr Yangguang Chen

Yangguang researches into the field of educational bilingualism, focussing on implications of educational policy.

Dr Emily Corbett

Emily is a specialist in children's and YA literature, with particular interest in twenty-first-century fiction.

Dave Dennis

Dave is the Course Coordinator for the Secondary Science PGCE having been a classroom practitioner for 32 years.

Sue Dixon

Sue has an interest in Eating Disorders particularly the role of self help support groups in supporting recovery

Kimberley Foster

Kimberley is an artist and researcher whose work focusses on pedagogical approaches to art practice in the art museum.

Dr Yael Gerson

Dr Francis Gilbert

Francis approaches Creative and Life Writing from an educational perspective to understand how it is taught.

Victoria Hedlund

Dr Julia Hope

Julia’s research interests are in children’s literature, refugee education and children’s literature about refugees.

Dr Aminul Hoque

Aminul's work focusses on issues of multicultural Britain, youth policy, religion, race relations and Islamic feminism.

Dr Natacha Kennedy

Amanda Kipling

Amanda researches the healing nature of the arts in schools, which forms the basis of her doctoral study.

Dr Betty Liebovich

Early years expert; interest in history of early years education; interest in play based curriculum and culture

Dr Vally Lytra

Vally investigates multilingualism in society and language education in migration and minority contexts

Professor Vicky Macleroy

Vicky’s expertise is in language and literacy with a strong focus on creative practices and digital technologies.

Dr Miranda Matthews

Dr. Miranda Matthews researches how arts methods assist representation, and ecologies in learning and practice

Dr Chris Millora

Chris explores the links between youth learning/literacies and social justice, particularly in Global South contexts.

Dr Liz Morrison

Liz is Head of the Secondary PGCE programme and teaches Secondary Science.

Kerry Murphy

George Nicholls

George is a Lecturer on the PGCE Primary programme teaching Science and Music.

Professor Tara Page

Tara explores making and learning with new materialist theories using practice and empirical methods and methodologies.

Henrietta Patience

Dr Sarah Pearce

Sarah looks at how white teachers understand their racialised positioning and how this impacts on their work.

Dr Cristina Ros i Solé

Cristina carries out research into embodied approaches to language learning and interculturality

Professor Michael Rosen

Poet and children’s author, Michael’s research areas include processes of naming and the poetics of everyday speech.

Vicki Ryf

Vicki’s research interests centre on creativity and English teaching in the Early years and primary classroom.

Faris Sanhaji

Faris is the Coordinator of the PGCE Secondary Modern Languages Programme

Dr Esther Sayers

Learning and participation in the arts, culture and sport, with a particular focus on equity and inclusion.

Professor Farzana Shain

Farzana is a sociologist of education. She specialises in educational inequalities and education policy and politics.

Camilla Stanger

Laura Teague

Laura’s current research focusses on pedagogy, counter politics and subjectivities.

Professor Anna Traianou

Anna Traianou is Professor of Education

Neil Walton

Neil is currently working on how Robert Brandom's inferentialism can be applied in art and design education.

Dr Andrew Wilkins

Andrew W. Wilkins is Reader in Education, Departmental Research & Ethics Lead, and Head of BA Education

Dr Thomas Zacharias

Thomas researches into ‘race’ and racism, the production of difference in political discourse and diaspora identities.

Dr Matthew Carlile

Matthew’s areas of research and teaching cluster around social justice and institutional prejudice.

Dr Jim Anderson

Jim has a broad interest in language-and-culture education and critical and creative approaches to pedagogy.

Professor Paul Warmington

Paul’s research focuses on critical race studies, education and social justice.

Dr Maggie Pitfield

Maggie’s schools-based research focuses on the contribution of educational drama practices to learning in English.

Professor Dennis Atkinson

Dennis is an internationally published academic whose most recent book focussed on art, equality and learning.

Professor Rosalyn George

Rosalyn's research interests coalesce around issues of social justice and equity in schools and Higher Education.

Professor Eve Gregory

Eve's interests are in early childhood bilingualism, family literacy and a sociocultural approach to literacy learning.

Professor Ken Jones

Professor Len Platt

Len’s major interest is in the politics of text and the ways culture performs in politically strategic ways.

Edyta Pankowska