School of Education

PhD Students

Name	Research Topic	Supervisor
Majed Abahussain	An investigation into the education and training of English language teachers in the Saudi Arabian context	Anne Stokes
Shanusi Ahmad	A Study of Primary School Teachers’ Approach Towards Assessment in National Education Assessment System (NEAS) in Malaysia	Mark Priestley
Nouf Alenezi	Parents of students without SEN and secondary teachers’ perspectives towards including children with moderate learning difficulties in mainstream classrooms in Kuwait	Julie Allan
Kirsty Alexander	Becoming Transparent: Learning, Subjectivity and Equality	Julie Allan
Maram Mohammed Alolime	Studying the reality of using technology and teaching aids in teaching English language in high school from the viewpoints of secondary English language teachers and students in government high schools in Aljouf province, Saudi Arabia	Eddy Moran
Dorothy Barcroft	Working with Birth to Three: The Embodied Practice of Scottish Early Years Practitioners	Christine Stephen
Adel Bawazeer	TBC	John I'Anson
Ya-Hui (Anne) Chang	Process Writing and Identity	Richard Edwards
Evgueni Chepelin	Learning cultures in work-based learning: mediation and dialogic construction of identity	John Field
Wai Wen (Vivien) Cheung	An investigation into young ethnic Chinese learners' beliefs and attitudes in relation to their learning and use of Chinese as an additional language in Scotland	Richard Johnstone
Gillian Cowell	Community Education, Civic Learning and the Construction of Public Space	John Field
Michael Dolan	Pre-vocational Education in the Complusory Years	Roy Canning
Sarah Doyle	Materiality and Moments of Professional Learning in Health Care for Paediatric Diabetes	Tara Fenwick
Pauline Duncan	'Critically Reviewing Drawing as a Research Tool for Accessing Children's Perspectives'	Lydia Plowman
Alun Fotheringham	TBC	Kevin Brosnan
Alexis Gibbs	Dialogue and responsibility in higher education development	Ian Munday
Patricia Hannam	Education: The role of the Community of Philosophical Enquiry in developing dispositions which may facilitate communicative/deliberative democracy	John I'Anson
Janita Itaniemi	Young return migrant and English language maintenance: An exploratory study on English language maintenance of children and young people who have recently reimigrated with their guardians from the UK to the Czech republic	John Field
Fearghal Kelly	TBC	Mark Priestley
Yvonne Penny Lancaster-Penellum	Young Children's Participation: understanding the perspectives of key stage one children, and their teachers of decision-making in the classroom, in an English market town school.	Christine Stephen
Jake Lawy	How far an educational journey can be understood in terms of a journey through various power relations toward a state of freedom	Ian Munday
Perry Lewis	Preparing Voices for the Great Conversation: Liberal Education	John I'Anson
Muriel Logan	Connecting things and curriculum: the toys and things children bring to an Early Years setting	Christine Stephen
Jonathan Lynch	Teachers' consideration of place in their curriculum planning, and enactment of outdoor learning	Greg Mannion
Blair Matthews	TBC	John Field
Paul McGlynn	TBC	Roy Canning
Kathryn McSweeney	TBC	John Gardner
Maureen Michael	Precarious Practices: Illustrating a Sociomaterial Organisation of Artists’ Lives	Tara Fenwick
Denise Mifsud	School Networks: The new reform as experienced by Maltese educational leaders - emergent patterns of educational leadership	Cate Watson
Catriona Oates	TBC	Mark Priestley
Michael Page	TBC	John Gardner
Barbara Paterson	The Legislative Routes of Education Policy in Scotland, Pluralistic or Corporatist?	Julie Allan
Susi Peacock	The learning technologist as a change agent: a micro-investigation of a learning technologist using relational agency as a framework for exploration	Kevin Brosnan
Rokyha Salah	A framework for Implementing Quality Assurance in the Higher Educational Sector in Libyan Institutions	John Field
Michelle (Claire) Roxburgh	What are the most effective approaches in clinical learning experiences to develop knowing in practice?	Tara Fenwick
Shigeru Sasajima	Foreign Language Teacher Education in Japan	Richard Johnstone
Jennifer Scoles	The negotiation of professional practice in an emerging sector and the implications for Higher Education: A case study of the renewable energy industry	Tara Fenwick
Jane Sibley	TBC	Mark Priestley
Edward Trezise	Can Managment Ethics be taught Ethically? A Levinasian Exploration	Cate Watson
Maria Tsakiri	“What are you looking at?”- Representations of disability in independent documentary films	John Field
Tieh-Chung Yang	Beliefs and Practices of English Teachers towards Washback on EFL Teaching: Case Studies of the Air Force Academy and the Air Force Institute of Technology in Taiwan	Mark Priestley

Selected theses by completed students

EdD Students

Name	Research Topic	Supervisor
Brian Addison	In investigation of how pharmacy students experience the required education and training required for registration as a pharmacist in the United Kingdom	Richard Dockrell
Margaret Allan	New Scots as ESOL learners: an opportunity for building social and linguistic capital in Scotland	Julie Allan
Marion Allison	Social Capital, Young People and Enterprise	Mark Priestley
Moira Bailey	Developmentalism – from here to there – can non-formal learning help HR get there?	Roy Canning
Heather Bain	An exploration of the unique forms of professional knowing in district nursing practice and the process of practice learning	Tara Fenwick
Laura Battles	TBC	Cate Watson
Jenny Bennison	TBC	Julie Allan
Linda Caudell	TBC	Kathy Nicoll
Elaine Cook	TBC	Tara Fenwick
Linda Craig	Re-viewing the Personal: Macmurray, complexity theory and the implications for educational relationships	John I'Anson
Valerie Drew	Perceptions and Possibilities: A school community's imaginings for a future curriculum for excellence	Julie Allan
Sheena Dunlop	A Curriculum for Excellence - understanding change at the chalk face	Mark Priestley
Jennifer Duthie	Physiotherapy Student Practice Placements	Tara Fenwick
Ruth Edwards	Learning, formative assessment and feedback in pharmacy	John I'Anson
Julie Harvie	TBC	Mark Priestley
Fiona-Jean Howson	TBC	Richard Dockrell
Margot Kirkland	The dilemmas encountered in research for professional doctorates	Tara Fenwick
Anne Lawrie	TBC	John Field
Rhona MacKinnon	Parent Teacher consultations in early years settings	Julie Allan
Neal McGowan	Does Academy Status in England increase the autonomy of a school? Can autonomy facilitate teacher agency?	Mark Priestley
Ronald McVicar	A phenomenological study of what engages general practitioners in Practice-based Small Group Learning (PBSGL) and how this form of learning results in changes in clinical practice	Julie Allan
Thomas McGovern	TBC	John I'Anson
Ian Murray	TBC	TBC
Graham Nimmo	Threads, Knots and Nets: an exploration of the nature and narratives of handover in clinical intensive care	Julie Allan
Elizabeth Noonan	Reconceptualising Teaching in a Research Intensive University	John Field
Andrea Priestley	Understanding agency of young people in a school setting using an ethnographic approach	Greg Mannion
Morag Redford	Inter-professional communication	Julie Allan
Moira Rennie	TBC	Mark Priestley
Karen Thomson	TBC	Richard Edwards
Claire Whewell	Stories Objects Tell	John I'Anson

Current Postgraduate Research Students

PhD Students

Selected theses by completed students

EdD Students

Selected theses by completed students