Here is a list of PhD and EdD theses completed in the recent past at the Faculty of Education.
| Name | Topic | Supervisor | Year of Completion | |
| Maria Luisa Alonso | Poetry for young people and cultural imbalances: a postcolonial approach to the current situation in Spain and France. | David Whitley | 2017-2018 | |
| Nazipa Ayubayeva | Teacher collaboration for professional learning: a case study of three schools in Kazakhstan. | Colleen McLaughin and Ros McLellan | 2017-2018 | |
| Richard Brock | Making sense of making sense: a microgenetic multiple case study of five students' developing conceptual compounds related to physics. | 2017-2018 | ||
| Catalina Castillo Castro | Teacher practices in primary schools with high value-added scores and engaging lessons in disadvantaged communities in Rural Mexico. | Anna Vignoles | 2017-2018 | |
| Eleni Charalampous | Finding meaning in mathematics through its philosophy: an empirical study with 17-year-old Greek students. | Philip Gardner | 2017-2018 | |
| Simon Dowling | The influence of a teaching school alliance on classroom staff's professional development. |
Panayiotis Antoniou | 2017-2018 | |
| Lottie Hoare | Secondary education in BBC broadcast 1944-1965: drawing out networks of conversation and visions of reform. |
Cathy Burke | 2017-2018 | |
| Evangelia Iordanaki | A socio-cultural study exploring Greek and English 11-year-old children's responses to wordless picturebooks. | Fiona Maine | 2017-2018 | |
| Mona Jebril | Academic life under occupation: the impact on educationalists at Gaza's universities. | Diane Reay | 2017-2018 | |
| Hong Jiang | Student teachers' voices: A historical exploration of teacher education in Shanghai, China (1949-1982). | Philip Gardner | 2017-2018 | |
| Martin Johnson | Examiner feedback and learning: what are the characteristics of effective remote feedback in a hierarchic, professional context? | Neil Mercer | 2017-2018 | |
| Sabrina Kamal | "Come on powerful, come on my fresh green": Representations of the Child and Constructions of Childhood in Rabindranath Tagore's Writings for Children. | David Whitley | 2017-2018 | |
| Rebecca Kitchen | How do ethnic minority students represent geographical knowledge? Exploring the stories that relate to representations and link with post-14 subject choices. | Liz Taylor | 2017-2018 | |
| Luz Moreno Medrano | Indigenous children in urban schools in Jalisco, Mexico: an ethnographic study on schooling experiences. | Diane Reay | 2017-2018 | |
| Ellen Quigley | The education of economists: social norms and the academy in the Canadian context. | Phil Gardner | 2017-2018 | |
| Biljana Savikj | Family language policy and practice as parental mediation of habitus, capital ad field: an ethnographic case-study of migrant families in England. | Yongcan Liu | 2017-2018 | |
| Lysandra Sinclaire-Harding | Profiling emotion regulation: exploring patterns of regulation in classroom behaviour. | David Whitebread | 2017-2018 | |
| Yu Song | An investigation of the relationships between thinking style, participation in classroom dialogue and learning outcomes - a study based in Mainland China. | Christine Howe | 2017-2018 | |
| Pablo Torres Nunez | The culturally adaptive functionality of self-regulation: explorations of children's behavioural strategies and motivational attitudes. | Ros McLellan and David Whitebread | 2017-2018 | |
| Mohini Verma | Temporal patterns of co-occurrence between children's self-regulatory behaviour and their private and social speech. |
David Whitebread | 2017-2018 | |
| Mingfei Xu | Meaning negotiation through task-based synchronous computer mediated communication (SCMC) in EFL learning in China - a case study. | Michael Evans | 2017-2018 | |
| Caroline Creaby | A study of the relationship between professional development strategies and teacher professional identities | David Frost | 2016-2017 | |
| Beatrice Balfour | Memory, gender and early childhood education: reinterpreting Reggio Emilia schools' origin stories | Phil Gardner | 2016-2017 | |
| Hildy Bennett | Adolescent experiences of severe learning difficulties: a case study using psychotherapeutic counselling as a means to explore the potential impact of having an intellectual impairment | Richard Byers | 2016-2017 | |
| Aditi Bhutoria | Do financial education interventions for women from poor households impact their financial behaviours? Experimental evidence from India | Anna Vignoles | 2016-2017 | |
| James Biddulph | The diverse diversities of creative learning at home: three case studies of ethnic minority immigrant children | Pamela Burnard and Mandy Swann | 2016-2017 | |
| Roszalina Binte Rawi | Assessment for learning in Malay language classrooms: from zahir to batin | Sue Swaffield | 2016-2017 | |
| Ros Brown | Enabling Year 2 pupils to pursue self-directed empirical social research for school improvement: a case study in two settings | David Frost | 2016-2017 | |
| Emma Carter | Orbiting Two Worlds: a study of the psychosocial experiences of black and minority ethnic (BME) students, including those from indigenous Australian backgrounds, involved in educational programmes aimed at developing 'giftedness' | Linda Hargreaves | 2016-2017 | |
| Sara Clarke-Habibi | 'Peacing' together a conflicted society: educational values, voices, and practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina | Madeleine Arnot | 2016-2017 | |
| Jie Gao | The relationships of parental self-efficacy, perceived parenting behaviours, adolescents' self-efficacy beliefs and developmental outcomes: an empirical investigation in a Chinese context | Ros McLellan | 2016-2017 | |
| Alina Herescu | The relationship between higher order thinking skills (HOTS) and cognitive academic language proficiency (CALP) in content and language integrated learning (CLIL): a mixed-methods case study of learners’ oral production in English at two schools in Romania | Michael Evans | 2016-2017 | |
| Kevin Kester | Reproducing peace? The case of educational peace building inside UN Higher Education. | Hilary Cremin | 2016-2017 | |
| Jia Wei Lim | The development and present state of post-16 Malaysian higher school certificate or Sijil Tinggi Pelajaran Malaysia (STPM) literature in English in Malaysia: A multiple case study | Gabrielle Cliff Hodges | 2016-2017 | |
| Ekaterina Mace-Nazina | The impact of childhood international mobility on cultural identity | Neil Mercer | 2016-2017 | |
| Peter Marber | Emerging market undergraduates in the United States: a mixed methods inquiry into student and host university motivations | Peter Gronn and Diane Reay | 2016-2017 | |
| Gabriela Martinez | Teaching human rights in Mexico: A case study of educators' professional knowledge and practices | Ian Frowe | 2016-2017 | |
| David Neale | Early signs of self-regulation: mother-infant interaction and the development of effortful and inhibitory control | David Whitebread | 2016-2017 | |
| Mariana Petrasova | Towards a better understanding of 'mathematics anxiety': A narrative inquiry | Ruth Kershner and Paul Andrews | 2016-2017 | |
| Shi Pu | Critical thinking and literature review writing in different cultural contexts: comparing the perspectives of Chinese postgraduate students in three settings | Michael Evans | 2016-2017 | |
| Sin Wai Winnie Pui | Using self-regulated learning strategies to enhance educational outcomes for students with learning difficulties in Hong Kong and Macau: an investigation based on participatory action research | Richard Byers | 2016-2017 | |
| Dawn Sardella-Ayres | A critical exploration of Annie Fellows Johnston's Little Colonel series: tell me the tales I delighted to hear long ago | Maria Nikolajeva | 2016-2017 | |
| Kaylan Schwarz | 'It's not voluntourism': unpacking young people's narrative claims to authenticity and differentiation in the international volunteer experience | Hilary Cremin | 2016-2017 | |
| Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert | A progressive case for liberal subject-based education (based on a case study of the English Literature syllabus) | Ian Frowe and Rob Moore | 2016-2017 | |
| Xiaofei Shi | Reconceptualising crossover picturebook: a cognitive approach to crossover picturebooks and readers' engagement with them | Maria Nikolajeva | 2016-2017 | |
| Pallawi Sinha | Emergent education in the homogenised world. The significance of integrating indigenous skills, places, asthetic practices, culture and community towards future education in India | Cathy Burke and Richard Hickman | 2016-2017 | |
| Matthew Somerville | Children's well-being, emotion regulation & supportive classroom contexts | David Whitebrad | 2016-2017 | |
| Dajin Jennifer Song | Using mobile technology empowers learners? Exploring students' mobile learning experiences, perceptions and motivational needs and developing learning capacity through mobile learning | Elaine Wilson | 2016-2017 | |
| Eve Tandoi | Reading metafiction: Exploring children's literary competence when reading hybrid novels in the primary classroom. | Gabrielle Cliff Hodges | 2016-2017 | |
| Megan Walberg | An exploration of the relationship between academic achievement and psychotic experiences | Ros McLellan | 2016-2017 | |
| Ji Yu | Learning space and student learning in higher education: an exploration through a comparative case study in China | Cathy Burke and Jan Vermunt | 2016-2017 | |
| Simin Zeng | Self-repair in EFL learners' speech in two contrasting institutional school settings in China: a sociocultural and activity theory informed analysis of classroom and task-related speech | Michael Evans | 2016-2017 | |
| Heyi Xhang | Relationships between parental scaffolding, children's needs satisfaction, and self-regulated learning in Chinese preschool children | David Whitebread | 2016-2017 | |
| Gulay Bozkurt | Teaching with technology: a multiple-case study of secondary teachers' practices of GeoGebra use in mathematics teaching | Kenneth Ruthven |
2015-2016 |
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| Simon Breakspear | Measuring how the world learns: an examination of the OECD's PISA and its uses in national system evaluation | Peter Gronn | 2015-2016 | |
| Michael Catchpool | 'I look away until they have finished reading it': a focus on children's engagement with peer feedback and its impact on children as writers | Neil Mercer | 2015-2016 | |
| Elizabeth Forbes | Creative writers in the making: developing identities in the context of mentoring and tutoring relationships | Morag Styles and Chris Doddington | 2015-2016 | |
| Karen Forbes | Cross-linguistic transfer of foreign language writing strategies: developing first and foreign language writing through metacognitive strategy use | Linda Fisher | 2015-2016 | |
| Tehmina Hammad | NGOs construction(s) of disability and education and its impact on the lives of people with disabilities in Pakistan | Nidhi Singal | 2015-2016 | |
| Veronica Hanke | Guided reading: teacher and pupil perspectives on classroom practice | Neil Mercer | 2015-2016 | |
| Man Kit Lee | Writing motivation in the context of peer collaboration in second language process writing | Michael Evans | 2015-2016 | |
| Martin Lytje | Unheard voices: parentally bereaved Danish students' experiences and perceptions of the support received following the return to school | Ruth Kershner | 2015-2016 | |
| Rebecca Nambi | Exploring the challenges and possibilities of using learner-centred pedagogy to teach literacy in one secondary school in Uganda: a case study | Gabrielle Cliff Hodges | 2015-2016 | |
| Aileen O'Connor | From private speech to inner speech: effects of a self-directed speech intervention on high functioning children with autism | David Whitebread | 2015-2106 | |
| Amanda O'Shea | Exploring the black box: Assessment for learning and the development of autonomy in Key Stage 2 | Sue Swaffield | 2015-2016 | |
| Lisha O'Sullivan | Preschool children's social pretend play: its developmental trajectory and the role of adult involvement | David Whitebread | 2015-2016 | |
| David Pomeroy | Enabling mathematical minds: how social class, ethnicity, and gender influence mathematics learning in New Zealand secondary schools | Diane Reay | 2015-2016 | |
| Alireza Tabatabaie | Young British Muslim males, sexual learning and sexuality education | Colleen McLaughlin and Ros McLellan | 2015-2016 | |
| Nurbek Teleshaliyev | Teachers with a capital, 'T': exploring the professionalism of experienced teachers in Kyrgystan | David Frost | 2015-2016 | |
| Brendan Walsh | 'Nobly and Well': secondary school teaching in Ireland 1878-2010 | Pam Hirsch | 2015-2016 | |
| Anna Wong | School-based musical engagement:
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Pam Burnard and Ros McLellan | 2015-2016 | |
| Chia-Yi Wu | The role of digital social networking in the process of cultural transition: Case studies of East Asian young people studying in England | Linda Hargreaves | 2015-2016 | |
| Chenyan Xu | Metacognition and children's second language acquisition in China | David Whitebread | 2015-2016 | |
| Lingling (Cora) Xu | Who am I? A multiple case study of the identity constructions of mainland Chinese students at one Hong Kong university | Diane Reay | 2015-2016 | |
| Stephen Yip | Other learning experiences (OLE) in the new senior secondary curriculum: a survey study investigating the impact of OLE on students' approaches to learning in Hong Kong schools | John MacBeath | 2015-2016 | |
| Faye Yung | The cultural authenticity effect: the rhetoric of an authentic cultural representation in English children's fiction portraying East Asian cultures | Maria Nikolajeva | 2015-2016 | |
| Asma Alfadala | School leadership within Education for a New Era reform in Qatar: Four portraits | John Gray | 2014-2015 | |
| Nayla Aramouni | "What's the story?" A case study of young adults' attitudes towards reading in Lebanon | Morag Styles | 2014-2015 | |
| Lena Bahou | Student (dis)-engagement in post-war Lebanon: Barriers and pathways in school learning | Nidhi Singal | 2014-2015 | |
| Christina Chinas | Mediation of teachers' learning through talk within a professional learning community: a case study in Cyprus | Ruth Kershner | 2014-2015 | |
| Su Li Chong | Understanding reading choice: An investigation of multilingual Malaysian undergraduates' print-based and computer-mediated reading experiences | Gabrielle Cliff-Hodges | 2014-2015 | |
| Ivana Cosic | Introduction of standardised assessment in Croatia: the matura and its effects on teachers and schools | David Frost | 2014-2015 | |
| Tara Coverdale | Critical leadership versatility: From insight to practice | Morag Morrison-Helme and Pam Burnard | 2014-2015 | |
| Eleni Demosthenous | Algebra-related topics: A multiple case study in Cypriot primary school classrooms | Andreas Stylianides | 2014-2015 | |
| Anne Devlin | Nurses' constructions of learning in work: Exploring the process and potential of work-based learning within an NHS 'Community of Practice' | Sara Hennessy | 2014-2015 | |
| Ting Ding | Interactions between language learning and identity: a case study of heritage learners and non-heritage learners of Chinese studying abroad in China | Michael Evans | 2014-2015 | |
| Rose Griffiths | Difficulties in number experienced by children aged 7 to 11 in public care in England | Tim Rowland | 2014-2015 | |
| Cheng-Yu Hung | The making of the citizenship curriculum in Taiwan: on the evolving concepts of 'good citizenship' and 'national identity' after World War II | Ian Frowe and Philip Gardner | 2014-2015 | |
| Dilrabo Jonbekova | Skills mismatches among university graduates in post-soviet Tajikstan: challenges for higher education and the labour market | Peter Gronn | 2014-2015 | |
| Kathryn Jourdan | Through the lens of Levinas:an ethnographically-informed case study of pupils' practices of facing in music making | John Finney | 2014-2015 | |
| Chrysovalentini Konstantinou | Introducing technology in Cypriot primary music education: Examining change in teacher thinking and practice | Pamela Burnard | 2014-2015 | |
| Hui-Chuan Li | A problem-based learning approach to developing fifth grade students' fraction sense in Taiwan: Challenges and effects | Andreas Stylianides | 2014-2015 | |
| Ling Li | Culture as a capacity to change: an ethnographic study on the impact of culture on teacher's ICT adoption in a university faculty in China | Sue Brindley | 2014-2015 | |
| Christina Morgan | A qualitative study of participatory critical pedagogy interventions for women's capability development: The case of widows in Uganda | Colleen McLaughlin | 2014-2015 | |
| Shirley Ong | The effect of incorporating a contrastive teaching approach on the learning of English in Brunei | Michael Evans | 2014-2015 | |
| Manasi Pande | The impact of poverty on the lives and education of young carers in India | Madeleine Arnot | 2014-2015 | |
| Fran Riga | Students' ideas in astronomy: science or fiction? | Keith Taber | 2014-2015 | |
| Susan Tan | Between times: Growing into future's history in young adult dystopian literature | Maria Nikolajeva | 2014-2015 | |
| Derron Wallace | Ethnic expectations: The politics of panic and praise in the schooling of Afro-Carribbean youth in London and New York | Diane Reay | 2014-2015 | |
| Ashley Wilson | Adopting the orphan's God: Christianity and spirituality in nineteenth-and twentieth-century girls' books | Maria Nikolajeva | 2014-2015 | |
| Sarah Winfield | Education for international understanding: British secondary schools, educational travel and cultural exchange, 1919-1939 | Philip Gardner | 2014-2015 | |
| Chalermchai Wongrak | Heteroglossia and identity negotiation: the case of EFL classrooms in Northeast Thailand | Michael Evans | 2014-2015 | |
| Christine Yau | The nature of one-to-one instrumental/ vocal pedagogy in music conservatoire settings: two cases from a UK conservatoire | Pamela Burnard | 2014-2015 | |
| Antonia Zachariou | Musical play and self-regulation: An exploration of 6- and 8-year old children's self-regulatory behaviours during musical play sessions at Cypriot primary schools | David Whitebread | 2014-2015 | |
| Manzoorul Abedin | Malfeasance, absence, silence: exploring English-in-education policy in Bangladesh from a critical policy sociology perspective | Nidhi Singal | 2013-2014 | |
| Hang Chan | The effectiveness of teaching methods incorporating formulaic sequences for foreign language oral fluency development | Michael Evans | 2013-2014 | |
| Filio Constantinou | School-based writing in bidialectal settings and the challenges facing immigrant pupils | Edith Esch | 2013-2014 | |
| Tito Correa | Dutch progenitors of higher education at Harvard: Puritan origins of North America's first university. | Pam Hirsch and Philip Gardner | 2013-2014 | |
| Anna-Marie Higgins | Facilitating approaches for understanding Musique Concrete classroom composing in secondary schools in Ireland: towards a pedagogy. | Pamela Burnard | 2013-2014 | |
| Sonia Ilie | Leadership in Romanian secondary schools: perspectives from educational effectiveness. | John Gray and Darleen Opfer | 2013-2014 | |
| Fiona Jackson | Implementation infidelity or aligned adaptation? Exploring tutors' interpretations and enactments of catch up numeracy, a primary mathematics intervention. |
Kenneth Ruthven | 2013-2014 | |
| Daniela Jadue Roa | Young children's development of a sense of learning agency through their transition between kindergarten and first grade in Chile. | David Whitebread | 2013-2014 | |
| Hsu-Chan Kuo | The investigation of the perceived impacts of the Programme of Creativity and Imagining the Futures in Education (PCIFE). | Pamela Burnard and Ros McLellan | 2013-2014 | |
| Wei Shin Leong | Teachers' conceptions and practices of classroom assessment: case studies of SIngaporean primary and secondary school teachers. | Pamela Burnard and Sue Swaffield | 2013-2014 | |
| Ruth Levine | Children's identities as users of languages: a case study of nine key stage 2 pupils with a range of home language profiles | Linda Fisher | 2013-2014 | |
| Berglind Magnusdottir | The cultural politics of middle-class parental choices and practices to secure school (e)quality in advanced neo-liberal times. A US case study. | Diane Reay | 2013-2014 | |
| Rabea Malik | Exits, voices and social inequality: a mixed methods study of school choice and parental participation in Pakistan. | Christopher Colclough | 2013-2014 | |
| Mona Nosrati | Touching the intangible: high-school students' encounters with, explorations of, and discoveries about the symmetry group of the square | Paul Andrews | 2013-2014 | |
| Deborah Pullinger | The hidden child: orality, textuality and children's poetry. | Morag Styles and David Whitley | 2013-2014 | |
| Dieuwerke Rutgers | Multilingualism and Metalinguistic Development in Context: A Comparative Analysis of Metalinguistic Mediation in the Learning of German as a Foreign Language by Pupils Following a Dutch-English Bilingual Education Programme and Pupils following a Regular Programme in the Netherlands. |
Michael Evans | 2013-2014 | |
| Jennifer von reis Saari | Student persistence in STEM fields: school structures and student choices in Finland, Sweden and the United States. | Darleen Opfer | 2013-2014 | |
| Juhi Sidharth | Love and longing in Mumbai slums: an exploration of the understanding and experience of sexuality among unmarried young women. | Colleen McLaughlin | 2013-2014 | |
| Nicole Sol | Outside looking in: case studies of study abroad's effects on female African American university students' self-concept. | Hilary Cremin | 2013-2014 | |
| Erin Spring | 'Our Torontos are different places': a qualitative, multiple case study, designed to investigate the interconnections between young adult fiction and young adult readers' contructions of place within and beyond the text. | Gabrielle Cliff-Hodges | 2013-2014 | |
| Laura Vuillier | Relationships between emotion regulation and inhibitory control. Developmental differences using neural and behavioural markers | David Whitebread and Denes Szucs | 2013-2014 | |
| Philip Anding | Facets, common frameworks and central variable of advanced-level students' understanding of D.C. circuits. | Keith Taber | 2012-2013 | |
| Clementine Beauvais | From authoritative adult to mighty child: adult-power dynamics in politically transformative children's literature. | Maria Nikolajeva | 2012-2103 | |
| Sue Bingham | The expression and regulation of emotion by young children in classrooms: a developmental perspective on appraisal theory. | David Whitebread | 2012-2013 | |
| Pamela Black | Genetics education, science-talk and dialogic pedagogy: developing 14- to 16-year olds' school science concept of genetics and inheritance, in the context of human health and disease. | Kenneth Ruthven | 2012-2013 | |
| Ozgur Bolat | A non-positional teacher leadership approach to school improvement: an action research study in Turkey. | David Frost | 2012-2013 | |
| Yan Chan | Private education in China: a multiple-case study of social stratification and social change. | Diane Reay | 2012-2013 | |
| Rush Cosgrove | Improving teaching and learning of critical thinking across the curriculum: an empirical study using qualitative methods. | Neil Mercer | 2012-2013 | |
| Linli Jin | Motivation for, barriers against and theory-based prediction of Chinese students' decisions of studying abroad. | Dave Pedder | 2012-2013 | |
| Ailbhe Kenny | 'Communities of musical practice': an investigation into how they develop in both policy and practice within an Irish context. | Pamela Burnard | 2012-2013 | |
| Sihua Liang | Construction of language attitudes in multilingual China: linguistic ethnographies of two primary schools in Guangzhou. | Edith Esch | 2012-2013 | |
| Tal-Chen Rabinowitch (Faculty of Music) | Musical group interaction: mechanisms and effects. | Ian Cross and Pamela Burnard | 2012-2013 | |
| Garth Stahl | White working-class boys' negotiations of school experience and engagement. | Diane Reay | 2012-2013 | |
| Emel Thomas | 'What is racism in the new EU anyway?' Examining and comparing the perceptions of British 'minority ethnic' and Eastern European 'immigrant' youth in Buckinghamshire. | Jo-Anne Dillabough | 2012-2013 | |
| Natthapoj Trakulphadetkrai | An exploratory mixed-method study of Thai teachers' beliefs concerning mathematical knowledge, its learning and teaching. | Paul Andrews | 2012-2013 | |
| Danae Tsapikidou | The effects of isolated and integrated form-focused instruction in the English-as-a-foreign-language primary classroom: a quasi-experimental study. | Neil Mercer | 2012-2013 | |
| John Verney | Entrainment in 5-year-old children: temporal accuracy at four isochronous rates and its impact on phonological awareness and reading development. | Usha Goswami | 2012-2013 | |
| Sophie Wee | 'Beating the odds'? A Bourdieusian reading of working-class educational success. | Diane Reay | 2012-2013 | |
| Oakleigh Welply | Constructing identities in culturally diverse classrooms: a cross-national study of the experience of immigrant background children in French and English primary schools. | Edith Esch | 2012-2013 | |
| Yang Yang | Higher education and the transformation of cultural capital: rural students in an elite Chinese university. | Rob Moore | 2012-2013 | |
| Jiaran Zheng | New Feminism in China: a qualitative study of fourteen middle-class Chinese Women in a key State-run university in Shanghai. | Rob Moore | 2012-2013 | |
| Foivi Antoniou | Children creating and responding to children's art. | Richard Hickman | 2011-2012 | |
| Maia Chankseliani | Mixed-methods study of higher education access in Georgia: does location matter? | Chris Colclough | 2011-2012 | |
| Huei-Chun Cheng | A life history study of Taiwanese female teachers' identities from a post-structural feminist perspective. | Diane Reay | 2011-2012 | |
| Tyler Denmead | Beautiful little moments: a principally ethnographic study of eight East Anglian artists' pedagogies. | Richard Hickman | 2011-2012 | |
| Jose Diego-Mantecon | Clarifying the field of student mathematics-related beliefs: developing measurement scales for 14/15-year old students across Bratislava, Cambridgeshire, Cantabria and Cyprus. | Paul Andrews | 2011-2012 | |
| Rose Dolan | A step away from where you used to be: the development of teacher educators' professional knowledge in an Irish university. | Mike Younger | 2011-2012 | |
| Calvin Dorion | An exploration of how a drama-based pedagogy can promote understanding of chemical concepts in 11-15 year old science students. | Keith Taber | 2011-2012 | |
| Pete Dudley | Lessons for learning: how teachers learn in the contexts of lesson study. | Dave Pedder | 2011-2012 | |
| Nitu Duggal | Investigation of effectiveness of approaches to teaching reading comprehension. | Dominic Wyse | 2011-2012 | |
| Elizabeth Duignan | 'A major yet under-estimated task': a Gadamerian study of Key Stage 3 schemes of work in history. | Phil Gardner | 2011-2012 | |
| Lara Ellman | What are the issues which emerge from the siting of Global Education (GE) within a cross-curriculum dimension? - Implications for secondary schools in England. | Sue Brindley | 2011-2012 | |
| Chun Lok Fung | Group work and the learning of critical thinking in liberal studies in Hong Kong secondary schools. | Christine Howe | 2011-2012 | |
| Angela Githitho-Muriithi | The reconstruction of childhood: a community study of child labour and schooling in Kenya. | Madeleine Arnot | 2011-2012 | |
| Rachel Hawkes | Learning to talk and talking to learn: how can spontaneous teacher-learner interaction in the secondary foreign languages classroom provide greater opportunities for L2 learning? | Michael Evans | 2011-2012 | |
| Philip Kirkman | Secondary music students' compositional development with computer-mediated environments in classroom communities. | Paul Andrews | 2011-2012 | |
| Louiza Mallouri | A study of national identity in visual texts in Cyprus. | Morag Styles | 2011-2012 | |
| Thabo Msibi | 'We are what you think we are not'. A study of black South African male teachers who engage in same-sex relations. | Jo-Anne Dillabough | 2011-2012 | |
| Moses Onyango | A collaborative action for tutors' development: a case of teaching about HIV and AIDS at a teacher training college in Kenya. | Colleen McLaughlin | 2011-2012 | |
| Rosie Perkins | The construction of 'learning cultures': an ethnographically-informed case study of a UK conservatoire. | Pam Burnard | 2011-2012 | |
| Joanne Waterhouse | School leadership in context: three portraits. | John MacBeath | 2011-2012 | |
| Azlin Zainal | The impact of a Malaysian government sponsored ICT training programme on secondary school English language teachers' perceptions towards ICT and classroom practice. | Michael Evans | 2011-2012 | |
| Donna Bryce | Metacognitive skills and executive functions: an examination of relationships and development in young children. | David Whitebread | 2010-2011 | |
| Alejandro Carrasco-Rozas | A case-study of the Chilean policy agenda for disadvantaged primary schools: meeting their challenges? | John Gray | 2010-2011 | |
| Olena Fimyar | Educational policy-making in post-communist Ukraine: policies, rationalities, subjectivities, power: a Foucauldian perspective. | Diane Reay | 2010-2011 | |
| Jessica Gerrard | Emancipation, education and the working class: genealogies of resistance in socialist Sunday schools and black Saturday schools. | Phil Gardner and Diane Reay | 2010-2011 | |
| Miranda Hamilton | Autonomy, foreign language learning and technology: a study of the use of a virtual learning environment by a class of advanced level adult EFL learners in Mexico. | Michael Evans | 2010-2011 | |
| Michael Hast | Explicit versus tacit knowledge in early science education: the case of primary school children's understanding of object speed and acceleration. | Christine Howe | 2010-2011 | |
| Yi-Fang Hsu | The automatic processing of symbolic numerical magnitudes. | Denes Szucs | 2010-2011 | |
| Yuhong Jiang | Reflection, change and reconstruction in the context of educational reform and innovation in China: towards an integrated framework centred on reflective teaching practice for EFL teachers' professional development. | Michael Evans | 2010-2011 | |
| Sunghoe Lee | Mature women undergraduates and South Korean society: the dynamic interface of agency and structure in the historical process. | Nigel Kettley | 2010-2011 | |
| He Li | Educational trajectories of rural students in an elite university: English learning experience and beyond. | Diane Reay | 2010-2011 | |
| Fibian Lukalo |
Educating daughters, educating sons: mothers and schooling in rural Kenya. |
Madeleine Arnot | 2010-2011 | |
| Maria Mama | Exploring primary teachers' beliefs and practices with technology in Cyprus. | Sara Henessy | 2010-2011 | |
| Intan Mohd Ariff Albakri | Teacher cognition in the context of content-based instruction in English as a second language: a case study of Science and English for Science and Technology (EST) teachers in Malaysia. | Michael Evans | 2010-2011 | |
| Lee Nordstrum | Beyond the doors of learning: user fees, school finance and education demand in the new South Africa. | Christopher Colclough | 2010-2011 | |
| Georgina Oduro |
Gender relations, sexuality and HIV/AIDS education: a study of Ghanaian youth cultures. |
Madeleine Arnot and Colleen McLaughlin | 2010-2011 | |
| Kazuro Shibuya | The development of L2 motivation of Japanese learners of English as a foreign language. | Michael Evans | 2010-2011 | |
| Benson Soong | Improving secondary students' revision of physics concepts through computer-mediated peer discussion and prescriptive tutoring. | Neil Mercer | 2010-2011 | |
| Sue Swaffield | Headteachers' views of external support, challenge and critical friendship. | John MacBeath | 2010-2011 | |
| Rabab Tamish | Qualitative studies of teachers' professional knowledge and practices in Bethlehem District - the West Bank. | David Pedder | 2010-2011 | |
| Carole Waugh | An exploration into how teachers use student consultation strategies to inform the development of their classroom assessment practices. | Dave Pedder | 2010-2011 | |
| Constantinos Xenofontos | Problem solving in primary mathematics: a comparative analysis of prospective teachers' beliefs in Cyprus and England. | Paul Andrews | ||
| Huajing Zhao |
Gender construction and its negotiation in the course of second language learning: a case study of Chinese students learning English as a foreign language in a state secondary school |
Edith Esch | 2010-2011 | |
| Hongying Zheng | Complex, dynamic and co-adaptive systems: a study of language teachers' beliefs about EFL teaching and learning in the context of secondary schools in China. | Michael Evans | ||
| Dameon Alexander | The imprint of business norms on American education. | Rob Moore | 2009-2010 | |
| Ann Shih-yi Chen | The role of learner involvement in the assessment process: a multiple-case study investigating the impact of two approaches to student assessment on adult students' learning of oral English. | Michael Evans | 2009-2010 | |
| Angela Chiu | A sociocultural perspective on the teacher identities of Hong Kong primary English teachers: the fractal selves. | Linda Hargreaves | 2009-2010 | |
| Andri Christodoulidou | An exploration of the relationship between children's global emotion understanding and the quality of friendship. | Linda Hargreaves | 2009-2010 | |
| Barbie Clarke | The digital world of early adolescents: a study of the use of digital technology to communicate emotionally. | Colleen McLaughlin | 2009-2010 | |
| Karin Doolan | 'My dad studied here too': social inequalities and educational (dis)advantage in a Croatian higher education setting. | Diane Reay | 2009-2010 | |
| Therese Dooley | The construction of mathematical insight by pupils in whole-class conversation. | Tim Rowland | 2009-2010 | |
| Paula Guardia Gutierrez | The effect of linguistic, phonetic and lexical factors on phonological skills and reading acquisition in Spanish: a longitudinal study. | Usha Goswami | 2009-2010 | |
| Caroline Hart | Aspirations re-examined: a capability approach to widening participation in higher education. | Diane Reay | 2009-2010 | |
| Jin He | The social construction of ideas about English: case studies in a southwest Chinese town. | Edith Esch | 2009-2010 | |
| John Howlett | Theorising Progressivism: an examination of the life and works of A.S. Neill and Susan Isaacs through the related contexts of intentionality. | Phil Gardner | 2009-2010 | |
| Chris Ingate | The journey of headship along the road to continual school improvement. | David Frost | 2009-2010 | |
| Sarah Kuppen | Basic auditory processing skills and phonological awareness in low IQ good and poor readers and typically-developing controls. | Usha Goswami | 2009-2010 | |
| Andrew Parry | Making men: a comparative study of the rationale, nature and significance of sport in the public schools of England and Australia from 1915-1965. | Phil Gardner | 2009-2010 | |
| Juexi Ruan | Transitions from schooling to higher education and careers: a case study of students from two academically elite schools in contemporary China. | John Beck | 2009-2010 | |
| Claire Sangster | The role of self-regulation in motor learning: exploring the self regulated motor performance of children with developmental coordination disorder. | David Whitebread | 2009-2010 | |
| Mihika Shah | Home reading programmes: their impact in English-speaking countries and value in an Indian city. | Dominic Wyse | 2009-2010 | |
| Tianrui Shen | Mental abacus and innate non-verbal numerical representations. | Denes Szucs | 2009-2010 | |
| Lucie Shuker | 'It'll look good on your personal statement': a multi-case study of self-marketing amongst 16-19 year olds applying to university. | Rob Moore | 2009-2010 | |
| Benson Soong | Improving secondary students' revision of physics concepts through computer-mediated peer discussion and prescriptive tutoring. | Neil Mercer | 2009-2010 | |
| Jenny Symonds | Constructing stage-environment fit: early adolescents' psychological development and their attitudes towards school in English middle and secondary school environments. | Linda Hargreaves | 2009-2010 | |
| Tayyaba Tamim | Capability development: a sociological study of languages in education in Pakistan. | Michael Evans | 2009-2010 | |
| Fay Turner | Using the knowledge quartet to develop early career primary teachers mathematical content knowledge: a longitudinal study. | Tim Rowland | 2009-2010 | |
| Sonia White | The development of number processing skills in years 1,2 and 3: relationships between education and cognitive neuroscience measures and academic performance. | Denes Szucs | 2009-2010 | |
| Muna Amr | Dyslexia in the Arabic language: graphical features of the Arabic text and reading accuracy in the context of teaching reading in Jordan. | Martyn Rouse | 2008-2009 | |
| Karen Ashton | Comparing proficiency levels in an assessment context: the construct of reading for secondary school learners of German, Japanese and Urdu in England. | Edith Esch | 2008-2009 | |
| Shih-Chieh Chien | Towards improving the teaching of English writing in higher education in Taiwan. | Edith Esch | 2008-2009 | |
| Patricia Chiu | Girls' education in colonial Hong Kong (1841-1941): gender, politics and experience. | Pam Hirsch | 2008-2009 | |
| Dolores Corcoran | Developing mathematical knowledge for teaching: a three-tiered study of Irish pre-service primary teachers. | Tim Rowland | 2008-2009 | |
| Demetra Demetriou | Interrelationships in children's socio-cognitive development: the case of false-belief understanding. | David Whitebread | 2008-2009 | |
| Kristen Eglinton | Making selves, making worlds: an ethnographic account of young people's use of visual material culture. | Richard Hickman | 2008-2009 | |
| Wai Yi Feng | Developing a framework for understanding mathematics enrichment in the UK. | Kenneth Ruthven | 2008-2009 | |
| Valeska Grau | Self-regulated learning and conceptual development in biology: a naturalistic study with primary school children. | David Whitebread | 2008-2009 | |
| Christina Hajisoteriou | Inching towards interculturalism: a trajectory study of Cypriot multicultural educational policy in the context of the European Union. | Darleen Opfer and Nidhi Singal | 2008-2009 | |
| Riikka Hofmann | Ownership in learning: a sociocultural perspective on pupil engagement, collaboration and agency in the classroom. | Kenneth Ruthven | 2008-2009 | |
| Susan Kiragu | Exploring young people's sexuality in a poor community in Kenya: a case study. | Colleen McLaughlin | 2008-2009 | |
| Yongcan Liu | Learning as negotiation in communities of practice: an ethnographic study of teachers' learning in the workplace in a university department of English education in China. | Linda Fisher | 2008-2009 | |
| Beatrice Lok | Motivation to learn English in classrooms with native English-speaking teachers in Hong Kong. | Edith Esch | 2008-2009 | |
| Christoforos Mamas | Getting along with peers in mainstream primary schools: an exploration of the social status of pupils identified as having special educational needs in Cyprus. | Kristine Black-Hawkins | 2008-2009 | |
| Erum Mariam | Outer lives, inner worlds: childhood in rural Bangladesh. | Robin Alexander | 2008-2009 | |
| Marilena Petrou | Cypriot preservice teachers' content knowledge and its relationship to their teaching. | Tim Rowland | 2008-2009 | |
| Fatin Aliah Phang binti Abdullah | The pattern of physics problem-solving from the perspective of metacognition. | Keith Taber | 2008-2009 | |
| Cleonice Puggian | Between streets and schools: an investigation about young people and their path towards educational inclusion in Brazil. | John Gray | 2008-2009 | |
| Julia Rafal | Inclusive education: exploring opportunities for change and resistance to hegemony in three autonomous New York City schools. | Darleen Opfer | 2008-2009 | |
| Xiaoming Sheng | A study of parental involvement in children's higher education choice in China: habitus, cultural, social and economic capital and educational inequality. | Diane Reay | 2008-2009 | |
| Arathi Sriprakash | Child-centred primary pedagogies: a study of teachers' discourse and practice in Karnataka, India. | Madeleine Arnot | 2008-2009 | |
| Liz Taylor | The negotiation of distant place: learning about Japan at Key Stage 3. | Kenneth Ruthven | 2008-2009 | |
| Antonina Tereshchenko | Citizenship identity and belonging: a study of Ukrainian youth in post-Communist era. | Madeleine Arnot | 2008-2009 | |
| Rosie Peppin Vaughan | Gender equality in education: a case study of India's responses to international agendas. | Madeleine Arnot | 2008-2009 | |
| Xi Wang | Using critical discourse analysis in exploring the nature of communication among school participants: a case study of an international Baccalaureate Diploma programme serving mainly Chinese students. | John MacBeath | 2008-2009 | |
| Jane Webb-Williams | Self-efficacy beliefs and social comparison processes in the context of transfer from primary to secondary school. | Linda Hargreaves | 2008-2009 | |
| Valerie Yip | Parental involvement, school strategies and reading in Hong Kong primary schools. | John Gray | 2008-2009 | |
| Qais Almeqdad | Self-explanation in children with learning difficulties. | David Whitebread | 2007-2008 | |
| Robin Bevan | From black boxes to glass boxes: the application of computerised concept mapping in schools. | Dave Pedder | 2007-2008 | |
| Maria Eracleous | The pathway of the heart:a study of the education of the emotions in pre-school settings in Cyprus. | David Whitebread | 2007-2008 | |
| Sook Chia | A study of the introduction of school self-evaluation in Singapore and England. | John Gray | 2007-2008 | |
| Maria Gaiyabu | Ekereri in the lives of teachers, parents and pupils: a path to school effectiveness and improvement in Nauru. | John MacBeath | 2007-2008 | |
| Jiro Hasumi | A critical examination of the aims of political education as a constituent part of citizenship education: with particular reference to the contemporary policies of England and Japan. | Peter Mitchell | 2007-2008 | |
| Boris Jokic | Science and religion in Croatian elementary education: pupils' attitudes and perspectives. | Linda Hargreaves | 2007-2008 | |
| Laura Khein | A phenomenological approach to understanding students' psychological adjustment and integration into the social and academic systems of higher education. | Colleen McLaughlin | 2007-2008 | |
| Zsolt Lavicza | A comparative analysis of academic mathematicians' conceptions and professional use of computer algebra systems in university mathematics. | Paul Andrews | 2007-2008 | |
| Shu-Ching Lee | Power and resistance: the study of gender education policy in Taiwan. | Madeleine Arnot | 2007-2008 | |
| Rachael Levy | Becoming a reader in a digital age: children's perceptions as they start school. | Linda Hargreaves | 2007-2008 | |
| Agnes Liau | Exploring literature anxiety among students studying literature in English at Universiti Sains Malaysia. | David Whitebread | 2007-2008 | |
| Paul McDonald | An intentionalist analysis of selected works of Edmond Holmes. | Phil Gardner | 2007-2008 | |
| Deborah Pino-Pasternak | Parents and children working together: an analysis of parent-child interactions during study-related activities and their impact on children's Self-Regulated Learning. | David Whitebread | 2007-2008 | |
| George Teoh | Exploring the role of distance learners' emotional intelligence: an investigation of distance learners undertaking the JUE 301 English course at the School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains, Malaysia. | David Whitebread | 2007-2008 | |
| Angeliki Triantafyllaki | Instrumental music teachers' identity and practice in a Greek University music department and a conservatoire workplace. | Pam Burnard | 2007-2008 | |
| Carlos Alves | Learning science through work experience: a Ciencia viva science internships programme for senior secondary students. | Phil Gardner | 2006-2007 | |
| Brian Barrett | A city of good neighbours: students' acces to and activation of social capital in Buffalo public schools. | Rob Moore | 2006-2007 | |
| Yvonne Birch | The sustainability of schools with a history of failure: viability, performance trends and social capital. | John Gray | 2006-2007 | |
| Anne Bowker | The role of organisational structures in high-performing schools developing as learning communities. | John MacBeath | 2006-2007 | |
| Amy Brereton | Opportunities for participation: sign language use with hearing children in an early years classroom. | Lani Florian | 2006-2007 | |
| Andrew Brown | Implementing performance management in primary schools. | John Gray | 2006-2007 | |
| Yan-Shing Chang | Parental involvement in children's learning: an Anglo-Chinese cross-cultural study. | Robin Alexander | 2006-2007 | |
| Cristina Devecchi | Teachers and teaching assistants working together: colleaboration, support and inclusion in a secondary school. | Martyn Rouse | 2006-2007 | |
| Yael Golan | Kinder-egg children: identities and experiences of transracially adopted children. | Diane Reay | 2006-2007 | |
| Janet Halpin | Students' perspectives on the ecumenical dimension of training for Christian ministry: a case study. | Peter Mitchell | 2006-2007 | |
| Stephen Jull | Exploring the utility of student behaviour self-monitoring in mainstream schools: reconsidering antisocial behaviour within the inclusion project. | Lani Florian | 2006-2007 | |
| Avril Keating | The Europeanisation of citizenship education. | Madeleine Arnot | 2006-2007 | |
| Chae Young Kim | Investigating educational policy responses to children's work: views and approaches in the Cambodian education sector. | Martyn Rouse | 2006-2007 | |
| Caroline Lanskey | Student autonomy in schools: contemporary and earlier thinking and practice. | Jean Rudduck | 2006-2007 | |
| Hsing Chiung Lin | The education of emotions: the development and study of a curriculum for educating children's emotions in a primary school in Taiwan. | Colleen McLaughlin | 2006-2007 | |
| Chara Makriyianni | History, museums and national identity in a divided country: children's experience of museum education in Cyprus. | Peter Cunningham | 2006-2007 | |
| Bethan Morgan | Consulting pupils about classroom teaching and learning: policy, practice and response in one school. | Donald McIntyre | 2006-2007 | |
| Kate Noble | Picture thinking: the development of visual literacy in young children. | Morag Styles | 2006-2007 | |
| Sharlene Swartz | The moral ecology of South Africa's township youth. | Madeleine Arnot | 2006-2007 | |
| Chris Tooley | An ethics of self-determination. | Deborah Youdell | 2006-2007 | |
| Sylvia Wolfe | Teaching and learning through dialogue in primary classrooms in England. | Linda Hargreaves | 2006-2007 | |
| Ming Zhang | An exploratory study of the association between school absenteeism and parental prosecution in England. | Colleen McLaughlin | 2006-2007 | |
| Anies Al-Hroub | Identifying and programming mathematically gifted chldren with learning difficullties. | David Whitebread | 2005-2006 | |
| Daniel Faas | Negotiating political identities: white and Turkish students' responses to national, European and multicultural agendas in Germany and England. | Madeleine Arnot | 2005-2006 | |
| Malcolm Field | The influence of ICT on language learning and language use for language learners of English in Japan. | Sue Brindley | 2005-2006 | |
| Ferial Mansour | Gifted children in Jenin District-Palestine: culture assumptions and values. | David Whitebread | 2005-2006 | |
| Miyako Matsumoto | The informal education in democracy of Japanese women through broadcasting during the Occupation 1945-1952. | Phil Gardner | 2005-2006 | |
| Sanjana Mehta | Moral development in middle childhood: a comparison of interventions in the Indian context. | David Whitebread | 2005-2006 | |
| Suhair Al-Korashi | Towards a national system for evaluating Higher Education in Saudi Arabia: lessons from England and the Netherlands. | David Frost | 2004-2005 | |
| Louise Bamfield | The role of schools in combating political disengagement: the justifiability of delberative citizenship as a strategy for promoting political virtue. | Terry McLaughlin | 2004-2005 | |
| Stacey Blackman | Students with dyslexia speak: what secondary school students say about teaching and learning in Barbados. | Martyn Rouse | 2004-2005 | |
| Jane Coughlan | A sociological analysis of constructions of Chinese studies: two countries' perspectives. | Edith Esch | 2004-2005 | |
| Mei Seung Lam | Transition from home to kindergarten: case studies of young children's strategic actions. | Andrew Pollard | 2004-2005 | |
| Jyh-Sheng Lin | The development of the Taiwanese Teachers' Perceived Stress Scale (TTPSS) in primary and secondary schools in Taipei. | A.J. Bowers | 2004-2005 | |
| Harriet Marshall | The sociology of global education: power, pedagogy and practice. | Madeleine Arnot | 2004-2005 | |
| Karl Maton | Karl Maton The field of higher education: a sociology of reproduction, transformation, change and the conditions of emergence for cultural studies. | Rob Moore | 2004-2005 | |
| Malcolm McIver | Teacher absence and the educational outcomes of Year 11 pupils in mainstream schools in England. | A.J. Bowers | 2004-2005 | |
| Wassil Mehanna | Towards effective e-learning in UK Higher Education. | J. Siraj-Blatchford | 2004-2005 | |
| Eng Tek Ong | The character of 'smart science teaching' in Malaysian schools and its effects on student attitudes, process skills and achievement. | Kenneth Ruthven | 2004-2005 | |
| Mark Payne | Researching foreign language planning within the context of the multilingual school and community: a critical analysis of data from two urban secondary schools in England. | Michael Evans | 2004-2005 | |
| Alison Phipps | Women in science, engineering and technology: researching the arena of activity. | Madeleine Arnot | 2004-2005 | |
| Philip Raymont | An analysis of the significance of halls of residence in the British university during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. | Phil Gardner | 2004-2005 | |
| Maha Shuayb | A study of pedagogical care in fourteen secondary schools in Lebanon. | Colleen McLaughlin | 2004-2005 | |
| Simoni Symeonidou | Understanding and theorising disability politics: a case study of the Cypriot disability movement. | Lesley Dee | 2004-2005 | |
| Kenneth Tangie | A study of teachers' feedback practice and its relation to student learning in the context of three secondary schools in English-speaking Cameroon. | Edith Esch | 2004-2005 | |
| Leila Walker | Practitioner thinking about the successful use of resource-media on the lower secondary science classroom. | Kenneth Ruthven | 2004-2005 |