PhD Students, Thesis Topics & Supervisors
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| Name | Topic | Supervisor |
| Frances Abao | Young readers' responses to frightening fiction | Morag Styles |
| Hei Jean Ahn | 'Able underachievement': an exploratory study into the causal factors, academic motivation, and suggested strategies for improvement | Mike Younger and Ruth Kershner |
| Dameon Alexander | The culture of business in American schools: issues of power, knowledge and critical thinking | Rob Moore |
| Fatin Aliah Phang Binti Abdullah | Patterns of physics problem-solving among KS4 students from the perspecitve of metacognition | Keith S. Taber |
| Donna Bryce | Metacognitive skills and executive functions: an examination of relationships and development in young children. | David Whitebread |
| Rosie Burt | The co-construction of 'learning cultures': a case study of students, teachers and staff at a UK conservatoire of music. | Pam Burnard |
| Alejandro Carrasco | A case-study of National Strategies in Chilean primary schools serving communities on the social margins: policy rhetoric and practice in contexts of inequality | John Gray |
| Ann Shih-yi Chen | A sociocultural approach to self-assessment of oral proficiency by English as a Second Language (ESL) adult learners: a quasi-experimental study with embedded action research to investigate the effects of self-assessment on learners' motivation intensity and progress toward oral proficiency. | Michael Evans |
| Shih-Chieh Chien | Towards understanding the bilingual English and Chinese students' English and Chinese expository writing | Edith Esch |
| Angela Chiu | The professional development of teachers of English in Hong Kong primary schools | Linda Hargreaves |
| Patricia Chiu | Politics of girls' education in colonial Hong Kong (1841-1941) | Pam Hirsch |
| Barbie Clarke | The use of social networking sites and mobile phones to communicate emotionally in early adolescence | Colleen McLaughlin |
| Dolores Corcoran | The mathematics content knowledge of Irish prospective primary school teachers | Tim Rowland |
| Demetra Demetriou | Interrelationships in children's cognitive development: theory of mind, executive functioning, verbal ability, representational processes and source memory | David Whitebread |
| Karin Doolan | Who is at risk? Exploring the social dimension of higher education in Croatia | Diane Reay |
| Therese Dooley | Moments of insight in primary mathematics Education | Tim Rowland |
| Pete Dudley | Lessons for learning: using research lesson study to innovate and transfer metapedagogy. | Dave Pedder |
| Elizabeth Duignan | Schemes of work in Key Stage 3 history | Phil Gardner |
| Kristen Eglinton | Young people, visual material culture, and local context: an ethnographic exploration | Richard Hickman |
| Maria Eracleous | A case study of the Curriculum Development Programme or the emotional education in pre-school settings in Cyprus | David Whitebread |
| Wai Yi Feng | Developing a framework for understanding mathematics enrichment in the UK | Kenneth Ruthven |
| Olena Fimyar | Educational policy-making in post-Communist Ukraine: discources, balance of power and ownership of the assessment policy reform | Diane Reay |
| Jessica Gerrard | Emancipation, education and the working class. | Phil Gardner and Diane Reay |
| Angela Githitho-Murithi | Education for all and child labour in Kenya: an ethnography | Madeleine Arnot and Nidhi Singal |
| Valeska Grau | Self-regulated learning and knowledge acquisition in primary school: the case of the biological concepts. | David Whitebread |
| Jennifer Green | Synaesthesia and number cognition: behavioural and electrophysiologial investigations. | Usha Goswami |
| Paula Guardia | The relations between phonological awareness, rapid naming and reading development from kindergarten to first grade in Spanish speakers. | Usha Goswami |
| Christina Hajisoteriou | How is the multicultural policy of the European Union implemented in Cypriot Primary Education | Darleen Opfer and Nidhi Singal |
| Miranda Hamilton | The development of linguistic and learner autonomy within the context of a technological learning environment | Michael Evans |
| Caroline Hart | Aspirations of young people and their understandings of Higher Education | Diane Reay |
| Jin He | Social construction of English proficiency in a southwest Chinese town | Edith Esch |
| Riikka (Pyysalo) Hofmann | Ownership and alienation in learning: a socio-cultural perspective on the construction and learner experiences of agency in school | Kenneth Ruthven |
| John Howlett | Theorizing Progressivism: an examination of the life and works of A.S Neill and Susan Isaacs through the related contexts of intentionality | Philip Gardner |
| Chris Ingate | The journey of headship along the road to continuous school improvement | David Frost |
| Laura Khein | Psychological factors associated with first year students' academic/social integration and adjustment to Higher Education | Colleen McLaughlin |
| Sarah Killing | IQ, phonological awareness and auditory processing in reading disability: a behavioural investigation into the garden variety poor reader | Usha Goswami |
| Susan Kiragu | The impact of socio-cultural factors on sexuality education in a primary school's community | Colleen McLaughlin |
| Zsolt Lavicza | A comparative investigation of the use of Computer Algebra Systems in university-level mathematics teaching and CAS-related conceptions and motivations of mathematicians | Paul Andrews |
| James Lee | Citizenship education and the school community: an analysis of the influence of school ethos on approaches to citizenship education at English secondary schools | Madeleine Arnot |
| Sunghoe Lee | Mature women undergraduates' life situations and educational experiences at 4-year Universities in South Korea | Nigel Kettley |
| Rachael Levy | Becoming a reader; girls' and boys' self-perceptions as they start school | Linda Hargreaves and Eve Bearne |
| He Li | The urban-rural divide and English learning experience | Diane Reay |
| Yongcan Liu | Teacher knowledge and situated learning: an ethnographic study of language teachers' professional development in a Danwei workplace community of practice in China | Linda Fisher |
| Maria Mama | Exploring the relationship between Cypriot primary teachers' practices and beliefs about ICT in schools. | Sara Hennessy |
| Christoforos Mamas | Getting along with classmates in mainstream schools: an exploration of the social status of pupils identified as having Special Educational Needs (SEN) in Cypriot mainstream primary education | Kristine Black-Hawkins |
| Erum Mariam | To be a barefoot child in the rice fields in Bangladesh: the world that underlies demographic data | Robin Alexander |
| Intan Mohd Ariff Albakri | A case study of ESL and science teacher cognition in content based contexts | Michael Evans |
| Lucie Moore | It'll look good on your CV: A study of self-marketing amongst 16-19 year olds in three case study schools in England | Rob Moore |
| Luz Moreno | Critical ethnography of indigenous immigrant children in urban schools in Mexico | Diane Reay |
| Manasi Pande | The impact of poverty on the lives and education of adolescent carers. | Madeleine Arnot and Shailaja Fennell |
| 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 | Peter Cunningham |
| Cleonice Puggian | Between streets and schools: an investigation about dropout students and their path towards educational inclusion in Brazil | John Gray |
| Marilena Petrou | Cypriot preservice primary school teachers' SMK of mathematics and its relationship to their teaching practices | Tim Rowland |
| Julia Rafal | Inclusive education: what can discourse analysis tell us about the beliefs of students and teachers within autonomous United States schools and the opportunities for resisting hegemony? | Darleen Opfer |
| Fran Riga | Students' Ideas in astronomy : science or fiction? | Keith Taber |
| Juexi Ruan | Higher Education and self identity among elite school students: a case study | John Beck |
| Deborah Sabric | Education reforms of the post World War II era | Philip Gardner |
| Claire Sangster | The role of cognitive self-regulation in motor learning for children with and without motor difficulties. | David Whitebread |
| Mihika Shah | Home reading programmes: their impact in English speaking countries and potential value in an Indian city. | Dominic Wyse |
| Xiaoming Sheng | A study of parental involvement in children's Higher Education choice in China: habitus, cultural, social and economic capitals and educational inequality | Diane Reay |
| Kazuro Shibuya | The developmental process of motivation in learning a foreign language | Michael Evans |
| Tom Shirley |
Changing citizenship? Processes of citizen formation in English schools. |
John Beck |
| Benson Soong | Using ICT to improve students' understanding of physics concepts through co-construction and prescriptive tutoring. | Neil Mercer |
| Arathi Sriprakash | 'Quality' education for all: teachers and pedagogy in rural south Indian primary schools. | Madeleine Arnot |
| Sue Swaffield | External support and challenge for headteachers: the contribution of critical friendship | John MacBeath |
| Jenny Symonds | Constructing stage-environment fit: early adolescents' psychological development and their attitudes towards school in English middle and secondary school environments | Linda Hargreaves |
| Tayyaba Tamim | The perceived impact of languages in education on socio-economoc development in Pakistan | |
| Rabab Tamish | Penetrating the practices of Palestinian schools in Bethlehem District: a qualitative investigation of teachers' reflections on the principles and values that underpin their classroom practices. | Dave Pedder |
| Liz Taylor | Changing geographical imaginations: how do Key Stage 3 geography students develop their understandings of distant places through participation in computer mediated communication projects? | Kenneth Ruthve |
| Antonia Tereshchenko | National and regional citizenship identities: a study of post-Communist youth | Madeleine Arnot |
| Fay Turner | A four year study into the development of mathematics teaching through reflection on content | Tim Rowland |
| Rosie Vaughan | International campaigns on education and the measurement of gender equality in education | Madeleine Arnot |
| Darryl J.E. Walters | Re-conceptualizing professional learning in teacher development: a study of graduate secondary teachers in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. | |
| Xi Wang | The nature of intercultural communication among school participants in international Baccalaureate programmes in mainland China: a case study of an international Baccalaureate diploma programme serving mainly for Chinese students. | John MacBeath |
| Carole Waugh | How teachers use consultation strategies with students to inform the development of classroom assessment practices. | Dave Pedder |
| Sonia White | The development of number processing skills in the first years of formal education: a study employing classroom, behavioural and electrophysiological research techniques | Denes Szucs |
| Constantinos Xenofontos | Pre-service teachers' beliefs about mathematical problem solving. | Paul Andrews |
| Yang Yang | Cultural capital, identity and reflexivity: a case study of rural students in Chinese higher education | Rob Moore |
| Huajing Zhao | Gender construction and negotiation in the Chinese EFL classroom | Edith Esch |
| Hongying Zheng | A case study of the dynamic relationship between Chinese secondary school EFL teachers' beliefs about EFL teaching and learning and their instructional practice. | Michael Evans |