Completed Phd Theses
Here is a list of PhD theses completed in the recent past at the Faculty of Education.
| Name | Topic | Supervisor | Year of Completion |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | The field of education: a sociology of reproduction, transformation, change and the conditions of emergence for cultural studies. | Madeleine Arnot | 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 |