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 |
| Tyler Denmead | Beautiful little moments: a principally ethnographic study of eight East Anglian artists' pedagogies. | Richard Hickman | 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 |
| Elizabeth Duignan | 'A major yet under-estimated task': a Gadamerian study of Key Stage 3 schemes of work in history. | Phil Gardner | 2011-2012 |
| Angela Githitho-Muriithi | The reconstruction of childhood: a community study of child labour and schooling in Kenya. | Madeleine Arnot | 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 |
| 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 |