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 |
| Robin Bevan | From black boxes to glass boxes: the application of computerised concept mapping in schools. | Dave Pedder | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 206-2007 |
| Yan-Shing Chang | Parental involvement in children's learning: an Anglo-Saxon 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 |