David Harrison
Position/Status
Research Associate
E-mail Address: djh207@cam.ac.uk
Qualifications
BA in English and Philosophy (Keele)
MA in Philosophy of Mind (Sheffield)
PhD in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science (Sheffield)
PGCE in Secondary English and Drama (Sheffield)
PG Cert in Education Research methods (OU)
PG Cert in Evaluation and Social Research (London Metropolitan)
Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations
United Kingdom Evaluation Society (including the London Evaluation Network)
Profile
Prior to entering Educational Research, David worked as a FE College Lecturer in English and Philosophy, Secondary School Teacher of English and University Tutor in Philosophy. In 2000 he joined the Open University as a Research Fellow conducting a three-year evaluation of the impact of ICT on the quality of teaching and learning in the UK and the NOF (National Opportunities Fund) ICT Professional Development Programme for Teachers; and as Editorial Assistant for the journal Education, Communication & Information.
From 2004 to 2006 he worked at the Learning and Skills Development Agency (later the Learning and Skills Network) as Evaluation Researcher at the LSDA/LSN Research Directorate Evaluation Unit, working in such areas as Learner Voice, Self-Assessment, Offender Education and Quality Improvement in the post-16 sector.
He has also been a research member of an Evaluation Team for the Youth Music Programme and is currently a consultant and assessment associate for the Edexcel Examinations Board piloted AS level qualification 'Perspectives on Science: Ethics, History and Philosophy of Science'.
Research Topics
Primary Education
Mixed Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies
Evaluation in Education
Philosophy of Mind in the Philosophy of Education
Thinking skills and Metacognition
Current Research Projects
Publications
LSN (2006) An evaluation of the role of stakeholder engagement in research
Edexcel (2005) Teacher Support materials: Presentation Skills in Perspectives on Science: Ethics, History and Philosophy of Science
LSDA (2004) Building Evaluation capacity at LSDA
LSDA (2004) Research Paper: Evaluation in post-16 Education
Discovering Talent Ltd (2004) Evaluation of the Youth Music: Plug Into Music Programme (April 2001-March 2002)
Jenny Leach, David Harrison, Bob McCormick and Bob Moon (2004) 'Developing Teacher Knowledge and Pedagogy in a large scale, electronic conference environment for professional development' in Vrasidas, C., & Glass, G. V. (2004). Editors. Current Perspectives in Applied Information Technologies. Online Professional Development for Teachers. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
Harrison, D.J. (1997) The Searle Workout: Connectionism hits the Chinese Gym Connexions vol.1, issue 1 ISSN 1368-3233 http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/connex/