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Bethan Morgan

Position/Status

Teaching Associate

Email Address

bm247@cam.ac.uk

Telephone

01223 767537

Qualifications
  • BA (Hons) in English Literature, University of Cambridge
  • PGCE in Secondary English, University of Cambridge
  • MPhil in Teaching and Teacher Education, University of Cambridge
  • PhD in Education, University of Cambridge
Membership of Professional Bodies and Associations

British Educational Research Association

Profile

Bethan is a Teaching Associate with the Schools University Partnership in Educational Research (SUPER). Prior to this, she taught for seventeen years in 11-18 secondary schools in the UK and the UAE as teacher and Head of Department (English) before joining the Faculty. Her current teaching and research interests focus on classroom teaching and learning, particularly in the area of pupil consultation and 'pupil voice'. Both her MPhil and ESRC funded PhD projects were linked to the ESRC/TLRP Consulting Pupils about Teaching and Learning Network (directed by Professor Jean Rudduck). Data from both projects is featured in Rudduck, J & McIntyre, D (2007) Improving Learning through Consulting Pupils, London: Routledge. Bethan has compiled a bibliography for the late Professor Donald McIntyre, her MPhil and PhD supervisor, and copies are available from her upon request.

Academic Group

  • Leading Learning for School Improvement

Research Topics

  • Classroom teaching and learning
  • Pupils' perspectives on teaching and learning
  • Consulting pupils about teaching and learning
  • School-university partnerships
  • Teachers as researchers

Current Research Projects

  • The Open University and University of Cambridge State of the Nation CPD project for the TDA (T34718)
  • Partnership Group (Herts, Essex, SUPER): Research associate for literature review
  • Stoke LA: Raising Achievement through Inclusive Contexts

Course Involvement

  • MEd: SUPER/Essex/Science
  • Certificate in Further Professional Study (CFPS)
  • CRT & EdRes: EndNote bibliographic software workshops

Dissertations

Morgan, B. (2000) How teachers consult pupils in order to improve teaching and learning. Unpublished MPhil dissertation, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

Morgan, B. (2007) Consulting Pupils: practice, policy and response in one school. Unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Cambridge.

Publications

Reports

McCormick, R., Banks, F., Morgan, B., Opfer, D., Pedder, D., Storey, A., Wolfenden, F. (forthcoming) Schools and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in England - State of the Nation' Research Project (T34718). A report for the Training and Development Agency for Schools, The Open University and University of Cambridge.

Anne Storey, Frank Banks, Deborah Cooper, Peter Cunningham, Dave Ebbutt, Alison Fox, Bethan Morgan, David Pedder, Freda Wolfenden (submitted) Qualitative Research Summary: Schools and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in England – State of the Nation Research Project (T34718). A report for the Training and Development Agency for Schools. The Open University and Cambridge University, September, 2008.

Conference Papers/Oral Presentations

McLellan, R. & Morgan, B. (2008) Pupil perspectives on school belonging: an investigation of differences between schools working together in a school-university partnership. Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 3-6 September 2008.
tinyurl.com/6qj4tp

"I think it's about the teacher feeding off our minds, instead of us learning off them, sort of like switching the process around": pupils' perspectives on being consulted about classroom teaching and learning. Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, September 2008

What do we know about successfully harnessing pupil voice in schools? DCSF Policy Seminar, with Professor Michael Fielding, Sanctuary Buildings, 23/10/2007.
http://www.ttrb.ac.uk/viewarticle2.aspx?contentId=13848

Consulting pupils about classroom teaching and learning: policy, practice and response in one school. Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Institute of Education, 5th - 8th September 2007.

Consulting Pupils: An Investigation into the Process and Impact on Classroom Teaching And Learning. Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Manchester, 14 -17 September 2004.

Consulting Pupils about Teaching and Learning: Rhetoric and Reality? Paper presented at the Student/New Researchers Conference, British Educational Research Association, Manchester, 14 - 17 September 2004.