Elaine Wilson
Position/Status
Senior Lecturer in Science Education
E-mail Address: ew208@cam.ac.uk
Phone: 01223 336297
Qualifications
B Sc, PGCE, M Ed, CCHem, FRSC, FHEA
Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations
Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry
Teaching Fellow of The Higher Education Academy
Association for Science Education
British Educational Research Association
American Educational Research Association
Collaborative Action Research Network
Profile
Elaine Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in science education at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Homerton College. Elaine was a secondary school chemistry teacher in Bath and Cambridge and was awarded a Salters' Medal for Chemistry teaching while working at Parkside Community College in Cambridge.
Elaine teaches on the secondary science PGCE course and coordinates the 'blended learning' Science Education Masters course. Elaine has received two career awards for teaching in Higher Education; in 2004 she won a University of Cambridge Pilkington Teaching Prize and the same year was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship.
Elaine is active in Outreach work with schools and has been a Lead Teacher at Salters' Chemistry Camps.
Elaine is the reviews editor for The Curriculum Journal. She has also edited School Based Research: A guide for education students published by SAGE
Research Interests
Elaine's research focuses on Teachers Professional Learning. She has adopted a holistic approach through investigating what new teachers learn and how they learn to become teachers and by researching how new teachers might be supported during their early years in the profession. Research with Rosemary Deaney has also been investigating teacher agency with particular emphasis on career changers during the transition from earlier career through Initial Teacher Education and into the first teaching post. With Helen Demetriou, a longitudinal study of new teachers in their first five years of teaching has led to published work on teacher retention and teacher emotions. Research with Alison Fox has been studying teacher education from the perspective of workplace learning, focusing on the networks that new teachers form. A study with Mark Winterbottom, has used self determination theory to analyze large scale surveys of new teachers during their first year of teaching. Current work with Ros McLellan, also involving Rob Klassen from the University of Alberta, focuses on teachers' self efficacy.
Academic Area/Links
Science, Technology & and Mathematics Education
Current Research Projects
New teacher professional learning
Collaborative on - line learning
Course Involvement
Secondary Science PGCE
MEd Science Practitioners Researching Practice
School Based Research; Practitioner Professional Development
Selected Publications
Books
Wilson, E. (2009) School-based Research: A Guide for Education Students. London, Sage.
Warwick, P., Wilson, E., & Winterbottom, M. (2006) Learning and Teaching Primary Science with ICT. Buckingham, Open University Press.
Wilson, E. (1999) Teaching Chemistry to KS4 - a non-specialist handbook. Hodder and Stoughton, London.
Salters' Chemistry Club Handbook Volume One and Two now available on line.
Chapters
Wilson, E. (2009) Action Research, in E Wilson, (Ed) School - based Research, London, Sage
Wilson, E. (1999) Learning Concepts, in P. Warwick & R. Linfield (eds) Science 3 -13, London, Falmer Press.
Wilson, E. (1998). Communicating in Science, in E. Bearne, (Ed) The Use of Language at Key Stage 3, London, Routledge.
Journal Articles
Demetriou, H. & Wilson, E. (2009) Synthesising affect and cognition in teaching and learning,
Social Psychology of Education: an International Journal 12 (2)
Fox, A. & Wilson, E. (2009) "Support our networking and help us belong!": listening to beginning secondary school science teachers, Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice 15 (6)
Demetriou, H., Wilson, E. & Winterbottom, M. (2009) The role of emotion in teaching: Are there differences between male and female newly qualified teachers' approaches to teaching? Educational Studies, 35 (4)
Fox, A. & Wilson, E. (2008) Viewing recently qualified teachers and their networks as a resource for a school, Teacher Development.
Demetriou, H. & Wilson, E. (2008) A return to the use of emotion and reflection, The Psychologist, 21 (11)
Wilson, E. & Demetriou, H. (2007) New teacher learning; substantive knowledge and contextual factors, The Curriculum Journal.
Wilson, E (2005) Powerful pedagogical strategies in initial teacher education, Teachers and Teaching; theory and practice.
Wilson, E. & Spink, A. (2005) Making Meaning in Chemistry Lessons, Electronic Journal of Literacy through Science, 4 (2)
Wilson, E. (2004) Using activity theory as a lens to analyse interaction in a university - school initial teacher education and training partnership. Educational Action Research.
Wilson, E. (2000) Search out Science in Cambridge; A Millennium map and trail. Cambridge University Press
Batty, J., Rudduck, J. & Wilson, E. (1999). What makes a good mentor? Who makes a good mentor? - the views of year 8 mentees. Educational Action Research.
Conference Proceedings
Fox, A., Deaney, R. & Wilson, E. (2009) Perceptions of the workplace by new teachers, paper accepted at the Researching Workplace Learning 6th annual conference, Roskilde University, Copenhagen, 28 June – 3 July 2009.
Fox, A. & Wilson, E. (2009) Networking for support: learning from the experiences of beginning science teachers, paper presented to the Teacher Education division of the AERA Annual Conference, San Diego, USA, 11-14th April 2009.
Wilson, E. (2008) Using blended learning in a science education masters course, Proceedings of the International Association for Scientific Knowledge Conference: Teaching and Learning, University of Aveiro, Portugal, 538 - 545.
McIntyre, J., Hobson, A., Mitchell, N. & Wilson, E. (2008) 'Drinking water in the desert?' Findings from the evaluation of the University of Cambridge early professional development network for beginning teachers. Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh, 3 - 6 September 2008
Wilson, E. & Demetriou, H. (2006) New teachers' perspectives on their early years of teaching. Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, University of Warwick, 6-9 September 2006