Here is a list of current and recently completed PhD and EdD theses at the Faculty of Education.
To contact Faculty doctoral students please use the University Email Search facility or the University Lookup Service.
| Name | Topic | Supervisor/s |
|---|---|---|
| Hannah Ackom-Mensah | A Multiple Case Study: Near Field Communication (NFC) Brick Play and its Impact on the Communication and Language Development of Autistic Young Children of West African Descent | |
| Sebastián Ansaldo
[COMPLETED 2024] |
Deep mediatization in education: A comparative study of schoolteacher’s practices and perceptions in England and Chile. | Susan Robertson |
| Esther Anwuzia
[COMPLETED 2023] |
Adolescents Career Decision Making and Wellbeing in Nigeria: A Mixed Methods Study | Ros McLellan |
| Tim Archer
[COMPLETED 2023] |
Seeking a Peace-full Man: Exploring pedagogies to transition from boyhood to an adequate manhood | Hilary Cremin |
| Julie Bailey
[COMPLETED 2024] |
Neurodiversity and Learning Engagement in Higher Education | Sara Baker |
| Helen Barsham
[COMPLETED 2022] |
Can an Intervention Programme, Which Uses Metacognition and Practice of the Theory of the Desirable Difficulty, the Testing Effect, Reduce Test Anxiety, in 10-11 Year -Olds, in Evaluative Situations? | Michelle Ellefson |
| Yasmin Begum | Contemporary subject knowledge acquisition in Economics | Ros McLellan |
| Elaine Bennett | Exploring how teachers' attachment experiences influence the teacher-student relationship | |
| Glenn Bezalel | An exploration of the prevalence and functions of conspiracies theories among youth cultures in London secondary schools | Jo-Anne Dillabough |
| Lenka Janik Blaskova
[COMPLETED 2022] |
Playing together: Series of case studies investigating the friendships and wellbeing of children with primary difficulties in language development | Jenny Gibson |
| Lindsay Burton
[COMPLETED 2024] |
Posthumanism and the Child: Diffracted Readings and Entangled Beings | Zoe Jaques |
| Michael Cascianelli
[COMPLETED 2023] |
Exploring Giftedness: A Case Study of Developing a Schoolwide Enrichment Model in Italy Drawing Upon the Perspectives of Students and Teachers. | Keith Taber |
| Abie Hui Ki Chan
[COMPLETED 2023] |
Creativity Through Oracy: A Mixed Methods Study of Creativity in the context of L2 Talk | Yongcan Liu |
| Chih-Ching Chang
[COMPLETED 2022] |
Teacher professional development for changing epistemic beliefs through dialogic history education: A design-based research study in Taiwan | |
| Claudia Pik Ki Chu
[COMPLETED 2022] |
The interplay of psycholinguistic and cognitive factors in predicting reading comprehension: a case of primary school children from the United Kingdom and Hong Kong/China | Michelle Ellefson |
| Jodie Coates | Oh, What a Novelty!: The Hypermediated Pop-Up Book | Zoe Jaques |
| Vaughan Connolly
[COMPLETED 2023] |
Is less sometimes more? Teacher workload, retention and pupil attainment | Ricardo Sabates |
| Alexandre da Trindade
[COMPLETED 2024] |
Brazilian universities and transitions towards human flourishing | Susan Robertson |
| Yuliana Dementyeva
[COMPLETED 2023] |
The role of private schools in education modernization reform in China | Geoff Hayward |
| Ema Demir
[COMPLETED 2022] |
Teacher capital unbound? – The role of organisational structures for teacher social capital and student achievement. | Elaine Wilson |
| Carlotta Ehrenzeller
[COMPLETED 2022] |
Contextual Understandings of Montessori Education: A Pathway to Peace | Hilary Cremin |
| Rosanna Fennessy
[COMPLETED 2024] |
Young people's perspectives on the impact of their long term health condition on education, social experience and wellbeing: The role of personally constructed illness beliefs and meeting basic psychological needs. | Ruth Kershner |
| Christopher Foster
[COMPLETED 2022] |
Knowledge or Control? Teacher Knowledge, Professional Identity and Practitioner Research. | Sue Brindley |
| Frankie Frangeskou | Exploring the influence of self-identity on the LGB school leader/ship | |
| Aurora Lixinhao Gao | Language Learning of Ethnic Minority Students in the UK | |
| Emily Goodacre
[COMPLETED 2024] |
Social Communication with Friends and Peers: Children’s Connected Talk During Play | |
| Mélanie Gréaux
[COMPLETED 2024] |
Speech and Language Therapy provision for autistic children in India and the UK | |
| Basma Hajir
[COMPLETED 2023] |
The Role of Youth as Agents for Peace in Contexts Affected by Conflict: A Postcolonial Qualitative Enquiry with Syrian Youth in Jordan | Hilary Cremin |
| Hiba Hamdan | Using an inquiry intervention to develop conceptual understanding and motivation for all students in a mixed-ability biology classroom | Mark Winterbottom |
| Hapipi | Undergraduate Mathematics Students Understanding of Proof by Contradiction and Proof by Contraposition | Andreas Stylianides |
| John Harding | From reasonable adjustment to inclusive practice? Exploring the influence of lecture capture technology on the academic outcomes and learning experiences of disabled students in higher education. | Riikka Hofmann |
| Thomas Harriott
[COMPLETED 2022] |
How does social interaction influence students' regulation of learning in the upper secondary classroom? | Elaine Wilson |
| Adam Holden
[COMPLETED 2022] |
The use of mobile learning to impact teacher self-efficacy and self-permission in Panama. | |
| Samantha Hulston
[COMPLETED 2024] |
Embodied reading practices: an exploration of how young children engage with picturebooks | |
| Madeleine Hunter
[COMPLETED 2023] |
We are in Convergence: Recombinant Adaptation in the Twenty-First-Century Children's Media Landscape. | Maria Nikolajeva |
| Chris Hussey
[COMPLETED 2022] |
A tale of two cities: exploring place-related identity with reference to portrayals of London in Children’s Literature. | David Whitley |
| Tristan Igglesden
[COMPLETED 2022] |
The affordances of learning management systems that support dialogue | |
| Nura Jahanpour | Investigating the construction of parenting values and the influence of institutions | Sara Baker |
| Ying Ji
[COMPLETED 2022] |
Teachers' Engagement in Continuing Professional Development: Exploring Factors and Profiles | Pete Dudley |
| Maria Khwaja Bazi
[COMPLETED 2023] |
Classrooms as Cultural Sites of Mobility and Constraint: A critical ethnography of teacher quality in Pakistan and Tanzania. | Jo-Anne Dillabough |
| Aigerim Kopeyeva | Factors behind regional educational disparities in Kazakhstan: stakeholders' perspective'. | Elaine Wilson |
| Meena Mehta Kotecha
[COMPLETED 2022] |
Mathematics anxiety in university students: investigating the efficacy of a blended learning intervention promoting interaction, inclusion, & collaboration |
Ricardo Sabates |
| Pia Kreijkes
[COMPLETED 2022] |
Influences of teachers’ mindset, achievement-related beliefs, and ability-based practices on pupils’ achievement-related beliefs, mindset and attainment in mathematics. | Ros McLellan |
| Rina P.Y. Lai
[COMPLETED 2022] |
The Design, Development, and Evaluation of a New Computerised Assessment of Computational Thinking | Michelle Ellefson |
| Soizic Le Courtois
[COMPLETED 2022] |
Helping teachers foster children’s inner motivation to learn: investigating the potential of a professional development programme for Year 1 teachers in England and the suitability of an evaluation instrument | Sara Baker |
| Joyce Lim
[COMPLETED 2022] |
Exploring development of English verb-argument constructions in L2 writing: A cross-sectional study of L1 Korean speakers | Pascual Pérez-Paredes |
| Meng Liu
[COMPLETED 2022] |
Exploring the multilingual identity of simultaneous language learners in China: A mixed methods study | Linda Fisher |
| Juljana Mandra
[COMPLETED 2024] |
Conceptualisations of global learning and primary school teachers' perceptions of pedagogy for global learning. | Ruth Kershner |
| Javiera Marfán
[COMPLETED 2022] |
Schools Deciding the Purpose of Education. Policy Enactment in a Context of Education Reform Hybridisation | Riikka Hofmann |
| Kevin Martin
[COMPLETED 2022] |
Re-imagining mobile learning: A design based approach to epistemic innovation in rural Kenya | |
| Elizabeth McGregor Jacobides
[COMPLETED 2023] |
Tinkering with the nature of science. | Mark Winterbottom |
| William McInerney
[COMPLETED 2023] |
Reimagining masculinities: Exploring arts-integrated gender transformative programming with men in the United States | Hilary Cremin |
| Madison McLeod
[COMPLETED 2023] |
Finding the Fantastic in the City: Digitally Mapping Children’s Fantasy Literature | Zoe Jaques |
| Maggie Meimaridi | Entering the Contact Zone: Encountering the Animal in Children's Fantasy Literature. | Zoe Jaques |
| Usama Javed Mirza | 'Islam, Science and Education in Muslim Schools in England: Exploring the Possibilities of Decolonial Communities of Practice' | Haira Gandolfi |
| Nicola Morea
[COMPLETED 2023] |
Multilingual teachers and teachers of multilinguals: An investigation into pre-service teachers’ multilingual-identity and beliefs construction during a teacher education programme | Linda Fisher |
| Mansi Nanda
[COMPLETED 2023] |
Exploring teacher motivations and engagement with the community in rural India | Pauline Rose |
| Kristi Nourie
[COMPLETED 2023] |
Action and interaction: An exploration of e-textbook tool use in secondary schools | Mark Winterbottom |
| Catherine Olver
[COMPLETED 2022] |
Fantasy, the Five Senses and the Mastery of Nature. | |
| Hannah Owen | Becoming a 'phronimos': An investigation into the transfer of 'practical wisdom' between novice and expert teachers in Lesson Study discussions | Pete Dudley |
| Sheng-Hsiang Lance Peng
[COMPLETED 2024] |
Girls just wanna have fun...damental agency: justice-involved girls, institutionalised knottiness, and the ghosts within | Liz Maber |
| Carla Plieth
[COMPLETED 2024] |
Negotiating Boyhood and Victimisation: The Sexually Abused Boy in Adolescent Literature | Karen Coats |
| Ana Luisa Rubio Jimenez
[COMPLETED 2022] |
The implementation and outcomes of a dialogic pedagogy for enhancing the self-determination of Mexican young adults with intellectual disability | Ruth Kershner |
| Marie Ryan | What are we doing in the name of assessment? A multi-site case-study of assessment practices and conceptions of assessment purpose in junior infant classrooms in Ireland. | Sue Swaffield |
| Lakshmi Sagarika Bose
[COMPLETED 2023] |
Revolution in an Era of Global Securitization: An Ethnographic Encounter with Young Female Egyptian and South African Activists | Jo-Anne Dillabough |
| Cristina Isabel de Oliveira Santos | Career conversations for the development of student career competencies: analysing the possibility in Portuguese Secondary Schools | Anna Vignoles |
| Raquel Scarpa-Gebara | Further education and professional learning of fisherwomen in the Amazonian coast: an evaluation model of a financial literacy programme | Peter Dudley |
| Sadia Fatima Shafquat
[COMPLETED 2025] |
A phenomenological study of adolescent thinking through dialogue about literary texts | Fiona Maine |
| Donna Smith | Mental Health Problems in First Generation Students at UK Universities: A Mixed Methods Study | Ros McLellan |
| Ngee Derk Tiong
[COMPLETED 2023] |
Di Sebalik Papan Hitam: Opportunities for learning through talk in Malaysian teacher professional learning communities (PLCs) | Riikka Hofmann |
| Oudai Tozan
[COMPLETED 2025] |
Unpacking the exiled Syrian academic relationship with homeland and their potential role in reforming the Syrian higher education in the (post)-conflict stage | Hilary Cremin |
| Ana Laura Trigo Clapés
[COMPLETED 2023] |
Dialogic Teaching for students with conditions within the autism spectrum | |
| Daniela Vandepeer
[COMPLETED 2022] |
Exploring the perceived experiences of the Drive Teams implementing change in a Thinking School. | Steve Watson |
| Georgios Villias
[COMPLETED 2025] |
Educational escape rooms: Design, Implementation and Impact Analysis of immersive, problem-solving learning experiences in science education. | Mark Winterbottom |
| Julia Jin Wang | Multiverses in Contemporary Adolescent Literature | Karen Coats |
| Anne Waterson
[COMPLETED 2023] |
Young children's conceptualisations of wellbeing in their school context. | Ruth Kershner |
| Yuxiu Wei
[COMPLETED 2022] |
Gender disparity in the access to higher education: Assessing the impact of schools and socio-economic backgrounds using data mining approaches | Mark Winterbottom |
| Alison Wells
[COMPLETED 2023] |
Postgraduate blended learning for NHS Educational Supervisors: A realist evaluation of impact on practice. |
Sue Brindley |
| Maoxiao Xia
[COMPLETED 2022] |
Primary Teachers' Learning Patterns and Their Approaches to Teaching in China’s context | Panayiotis Antoniou |
| Bowen Xu
[COMPLETED 2022] |
Transnationalising China's Higher Education via One Belt One Road | Susan Robertson |
| Debbie Yeboah | Formed with Our Own Hands: African Contemporary Art as a Reparative Pathway to Decolonial Ghanaian Art Education | Tyler Denmead |
| Zitian Zeng
[COMPLETED 2024] |
Inclusive Classroom Practices and Teacher-Student Education in Hong Kong | Kristine Black-Hawkins |
| Xinye Zou | A mixed methods study exploring the mechanism of Chinese youth’s sexual knowledge acquisition | Colleen McLaughlin |
For inclusion or removal from this list, please email graduate@educ.cam.ac.uk