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Doctoral Students, Thesis Topics & Supervisors


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

Debbie Aitken

[COMPLETED 2021]

Generational differences in perceptions of medical student experiences of clinical attachments in surgery Morag Morrison-Helme
Charlotte Allen A Multilevel exploration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT+) students’ resilience in response to everyday challenges at secondary school.

Morag Morrison-Helme

Ruth Kershner

Michelle Anya Anjirbag

[COMPLETED 2021]

Race and the Renaissance: The legacy of Diversity in Disney film.  Joe Sutliff Sanders
Sebastián Ansaldo Deep mediatization in education: A comparative study of schoolteacher’s practices and perceptions in England and Chile. Susan Robertson

Ali Ansari

[COMPLETED 2021]

Evaluating the effectiveness of Punjab's Public Private Partnership Programs in Education Anna Vignoles

Esther Anwuzia

[COMPLETED 2022]

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 Neurodiversity and Learning Engagement in Higher Education Sara Baker
Helen Barsham 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

Tracey Fuller

Fiona Peacock

Terence Bevington

[COMPLETED 2021]

An Investigation of Everyday Peace Indicators in School Settings.  Hilary Cremin
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 Posthumanism and the Child: Diffracted Readings and Entangled Beings Zoe Jaques

Michael Cascianelli

[COMPLETED 2022]

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

Rupert Wegerif

Sara Hennessy

Sin-Yi Chang

[COMPLETED 2021]

An activity theory perspective on English medium instruction as a language policy in higher education: A comparative case study of EMI in the sciences and humanities in one university in Taiwan. Yongcan Liu
Claudia Pik Ki Chu 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
Paola Contreras Cosmopolitan capital or cultural intelligence? Predictors of the participation of Chilean undergraduates in international academic activities. Nigel Kettley

Thomas Cowhitt

[COMPLETED 2021]

Determining Innovation Expression in school organizations using Social Network Analysis Elaine Wilson
Catrin Darlsey Exploring UK higher education for sustainability: How do different models of EfS contribute to students gaining sustainability-related competencies? Elaine Wilson
Alexandre da Trindade Brazilian universities and transitions towards human flourishing SUPERVISOR

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 Contextual Understandings of Montessori Education: A Pathway to Peace Hilary Cremin
Rosanna Fennessy 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 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

Pam Burnard

Peter Dudley

Emily Goodacre

[COMPLETED 2024]

Social Communication with Friends and Peers: Children’s Connected Talk During Play

Jenny Gibson

Paul Ramchandani

Mélanie Gréaux Speech and Language Therapy provision for autistic children in India and the UK

Jenny Gibson

Dr Napoleon Katsos

Basma Hajir The Role of Youth as Agents for Peace in Contexts Affected by Conflict: A Postcolonial Qualitative Enquiry with Syrian Youth in Jordan Hilary Cremin

Christopher Halls

[COMPLETED 2021]

Syllable awareness and early literacy development. A 25 week intervention focusing on improving reading and spelling skills in young children aged between five and nine years old. Ruth Kershner
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 The use of mobile learning to impact teacher self-efficacy and self-permission in Panama.

Sara Hennessy

Pascual Perez-Paredes

Samantha Hulston

Embodied reading practices: an exploration of how young children engage with picturebooks

Fiona Maine

Venus Hung

[COMPLETED 2021]

Pedagogy design to visualise reasoning across macro- (sub)micro-symbolic levels of biological concepts. Keith Taber

Madeleine Hunter

[COMPLETED 2023]

We are in Convergence: Recombinant Adaptation in the Twenty-First-Century Children's Media Landscape. Maria Nikolajeva
Chris Hussey 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

Sara Hennessey

Louis Major

Nura Jahanpour Investigating the construction of parenting values and the influence of institutions Sara Baker
Ying Ji Teachers' Engagement in Continuing Professional Development: Exploring Factors and Profiles Pete Dudley
Gulmira Kanayeva (Qanay) Facilitating teacher leadership in Kazakhstan

David Frost

Ros McLellan

Lisa Kazianka

[COMPLETED 2021]

Tradition and Transformation: Re-Imagining Medieval Masculinities in Contemporary Arthurian Narratives for Adolescents

Zoe Jaques

David Whitley

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

Meena Mehta Kotecha

[COMPLETED 2022]

Mathematics anxiety in university students: investigating the efficacy of a blended learning intervention promoting interaction, inclusion, & collaboration

[https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.81316]

Ricardo Sabates
Pia Kreijkes 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 The Design, Development, and Evaluation of a New Computerised Assessment of Computational Thinking Michelle Ellefson

Leigh Lawrence

[COMPLETED 2021]

Mobilizing Morality: China’s “New Era” Moral Education Reform Susan Robertson

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 Exploring the multilingual identity of simultaneous language learners in China: A mixed methods study Linda Fisher
Luz Maria Lopez-Gomez Teaching Nature of Science to Mexican High School Students through Practical Work Activities Keith Taber

Juljana Mandra

[COMPLETED 2024]

Conceptualisations of global learning and primary school teachers' perceptions of pedagogy for global learning. Ruth Kershner
Javiera Marfán Schools Deciding the Purpose of Education. Policy Enactment in a Context of Education Reform Hybridisation Riikka Hofmann

Lauren Marston

[COMPLETED 2021]

An exploration into what it is to receive assistance conditional on school attendance from a cash transfer program in Jamaica: an interpretative phenomenological analysis. Pauline Rose

Kevin Martin

[COMPLETED 2022]

Re-imagining mobile learning: A design based approach to epistemic innovation in rural Kenya

Rupert Wegerif

Louis Major

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

Michael J. Meaney

[COMPLETED 2021]

MOOCs, Open-Scale Learning, and the Future of Educational Inequity.

Ricardo Sabates

Anna Vignoles

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

Seema Nath

[COMPLETED 2021]

Education for Children with Disabilities in India - A case study to critically understand teaching and learning practices in schools that include all learners. Nidhi Singal

Kristi Nourie

[COMPLETED 2023]

Action and interaction: An exploration of e-textbook tool use in secondary schools Mark Winterbottom

Babatunde Ojewunmi

[COMPLETED 2021]

Pastoral care, academic outcomes and institutional behaviour of Further Education Colleges following the implementation of the Equality Act 2010: a case study approach. Anna Vignoles
Catherine Olver Fantasy, the Five Senses and the Mastery of Nature.

Zoe Jaques

David Whitley

Karen Ottewell

[COMPLETED 2021]

Looking behind the writing: the design and implementation of a framework to provide transitional support for the development of written articulacy at PG level - a University of Cambridge case study. Yongcan Liu
Hannah Owen Becoming a 'phronimos': An investigation into the transfer of 'practical wisdom' between novice and expert teachers in Lesson Study discussions Pete Dudley
Yong-Jun Park Youth, citizenship and democracy in South Korea Jo-Anne Dillabough

Carla Plieth

[COMPLETED 2024]

Negotiating Boyhood and Victimisation: The Sexually Abused Boy in Adolescent Literature Karen Coats
Anna Purkiss Young readers’ responses to representations of disability in contemporary children’s fiction

Maria Nikolajeva

Kristine Black-Hawkins

Ana Luisa Rubio Jimenez 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 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
Jane Scarsbrook To what extent can structured group tasks encourage imagination, articulation and development in children's notions about shape, space and measure?

Neil Mercer

Christine Howe

Sadia Fatima Shafquat A phenomenological study of adolescent thinking through dialogue about literary texts Fiona Maine

Harper Staples

[COMPLETED 2021]

Exploring dynamic identities of multilingual adolescents in contexts of L3 learning. Linda Fisher

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 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

Jenny Gibson

Sara Hennessy

Gavin Turner Life-worthy learning skills: An investigation of a curriculum intervention to promote self-regulated learning. Michelle Ellefson

Daniela Vandepeer

[COMPLETED 2022]

Exploring the perceived experiences of the Drive Teams implementing change in a Thinking School. Steve Watson
Georgios Villias Educational escape rooms: Design, Implementation and Impact Analysis of immersive, problem-solving learning experiences in science education. Mark Winterbottom

Sharon Walker

[COMPLETED 2021]

UK widening participation policy agenda: a critical race analysis.  Arathi Sriprakash
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 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

Yongcan Liu

Maoxiao Xia 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