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 |
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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. | |
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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 |
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Ali Ansari [COMPLETED 2021] |
Evaluating the effectiveness of Punjab's Public Private Partnership Programs in Education | Anna Vignoles |
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Esther Anwuzia [COMPLETED 2022] |
Adolescents Career Decision Making and Wellbeing in Nigeria: A Mixed Methods Study | Ros McLellan |
| Tim Archer | Seeking a Peace-full Man: Exploring pedagogies to transition from boyhood to an adequate manhood | Hilary Cremin |
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Esinam Avornyo [COMPLETED 2020] |
Investigating play and learning in the Ghanaian early years classroom: A mixed methods study. | Sara Baker |
| Consuelo Bejares | Youth negotiating exclusion and belonging at the urban periphery: An ethnographic study of new race and class relations in a changing socio-political Chilean landscape | Jo-Anne Dillabough |
| 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 | |
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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 |
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Julie Blake [COMPLETED 2020] |
The representation of poetry in the school English curriculum. | David Whitley |
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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 |
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Simon Butler [COMPLETED 2020] |
Understanding the Relationship between the Biopsychological Development of Adolescent Boys and their Behaviour in the School Context. | |
| Michael Cascianelli | 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 | Creativity Through Oracy: A Mixed Methods Study of Creativity in the context of L2 Talk | Yongcan Liu |
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Chih-Ching Chang [COMPLETED 2022] |
Teacher professional development for changing epistemic beliefs through dialogic history education: A design-based research study in Taiwan | |
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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 | 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 |
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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 | The role of private schools in education modernization reform in China | Geoff Hayward |
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Ema Demir
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Teacher capital unbound? – The role of organisational structures for teacher social capital and student achievement. | Elaine Wilson |
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Jessica Dobrin [COMPLETED 2020] |
Investigating the development of conceptual understanding in secondary science students engaged in project-based learning. | Keith Taber |
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Min Du [COMPLETED 2020] |
Designing and evaluating a virtual English enrichment course for improving Chinese learners' communicative competence in English. | |
| 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 | |
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Aline Frederico [COMPLETED 2020] |
The construction of meaning of preschoolers reading picturebook apps. | Fiona Maine |
| Clare Freeman | Between the book and the mind of the reader: an exploration of young readers' engagement with fiction. | Gabrielle Cliff-Hodges |
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Zhuxia Fu [COMPLETED 2020] |
Investigating talk as a mediating tool in a systemic theoretical instruction on genre in L2 writing classrooms. | Yongcan Liu |
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Jaason Geerts [COMPLETED 2020] |
Optimal leadership development for professionals. | Panayiotis Antoniou |
| Emily Goodacre | Social Communication with Friends and Peers: Children’s Connected Talk During Play | |
| Mélanie Gréaux | Speech and Language Therapy provision for autistic children in India and the UK | |
| 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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
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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. | |
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Samantha Hulston |
Embodied reading practices: an exploration of how young children engage with picturebooks | |
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Venus Hung [COMPLETED 2021] |
Pedagogy design to visualise reasoning across macro- (sub)micro-symbolic levels of biological concepts. | Keith Taber |
| Madeleine Hunter | 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 |
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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 |
| Hanne Jensen | From 'fountain-of-knowledge' to facilitator: exploring professional learning among early educators in South Africa. | Ros McLellan |
| Ying Ji | Teachers' Engagement in Continuing Professional Development: Exploring Factors and Profiles | Pete Dudley |
| Gulmira Kanayeva (Qanay) | Facilitating teacher leadership in Kazakhstan | |
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Lisa Kazianka [COMPLETED 2021] |
Tradition and Transformation: Re-Imagining Medieval Masculinities in Contemporary Arthurian Narratives for Adolescents | |
| Maria Khwaja Bazi | Classrooms as Cultural Sites of Mobility and Constraint: A critical ethnography of teacher quality in Pakistan and Tanzania. | Jo-Anne Dillabough |
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Janice Kim [COMPLETED 2020] |
Unpacking the Role of Early Learning Inputs and School Quality on Student Learning Outcomes: Evidence from Ethiopia. | |
| 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 |
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Leigh Lawrence [COMPLETED 2021] |
Mobilizing Morality: China’s “New Era” Moral Education Reform | Susan Robertson |
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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 |
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Jing Li [COMPLETED 2020] |
A Two-Phase Mixed Methods Project on Gender Stereotypes Targeting English Learners in Chinese Senior High Schools. | Ros McLellan |
| Joyce Lim | 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 |
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Emma-Louise Lord [COMPLETED 2020] |
Written calculations and gender: a mixed methods study in English Y6 primary classrooms. | Andreas Stylianides |
| Juljana Mandra | Conceptualisations of global learning and primary school teachers' perceptions of pedagogy for global learning. | Ruth Kershner |
| Anub Mannaan | Education and violence: a qualitative study of the educational experience of conflict affected Kashmiri migrants in Mumbai for Higher Education. | Pauline Rose |
| Javiera Marfán | Schools Deciding the Purpose of Education. Policy Enactment in a Context of Education Reform Hybridisation | Riikka Hofmann |
| Melissa Marsden | Teacher professional development for the integration of ICT in poorly resourced education systems: lessons learned from the One Laptop per Child programme in Brazil. | Sara Hennessy |
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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 |
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Kevin Martin [COMPLETED 2022] |
Re-imagining mobile learning: A design based approach to epistemic innovation in rural Kenya | |
| Elizabeth McGregor Jacobides | Tinkering with the nature of science. | Mark Winterbottom |
| William McInerney | Reimagining masculinities: Exploring arts-integrated gender transformative programming with men in the United States | Hilary Cremin |
| Madison McLeod | Finding the Fantastic in the City: Digitally Mapping Children’s Fantasy Literature | Zoe Jaques |
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Michael J. Meaney [COMPLETED 2021] |
MOOCs, Open-Scale Learning, and the Future of Educational Inequity. | |
| Maggie Meimaridi | Entering the Contact Zone: Encountering the Animal in Children's Fantasy Literature. | Zoe Jaques |
| Nicola Morea | 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 | Exploring teacher motivations and engagement with the community in rural India | Pauline Rose |
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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 |
| Patrick Nketia | Higher education and advancement of capabilities: A study of AHSS University graduates' experiences and employability | Arathi Sriprakash |
| Kristi Nourie | Action and interaction: An exploration of e-textbook tool use in secondary schools | Mark Winterbottom |
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Alanna O'Beirne [COMPLETED 2020] |
A complex adaptive systems approach to exploring the development of a health promoting school network in the mid-west region of Ireland. | John Gray |
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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. | |
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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 | Negotiating Boyhood and Victimisation: The Sexually Abused Boy in Adolescent Literature | Karen Coats |
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Helen Price [COMPLETED 2020] |
More than the sum of its parts: practitioner perspectives on the characteristics, affordances and challenges of all-through schools in the English state system | Sue Swaffield |
| Anna Purkiss | Young readers’ responses to representations of disability in contemporary children’s fiction | |
| Christopher Rauch | Trainee teachers in transition: A cross-context, longitudinal study of epistemology and teaching beliefs in teacher education | Jan Vermunt |
| 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? | |
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Jinshi Shao [COMPLETED 2020] |
Using dynamic assessment to understand and promote the development of Chinese intermediate EFL learners' L2 academic reading abilities. | Yongcan Liu |
| Sadia Fatima Shafquat | A phenomenological study of adolescent thinking through dialogue about literary texts | Fiona Maine |
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Harper Staples [COMPLETED 2021] |
Exploring dynamic identities of multilingual adolescents in contexts of L3 learning. | Linda Fisher |
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Rui Tang [COMPLETED 2020] |
The city in animated feature films. | David Whitley |
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Raymond Chegedua Tangonyire [COMPLETED 2020] |
Exploring the Incorporation of the Leadership for Learning (LfL) Principles in Ghana: The Case of Two LfL Basic Schools in the Central Region. | Sue Swaffield |
| Ngee Derk Tiong | 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 | Dialogic Teaching for students with conditions within the autism spectrum | |
| Gavin Turner | Life-worthy learning skills: An investigation of a curriculum intervention to promote self-regulated learning. | Michelle Ellefson |
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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 |
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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 |
| Xiao Wang | Exploring data-driven learning in academic writing education: the acquisition of hedging devices. | Pascual Perez-Paredes |
| Anne Waterson | 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 | Postgraduate blended learning for NHS Educational Supervisors: A realist evaluation of impact on practice. |
Sue Brindley |
| Maoxiao Xia | Primary Teachers' Learning Patterns and Their Approaches to Teaching in China’s context | Panayiotis Antoniou |
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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 | 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