Personal statement

Linda la Velle is a Professor of Education at Bath Spa's Institute for Education and Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Education, University of Plymouth.

Linda’s career in education spans over 40 years, including teaching science for 15 years in primary and secondary schools in and around London, 20 years of Initial Teacher Education provision in two Russell Group Higher Education Institutions and ten years of research leadership in a post-92 university.

Her personal research interests are in the areas of teacher education and professional development in general and science education (new technologies and ethical issues) more specifically. Although her background is in secondary education, she firmly believes that pedagogic issues and enquiry span the educational phases and transferability is the key to research-based improvement of outcomes for all learners, through the life course. Recent research projects include ENTELS, PhenoloGIT and Robo21C, all funded under the Erasmus+ programme and MESH (Mapping Specialist educational knowHow).

Publications: four authored books; two edited books; two journal special editions; nine book chapters; 12 official reports; 33 papers in international refereed journals; 60+ international conference presentations/papers.

Linda is out-going Chair of the Research and International Committee of the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET) and Executive Editor of the Journal of Education for Teaching (JET).

Academic qualifications

  • BEd  - University of Exeter
  • MSc - University of London
  • MSc  - Council for National Academic Awards
  • PhD  - University of London

Professional memberships

  • Zoological Society of London Scientific - Fellow (Elected) (1978)
  • Institute of Biology - Member (Elected) (1978)
  • Association for Science Education - Member (1983)
  • Society for the Study of Fertility - Member (Elected) (1986)
  • British Society for Developmental Biology - Member (1988)
  • British Andrology Society - Member (1990)
  • Alternative Learning Technologies Association - Member (1995)
  • BERA - Member (1999)
  • ESERA (European Science Education Research Association) - Member (2007)
  • EERA (European Educational Research Association) - Member (2008)
  • ICET (international Council for the Education of Teachers) - Member (2016)

Other external roles

  • ICET Board Member
  • UCET Executive Member
  • Wellington School Governor
  • Executive editor - JOurnal of Education and Teaching (Taylor and Francis)

Research supervision

Please contact Linda if you are interested in doing postgraduate research in any area of teacher education. 

Research and academic outputs

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