Research in the School of Education

• Caroline Whiting
• Georgia Niolaki
• Kendra McMahon
• Nick Peatfield
• Sarah Earle

• English Education
  • Caroline Whiting
• Environmental Education
  • Mel McCree
  • Paul McLaughlin
• Mathematics Education
  • Caroline Kuhn
  • Caroline Ormesher
  • Giles Martin
  • Nick Peatfield
• Philosophy of Education
  • Agnieszka Bates
  • Darren Garside
  • Eri Mountbatten-O’Malley
  • Paul McLaughlin
• Physical Education
  • Laura Green
  • Liz Durden-Myers
  • Martine Duggan
• Primary Education
  • Caroline Ormesher
  • Caroline Whiting
  • Georgia Niolaki
  • Martine Duggan
  • Sarah Earle
• Science Education
  • Chloe Shu-Hua Yeh
  • Kendra McMahon
  • Linda la Velle
  • Sarah Earle
• Secondary Education
  • Linda la Velle
  • Liz Durden-Myers

• Andrew Joyce-Gibbons
• Caroline Kuhn
• Emma Asprey
• Kyriaki Anagnostopoulou
• Linda la Velle

• Rebecca Digby
• Rebecca Georgis
• Martine Duggan

• Agnieszka Bates
• Kyriaki Anagnostopoulou
• Mahmoud Emira

• Agnieszka Bates
• Anne Parfitt
• Charlotte Chadderton
• Dr Catherine A. Simon
• Eri Mountbatten-O’Malley
• Stephen Ward
• Thomas Howard Morris
• Tingting Yuan

• Chloe Shu-Hua Yeh
• Georgia Niolaki
• Liz Durden-Myers
• Michael Sims
• Stuart Read

• Anne Parfitt
• Charlotte Chadderton
• Giles Martin
• Kitty King
• Kyriaki Anagnostopoulou
• Laura Green
• Mel Macer
• Michael Drayson
• Thomas Howard Morris

• Anne Parfitt
• Ben Simmons
• Georgia Niolaki
• Ghazala Bhatti
• Helen Curran
• Jennifer Donovan
• Martine Duggan
• Stuart Read
• Tanvir Bush
• Thomas Howard Morris

• Jenny Hatley 
• Tingting Yuan

• Anne Parfitt
• Caroline Kuhn
• Charlotte Chadderton
• Ghazala Bhatti
• Jenny Hatley
• Kitty King
• Laura Green
• Martin Levinson
• Mel Macer
• Mel McCree
• Rebecca Georgis
• Stuart Read
• Tanvir Bush
• Thomas Howard Morris

• Anne Parfitt
• Caroline Ormesher
• Caroline Whiting
• Chloe Shu-Hua Yeh
• Emma Asprey
• Linda la Velle
• Liz Durden-Myers
• Martine Duggan
• Nick Peatfield
• Sarah Earle
• Thomas Howard Morris

• Andrew Joyce-Gibbons
• Caroline Kuhn
• Chloe Shu-Hua Yeh
• Georgia Niolaki
• Penny Hay
• Rebecca Digby
• Tanvir Bush
• Thomas Howard Morris

Dr Tanvir Bush and Dr Stuart Read are disability activists and Research Fellows within the School for Education. In this seminar, they'll share findings from their research exploring contemporary research issues in Disability Studies and Education, and introduce their Wellcome Disability Research Collective programme (2021-2026).

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Caroline Kuhn and two co-researchers on this one-year EPSRC funded research project share their initial findings on designing and piloting an open educational resource (OER) aimed at fostering critical data literacy for HE educators.

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In this seminar, Eri Mountbatten-O'Malley will summarise his PhD research. As he will suggest, if any concept is subject to the standards of nuanced and normative judgement, it is the related notions of what it is to ‘flourish’, be happy and well as a human being. Yet what is clear is that in the understandable desire to improve happiness, well-being, success and satisfaction, researchers often neglect the importance of normativity and context.

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This presentation from Dr Georgia Niolaki will consist of two parts. First, Georgia will explain why we need to research spelling practices for primary age children. Then she will rationalise why the new interpretive spelling test she is currently developing with colleagues from UCL, NTU and BCU is needed for assessing spelling skill in primary education. In the second part, Georgia will present the results from three research papers on spelling predictors and processes based on work supported by the British Academy (2017-2019) and the British Psychological Society (BPS, 2019-2020).

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Dr Nick Clough and Dr Jane Tarr will explore the participatory action research (PAR) approaches enacted in classrooms to promote inter-professional learning between teachers, teacher trainers and music therapists. They will report their findings from an ERASMUS+ funded project entitled "Learning in a New Key" which brought music therapists and teachers to work together to support the wellbeing and inclusion in learning of young people with social, emotional and mental health concerns.

The research seminar will also launch their book where their findings are documented: Addressing Issues of Mental Health in Schools through the Arts. Teachers and Music Therapists Working Together (London: Routledge, 2022).

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In this seminar Andrew Joyce-Gibbons presents studies linking individuals and groups of participants to explore non-collocated, synchronous, collaborative problem solving. To date, investigations have explored the emergence of intra- and inter-group collaborative work in Primary age students. More recent studies have explored time taken to task completion and retention of information amongst undergraduate participants engaging with SynergyNet (Haymay).

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During this seminar we invite participants to reflect critically on the role of education in our HEI and more widely, across society, when thinking about future generations. As reported by UNESCO (2021), it is meaningful to look at the future of education in challenging national and international contexts.

A new social contract for education requires us to think differently about learning and the relationships between students, teachers, knowledge and the world.

How are we going to think differently about learning and these fundamental relationships?

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In this seminar Dr Agnieszka Bates invites exploration of human flourishing from a phenomenological perspective. Taking Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological theses of interdependence, embodiment and ambivalence as our points of departure, we will consider how human flourishing emerges in everyday interpersonal relations and how human suffering arises when relations of interdependence have been severed.

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Bath Spa colleagues have opportunities to sign up to the Erasmus+ exchanges for learning mobilities with linked universities, thereby encouraging inclusion, creativity and innovation in the collaborating HE organisations. Colleagues who have participated in Erasmus+ exchange mobilites to India and Kurdistan will discuss their experiences in this seminar.

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