Research in the School of Education

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

• Art Education
  • Penny Hay
• English Education
  • Caroline Whiting
• Environmental Education
  • Mel McCree
  • Paul McLaughlin
  • Jenny Hatley
• 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
  
  • Liz Durden-Myers
• Primary Education
  • Caroline Ormesher
  • Caroline Whiting
  • Georgia Niolaki
  • Georgina Normile
  • Sarah Earle
• Science Education
  • Chloe Shu-Hua Yeh
  • Kendra McMahon
  • Linda la Velle
  • Sarah Earle
  • Rebecca Digby
• Secondary Education
  • Linda la Velle
  • Liz Durden-Myers
• TESOL
  • Hania Salter-Dvorak

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

• Kathryn Crouch
• Mel McCree
• Rebecca Digby
• Shaddai Tembo
• Sharon Colilles

• Agnieszka Bates
• Kyriaki Anagnostopoulou
• Mahmoud Emira

• Agnieszka Bates
• Anne Parfitt
• Eri Mountbatten-O’Malley
• Thomas Howard Morris
• Jenny Hatley

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

• John Bostock 
• Anne Parfitt
• Giles Martin
• Hania Salter-Dvorak
• Kyriaki Anagnostopoulou
• Michael Drayson
• Thomas Howard Morris

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

• Jenny Hatley

• Anne Parfitt
• Caroline Kuhn
• Ghazala Bhatti
• Jenny Hatley
• Martin Levinson
• Mel McCree
• 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
• 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

Grace Quantock shares her clinical and personal experiences of considering the boundaries of vulnerability.

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The event takes place Wednesday 26 October 2022, 12:00-1:00 PM, online.

Emeritus Professor of Education Nick Sorensen will introduce his research and discuss the journey of publishing his book.

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The event takes place Wednesday 16 November 2022, 12:00-1:00 PM, online.

For Disability History Month 2022 a series of events will held to celebrate disability equality. As part of this programme this Lunchtime Seminar is a presentation of some of the current disability research taking place in BSU.

Dr Stuart Read, Dr Tanvir Bush and the 'We Are The People' team members will discuss what inclusive research and public engagement can 'look like' in practice, by sharing their reflections regarding organising and running the recent ‘Festival of Inclusion, Disability and Community Action’.

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The event takes place Thursday 1 December 2022, 1:00-2:00 PM, online.

Dr Santos presents an analysis of the complex dynamics emerging from the interactions between global, national, and local actors in policymaking processes.

In her paper she addresses how references to international organisations (such as the OECD), their tools of assessment and guidance (such as PISA), and practices of other countries are used in discussions about education taking place the Portuguese parliament and in the media.

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The event takes place Tuesday 6 December 2022, 1:00-2:00 PM, online.

Richard Riddell outlines some of the thinking that has gone into his new book, out in February, for which the live research finished in late 2021. He considers how the centralisation of Education governance in England and the narrowing of its focus have distanced schools from their communities and helped degrade public life in England. He suggests possibilities for reintroducing democratic behaviour.

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The event takes place Wednesday 11 January 2023, 1:00-2:00 PM, online.

Dr Hania Salter-Dvorak reports on her ongoing study being carried out in the tradition of ‘linguistic ethnography’ (Copland and Creese, 2015). It focuses on argumentation in the academic writing of second-language postgraduate students in our increasingly internationalised and diverse HE sector. The study aims are to provide a pedagogic intervention in the form of optional workshops in order to develop argumentation in the academic writing of doctoral students and to complete a constructivist evaluation of the materials and activities used.

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The event takes place on Wednesday 8 February, 1:00-2:00pm, online.

Dr Oksana Marchuk and Dr Margaryta Shkabarina present pedagogical creativity as an essential quality of the development of teachers. Some theoretical and practical aspects of pre-service teachers’ pedagogical creativity formation will be discussed.

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The event takes place on Friday 3 March 2023, 11:00am-12:00pm, online.

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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