Dr Lauren Stentiford
Education Alumni
PhD Researcher in Education (ESRC +3)
University of Exeter, School of EducationStart date: September 2013
Research topic: Exploring young women’s experiences whilst studying either a male-dominated STEM or female-dominated arts/humanities discipline at a high-performing British university, with a particular focus on their negotiations of academic achievement.
Research supervisors: Dr Alexandra Allan
Dr Jonathan Doney
Education Alumni
University of Exeter, College of Social Sciences and International StudiesStart date:
Research topic: ‘That would be an ecumenical matter’: Contextualizing the adoption of World Religions Teaching in English RE using ‘Statement Archaeology’, a systematic operationalization of Foucault’s historical methods
Email: J.Doney@exeter.ac.uk
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Jonathan_Doney
Website/Blog: http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/education/staff/index.php?web_id=jonathan_doney&tab=profile
Dr Benjamin Arnold
Education Alumni
PhD Researcher in Education (ESRC +3)
University of Exeter, College of Social Sciences and International StudiesStart date: September 2014
Research topic: Examining the local and global dynamics of gender in the Indian education system: An ethnographic study of identity constitution in primary schools
Research supervisors: Dr Alexandra Allan
Email: ba242@exeter.ac.uk
Dr Denise Rogers
Education Alumni
PhD Researcher in Education (ESRC 1+3)
University of Bristol, Graduate School of EducationStart date: September 2013
Research topic: Beating the odds: Journey from 'bad school' to postgraduate education and beyond
Research supervisors: Dr Lisa Lucas, Dr Sheila Trahar
Email: dr13261@my.bristol.ac.uk
Dr Georgina Tarling (nee Pye)
Education Alumni
PhD Researcher in Education (ESRC 1+3)
University of Exeter, College of Social Sciences and International StudiesStart date: September 2012
Research topic: Enabling “good” use of the web?: How online information practices are shaped for 7 year olds by their home and school contexts
Research supervisors: Professor Rupert Wegerif
Email: G.Tarling3@exeter.ac.uk
Alison Pearson
Education Alumni
PhD Researcher in Education (ESRC +3)
University of Exeter, Graduate School of EducationStart date: September 2017
Research topic: Resilient Professionals? Teacher perspectives on the role of initial training and early career experiences in their professional formation
My research is concerned with teacher resilience, principally focusing on the contribution of initial teacher training and early career experiences to resilience development. My research explores this important area from the perspective of secondary school teachers who are five to ten years post qualification: teachers viewed as “survivors”, having successfully navigated their early careers. I hope that my project will support the development of policy and practice in initial training and early career support for teachers, as well as contributing to a better understanding of the complex topic of professional resilience.Research supervisors: Professor Vivienne Baumfield, Dr Karen Walshe
Email: ap638@exeter.ac.uk
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-pearson-0b2748b/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/alisonpearsonSW
Website/Blog: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alison_Pearson4
Abigail Marchant
Education Alumni
PhD Researcher in Education (ESRC+3)
University of Bath, Department of EducationStart date: September 2017
Research topic: A Narrative Exploration of Excluded Pupil's Motivational Histories: Using a Qualitative approach to Self-Determination Theory
My research is an exploration into the motivation for learning of pupils who have been excluded from school. I have selected a narrative design to investigate the complex nature of motivation for learning by investigating how a pupil’s motivational journey has resulted in their exclusion and lack of engagement with their education.Research supervisors: Dr Sam Carr, Dr Ceri Brown
Email: A.E.Marchant@bath.ac.uk
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abigailmarchant/
Jill Court
Education Alumni
PhD Researcher in Education (ESRC 1+3)
University of Bristol, Graduate School of EducationStart date: September 2015
Research topic: The barriers and facilitators to learning English and integration for adult migrant and refugee ESOL learners in the UK
My research involves exploring language learning, identity and integration amongst adult migrant and refugee learners of English in the UK. I seek to better understand how language learning and integration inter-relate, and the barriers and facilitators to both these processes. I am particularly interested in migrant and refugee English language learners’ perspectives of what successful integration might look like for them; as well as political discourse and policy on English language and integration. I am also interested in how identity negotiation, identity positions and agency interact with the processes of language learning and integration.My research includes exploring the use of participatory tools for researching with ‘non-proficient’ speakers of English, as well as combining qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Research supervisors: Dr Frances Giampapa, Dr Liz Washbrook
Professional memberships/Positions held:
NATECLA (National Association for Teaching English and other Community Languages to Adults)Email: jill.court@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Sam Whewall
Education Alumni
PhD Researcher in Education (ESRC +3)
University of Bath, Graduate School of EducationStart date: September 2016
Research topic: ‘Parallel’ student mobilities: Imaginaries of place, space and class in South Yorkshire and Singapore
My research explores how British students, with different imaginaries of their ‘place’ in the world (socially and spatially), navigate increasingly globally-integrated fields of higher education. It foregrounds the experiences of British young people across two starkly different research sites: an elite international school in Singapore, South East Asia; and a state school in Rotherham, a deindustrialised town in northern England. Using participatory cognitive mapping methods and semi-structured interviews, I argue that youth transitions to higher education are mediated by powerful socio-spatial geometries structuring higher education, and that young people are positioned inequitably in relation to changing power structures shaped by the globalisation and internationalisation of higher education.Research supervisors: Dr Michael Donnelly, Professor Hugh Lauder
Email: s.whewall@bath.ac.uk
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/samuelwhewall
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamWhewall
Website/Blog: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Samuel_Whewall2
Dr Helen Foster-Collins
Education Alumni
PhD Researcher in Education (ESRC +3)
University of Exeter, College of Social Sciences and International Studies (Centre for Research in Professional Learning)Start date: September 2016
Research topic: Interprofessional learning, support and feedback, in early career professionals
Previous research suggests that much professional learning takes place within informal workplace contexts, and that inter-professional support may be an important aspect of this learning.The first stage of my PhD project seeks to explore the support, advice and feedback that junior doctors receive during their first year, using qualitative analytical methods, and specifically:
(i) which other staff members provide support;
(ii) what factors influence whether support is sought, when and how it is provided, and
(iii) if such assistance positively influences doctor’s learning and patient outcomes.
Research supervisors: Dr Vivienne Marie Baumfield, Dr Karen Mattick
Professional memberships/Positions held:
The British Psychological Society (Graduate member)Email: hf270@exeter.ac.uk
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/helen-foster-collins-87540224
Twitter: https://twitter.com/helzfc123
Friederike Grosse
Education Alumni
PhD Researcher in Education (ESRC 1+3)
University of Exeter, Graduate School of EducationStart date: September 2016
Research topic: 'The role of organic linguistic repertoires and complimentary schooling in young people's identity construction: Doing linguistic ethnography in a German Saturday school in London.
My PhD thesis explores the complex linguistic identities which are constructed by young people attending a complementary language school in London. In this study, over a period of 4-5 months, I am investigating the way in which young people attending a German Saturday school use language to construct and negotiate their identities. It is a linguistic ethnographic study based in one North-London Saturday school. The research focuses on four students’ language practices within the environment of the Saturday school. By sharing my findings with teachers in complementary schools, I aim to help to increase their awareness of their students’ organic linguistic repertoires and complex identities.Research supervisors: Dr Gabriela Meier, Dr Alexandra Allan
Email: fg291@exeter.ac.uk
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/friederike-grosse-02736624
Dr Claire Lee
Education Alumni
PhD Researcher in Education (ESRC+3)
University of Bristol, Graduate School of EducationStart date: September 2016
Research topic: An ethnographic investigation into the needs and concerns of service children in UK primary schools
Children from armed forces families have unique needs and face uncommon challenges. Yet their experiences are under-researched and too frequently overlooked in UK educational policy and practice. My research aim is to sharpen our understanding of service children’s needs and inform policy and practice in schools. Using an ethnographic and participant, task-centred approach I seek to explore children’s experiences, identities and agency, and how these intersect with policy and practice in schools and the military. My personal history informs this research, as a former service child and a teacher in a school that serves an RAF community.Research supervisors: Dr Malcolm Reed, Dr Frances Giampapa
Email: claire.lee@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Samantha Stone
Education Alumni
PhD Researcher in Education (ESRC 1+3)
University of Bath, Graduate School of EducationStart date: September 2015
Research topic: Ethnographic research into school mealtimes to understand processes of socialisation
Much of school mealtime policy and research has been shaped and continues to be shaped by the promotion of nutrition and health. However, this does not capture the social significance of school mealtimes or the role it plays in children’s socialisation processes. My research takes an ethnographic approach to explore school mealtimes as important cultural sites that socialise children into mealtime comportment, commensality, communicative expectations, sociality, morality and understandings of diverse and complex relationships. Its considers how school mealtimes are replete with social messages of appropriate ways to think, act and feel in the world, recognising the multiplicity of the avenues through which children get to know the social world and their place within it.Research supervisors: Dr Michael Donnelly, Professor Steve Gough
Email: sls27@bath.ac.uk
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-stone-4b5700aa?trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sam_L_Stone
Dr Tony Clark
Education Alumni
PhD Researcher in Education (ESRC 1+3)
University of Exeter, Graduate School of EducationStart date: September 2014
Research topic: Intensive IELTS Preparation in China and Japan
The thesis ‘Intensive IELTS Writing Preparation in China and Japan’ was given a British Council Research Assessment Award in 2014. In 2015/16 he was a recipient of the Newton Fund Scholarship – a competitive grant to promote researcher mobility and encourage British-Chinese academic relations – as well as funding to support different sections of upcoming overseas research trips from the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) and the ESRC. In 2016 Tony will spend two months at the British Council in Tokyo, and a subsequent six months working at Zhejiang University under the guidance of Professor Lianzhen He, Dean of International Studies.Research supervisors: Dr Guoxing Yu, Dr Talia Isaacs
Professional memberships/Positions held:
ALTE, EALTAEmail: tc9734@bristol.ac.uk
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