Research students
Find out about our postgraduate students and their research, grouped here by research thematic hub.
Advanced Quantitative Research in Education
| Name (sorted in ascending order) | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Peter Barlow (PhD student) | Disentangling the importance of individual, family and neighbourhood factors on educational outcomes using sibling data |
| Jiayang Wang (PhD student) | Intergenerational income mobility and its implication to education policy: the case of China |
Children and Young People
| Name (sorted in descending order) | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Sara Abahussain (PhD student) | Exploring the Impacts of Public Kindergarten Expansion Project in Relation to Class Equity in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
| Luke Addison (PhD student) | Bringing Children's Voices to the Fore of 'Learning for Sustainability' |
| Ruth Barnes (PhD student) | Exploring children’s agency, parental consent and children's views and experiences of wellbeing in elite sport |
| Serif Cakiray (PhD student) | Exploring the Barriers to Inclusion Which Embedded Within the Socio Ecological Systems of Refugee Children with Disabilities: A Socio-Ecological Analysis |
| Fiona Couper Kenney | How do children, parents and professionals understand school non-attendance? Exploring tensions in policy and practice in Scotland |
| Robin Dallas-Childs (PhD student) | Exploring the experiences of looked after children and young people in Scotland |
| Bethan Davies (PhD student) | How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted on Scottish Childminders and their services? |
| Miranda Eodanable (PhD student) | Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: An Exploration of Professionals’ and Young People’s Views on Diagnosis |
| Alkisti Kallinikou (PhD student) | “Being and Belonging: exploring 'otherness' in contemporary fantasy literature" (working title) |
| Anastasia Kalokyri (Ph.D. Research Student) | Young people with ADHD, complex social identities and school experiences in Scottish context: Moving beyond deficit labels |
| Minkyung Kwon (PhD Research Student) | Gender Perspectives of South Korean Students in Designing Sex Education |
| Liz Latto (PhD student) | The Politics of Professionalisation: the changing roles of practitioners within Early Learning and Childcare |
| Boshi Liu (PhD student) | 6-8-year-old Chinese children's participation in choosing hobbies |
| Jane Malcolm (PhD student) | Love, passion and professionalism |
| Zarina Muminova (PhD student) | Parental engagement in young children’s learning in rural Tajikistan |
| Dorothy Muraya Neriah (PhD student) | Exploring Fostering Recruitment in England as a link to Permanence and Stability in Foster Care |
| Xuanyi Ren (PhD student) | The understandings and practices of Chinese young people's participation in the context |
| Fatemeh Sadeghi (PhD student) | A socially and culturally compatible ECE curriculum: A narrative approach to employing the sociocultural features of a context while adapting international curriculums and teacher training courses in Iran |
| Elena Santi (PhD student) | Narrative fiction as a mirror and a window: Exploring adolescents' reading experiences |
| Charlotte Webber (PhD Student) | Tackling the Drop-Off: Understanding the Teenage Reading Experience |
| Laura Weiner (PhD student) | Understanding American Out-of-School Youth Development Policies and Practice through Young People, Practitioners, and Discourse Theory |
| Katherine Westwood (PhD student) | Participation in inclusive extracurricular activities constructed by the perspectives of children with disabilities |
Digital Education
| Name (sorted in ascending order) | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Can Eda Alici (PhD student) | Would Children's Computational Thinking Skills Affect Their Peer Relation |
| Stuart Allan (PhD student) | Enmeshed experiences? Enactments of digital pedagogy in an international online MBA |
| Nada Alsayegh (PhD student) | The Cultural Implications of Arabic Massive Open Online Courses in the Middle East |
| Sharon Boyd (PhD student) | Place-responsive higher education at a distance |
| Eleanor Capaldi | |
| Ana Hibert Santana (PhD student) | Automated Writing Evaluation as a tool to help ESL students improve their academic writing |
| Cathy Hills (PhD student) | Blinding Data: exploring data epistemologies in school |
| Nick Hood (PhD student) | Circles around the grit: an enquiry into multi-modal pedagogy |
| Wan Faizatul Azirah Ismayatim (PhD student) | Exploring ESL Lecturers' Synchronous and Asynchronous Corrective Feedback Strategies on Students' Learning of Academic Writing Via Computer-Mediated Environment |
| Nicola Kiernan (PhD student) | Mind over Matter - Digital STEM Education... Child's Play? |
| Shikha Kumari (PhD student) | Emerging Digital Technologies and their Influence in Higher Education: A Sociomateriality approach |
| Diego Rates (PhD student) | Student Experience Analytics |
| Jack Reed (PhD candidate) | The Influence of Mobile Devices and Social Media on the Transfer of Learning in Residential Outdoor Experiences |
| Alexia Revueltas Roux (PhD student) | Capturing engagement in Early Science Learning: Triangulating Observational, Psychophysiological and Self-Report Measures |
| Dr Sabina Savadova | Living Journals: Young children and digital media practices in Azerbaijani families |
| Clare Thomson (PhD student) | Tensions in reflective practice - exploring the everyday reflective work of undergraduate medical students - an institutional ethnography |
| Sarah Treloar (PhD student) | Online social network sites for language development |
| Gurmit Uppal (PhD student) | Children's online experiences: A case study exploring children's and teachers' perceptions of occurrence, typology, impact and resilience in relation to online bullying and its connection to school-based bullying |
| Marni Wedin (PhD student) | An examination of the ethos perpetuated in Silicon Valley’s education programs through an interrogation of their success metrics |
| Chen Wu (PhD student) | Problematising the use of digital media in parent-practitioner collaboration: a Chinese perspective |
Language, Interculturality and Literacies
| Name (sorted in ascending order) | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Ezra James Alexander (PhD student) | Language Editing, Norm-formation and Standard English in Research Publications by non-L1 Writers of English |
| Rabab Alhaddab (PhD student) | Evaluating the Use of Portfolios as an Assessment Tool for Students Writing in Arabic as a Second Language |
| Kawla Alhamad (PhD student) | The Impact of Augmented Reality (AR) Books on the Reading Comprehension and Reading Enjoyment of Struggling Readers |
| Alia Aljoofi (PhD student) | What Do You Mean by "you rock"? Implementation of Pragmatics in EFL Classroom: A Framework for Teaching Pragmatics in Saudi Arabia |
| Soha Altayar (PhD student) | Needs Analysis and Course design: In Arabic for Academic Purposes at the Princess Nourah University (PNU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (case study) |
| Xueting Ban (PhD Candidate) | Pragmatic competence and professional teaching performance: a longitudinal mixed-method study |
| Xiuxiu [Daisy] Bao (PhD student) | An Investigation into the Factors of Mentoring Undergraduates in Research Projects: A Faculty Motivation Perspective |
| Michael Budzenski (PhD Candidate) | English Language Opportunities and Challenges in Online English Medium (EM) Classrooms in Higher Education: A multiple case study |
| Maggie Chan (PhD student) | Representations and Stereotypes of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in Picture Books |
| Dr Dandan (Doreen) Chen | Visual Languaging: Exploring Visualisation in Language and Cognitive Development through a Pluriliteracies Model in Online EFL Classrooms |
| Jun Chen (PhD student) | Effects of process approach on the reducing of writing anxiety of college students in China |
| Suling Chen (PhD student) | A Foucauldian-informed Discourse Analysis of Creativity in College English Teaching in China |
| Sakie Chiba-Mooney (PhD student) | Heritage Identity and Language Development: The role of extra-curricular activities in Japanese complementary school in Scotland |
| Beatrice Clegg (PhD student) | "Maybe we can have a try" Chinese English hedging devices and native English teacher attitudes in the university context |
| Sepideh Daghbandan (PhD student) | A Study of English Vague Language Use and its Perceived Social Function by Native and Non-Native Speakers of English in UK University Classrooms |
| Mariel Deluna (PhD student) | Secondary School Modern Language Teachers' Perspectives on "Race" and Language: Racializing Languages in Scottish Education |
| Leila Eerikainen (PhD student) | Languaging for thinking in science |
| Fangyi Guan (PhD student) | Exploring the link between studying abroad and student employability: A study of international students in Chinese universities |
| Wei Han (MScR student) | Epistemic Imbalance of Intercultural Communication Education in Chinese higher education |
| Kelli Hanman (PhD student) | Midwest United States teachers and their preparedness for the changing diversity in their classrooms |
| Jesús Hernández González (PhD student) | Academic literacies for deeper learning: A longitudinal study of CLIL in Primary Science Classrooms |
| Jingting Hu | Examining Transnational Higher Education from Staff Perceptions of their Academic Roles in a Sino-foreign University |
| Afidatul Husniyah (PhD student) | Creativity in Indonesian EFL Contexts: Bridging Theory, Policy, And Practice |
| Mengke [Sarah] Li (PhD student) | Identity and Second Language Acquisition: The Case of Chinese as a Second or Foreign Language |
| Yanghe Liu (PhD student) | Teacher continuing professional development in Shared Learning Spaces: providing feedback in technology-assisted English language teaching context |
| Hang Lu (PhD student) | The Disparity between Urban and Rural English Education in Basic Education and Foreign Language Education Policies in China - the Influence of Neoliberalism, the Commodification of Language and Fetishism |
| Lisa Macdonald (PhD student) | An t-Ionnsachadh Òg: positive pedagogies for Gaelic 0-3 groups |
| Hannah Morris (MScR student) | Raising awareness of English as a lingua franca within English language teaching in The Association of Southeast Asian Nations- The effect on curriculum design and student identity |
| Dr Maggie Mroczkowski | Teachers’ and pupils’ beliefs about using English and target language in the Scottish secondary modern language learning context |
| Iain Philip (PhD student) | Syrian refugees learning English in Scotland |
| Giulia Pinton (PhD student) | The experience of PGT international students: Collaborative learning and intercultural communication in online settings |
| Lianya Qiu (PhD student) | Stakeholders’ Perspectives on the Curriculum in Complementary Schools – a Comparative Case Study of Polish and Chinese Complementary Schools in Edinburgh |
| Alice Jing Shan (PhD student) | Exploring Internationalization of Higher Education: The Role of English in Chinese Postgraduate Student Experience in the UK |
| Chen Su (PhD student) | A research proposal concerning the influence of intercultural education on the formation of language learners' identity in Chinese universities |
| Xiaomei Sun (PhD student) | A longitudinal study of extensive reading implementation in Chinese secondary schools |
| Anne Thirkell (PhD student) | A Study of the Pedagogical Approaches used by Gaelic Medium Primary Teachers to Integrate Language and Content Learning |
| Sarah Treloar (PhD student) | Online social network sites for language development |
| WEI Yurou (PhD student) | Using Storytelling for Fifth Grade Students to Learn English Writing in a Chinese Primary School |
| Xuande Wu (PhD student) | Culture shock, acculturation and second language learning motivation: an analytical study of Chinese international students pursuing a Master’s degree at higher education institutions in Scotland |
| Yanru Xin (PhD student) | The Effect of Content and Language Integrated Learning Courses on English Undergraduates' Intercultural Communicative Competence |
| Jing Xu (PhD student) | Proposing Critical Literacy Approach in the Chinese Vocational EFL Classroom |
| Yifang Xu (PhD student) | An investigation of Chinese academics’ language attitudes towards English language norms in UK universities |
| Mei-Hua Yang (PhD student) | Mobile‐assisted language learning, L2 learners' motivation, and learners' burnout |
| Yalin Yin (PhD student) | Race, gender, nationality, and identity: a critical interpretation of Chinese students' study abroad experience |
| Hao Zhang (PhD student) | The interface between Scottish educational language policy and Mandarin pedagogy |
| Leijun Zhang (PhD student) | Exploring teachers’ perceptions of reading strategies and their classroom practices of reading strategy use in Scottish secondary schools |
| Yuchong Zhang (PhD student) | Exploring factors influencing Chinese students' LOTE motivational selves |
| Yue Zhu (PhD student) | Identity Development of Gifted Students in Mainland China |
Social Justice and Inclusion
| Name (sorted in ascending order) | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Sara Abahussain (PhD student) | Exploring the Impacts of Public Kindergarten Expansion Project in Relation to Class Equity in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
| Fatma Busra Aksoy-Kumru (PhD student) | Investigating children's participation in everyday lives in a Froebelian nursery context |
| Bashaer Alotaibi (PhD student) | STEAM for early childhood in Saudi Arabia. A proposed Grade 1 to 3 STEAM Framework for KSA schools with the aim to prepare future generations and advance the realisation of Visions 2030 |
| Sarah Austin (PhD student) | Teacher Development in Refugee Contexts |
| Barbara Becnel (PhD student) | Culture of the Condemned: A Critique of How Death Row Became a Symbol of Heroism for America's Street-Gang Generation |
| Lucy Blackburn (PhD student) | Factors affecting the distribution of student borrowing in Scotland: From universal entitlements to unequal outcomes |
| Eileen Burns (PhD student) | Are the assessments being used to assess Scottish deaf pupils fit for purpose and the assessment special arrangements used by deaf pupils the best choice to provide the best level of access? |
| Serif Cakiray (PhD student) | Exploring the Barriers to Inclusion Which Embedded Within the Socio Ecological Systems of Refugee Children with Disabilities: A Socio-Ecological Analysis |
| Giulia Carozzi (PhD student) | Feeling to live in a legitimate space: towards global citizenship and its education as an ethics of care |
| Fiona Couper Kenney | How do children, parents and professionals understand school non-attendance? Exploring tensions in policy and practice in Scotland |
| Robin Dallas-Childs (PhD student) | Exploring the experiences of looked after children and young people in Scotland |
| Bethan Davies (PhD student) | How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted on Scottish Childminders and their services? |
| Barbara Dzieciatko- Szendrei (PhD student) | Making Sense of Teachers' Communities of Practice with Social and Epistemic Network Analysis |
| Miranda Eodanable (PhD student) | Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: An Exploration of Professionals’ and Young People’s Views on Diagnosis |
| Cagla Ergul (PhD student) | Investigating inclusive education for children identified as having special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) by focusing on social communication and participation for the educational and sociological domain |
| Jianing Fu (PhD student) | How does COVID-19 affect children's access to urban green spaces: A comparative study between advantaged and disadvantaged family in urban China |
| Huaiyuan Huang (PhD student) | Ethnic Solidarity Education and Identity Construction: Migrant Ethnic Korean Youth in Changchun City, Northeast China |
| Yu-Tang [Oliver] Huang (PhD student) | Rapid Expanded Asian Higher Education and Social Justice: Discovering systematic social transformations result from state level strategies and governance of higher education in China |
| Hazhari Ismail | Education Access in Promoting Equitable Quality Education: A Phenomenological Study from Public Preschool Teachers |
| Anastasia Kalokyri (Ph.D. Research Student) | Young people with ADHD, complex social identities and school experiences in Scottish context: Moving beyond deficit labels |
| Anne Kent (PhD student) | The Self - Reported Health and Well-being of the Children of Scottish Prisoners |
| Ozlem Kocyigit (PhD student) | Critical Peace Education in Northern Kurdistan: Exploring peace, violence and possibilities for conflict resolution through teachers' resistance |
| Selin Korkmaz (PhD student) | Jock Tamson’s New Bairns: Syrian Refugee Children in Scottish Schools |
| Brendan Kwiatkowski (PhD student) | Healthy masculinity and adolescence: Resilience to restrictive masculinity |
| Minkyung Kwon (PhD Research Student) | Gender Perspectives of South Korean Students in Designing Sex Education |
| Liz Latto (PhD student) | The Politics of Professionalisation: the changing roles of practitioners within Early Learning and Childcare |
| Ethan Lewis (PhD student) | The Impacts of Community Gardening |
| Yan Liang (PhD student) | Gender Inequality in Higher Education in China: A Comparative Analysis between Eastern and Western China |
| Jian Liao (PhD student) | Equity and Inclusion in Education for Migrant Pupils in Urban China |
| Morgan Ludington (PhD student) | Menstruation Stigmas: Discovering the Past, Understanding the Present, and Directing the Future |
| Yuemiao Ma (PhD student) | Citizenship education embedded in Model United Nations: an explorative study on Chinese secondary school students |
| Jane Malcolm (PhD student) | Love, passion and professionalism |
| Keren Miguel (PhD student) | Inclusion in the Classroom: Transition Planning for Youths with Special Education Needs in Trinidad and Tobago |
| Alison Murphy (PhD student) | The Role of the Union Representative in Scottish Secondary Schools |
| AE O'Donnell (PhD student) | Learning to challenge epistemic injustice: collective advocacy and mental health law reform in Scotland |
| Susanne Paulus (PhD student) | Exploring outdoor activities for people with refugee and migrant biographies / Relational processes in an intercultural and inclusive community garden |
| Xue Qin (PhD student) | Gender differences of the elderly in receiving lifelong learning in first-tier cities in China |
| Faiz Rozlan (PhD student) | The Impact of Ethnic-Quota System on Social and Applied Science’s Undergraduate Students’ Entry Experience in Malaysia |
| Gizem Silistire (PhD student) | Conceptualisations of childhoods and early learning and childcare (ELC): The experiences of children and practitioners based on practitioners' perspectives in the Scottish context during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| Jiyuan Song (PhD student) | Parental investment in education: An ethnographic case study of first and second generation Chinese immigrant families in Scotland |
| Shrikant Wad (PhD student) | Social disparities amongst undergraduate disciplines: a realist inquiry into choice and affirmative action in India |
| Josh Watters (PhD student) | Cosmopolitan capital and global citizenship: British international schooling in post-colonial Southeast Asia |
| Chen Zhang (PhD student) | Closing the Broch: Applicant to returnee, an ethnographic study of a group of Chinese students complete Scottish education journey to investigate how they make adjustments emotionally, cognitively and behaviourally that may influence their educational, sociocultural and employment success |
| Suqiong Zheng (PhD student) | Teacher Agency for Professional Learning Communities in Schools |
| Qiyu Zhuang (PhD candidate) | Academic Environment |
Sport-Related Research
| Name (sorted in descending order) | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Norah Alali (PhD student) | Exploring the attitudes of coaches towards the adoption of various theoretical learning models in exercises designing |
| Helen Alfano (PhD student) | Supporting the best, better: developing the science behind sport science and medicine delivery |
| Nimra Arshad (PhD student) | The Effectiveness of Aquatic Exercises for Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain |
| Liron Blajwajs (PhD student) | Mentalization among People with Hypermobility - Mentalizing Abilities, Mental Health and Rheumatic Pain |
| Clive Brewer (PhD student) | Modelling the interpersonal & operational management requirements of Science and sports medicine as required to enhance performance within high performance sports organisations |
| Andrew Burns (PhD student) | Interdisciplinary approach to performance support or Coaching by Committee |
| Jojo Chen (PhD student) | The impact of Sponsorship of the Olympics game on brand equity |
| Chongzhi Chu (PhD student) | Sport, nationalism, national identity and regional identity in China |
| Graham Condie (PhD student) | Experiencing and living with Cerebral Palsy or a similar neurological condition and finding meaning in recreation and disability sport |
| Eva Coral Almeida (PhD student) | Breaks from sitting and their effects on musculoskeletal spinal tissues in adults |
| Dan Cox (PhD student) | Coach Education: Working towards a self-driven and critical environment |
| Fiona Cox (PhD student) | Determining the demands that place load on National Organ Retrieval Service team members |
| Francis Devine (PhD student) | Exploring Master Narratives in Scottish Sport & Society: Print Media Representations of Catholics, Catholicism and the Catholic Church |
| Denise Dewar (MScR student) | Measuring Quality in Initial Teacher Education (MQuITE): University of Edinburgh Physical Education graduate students perspectives on initial teacher education |
| Margarida Dias (PhD student) | Three-Dimensional Kinematics and Bio-energetics in Backstroke Swimming |
| Paul Downes (PhD student) | Evaluating perceptions of high level S and C coaches on the types of knowledge and skills needed, and their relevance to work in the field |
| Chris Duncan (PhD student) | Creating Space in Invasion Games |
| Callum Ferguson (PhD student) | Towards Optimising Golf Performance: Understanding and Applying Interdisciplinary Interventions |
| Ashley Ferkol (PhD student) | Evaluating the Key Teamwork Competencies, Cognitive Demands and Context Factors that Contribute to Effective Training in Emergency Response Teams |
| Vanessa Fernandez Vidueira (PhD student) | Chronotypes in Adolescence: The impact of chronotypes on performance in adolescents |
| Andy Grech (PhD student) | An investigation into the extrinsic factors that hinder sports development and capabilities in Malta |
| Steffan Griffin (PhD student) | Rugby Union, and Health and Wellbeing |
| Stephanie Hardley (PhD student) | Understanding mental, social, and emotional wellbeing for socially and economically disadvantaged pupils attending "middle class" schools |
| Vedam Hariharan (PhD student) | The Impact of 'Social Character' in the development of South Asian cricketers in the UK |
| Jen Harris (PhD student) | A project to deepen the research into parenting in youth sport with the aim of constructing a parental educational program to support parents and help improve their child's sporting journey |
| Niamh Hart (PhD student) | Creating an Evidence Based Resource for Inclusive Yoga in Mainstream Schools |
| Matthew Hillyer (PhD student) | Understanding the Talent Development Environment in Youth Football of an emerging nation |
| Matthew Holmes (PhD student) | Sport and International Development Partnerships in Zambia |
| Hamish Johnson (PhD student) | Exercise & rehabilitation in children with Cerbral Palsy (CP) |
| Bernadette Kellermann (PhD student) | The role of emotions in transition processes between performance states |
| Hui Kwan Nicholas Lam (PhD student) | Understanding the development of mental fatigue in orienteering |
| Matthew Layton (PhD student) | Pinch points on the pathway: Supporting players through the development of effective attitude and skills |
| Chuchu Li (PhD student) | The Effect of Standing Desks on School-age Children’s Sedentary Behavior, Classroom Behavior and Academic Performance |
| Junru Li (PhD student) | Sport and National Identity in the Media : The Case of Naturalised Athletes in China |
| Shiyang Li (PhD student) | Understanding and Developing Sports Coaching Expertise in China |
| Junjay Lin (PhD student) | International Relations and Development for Sport in Taiwan |
| Heini Lopponen (PhD student) | The effects of voluntary breath control on the wellbeing of school children – the psychophysiological variables at play |
| Anne Macdonald (PhD student) | Adapting mindfulness-based programmes to the workplace |
| Keri McDonald (PhD student) | Evolvement of SDP within the South African Context |
| Paul McFarlane (PhD student) | Transatlantic Dimensions: The Scots and North American Soccer, c. 1870s - 1939 |
| Alice Mees (PhD student) | Developing Judgement and Decision Making in Outdoor Instructors |
| Cristian Mesquida Caldentey (PhD student) | Influence of trunk neuromuscular factors on swimming biomechanics in well-trained swimmers |
| Jack Moran (PhD student) | Treasure Maps for The Long and Winding Road: Exploring the design and implementation of interdisciplinary curriculums to support non-linear development in team sport talent pathways |
| Derek O'Riordan (PhD student) | Epistemic Vigilence & Informed Consent in Coach Mentor / Coach Relationships |
| Mark Pace (PhD student) | Exploring a male ballet dancers adolescent years and the different events and transitions that affected their talent development and how their interpersonal relationships influenced them during these different transitions and events |
| Lesley Page (PhD student) | Experiential teaching and understanding the instructors awareness of learning processes |
| Marianna Pavan (PhD student) | The quest for stable and peaceful multicultural societies in Europe: Finding an answer in sport as a tool for interreligious dialogue |
| Amy Price (PhD student) | Learning and performance returns from using digital game design principles in sport coaching |
| Meijun Qu (PhD student) | Developing resilience and coaching life skills in Youth Sport: A qualitative investigation of Chinese sport-based coaches |
| Craig Riddle (PhD student) | Objective measures of impaired lower limb impairments in RaceRunning athletes with Cerebral Palsy |
| Erin Robertson (MScR student) | Changes in swimming performance with maturation and the influence of daily training |
| Sian Salmon (PhD Research Student) | Physical Demands of Competitive Dance: What are the demands and are current training and nutritional programmes sufficient? |
| Erin Sanchez (PhD student) | Developing Talent in Dance: What is needed and how are young dancers best prepared? |
| Bradley Sharples (PhD student) | Lower-Order Sports Mega-Events and Capability Development: A Comparative Analysis of Birmingham 2022 and the Southeast Asian Games |
| Henry Shiplee (PhD student) | The same and different: understanding the nuance of Paralympic athlete development as a biopsychosocial phenomenon |
| Kait Simpson (PhD student) | University Sport and Mental Health |
| April Steffeck (PhD student) | Effectiveness of Initial Teacher Training for Teacher Directed Violence |
| Guy Stern (PhD student) | Assessing Training Modalities Effect on Mobility in Recreational Senior and Masters Athletes |
| Linda Thomson (EdD student) | To what extent do the strategic fit and new managerial models explain practice at individual college level in the College sector in Scotland? |
| Christos Toumazou (PhD student) | The impact of football-based community programmes on improving educational attainment in Scotland |
| Corissa Vella White (PhD student) | Sport policy in Malta, sport policy in other small states, elite athletes, infrastructure, athlete schemes |
| Ross Walker (PhD student) | Basketball, Culture and Society in a Devolved Context |
| Chenqi Wang (PhD student) | Body image and social media internalization of social, physical & facial ideals: gender, athletic and cultural differences in young adults |
| Chufeng Wang (PhD student) | Global Football Governance and China |
| John Widdowson (PhD student) | Transference of life skill in the sporting environment |
| Chloë Williamson | Moving messages: Building the evidence base on physical activity messaging to inform research and policy, and improve practice |
| Ning [Vicky] Xiao (PhD student) | The Effects of a Walking Exercise Programme on Fall-Related Fitness, Body Composition, and Psychosocial Health in Sedentary Elderly Women |
| Wen Ye (PhD student) | The role of sport as a soft power asset for Britain and China to advance international relations |
| Chenxi Yin (PhD student) | Meaningfulness within youth sport? |
| Christian Ytterboel (PhD student) | Human Performance Enhancement: Developing and testing a new system for military mental skills training (MMT) for the Norwegian Armed Forces |
| Yang Zhao (PhD student) | Participation in Scottish Country Dancing in Edinburgh |
| Yuepeijing Zhuo | Switching to Fitness Apps Gets Students Moving: A Study into the Effect of Fitness Application Intervention in Improving Physical Activity and Health-related Quality of Life among University Students in Scotland |
Teacher Education, Curriculum and Pedagogy
| Name (sorted in ascending order) | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Alison Adams (PhD student) | How teachers become curriculum makers through Problem-Based Learning |
| Luke Addison (PhD student) | Bringing Children's Voices to the Fore of 'Learning for Sustainability' |
| Soha Altayar (PhD student) | Needs Analysis and Course design: In Arabic for Academic Purposes at the Princess Nourah University (PNU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (case study) |
| Amy Aukland (PhD student) | Spotlight on Teachers: Policy and Practice in Scotland and Wales |
| Sarah Austin (PhD student) | Teacher Development in Refugee Contexts |
| Ciara Blennerhassett (PhD student) | Tracking the process of PE curriculum development in Ireland from the perspectives of the key stakeholders |
| Anthea Coleman-Chan | Making the Third Mission possible: Investigating academic staff experiences of Community-engaged Learning |
| Marshall Dozier (EdD student) | DE Conceptualisations of information and data handling |
| Anouska Duffy (PhD student) | 'ACT'ing OUT! Intersecting stories of bias and stigma in 'OUT'door Education |
| Amambo Essien (PhD student) | John Dewey's Democratic Education and the Problems of Primary Education in Nigeria |
| Christian Hanser (PhD student and MSc tutor) | Wandering with a shepherd’s hut: fragments of a vagabond methodology |
| Louise Hawxwell (PhD student) | Impact of Early Experiences on Perceptions and Practices of Outdoor Learning in Primary Education Trainees |
| Ann Jamieson (EdD student) | Teach First participants' perceptions of the extent to which their professional learning experiences have enabled or constrained the development of their capabilities and values in addressing issues of educational disadvantage |
| Anna Jesseman (PhD student) | Enhancing The Wellbeing of Teachers Through Direct Clinical Therapy and Trauma-Informed Professional Development |
| Argyris Karapitsanis (PhD student) | The utilization of drama in education as a tool for learning for primary school children, in museums and galleries |
| Shang-Zhan Lee (PhD student) | Teachers' beliefs and practices concerning outdoor learning in Taiwanese characteristic schools |
| Chang Liu (PhD student) | Education for a meaningful life in the Chinese higher education context |
| Chris Mackie (PhD student) | The role of natural heritage in supporting learning and development in Scotland |
| Ian Normile | |
| Sonia Sjollema (PhD student) | Dealing with diversity in Makerspaces: a social pedagogical approach |
| Julia Skilton (PhD student) | Climate Change Education: Full STEAM Ahead |
| Carol Smith (EdD student) | Supporting transitions from pre-school to primary 1: how do expectations of the key stakeholders link to policy and practices? |
| Stephen Sowa (Tutor & PhD student) | Understanding the complexities of supporting children’s career aspirations and preparedness for the changing world of work |
| Jill Steel PhD | Children's Reading and Wellbeing: Exploring the influence of Reading to Dogs |
| Robby Steel (EdD student) | Recording Issues of Professional Performance in Medical Students and Doctors |
| Lewis Stockwell (PhD student) | The Educational Aims of Canoeing |
| Anli Su (PhD student) | Teachers' Perceptions and Experiences of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in Taiwan |
| Xiaomeng Tian (PhD student) | A multiple case study of pedagogical relationships in different disciplinary areas in a research-intensive university in the UK |
| Dr Xiaowen (Serina) Xie | Global Englishes Language Teaching Curriculum Innovation and Teacher Education |
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