Research students
Find out about our postgraduate students and their research, grouped here by research thematic hub.
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Marifatul Amalia |
Inequalities in science education: Using PISA data to investigate the role of family and school factors |
Disentangling the importance of individual, family and neighbourhood factors on educational outcomes using sibling data |
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Intergenerational income mobility and its implication to education policy: the case of China |
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Exploring the impacts of public kindergarten expansion project in relation to class equity in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
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Bringing children's voices to the fore of 'Learning for Sustainability' |
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Exploring children’s agency, parental consent and children's views and experiences of wellbeing in elite sport |
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Exploring the barriers to inclusion which are embedded within the socio-ecological systems of refugee children with disabilities: A socio-ecological analysis |
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Yin Chan |
The phenomenon of sexual violence against children in Hong Kong from the perspective of frontline workers in child protection |
Justina (Tina) Chikezie |
Influence of Parenting on Behavioural Disturbances among Students in Secondary Schools in Nigeria |
How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted on Scottish childminders and their services? |
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Carolina Echegaray |
Healing, love and kindness: Revaluing indigenous knowledge for preventing and responding to harm and abuse |
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: An exploration of professionals’ and young people’s views on diagnosis |
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Rimin Johnson |
Comparative case study on law enforcement responses to child sexual abuse in Scotland and India (State of Kerala) |
Being and Belonging: Exploring 'otherness' in contemporary fantasy literature (working title) |
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An Ethnography on the School Experiences of Secondary School Students with ADHD in Scotland: Moving Towards an Intersectional Approach to Inclusion |
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Sherzod Khaydarov |
The role of international branch campuses in stimulating international research collaboration in Uzbekistan |
Gender perspectives of South Korean students in designing sex education |
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The politics of professionalisation: The changing roles of practitioners within early learning and childcare |
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Six-to-eight-year-old Chinese children's participation in choosing hobbies |
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A study on children's human rights under the kindergarten education context in China |
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Exploring the potential of the Autism Practice Improvement Framework (APIF) to support autistic pupils' educational experiences and inclusion |
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Parental engagement in young children’s learning in rural Tajikistan |
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Ewajesu Okewumi |
Children's participatory rights and decision making |
Konstantina Papaspyropoulou |
"Play, play-based learning, playful learning": Which term would Froebel use? An exploration of the influential factors that contribute to the development of different play opportunities in the early years in Glasgow |
The understandings and practices of Chinese young people's participation in the context |
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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 |
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Narrative fiction as a mirror and a window: Exploring adolescents' reading experiences |
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Pavithra Sarma |
Early years in Scotland: An exploration of 'race', class, gender and coloniality in child-centred learning within home-educating communities of colour |
The impact of the climate crisis on school education: Perspectives and voices of adolescent tribal girls in India |
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Carleigh Slater |
Peer perceptions of violent behaviour students |
Developing a framework of children's human rights indicators for Scotland |
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Tackling the drop-off: Understanding the teenage reading experience |
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Understanding American out-of-school youth development policies and practice through young people, practitioners and discourse theory |
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Involving children from minority ethnic groups in constructing children's human rights indicators: Take Scottish Chinese children as an example |
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Peer rejection, teacher-children relationships and ADHD in the classroom |
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Thesis title TBC |
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Would children's computational thinking skills affect their peer relationships? |
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Enmeshed experiences? Enactments of digital pedagogy in an international online MBA. |
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Investigating the influence of digital writing tools on student writing performance, autonomy and academic integrity |
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Pedagogical methods and approaches for teaching data literacy to children at early primary level in Scotland |
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Nik Nur Athirah Binti Nik Mohd Arif | ESL instructors' attitudes and challenges in integrating AR technology for teaching writing |
Carlos Ortegon Banoy |
Thesis title TBC |
Place-responsive higher education at a distance |
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Can an 'online data literacy teacher training with professional network' support teachers' pedagogical beliefs and data education practices in the classroom? |
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Raúl Gómez Hernández |
The communication of cultural heritage among European students. A comparative international analysis of museums, collections, and university archives in Edinburgh and Madrid. |
Blinding data: exploring data epistemologies in school |
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Circles around the grit: An enquiry into multi-modal pedagogy |
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Exploring ESL lecturers' synchronous and asynchronous corrective feedback strategies on students' learning of academic writing via computer-mediated environment |
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Mind over matter: Digital STEM education... child's play? |
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Emerging digital technologies and their influence in higher education: A sociomateriality approach |
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Keqi Li |
A mixed-method research on how to apply artificial intelligence to assist teachers on educational assessment in China |
Fuji Lyu |
Innovating ethics education using Game Theory: Creating and testing design principles for education games and interactive environments to teach ethics |
Meenakshi Mani |
The limits of algorithmic intelligence: Artificial Intelligence in K-12 classrooms |
Agnes Michalczyk |
Augmented identities: Immersive media and heritage in historic Cairo |
The Influence of mobile devices and social media on the transfer of learning in residential outdoor experiences |
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Alvaro Nicolas Ruiz |
Open educational resources: a model for educational equity in rural Colombia |
Tensions in reflective practice: Exploring the everyday reflective work of undergraduate medical students, an institutional ethnography |
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Siqi Wang | Ethical considerations for the use of artificial intelligence in education |
Yu (Jade) Wang | Speculative design with generative AI: future forms of collaborative imagination and interdisciplinary learning interaction |
Problematising the use of digital media in parent-practitioner collaboration: A Chinese perspective |
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Language editing, norm-formation and standard English in research publications by non-L1 writers of English |
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Evaluating the use of portfolios as an assessment tool for students writing in Arabic as a second language |
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The impact of Augmented Reality (AR) books on the reading comprehension and reading enjoyment of struggling readers |
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What do you mean by "you rock"? Implementation of pragmatics in EFL classroom: A rramework for teaching pragmatics in Saudi Arabia. |
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Pragmatic competence and professional teaching performance: A longitudinal mixed-method study |
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An investigation into the factors of mentoring undergraduates in research projects: A faculty motivation perspective |
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Measuring the impact of Covid-19 on Gaelic language acquisition in the primary school within Gaelic-medium immersion settings |
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English language opportunities and challenges in online English Medium (EM) classrooms in higher education: A multiple case study |
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Representations and stereotypes of Special Educational Needs and disabilities in picture books |
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Effects of process approach on the reducing of writing anxiety of college students in China |
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Siyan Chen |
Interaction between emotion and strategy use in Chinese international students' vocabulary learning |
A Foucauldian-informed discourse analysis of creativity in college English teaching in China |
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Xueqi Chen | Interdisciplinary and paradigmatic influences on lexical bundles in research articles |
Zhiying Chen | Exploring Teacher Cognition of Chinese EFL Teachers in Listening Teaching |
Heritage identity and language development: The role of extra-curricular activities in Japanese complementary school in Scotland |
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"Maybe we can have a try." Chinese-English hedging devices and native English teacher attitudes in the university context. |
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Secondary school modern language teachers' perspectives on "race" and language: Racializing languages in Scottish education |
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Languaging for thinking in science |
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Yuyan Gao |
L2 teacher motivation in Chinese senior high schools: A complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) perspective |
Caroline Gordon | Measuring the impact of the Scottish Government's 1+2 language policy on multilingualism in terms of the connection between language, culture, identity and belonging. |
Midwest United States teachers and their preparedness for the changing diversity in their classrooms |
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Academic literacies for deeper learning: A longitudinal study of CLIL in primary science classrooms |
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Examining transnational higher education from staff perceptions of their academic roles in a Sino-foreign university |
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Exploring student rationales for continuing or changing different TNE study pathways (4+0, 3+1, or 2+2) in a Chinese cooperative university |
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Creativity in Indonesian EFL contexts: Bridging theory, policy and practice |
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Which motivational strategies should EFL teachers select to motivate Japanese high school students? Developing the criteria for the selection depending on students' intrinsic motivation level. |
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The transmission of cultural values in bilingual teaching at KS1-KS2 |
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Xuan Li |
An ethnographic study of how Chinese secondary-school ESL learners construct their identity through engagement with modern English literary works |
Qi Liu |
An investigation of oral and written corrective feedback in bilingual education classrooms in China: A teacher and student feedback literacy perspective with an ecological lens |
Teacher continuing professional development in Shared Learning Spaces: Providing feedback in technology-assisted English language teaching context |
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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 |
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An t-Ionnsachadh Òg: Positive pedagogies for Gaelic 0-3 groups |
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The experience of PGT international students: Collaborative learning and intercultural communication in online settings |
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Stakeholders’ perspectives on the curriculum in complementary schools: A comparative case study of Polish and Chinese complementary schools in Edinburgh |
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Yi Sang | Thesis title TBC |
Jingyao Shi |
An action research on how CSL teachers’ intercultural teaching practice develop students' intercultural competence |
A research proposal concerning the influence of intercultural education on the formation of language learners' identity in Chinese universities |
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Qianhui Sun |
Should we combine data-driven learning and tasked-based language teaching for lower-level learners? Exploring the attitudes of students and teachers towards the synergy. |
A longitudinal study of extensive reading implementation in Chinese secondary schools |
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Jiaqi Tian |
How would they deal with it? Chinese pre-service EFL teachers' perspectives on engaging sexual identity issues in China |
Yi Tian | Elite education in the age of ‘common prosperity’: A multiple-case study of internationalized schools in Shanghai, China |
An in-depth analysis of teachers' directed motivational currents in Chinese EFL teaching contexts |
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Yian (Clark) Wang | Novel Chinese ESL Learners' Strategy Management to Improve Vocabulary Use in Instant Messaging with Other English Speakers |
The role of fairy tales as instructional materials for teaching English as a foreign language in Chinese kindergartens |
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The effect of content and language integrated learning courses on English undergraduates' intercultural communicative competence |
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Yilan Xu |
A mixed-method investigation into the academic writing difficulties of Chinese overseas postgraduate students |
Mobile‐assisted language learning, L2 learners' motivation and learners' burnout |
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Qianyu Yang |
Chinese students' multilingual identity and its effects on academic English performance: A case study in study-abroad contexts |
Hattice Yarar |
From diagnosis to education: The experiences of families with late-diagnosed deaf children of low-income bilingual families |
Meihui (Vanessa) Yi | A longitudinal study: The impact of language learning vloggers and their videos on the motivation of Chinese French major students in higher education in the UK |
Race, gender, nationality and identity: A critical interpretation of Chinese students' study abroad experience |
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Dongchen (Helen) Yu | A philosophical inquiry of self and other relationships in intercultural communication: From ethical self and other to political self towards otherness |
Caixia Yuan |
Investigating the efficacy of using screencast feedback on Chinese postgraduates' academic writing and perception |
Using storytelling for fifth grade students to learn English writing in a Chinese primary school |
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Culture shock, acculturation and second language learning motivation: an analytical study of Chinese international students pursuing a masters degree at higher education institutions in Scotland |
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Yongqi Zeng |
Exploring the discipline variations: Translanguaging as pedagogical practices in English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) Chinese online university SPOC courses |
Exploring teachers’ perceptions of reading strategies and their classroom practices of reading strategy use in Scottish secondary schools |
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Exploring factors influencing Chinese students' LOTE motivational selves |
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Identity development of gifted students in mainland China |
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Exploring the impacts of public kindergarten expansion project in relation to class equity in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
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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 |
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Teacher development in refugee contexts |
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Culture of the condemned: A critique of how death row became a symbol of heroism for America's street-gang generation |
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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? |
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Exploring the barriers to inclusion which embedded within the socio-ecological systems of refugee children with disabilities: A socio-ecological analysis |
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Feeling to live in a legitimate space: Towards global citizenship and its education as an ethics of care |
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How has the Covid-19 pandemic impacted on Scottish childminders and their services? |
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Making sense of teachers' communities of practice with social and epistemic network analysis |
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Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: An exploration of professionals’ and young people’s views on diagnosis |
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Cagla Ergul |
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 |
How does COVID-19 affect children's access to urban green spaces: A comparative study between advantaged and disadvantaged families in urban China |
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Ethnic solidarity education and identity construction: Migrant ethnic Korean youth in Changchun City, Northeast China |
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Rapid expanded Asian higher education and social justice: Discovering systematic social transformations result from state level strategies and governance of higher education in China |
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Yuqing Huang |
International mobility of young scholars: Motivations, realities and retention mechanisms from a glonacal perspective |
Education access in promoting equitable quality education: A phenomenological study from public preschool teachers |
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Young people with ADHD, complex social identities and school experiences in Scottish context: Moving beyond deficit labels |
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The self-reported health and wellbeing of the children of Scottish prisoners |
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Critical peace education in Northern Kurdistan: Exploring peace, violence and possibilities for conflict resolution through teachers' resistance |
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Jock Tamson’s New Bairns: Syrian refugee children in Scottish schools |
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Gender perspectives of South Korean students in designing sex education |
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Pei-Yu (Joy) Lan |
Investigating the technology-supported personalised learning and teaching experience in inclusive education in the UK and Taiwan |
The politics of professionalisation: The changing roles of practitioners within early learning and childcare |
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Gender inequality in higher education in China: A comparative analysis between Eastern and Western China |
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Menstruation stigmas: Discovering the past, understanding the present and directing the future |
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Citizenship education embedded in Model United Nations: An explorative study on Chinese secondary school students |
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Gabrielle Njie |
How do educational leadership professionals implement equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) into qualification design and policy? |
Learning to challenge epistemic injustice: Collective advocacy and mental health law reform in Scotland |
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Gender differences of the elderly in receiving lifelong learning in first-tier cities in China |
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The impact of ethnic-quota system on social and applied science’s undergraduate students’ entry experience in Malaysia |
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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 |
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Parental investment in education: An ethnographic case study of first- and second-generation Chinese immigrant families in Scotland |
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Social disparities amongst undergraduate disciplines: A realist inquiry into choice and affirmative action in India |
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Conceptions of 'international': British international schooling in post-colonial Southeast Asia |
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Suoyi Yang | Read into Student Bodies in Chinese in situ 'International' Education: Revealing Institutional Powers in the Assemblage of Mobility and Immobility |
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 |
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Teacher agency for professional learning communities in schools |
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Academic environment |
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Exploring the attitudes of coaches towards the adoption of various theoretical learning models in exercises designing |
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Noor Alshammari |
Talent pathways' development in women's high school basketball |
Athari Alshemmari |
Identifying stressors in adolescent gymnasts and evaluating the use of psychological training skills to help counter them and enhance performance |
The effectiveness of aquatic exercises for chronic nonspecific low back pain |
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William Wynter Bee |
Considering the health benefit of golf for those with a disability, and understanding illness and health provision in elite and professional golf (and disparities between groups) |
Mentalization among people with hypermobility: Mentalizing abilities, mental health and rheumatic pain |
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Modelling the interpersonal & operational management requirements of science and sports medicine as required to enhance performance within high performance sports organisations |
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Interdisciplinary approach to performance support or coaching by committee |
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Jingyi Cao |
Beyond the arena: The impact of social networks and policy on elite athletes' post-career transitions in China |
The impact of sponsorship of the Olympics game on brand equity |
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Sport, nationalism, national identity and regional identity in China |
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Vincent Coleman |
Trauma-aware pedagogies in Physical Education |
Experiencing and living with Cerebral Palsy or a similar neurological condition and finding meaning in recreation and disability sport |
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Determining the demands that place load on National Organ Retrieval Service team members |
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Exploring master narratives in Scottish sport and society: Print media representations of Catholics, Catholicism and the Catholic Church |
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Chiyuan Ding | Understanding the value of emotional intelligence in facilitating development of quality coaching performance in grassroots youth football |
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 |
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Creating space in invasion games |
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Towards optimising golf performance: Understanding and applying interdisciplinary interventions |
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Evaluating the key teamwork competencies, cognitive demands and context factors that contribute to effective training in emergency response teams |
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Chronotypes in adolescence: The impact of chronotypes on performance in adolescents |
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Chongzheng Gan | The impact of mega sports events on the host country's soft power: A study of China |
Moving more for mental well-being in menopause: development of workplace intervention strategies |
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Hamish Gornall |
Scottish Rugby Union tackle height law change evaluation: LaCE study |
An investigation into the extrinsic factors that hinder sports development and capabilities in Malta |
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Rugby Union and health and wellbeing |
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Understanding mental, social and emotional wellbeing for socially and economically disadvantaged pupils attending "middle class" schools |
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The impact of “social character” in the development of South Asian cricketers in the UK |
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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 |
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Creating an evidence-based resource for inclusive yoga in mainstream schools |
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An evidence-informed approach to rally motorsport coach education and development |
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Understanding the talent development environment in youth football of an emerging nation |
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Laken James |
Mentorship for female athletes to maximize their potential on and off the court |
Yuxi Jiang |
Investigating the role, teaching and transfer of Body Rhythm within Folk Dance to improve wellbeing |
The role of emotions in transition processes between performance states |
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Yvette Man-Yi Kong |
Deciphering the art of challenging coaching: Balancing challenge and psychological safety for optimal talent development in high performance sport |
Understanding the development of mental fatigue in orienteering |
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Pinch points on the pathway: Supporting players through the development of effective attitude and skills |
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Improving mental health and promoting PA for older adults through walking under green space exposure in the context of tactical urbanism and nature-based health intervention |
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The effect of standing desks on school-age children’s sedentary behavior, classroom behavior and academic performance |
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Sport and national identity in the media: The case of naturalised athletes in China |
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Understanding and developing sports coaching expertise in China |
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Yujing Li |
Effects of physical activities and active video games in children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder |
International relations and development for sport in Taiwan |
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Tongyu Liu |
Identifying the cognitive demands on professional E-sports players’ performance in MOBA games competitions |
Evolvement of SDP within the South African context |
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Transatlantic dimensions: The Scots and North American soccer, c. 1870s - 1939 |
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Developing judgement and decision making in outdoor instructors |
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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 |
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Tayla Mounter |
Research into the practice behaviours, the talent development environment (TDE) and social influences within elite squash |
Exploring a male ballet dancer’s 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 |
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Experiential teaching and understanding the instructors’ awareness of learning processes |
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The quest for stable and peaceful multicultural societies in Europe: Finding an answer in sport as a tool for interreligious dialogue |
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Developing resilience and coaching life skills in Youth Sport: A qualitative investigation of Chinese sport-based coaches |
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Suhaib Rambo | Shoulder aquatic prehabilitation development programme for adult recreational swimmers |
Hongyu Ran |
A qualitative and quantitative study of the effects of HIIT on smoking cessation |
Objective measures of impaired lower limb impairments in RaceRunning athletes with Cerebral Palsy |
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Sport and the city: The social, cultural and economic impact of sport on the City of Dubai |
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Patrick Robinson | Thesis TBC |
Physical demands of competitive dance: What are the demands and are current training and nutritional programmes sufficient? |
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Developing talent in dance: What is needed and how are young dancers best prepared? |
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Lower-order sports mega-events and capability development: A comparative analysis of Birmingham 2022 and the Southeast Asian Games |
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The same and different: understanding the nuance of Paralympic athlete development as a biopsychosocial phenomenon |
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Development and evaluation of design characteristics to encourage Chinese student participation in university group walks |
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University sport and mental health |
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Effectiveness of initial teacher training for teacher-directed violence |
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Assessing training modalities’ effect on mobility in recreational senior and masters athletes |
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Margaret (Meg) Stone |
Better performance and more balanced leadership: Promoting role clarity and female leadership in elite sport |
Jason Taylor |
Develop a unifying methodology to facilitate the operationalisation and development of decision-making expertise in adventure sports coaching |
Terrence Teixeira | Shaping the Paralympic movement: An analysis of the inter-organisational dynamics between the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee, and its impact on the Paralympic Games |
Lisa Thomson | Food for thought: PE teachers' awareness of eating disorders and the messages they portray within health and wellbeing |
Hannah Walton |
Evaluation of World Rugby Activate Injury Prevention Programme in Scottish Female Rugby Union |
Body image and social media internalization of social, physical and facial ideals: Gender, athletic and cultural differences in young adults |
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Global football governance and China |
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Rakhmat Wibowo |
Developing a framework and checklist on physical activity interventions and policies in university settings |
Transference of life skill in the sporting environment |
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Sport and social stratification in contemporary China: Migrant workers, citizenship and sports rights |
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The role of sport as a soft power asset for Britain and China to advance international relations |
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Meaningfulness within youth sport? |
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Participation in Scottish country dancing in Edinburgh |
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Yingying Zhang |
Understanding lifestyle sport in Scotland |
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 |
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How teachers become curriculum makers through problem-based learning |
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Bringing children's voices to the fore of “Learning for Sustainability” |
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Elisabeth Angerer |
Playful leadership: Facilitating responsive co-creation in the face of ecological crises |
Nik Nur Athirah Binti Nik Mohd Arif |
ESL instructors' attitudes and challenges in integrating AR technology for teaching writing |
Spotlight on teachers: Policy and practice in Scotland and Wales |
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Teacher development in refugee contexts |
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Tracking the process of PE curriculum development in Ireland from the perspectives of the key stakeholders |
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Kevin Brack | In what ways does contemporary Scottish educational policy privilege systemic and organisational needs over the professional interests and desires of individual head teachers? |
The interplay between East Asian and Western philosophical thinking in higher education governance and policy borrowing: An analysis of hybridity of neo-Confucianism and Western philosophies in China and Japan |
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Helen (Kaining) Chen |
Gendered selves in teacher induction: Beginning teachers' professional identity development through the lens of gender in China |
John Dewey's democratic education and the problems of primary education in Nigeria |
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Impact of early experiences on perceptions and practices of outdoor learning in primary education trainees |
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Enhancing the wellbeing of teachers through direct clinical therapy and trauma-informed professional development |
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The utilization of drama in education as a tool for learning for primary school children, in museums and galleries |
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Education for a meaningful life in the Chinese higher education context |
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Miao Liu |
Understanding and practicing teacher leadership: A Chinese perspective |
Thesis title TBC | |
Sara Ramsey |
Decolonizing pedagogy for practical use in the classroom |
Dealing with diversity in Makerspaces: A social pedagogical approach |
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Climate change education: Full STEAM ahead |
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The educational aims of canoeing |
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Teachers' perceptions and experiences of continuing professional development (CPD) in Taiwan |
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A multiple case study of pedagogical relationships in different disciplinary areas in a research-intensive university in the UK |
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