Our students
Join a vibrant research community with over 150 research students. Find out more about our students and their research, grouped here by research thematic hub.
A vibrant community
As a postgraduate research student, you will join a vibrant community with over 150 research students. Several academic and social events for research students take place throughout the year. For example, we have a number of postgraduate courses in research methodologies and other topics that are available for auditing.
Our Graduate School organises an annual series of around 25 different training, talks and seminar events, as well as an ‘Interweaving’ conference for postgraduate research students and staff. All research students and supervisors are invited to attend.
We have a vibrant and expanding research community with a broad portfolio of academic disciplines gathered within seven broad research themes with permeable boundaries.
Our research thematic hubs are:
- Advanced Quantitative Research in Education
- Children and Young People
- Digital Education
- Language Education
- Social Justice and Inclusion
- Sport-Related Research
- The Teacher, Curriculum and Pedagogy
More about each of the thematic hubs
Research students typically align with one of our thematic hubs. The following tables show our students listed under the hubs they are affiliated with.
Advanced Quantitative Research in Education
A new theme 2020.
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' |
| Fatma Busra Aksoy-Kumru (PhD student) | Investigating children's participation in everyday lives in a Froebelian nursery context |
| Colin Brough (PhD student) | What do the stories, told by boys and young men from one foster home, tell us about their upbringing with a single male foster carer? |
| 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 (PhD student) | 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) | The challenges of providing an inclusive environment within registered childminders' settings |
| Miranda Eodanable (PhD student) | Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: An Exploration of Professionals’ and Young People’s Views on Diagnosis |
| Anastasia Kalokyri (PhD student) | Young people labelled 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 | The Politics of Professionalisation: the changing roles of practitioners within Early Learning and Childcare |
| Shu Li (PhD student) | Chinese Parents Effective Involvement in Early Childhood Education: A Comparative Study |
| Jane Malcolm (PhD student) | Love, passion and professionalism |
| Stuart Moir (EdD Summer Graduate 2020) | Young people and learning for democracy: What is the 'really useful knowledge' which can help young people become active citizens |
| Lakshmi Neelakantan (PhD student) | Understanding young people’s experiences of the ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool (ICAST-C): An investigation in Romania, South Africa, and the Philippines |
| Gizem Silistire (PhD student) | Exploring young children's daily experiences in the nursery classroom: Building classroom culture |
| Laura Weiner (PhD student) | Understanding American Out-of-School Youth Development Policies and Practice through Young People, Practitioners, and Discourse Theory |
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 |
| Athary Almuhanna (PhD Research Student) | The effects of Flipped Classroom Model on the learning environment in the light of constructivism |
| Nada Alsayegh (PhD student) | The Cultural Implications of Arabic Massive Open Online Courses in the Middle East |
| Valentina Andries (PhD student) | Promoting play in a children's hospital: a person-centred approach to technology design with families |
| Sharon Boyd (PhD student) | Place-responsive higher education at a distance |
| Eleanor Capaldi (PhD student) | Unlike a Version: The Lives of Digitised Artworks |
| Noreen Dunnett (PhD student) | Re-imagining disengagement from learning: the sociomaterial practices of classrooms and digital game spaces. |
| Maureen Finn (EdD student) | Young people from Travelling families in Scotland |
| Chad Hemady (PhD student) | Using Children's Storybooks as a Prevention Strategy for Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation in the Philippines |
| Ana Hibert (PhD student) | Automated Writing Evaluation as a tool to help ESL students improve their academic writing |
| Cathy Hills (PhD student) | Blinding Data: Exploring data ethics and epistemology in school |
| 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 |
| Zarina Muminova (PhD Student) | Parental Engagement in Early Childhood Education: Evidence from a rural area in Tajikistan |
| Diego Rates (PhD student) | Student Experience Analytics |
| Alexia Revueltas Roux (PhD student) | What does engagement look like in early science learning? Understanding multimodality in engagement |
| Sabina Savadova (PhD student) | Using living journals to explore the role of digital media in young children’s everyday experiences: Listening to families’ stories in Azerbaijan |
| Stephen Sowa (PhD student) | Preparing for the Future of Work: Job Automation Risks and Primary School Pupils’ Career Aspirations and Development |
| 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 |
| Marni Wedin (PhD student) | An examination of the ethos perpetuated in Silicon Valley’s education programs through an interrogation of their success metrics |
Language Education
| 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 |
| 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) |
| Michael Budzenski (PhD student) | The impact of English-medium instruction on students' English language proficiency in higher education |
| Maggie Chan (PhD student) | Representations and Stereotypes of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in Picture Books |
| Dandan (Doreen) Chen (PhD research student) | Visual Languaging: Exploring Visualisation in Language and Cognitive Development through a Pluriliteracies Model in Online EFL Classrooms |
| Sakie Chiba-Mooney (PhD student) | Heritage Identity and Language Development: The role of extra-curricular activities in Japanese complementary school in Scotland |
| 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) | Critical Engagement and Construction of the Native Speaker Identity |
| Leila Eerikainen (PhD student) | Languaging for thinking in science |
| Anthony Elloway (EdD student) | English for Academic Purposes (EAP) |
| Jagdeep Gill (PhD student) | Role of motivation of children in English language learning in India |
| Fangyi Guan (PhD student) | Exploring the link between studying abroad and student employability: A study of international students in Chinese universities |
| Jesús Hernández González (PhD student) | Academic literacies for deeper learning: A longitudinal study of CLIL in Primary Science Classrooms |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Maggie Mroczkowski (PhD student) | Language use in the Scottish modern language classroom: Teacher and pupil attitudes, beliefs and perceptions |
| Iain Philip (PhD student) | Syrian refugees learning English in Scotland |
| Giulia Pinton (PhD student) | Differences in Academia: Factors Impacting European Postgraduate Students¿ Academic Experience in the UK |
| Faiz Rozlan (PhD student) | The Impacts of New Economic Policy’s (NEP) Ethnic-Based Student Quota in Post-NEP Era: A Study on Chinese and Indian Undergraduate Students’ University Choices in Malaysia |
| 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 |
| Ammar Tekin (PhD student) | Personal and Professional Identity Development of Turkish EFL Teachers |
| Anne Thirkell (PhD student) | A Study of the Pedagogical Approaches used by Gaelic-Medium Primary Teachers to Develop Gaelic Language in Gaelic-Medium Education |
| Sarah Treloar (PhD student) | Online social network sites for language development |
| Nur Salwa Binti Abdul Wahid (PhD student) | Culture and the ESL classrooms in relation to willingness to communicate (WTC) at a higher learning institution in Malaysia |
| Yurou Wei (PhD student) | Using Storytelling for Fourth Grade Students to Learn English Writing in Chinese Primary Schools |
| 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 |
| Yinhua [Ann] Wu (PhD student) | What role does a cross-cultural context play in the development of teacher identity: a case study of a group of Chinese Language Assistances (CLAs) |
| Xiaowen [Serina] Xie (PhD student) | Global Englishes Language Teaching’s Influence on Teacher Identity and Learner Identity in Macau's Tertiary Education |
| Jing Xu (PhD student) | Proposing Critical Literacy Approach in the Chinese Vocational EFL Classroom |
| Yifang Xu (PhD student) | An investigation of Chinese academics’ attitudes towards English norms in the UK academic settings |
| Mei-Hua Yang (PhD student) | Mobile‐assisted language learning, L2 learners' motivation, and learners' burnout |
| 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 |
| Qian Qian [Rebekah] Zhou (PhD student) | Motivation VS Language Attainment: A longitudinal multiple-case study on a class of tertiary students learning Chinese in a UK master's programme |
| Yue Zhu (PhD student) | Scottish Chinese Students’ Ethnic identity and School Performance: A Longitudinal Mixed-methods Study |
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 |
| Ghaleyah Alajmi (PhD student) | Effectiveness of Behaviour Management Program for Students with Down syndrome under Inclusive Education in Kuwait |
| 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 |
| Colin Brough (PhD student) | What do the stories, told by boys and young men from one foster home, tell us about their upbringing with a single male foster carer? |
| 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 |
| Dana Cohlmeyer (PhD student) | Contemporary Youth Work, Digital Possibilities: Investigating the influence of technology on the nature and purpose of youth work |
| Fiona Couper Kenney (PhD student) | How do children, parents and professionals understand school non-attendance? Exploring tensions in policy and practice in Scotland |
| Murray Craig (EdD Graduate 2019) | Information Communications and Technology in Physical Education |
| Robin Dallas-Childs (PhD student) | Exploring the experiences of looked after children and young people in Scotland |
| Bethan Davies (PhD student) | The challenges of providing an inclusive environment within registered childminders' settings |
| 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 |
| Christiana Fizet (PhD student) | Ontario history teacher candidates’ understandings of and orientations to Canadian history |
| 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 |
| Anastasia Kalokyri (PhD student) | Young people labelled 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 |
| 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 | The Politics of Professionalisation: the changing roles of practitioners within Early Learning and Childcare |
| 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 |
| Yuemiao Ma (PhD student) | Citizenship education embedded in Model United Nations: a comparative study amongst Scottish and Chinese secondary school students |
| Jane Malcolm (PhD student) | Love, passion and professionalism |
| Keren Miguel (PhD student) | Inclusion within the classroom – Educators’ perceptions of learners with special educational needs in Trinidad and Tobago. |
| Sarah Minty (PhD student) | Young people’s higher education decisions in Scotland: the influence of social class and family attitudes to higher education costs |
| Laura Mitchell (EdD student) | Disrupting Deficit: engaging student teachers and teachers in 21st century Scotland with issues of social justice |
| Hoda Mobasseri (PhD student) | How do adult learning classes promote women's citizenship and empowerment? |
| Dorothy Muraya Neriah (PhD student) | Re-imagining how we understand, research and evaluate foster carer recruitment in England |
| Alison Murphy (PhD student) | The Role of the Union Representative in Scottish Secondary Schools |
| Lakshmi Neelakantan (PhD student) | Understanding young people’s experiences of the ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool (ICAST-C): An investigation in Romania, South Africa, and the Philippines |
| Anne O'Donnell (PhD student) | Learning to challenge epistemic injustice: collective advocacy and mental health law reform in Scotland |
| Yue Qin (PhD student) | Gender differences of the elderly in receiving lifelong learning in first-tier cities in China |
| Gerard Remkes (EdD student) | Incongruence between perceived need for training and motivation to learn. Factors influencing the learning motivation of nursing staff in dialysis settings. |
| Faiz Rozlan (PhD student) | The Impacts of New Economic Policy’s (NEP) Ethnic-Based Student Quota in Post-NEP Era: A Study on Chinese and Indian Undergraduate Students’ University Choices in Malaysia |
| Gizem Silistire (PhD student) | Exploring young children's daily experiences in the nursery classroom: Building classroom culture |
| Dorothea Christiana Vincent (PhD student) | Does civil society need a new institution to progress its development? |
| Shrikant Wad (PhD student) | Social disparities amongst undergraduate disciplines: a realist inquiry into choice and affirmative action in India |
| Josh Watters (PhD student) | Cultural hegemony and global citizenship: the internationalisation of British schooling in postcolonial South and Southeast Asia |
| Katherine Westwood (PhD student) | Participation in inclusive extracurricular activities constructed by the perspectives of children with disabilities |
| 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 |
Sport-Related Research
| Name (sorted in ascending order) | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Helen Alfano (PhD student) | Supporting the best, better: developing the science behind sport science and medicine delivery |
| Mary Allison (PhD student) | Realist Synthesis and Evaluation of Step Count Challenge |
| Daniel Astridge (MScR student) | Performance and physiological adaptations following altitude training in elite collegiate swimmers; effect of training load, sleep quality and acclimatisation |
| Liron Blajwajs (PhD student) | Mentalization among People with Hypermobility - Mentalizing Abilities, Mental Health and Rheumatic Pain |
| Ciara Blennerhassett (PhD student) | Tracking the process of PE curriculum development in Ireland from the perspectives of the key stakeholders |
| 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 |
| Helen Collins (PhD student) | The effect of a resistance training intervention on physical activity levels in youths |
| Rosie Collins (PhD student) | Developing and facilitating psychomotoric concomitants of high level performance |
| 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 |
| Roy Crichton (MScR Summer Graduate 2020) | What makes a happy ending? an interpretative study into the experience of late career teachers who held middle management posts with a pastoral remit in Scottish state schools |
| 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 |
| Ashley Ferkol (PhD student) | Evaluating the Key Teamwork Competencies, Cognitive Demands and Context Factors that Contribute to Effective Training in Emergency Response Teams |
| Vanessa Vidueira (PhD student) | Chronotypes in Adolescence: The impact of chronotype on endurance performance and stress 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 |
| 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) | Investigating individual self-regulation in a team performance context |
| Urvi Khasnis (PhD student) | Establishing the role of sporting pathways and sport psychology in the Indian sports system |
| Nicky Laing (PhD student) | SPEHS Monitoring and understanding the walking behaviour of older adult Paths for All walkers |
| Nicholas H. K. Lam (PhD student) | The development of the mental fatigue protocol for orienteering: A novel approach |
| 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 Media : A Comparison between Britain and 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) | The effects of mindfulness meditation in the workplace: a springboard for a high performing culture? |
| Keri McDonald (PhD student) | Evolvement of SDP within the South African Context |
| Alice Mees (PhD student) | Developing Judgement and Decision Making in Outdoor Instructors |
| David Meir (PhD student) | The Transformational Potential of Sport |
| 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 |
| Gala Morozova (PhD student) | Adaptive Expertise in Transplant Surgery: The Effects of Changing Organ Retrieval Practice on Individual and Team Performance |
| Andrew M Murray (PhD Summer Graduate 2020) | Recovery in youth athletes: Human performance in a Qatari population |
| Andrew Murray (PhD Summer Graduate 2020) | Assessing golf and health, and investigating how the evidence base can impact policy and practice |
| 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 |
| Anne Pankhurst (PhD student) | Fitting Coach Education Programs in Sport to the Cultural Environment of the Coach |
| David Paterson (PhD student) | Investigating the use of mental routines in the post shot period and their impact on performance of clay pigeon shooters in competition |
| Susanne Paulus (PhD student) | Exploring outdoor activities for people with refugee and migrant biographies / Relational processes in an intercultural and inclusive community garden |
| 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 |
| Craig Riddle (PhD student) | Objective measures of impaired lower limb impairments in RaceRunning athletes with Cerebral Palsy |
| 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? |
| Kait Simpson (PhD student) | University Sport and Student-Athlete Mental Health |
| Guy Stern (MScR student) | Assessing Training Modalities Effect on Mobility in Recreational Senior and Masters Athletes |
| Jamie Taylor (PhD Summer Graduate 2020) | The Evolution of Excellence' Investigating progression through a talent pathway |
| 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? |
| Wendy Timmons (PhD student) | The embodied experiences and health risk of hypermobility in a dance narrative |
| 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 |
| John Widdowson (PhD student) | Transference of life skill in the sporting environment |
| Ella Williams (MScR student) | An exploration of girls' experiences of football in Physical Education in an Edinburgh secondary school |
| Chloë Williamson (PhD student) | Developing effective physical activity messages to enhance physical activity behaviour and mental health in University Students |
| 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 |
| Yujun [June] Xu (PhD student) | Intercultural learning in youth sail training voyages |
| Wen Ye (PhD student) | The role of sport as a soft power asset for Britain and China to advance international relations |
| Christian Ytterboel (PhD student) | Human Performance Enhancement: Developing and testing a new system for military mental skills training (MMT) for the Norwegian Armed Forces |
| Xiang [Cam] Zhao (PhD student) | Unilateral resistance training in adolescent athletes |
| Yang Zhao (PhD student) | Participation in Scottish Country Dancing in Edinburgh |
| Yuepeijing Zhuo (PhD student) | 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 |
The Teacher, Curriculum and Pedagogy
| Name (sorted in ascending order) | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| Sarah Austin (PhD student) | Teacher Development in Refugee Contexts |
| Douglas Briton (EdD student) | What is it like to be a teacher in an emergency on a school expedition |
| Dominique Carlier (EdD student) | Linking Personnel Performance Appraisal System/Process Management and International Development Project Management Success - A Focus on Workforce Engagement |
| Anthea Coleman-Chan | Academic staff perspectives on community-engaged teaching and learning |
| Marshall Dozier (EdD student) | DE Conceptualisations of information and data handling |
| Barbara Dzieciatko (PhD student) | Making Sense of Teachers' Communities of Practice with Social and Epistemic Network Analysis |
| Anthony Elloway (EdD student) | English for Academic Purposes (EAP) |
| Amambo Essien (PhD student) | John Dewey's Democratic Education and the Problems of Primary Education in Nigeria |
| Stuart Farmer (PhD student) | The alignment of policy and practice for the career-long professional learning of teachers in Scotland |
| Juliet Hancock (EdD student) | An investigation of teachers' pedagogic capacity and their cross-professional working skills |
| Christian Hanser (PhD student and MSc tutor) | A Scottish classroom beyond walls? Investigating student teachers' negotiations of meaning when applying transformative pedagogies through a mobile tiny house as experimental classroom |
| 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 |
| Alkisti Kallinikou (PhD student) | Nature representations in British and Greek children's literature and an investigation of real readers' responses |
| 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 |
| Ethan Lewis (PhD student) | The Impacts of Community Gardening |
| Shu Li (PhD student) | Chinese Parents Effective Involvement in Early Childhood Education: A Comparative Study |
| Chang Liu (PhD student) | Education for a meaningful life in the Chinese higher education context |
| Tanya Lubicz-Nawrocka (PhD Summer Graduate 2020) | An Exploration of How Curriculum Co-Creation Advances Student and Staff Aims for Scottish Higher Education |
| Chris Mackie (PhD student) | The role of natural heritage in supporting learning and development in Scotland |
| Aline Nardo (PhD Summer Graduate 2020) | Education and Evolution. A comparative study of Darwinism’s influence on educational theory in the UK, US and Germany” |
| Ian Normile (PhD student) | Chinese students' conceptions of critical thought on a UK postgraduate program and beyond: Philosophical and practical implications for policy and practice |
| Takuya Numajiri (PhD student) | What Matters for Improving Basic School Mathematics Education in St. Lucia? |
| John Pierce (PhD student) | Outdoor learning in Ireland |
| Jack Reed (PhD student) | The Influence of Mobile Devices and Social Media on the Transfer of Learning in Residential Outdoor Experiences |
| Shuanghui [Sofia] Shan (PhD Summer Graduate 2020) | The transformation of learner identity: Exploring Chinese Masters students’ transitions to UK higher education |
| Brian Shannan (PhD Summer Graduate 2020) | Dynamic soundfield with an active learning environment |
| Sonia Sjollema (PhD student) | Dealing with diversity in Makerspaces: a social pedagogical approach |
| Carol Smith (EdD student) | Supporting transitions from pre-school to primary 1: how do expectations of the key stakeholders link to policy and practices? |
| Jiyuan Song (PhD student) | Parental investment in education: An ethnographic case study of first and second generation Chinese immigrant families in Scotland |
| Jill Steel (PhD student) | Children's Emotional Wellbeing and Reading: 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 |
| Tina Stones (EdD Graduate 2019) | Can an intervention package consisting of role play and meditation improve behavioural regulation, listening skills and reading comprehension in secondary school age young people? |
| Anli Su (PhD student) | Teachers' Perceptions and Experiences of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in Taiwan |
| Graham Thomson (PhD student) | The leadership for learning of Scottish secondary school Head Teachers |
| Xiaomeng Tian (PhD student) | A qualitative study of pedagogical relationships at PGT level in the UK |
| Charlotte Webber (PhD student) | Tackling the Drop-Off: Understanding the Teenage Reading Experience |
| Marika Wood (EdD Graduate 2020) | How children's literature can be used to teach critical literacy skills to Arabic, adult learners |
| Chia-Ying [Annie] Yang (PhD Summer Graduate 2020) | Maintaining Daighi through Taiwanese Primary School Daighi Classes |
| Linsha [Lisa] Zhou (PhD student) | Student teachers’ identity construction and their engagement with creativity during initial teacher education: A case study of one PGDE (Secondary) programme in Scotland |
| Qiyu Zhuang (PhD student) | The investigation of transitions of Postgraduate taught (PGT) students |
Dr James Lamb, PhD 2019
Lecturer in Digital Education (Education Futures), Centre for Research in Digital Education
THESIS TITLE: Space, Sociomateriality, Sound - The Learning Spaces of Higher Education
My ESRC-funded thesis looked at the relationship between digital technology and those environments where teaching and learning take place. In order to share the field recordings, photographs and playlists that were an important part of my research, I presented my thesis in digital format. Since completing my PhD I have taken up the post of Lecturer in Digital Education, where I am working within the Centre for Research in Digital Education here at Moray House, and also the Edinburgh Futures Institute. Being able to secure this post soon after graduating owes much to the writing, presenting, teaching and networking that took place alongside my PhD. Without suggesting my experiences, interests or circumstances would match every student, my piece of advice to anyone looking to follow a similar path would be to consider how these types of activities can valuably contribute towards what goes into the thesis, while at the same time potentially opening doors beyond the point of completing the viva and making corrections. [Click and drag to move]