Joan Stead

Staff profile for Joan Stead, Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Research in Education Inclusion and Diversity (CREID).

Biography

Joan Stead has been continually employed as a researcher at the University of Edinburgh since 1997, working on over twenty research projects. Her research expertise is in qualitative/ interpretive methods and methodologies, and has always been policy based. She has extensive experience of working with schools and parents/carers, children and young people, who may be viewed as vulnerable and/or marginal to mainstream schooling. She has published widely; taught at Masters level; and supervises PhD students.

Publications

Refereed journal articles

• McCluskey, G., Lloyd, G., Kane, J., Riddell, S., Stead, J. and Weedon, E. (2008) Can Restorative Practices in Schools make a Difference? Educational Review, Vol. 60(4) pp. 405-417
• McCluskey, G., Lloyd, G., Stead, J., Kane, J., Riddell, S. and Weedon, E. (2008) ‘I was dead restorative today’ from Restorative Justice to Restorative Approaches in School, Cambridge Journal of Education, Vol.38(2) pp. 199-217
• Stead, J. and Lloyd, G. ‘ADHD: Creating continuing dilemmas for education in Scotland.’ Scottish Educational Review. Vol 40 No 1 pp. 42-54
• Kane, J., Lloyd, G., McCluskey, G., Riddell, S., Stead, J. and Weedon, E. (2008) Collaborative Evaluation: Balancing Rigour and Relevance in a research study of Restorative Practices in Schools in Scotland, International Journal of Research and Method in Education, Vol.31(2) pp. 99-111
• McCluskey, G., Lloyd, G., Kane, J., Riddell, S., Stead, J. and Weedon, E. (2008) Can Restorative Practices in Schools make a Difference? Educational Review, Vol. 60(4) pp. 405-417
• McCluskey, G., Lloyd, G., Stead, J., Kane, J., Riddell, S. and Weedon, E. (2008) ‘I was dead restorative today’ from Restorative Justice to Restorative Approaches in School, Cambridge Journal of Education, Vol.38(2) pp. 199-217
• McCluskey, G., Lloyd, G., Stead, J., Kane, J., Riddell, S. and Weedon, E., 2007 ‘I was dead restorative today’ from Restorative Justice to Restorative Approaches in School Cambridge Journal of Education (accepted for publication Sept 07)
• Kane, J., McCluskey, G., Maguire, R., Lloyd, G., Stead, J., Riddell, S. and Weedon, E., (2007/in press) Generating an inclusive ethos? Exploring the impact of restorative practices in Scottish Schools International Journal of Inclusive Education

Commissioned reports

• Kane, J., Lloyd, G., McCluskey, G., Riddell, S., Stead, J. & Weedon, E (2007) Restorative Practices in Three Scottish Councils: Final Report of the Evaluation of the first two years of the Pilot Projects 2004-2006, Edinburgh: Scottish Government