Our members
The Hub is led by Professor Cristina Iannelli and Dr Adriana Duta. The other members of the leadership team are: Dr William Smith, Dr Marc Sarazin, Barbara Dzieciatko- Szendrei (PhD student co-ordinator) and Ana Hibert Santana (Hub Research Associate).
Moray House School of Education and Sport Members
| Name (sorted in ascending order) | Role |
|---|---|
| Dr Serdar Abaci | Lecturer in Data and Digital Literacies |
| Dr Fatih Aktas | Teaching Fellow MSc Education |
| Dr Seongsook Choi | Head of Institute for Education, Community & Society (IECS) / Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies |
| Dr Linda Croxford | Honorary Fellow |
| Dr Adriana Duta | Lecturer in Quantitative Methods |
| Dr Sarah Foley | Lecturer in Development Psychology |
| Professor Deborah Fry | Co-Deputy Director of Research, Knowledge Exchange and Impact (RKEI) / Senior Lecturer in Child Protection |
| Dr Cathy Howieson | Honorary Fellow |
| Professor Cristina Iannelli | Personal Chair of Education and Social Stratification / Leader of the Advanced Quantitative Research in Education Hub |
| Dr Nataša Pantić | Senior Lecturer |
| Professor John Ravenscroft | Chair of Childhood Visual Impairment |
| Professor Judy Robertson | Chair in Digital Learning |
| Dr Marc Sarazin | Post-Doctoral Fellow in Education |
| Dr William C Smith | Senior Lecturer in Education and International Development |
| Dr Tracy Stewart | Lecturer in Developmental Psychology |
Our PhD students
| Name (sorted in ascending order) | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Xiuxiu [Daisy] Bao (PhD student) | An Investigation into the Factors of Mentoring Undergraduates in Research Projects: A Faculty Motivation Perspective |
| Peter Barlow (PhD student) | Disentangling the importance of individual, family and neighbourhood factors on educational outcomes using sibling data |
| Lucy Blackburn (PhD student) | Factors affecting the distribution of student borrowing in Scotland: From universal entitlements to unequal outcomes |
| Barbara Dzieciatko- Szendrei (PhD student) | Making Sense of Teachers' Communities of Practice with Social and Epistemic Network Analysis |
| Vanessa Fernandez Vidueira (PhD student) | Chronotypes in Adolescence: The impact of chronotypes on performance in adolescents |
| Ana Hibert Santana (PhD student) | Automated Writing Evaluation as a tool to help ESL students improve their academic writing |
| Jingting Hu (PhD student) | Examining staff perceptions of conducting research and teaching in Chinese Sino-foreign universities |
| Yan Liang (PhD student) | Gender Inequality in Higher Education in China: A Comparative Analysis between Eastern and Western China |
| Alexia Revueltas Roux (PhD student) | What does engagement look like in early science learning? Understanding multimodality in engagement |
| Stephen Sowa (PhD student) | Facilitating school students' career aspirations and preparations for the changing landscape of work |
| Jiayang Wang (PhD student) | Intergenerational income mobility and its implication to education policy: the case of China |
| Xiaowen [Serina] Xie (PhD student) | Global Englishes Language Teaching’s Influence on Teacher Identity and Learner Identity in Macau's Tertiary Education |
| Yanru Xin (PhD student) | The Effect of Content and Language Integrated Learning Courses on English Undergraduates' Intercultural Communicative Competence |
| 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 |
Hub affiliated members
Dr Roxanne Connelly -Senior Lecturer of Sociology and Quantitative Methods (School of Social and Political Science - Sociology)
Dr Helen Corby - Research Fellow at the Salvesen Mindroom Research Centre, University of Edinburgh
Professor Vernon Gayle - Chair of Sociology and Social Statistics (School of Social and Political Science - Sociology)
Professor Colm Harmon - Professor of Applied Economics (School of Economics)
Dr Helen Packwood - Lecturer in Social Research Methods (School of Social and Political Science – Social Policy)
Professor Lindsay Paterson - Professor of Education Policy (School of Social and Political Science – Social Policy)
Dr Frank Popham - Research Associate in SCADR, University of Glasgow
Dr Kevin Ralston - Lecturer in Sociology and Quantitative Methods (School of Social and Political Science - Sociology)
Dr Sarah Stopforth - Research Fellow at University of Sussex