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 Alice Dias Lopes, Dr Sarah Foley, Marifatul Amalia, Peter Barlow, Jiayang Wang and Dr Grace Kong (Hub Research Assistant).
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 | Lecturer |
| Dr Josie Booth | Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Developmental Psychology |
| 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 | Director of Data, Childlight - Global Child Safety Institute / Personal Chair, International Child Protection Research |
| Liam Hill | Teaching Fellow in Developmental Psychology |
| 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 Grace Kong | Research Assistant, Moray House School of Education and Sport |
| Dr Nataša Pantić | Senior Lecturer |
| Professor John Ravenscroft | Chair of Childhood Visual Impairment |
| Professor Judy Robertson | Chair in Digital Learning |
| Dr William C Smith | Senior Lecturer in Education and International Development & Director of Internationalisation |
| Dr Tracy Stewart | Lecturer in Developmental Psychology |
| Tessa Strain | Post-doctoral Fellow |
| Dr Csaba Szabo | Lecturer in Language Education |
Our PhD students
| Name (sorted in descending order) | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Nimra Arshad (PhD student) | The Effectiveness of Aquatic Exercises for Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain |
| 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 |
| Mustafa Ciftcioglu (PhD Student) | Enhancing Preservice Teachers' Data Literacy: An Investigation into the Design and Impact of Online Training Integrated with Professional Networks |
| 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 |
| Barbara Dzieciatko- Szendrei (PhD student) | Making Sense of Teachers' Communities of Practice with Social and Epistemic Network Analysis |
| 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 |
| Vanessa Fernandez Vidueira (PhD student) | Chronotypes in Adolescence: The impact of chronotypes on performance in adolescents |
| Jingting Hu | Examining Transnational Higher Education from Staff Perceptions of their Academic Roles in a Sino-foreign University |
| Yan Liang (PhD student) | Gender Inequality in Higher Education in China: A Comparative Analysis between Eastern and Western China |
| Yuemiao Ma (PhD student) | Citizenship education embedded in Model United Nations: an explorative study on Chinese secondary school students |
| Stephen Sowa (Tutor & PhD student) | Understanding the complexities of supporting children’s career aspirations and preparedness for the changing world of work |
| Chen Su (PhD student) | A research proposal concerning the influence of intercultural education on the formation of language learners' identity in Chinese universities |
| Felicia Szloboda | Developing children's human rights indicators for Scotland |
| Yi Tian | Elite Education in the Age of “Common Prosperity”: A Multiple-Case Study of Internationalized Schools in Shanghai, China |
| Shrikant Wad (PhD student) | Social disparities amongst undergraduate disciplines: a realist inquiry into choice and affirmative action in India |
| Jiayang Wang (PhD student) | Intergenerational income mobility and its implication to education policy: the case of China |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Hub affiliated members
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Professor Ellen Boeren | Professor of Education, University of Glasgow |
| Dr Kaspar Burger | Associate professor in Early Childhood Education and Care and Childhood Studies, University of Luxembourg |
| Dr Orian Brook | Chancellor’s Fellow in Social Policy, University of Edinburgh |
| Maddi Bunker | PhD Student (School of Social and Political Science), University of Edinburgh |
| 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 |
| Dr Emma Davidson | Lecturer in Social Policy and Qualitative Research Methods ( (School of Social and Political Science), University of Edinburgh |
| Dr Elvisa Drishti | Lecturer, University of Shkodra "Luigj Gurakuqi" |
| Dr Francesca Fiori | Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Social Policy, University of Strathclyde |
| Dr Ginevra Floridi | Lecturer in Sociology and Quantitative Methods (School of Social and Political Science), 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) |
| Professor of Economics and Education and Head of School of Education, University of Glasgow | |
| Professor Jan Germen Janmaat | Professor of Political Socialization, University College London, IOE - Education, Practice & Society |
| Professor George Leckie | Professor of Social Statistics / Co-Director, Centre for Multilevel Modelling (School of Education), University of Bristol |
| Dr J.G. (Jaap) Nieuwenhuis | Assistant Professor, University of Groningen (Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences) |
| Kate O'Hara | PhD Candidate, University of Stirling |
| 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 Marina Shapira | Associate Professor in Sociology and Associate PGT Dean at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stirling |
| Dr Valeria Skafida | Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, Social of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh |
| Dr Emer Smyth | Research Professor, Social Research Division, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin; Adjunct Professor, Trinity College Dublin |
| Guy Stern | PhD student, Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh |
| Lecturer (Department of Sociology), University of York | |
| Dr Matthew Sutherland | Lecturer in Teacher Education (School of Education), University of Glasgow |