People

Acting Research and Teaching Group Leader

Professor Stephen McKinney

Summary of research interests

Catholic Schools; Catholic Education; Faith Schooling; Religious Education; Sectarianism; Sectarianism and Faith schools; Poverty, deprivation and school education; Social Justice and Catholic schools.


Research and Teaching Group Depute Leaders

Dr Daniel Lam

Summary of research interests

interactional competence; speaking assessment; spoken discourse; conversation analysis; learning-oriented assessment; feedback; test score use for university admissions

Dr Fiona Patrick


Dr Sadia Ali

Summary of research interests

I am interested in qualitative research in the following areas: - Technology-enhanced teaching and learning - Decolonisation of higher education - Intersections of identity, culture, and postcolonial feminism in education - Postcolonial feminism and women in academia

Dr Ines Alves

Summary of research interests

Inclusive education; Equity and social justice; Human Rights and disability; Autism Spectrum Disorders; Conceptualisations of diversity and difference within educational settings

Dr Max Antony-Newman

Professor Evelyn Arizpe Solana

Summary of research interests

Children's literature and literacies particularly in relation to picturebooks; YA literature; reader-response, Latin America, migration and intercultural communities.

Dr Gaston Bacquet

Dr Lisa Bradley

Dr Steve Brown

Summary of research interests

ESOL/English language policy and practice; English language teaching as a global profession; TESOL as emancipatory practice; language programme design; materials design/development.

Dr Robert Doherty

Summary of research interests

Education Policy, Politics of Education, Discourse and forms of Power, Poverty and Social Exclusion, Teacher Education, Professional Learning and Technology Education.

Dr Catherine Fagan

Dr Giovanna Fassetta

Professor Dennis Francis

Dr Nicola Galloway

Dr Deniz Ortactepe Hart

Dr Lavinia Hirsu

  • Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, Composition and English as a Foreign Language [Culture, Literacies, Inclusion & Pedagogy]
  • Lavinia.Hirsu@glasgow.ac.uk

Summary of research interests

My areas of research include emergent digital practices, education-based responses to new technologies (VR, XR, robotics), translingual pedagogy and linguistic inclusion arts-based practices and methodologies, and cultural responses in contexts of crisis.

Professor Kay Livingston

Dr Paul Lynch

Dr Rebecca Mancy

Dr Julie McAdam

Summary of research interests

Current work is connected to the use of directed hope, utopian thinking, and critical content analysis.

Dr Margaret McColl

Dr David Morrison-Love

Summary of research interests

Curriculum; learning; assessment; pedagogy; technology education; design education; educational change; curriculum reform

Professor Marta Moskal

Summary of research interests

Belonging, Sense of Place, Social Identities; International Education and Migration; Geographies of Children, Youth and Families; Minority Languages and Intercultural Relations; Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Intersectionality; Social and Environmental Sustainability.

Dr Leping Mou

Summary of research interests

higher education; comparative and international education; liberal arts education/general education; capabilities approach and human development; student development and success; sociology of education; technical vocational education and training (TVET); mixed methods

Dr Elizabeth Nelson

Dr Philip Nicholson

Summary of research interests

Education policy; pedagogy; inequality; privilege; sociology; theory; discourse

Professor Mia Perry

  • Professor of Arts and Literacies in Education [Culture, Literacies, Inclusion & Pedagogy]
  • Mia.Perry@glasgow.ac.uk

Summary of research interests

Literacies, social arts and arts education, community and public pedagogies, environmental sustainability, decoloniality https://www.miaperry.co.uk/ https://sustainablefuturesinafrica.com/ https://yomo2017.wordpress.com/

Professor Alison Phipps

  • Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts [Culture, Literacies, Inclusion & Pedagogy]
  • Alison.Phipps@glasgow.ac.uk

Summary of research interests

Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts

Professor Melanie Ramdarshan Bold

Summary of research interests

Children's and Young Adult literature, book culture, authorship, publishing, and readers. Inclusive Youth Literature. National Literature and National Identity. I welcome informal enquiries from prospective research students interested in these areas.

Dr Sadie Ryan

Summary of research interests

language and identity; language and social justice; educational linguistics; participatory methods; language and social class; language and migration; multilingualism; language and adolescence; participatory media; participatory podcasting

Dr Nicole Smith

Summary of research interests

I am an archaeologist, specialising in the connections between people and place via the process of heritage and interrogating the potential of creative practice and digital technologies for lifelong learning in this context.

Dr Ruth Unsworth

Summary of research interests

philosophy of education; new materialism; post-structuralism; ethnography and education; modes of existence; psychoanalytic theories of education; place-responsive pedagogy

Dr Sihui Wang

Summary of research interests

I am interested in educational issues related to the internationalisation of higher education, with a focus on linguistic, intercultural, and transnational aspects.

Dr Rebecca Wood

Summary of research interests

autism, education and inclusion

Dr Sally Zacharias

Summary of research interests

My scholarship includes developing Language Awareness with language educators & content specialists & how this impacts on pedagogy, material design & assessment practices Language Awareness, translingual pedagogy, concept development, applied cognitive linguistics & metaphor


Associates

Dr Maureen Farrell

Professor Louise Hayward

Dr Margaret McCulloch

Summary of research interests

professional development of teacher educators; professional identity of teacher educators; literacy development; critically reflective practice; curriculum development; inclusive practice.

Dr Tawona Sithole

Summary of research interests

Creativity as education/well-being Creativity, young people and education Intangible heritage Creative arts as language Creative writing, poetry, storytelling, music Theatre and performance

Professor Margaret Sutherland

Summary of research interests

Inclusive education and the experiences of young people in schools. How current international focus on early years education allows for the development of abilities, including high abilities in young children.

Mrs Delia Wilson