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| Name | Topic | Supervisor |
| Farah Ahmed | Pedagogy as Dialogue between Cultures: Exploring Halaqah (circle time), an Islamic oral pedagogy enabling autonomy and a culturally coherent education for Muslim children in a pluralist society | Ruth Kershner |
| Hei Jean Ahn | 'Able underachievement': an exploratory study into the causal factors, academic motivation, and suggested strategies for improvement | Mike Younger and Ruth Kershner |
| Charlotte Allen | A Multilevel exploration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT+) students’ resilience in response to everyday challenges at secondary school. | Ros McLellan and Ruth Kershner |
| Alexis Artaud de la Ferriere | The uses of educational structures in the Algerian War of Independence: traces and testimonies. | Phil Gardner |
| Esinam Avornyo | Investigating play and learning in the Ghanaian early years classroom: A mixed methods study | Sara Baker |
| Nazipa Ayubayeva | Collaborative teacher learning in Kazakhstan. | Ros McLellan and Colleen McLaughlin |
| Beatrice Balfour | Utopia or dystopia? Examining gender in the Reggio Emilia approach. | Jo-Anne Dillabough and Pam Hirsch |
| Amilcar Barnett | Supporting academic performance through physical education and sport. | John Gray |
| Aditi Bhutoria | Do financial education interventions for women from poor households impact their financial attitudes and behaviours? Experimental evidence from India. | Anna Vignoles |
| James Biddulph | Creative learning in multicultural home and school contexts: consulting pupils, parents and teachers. | Pam Burnard and Mandy Swann |
| Roszalina Binte Rawi | Assessment for Learning in Malay language classrooms: from zahir to batin. | Sue Swaffield |
| Fatin Aliah Phang Binti Abdullah | Patterns of physics problem-solving among KS4 students from the perspecitve of metacognition | Keith S. Taber |
| Gulay Bozkurt | A multiple-case study of secondary teachers' practices of GeoGebra-use in mathematics teaching. | Kenneth Ruthven |
| Simon Breakspear | An international standard for schooling performance? The use of PISA in national schooling policy and practice | Peter Gronn |
| Richard Brock | Making sense of making sense: a microgenetic case study of conceptual integration by upper secondary physics students in the UK. | Keith Taber |
| Ros Brown (formerly Frost) | Enabling Year 2 pupils to pursue social research for school improvement: an action research study. | David Frost |
| Ross Buckingham | Speaking for the trees: an ecocritical analysis of young readers' responses to the representation of environmental issues in literature. | David Whitley |
| Melise Camargo | Surveying mathematics teachers' knowledge of formative assessment: a study of teachers in the Federal District of Brazil. | Kenneth Ruthven |
| Catalina Castillo | A mixed methods study exploring the teacher practices in highly engaged classrooms in disadvantaged primary schools in Mexico. | Anna Vignoles |
| Michael Catchpool | 'I look away until they have finished reading it': a focus on peer feedback and its impact on children as writers. | Neil Mercer and Morag Styles |
| Eleni Charalampous | Epistemic beliefs in mathematics education. | Paul Andrews |
| Phoebe Chen | Nature and history in young adult environmental fiction. | David Whitley |
| Sara Clarke-Habibi | The role of education in post-conflict social reconstruction and peacebuilding: the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina. | Madeleine Arnot |
| Paola Contreras | Cosmopolitan capital or cultural intelligence? Predictors of the participation of Chilean undergraduates in international academic activities. | Nigel Kettley |
| Caroline Creaby | Developing the professional identities of teachers in an English secondary school to support school improvement. | David Frost |
| Simon Dowling | The influence of a teaching school alliance on classroom staff's professional development. | Panayiotis Antoniou |
| Min Du | Designing and evaluating a virtual English enrichment course for improving Chinese learners' communicative competence in English. | Sara Hennessy and Andreas Stylianides |
| Emma Dyer | Investigating the places where children learn to read in the English primary school through participatory design with children. | Cathy Burke and Dominic Cullinan |
| Elizabeth Forbes | Writer identities in mentoring and HE teaching relationships. | Chris Doddington and Morag Styles |
| Karen Forbes | Cross-linguistic transfer of L2 writing strategies: developing L1 and L2 writing through metacognitive strategy use. | Linda Fisher |
| Clare Freeman | Between the book and the mind of the reader: an exploration of young readers' engagement with fiction. | Gabrielle Cliff-Hodges |
| Zhuxia Fu | Investigating talk as a mediating tool in a systemic theoretical instruction on genre in L2 writing classrooms | Yongcan Liu |
| Jie Gao | The relationships of parents' beliefs, perceived parenting behaviours, adolescents' self-efficacy beliefs and developmental outcomes: a pioneer investigation in a Chinese context. | Ros McLellan |
| Danai Giampili | Exploring the use of participatory practices in Greek museum education through the prism of identity. | Cathy Burke |
| Tehmina Hammad | NGOs' construction(s) of disability and education and its impact on the lives of persons with disabilities in Pakistan. | Nidhi Singal |
| Veronica Hanke | Guided reading: teacher and pupil perspectives on classroom practice. | Neil Mercer |
| Lee Hawkes | The Psychosocial Acculturation of International Students | Elaine Wilson |
| Rebecca Heaton | An autoethnographic exhibition exploring cognition in the practice of art educators. | Richard Hickman |
| Roxana Herescu | The role of higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) and cognitive academic language proficiency (CALP) in content and language integrated learning (CLIL): a case study of learners of English at two schools in Romania. | Michael Evans |
| Lottie Hoare | Secondary education in the broadcast media 1953-1965: drawing out networks of conversation and visions of reform. | Catherine Burke |
| Lucy Howson | Exploring educational experiences in Luton since the 1960s across three generations: a return to Goldthorpe's Affluent Worker. | Diane Reay |
| Evangelia Iordanaki | A socio-cultural study exploring groups of Greek and British 11-year-old children's responses to wordless picturebooks. | Fiona Maine |
| Mona Jebril | Academic life under occupation: the impact on educationalists at Gaza's universities. | Diane Reay |
| Hong Jiang | Student teachers' voices: a historical exploration of teacher education in Shanghai, China (1949-1995). | Phil Gardner |
| Martin Johnson | Examiner feedback and learning: how do examiners establish common meaning through remote feedback messages? | Neil Mercer |
| Sabrina Kamal | Exploring constructions of childhood and representations of the child in Rabindranath Tagore's children's literature. | David Whitley and Morag Styles |
| Kevin Kester | Teaching and learning peace within the United Nations: a sociology of peace education. | Hilary Cremin |
| Chun Hong Kim | Growing unities and continuous differences in national testing policy: the introduction of the programme of the new national testing in Korea. | John Gray |
| Mee Kyoung Kim | Bilinguals' emotion and language: an exploratory study of Korean-English bilinguals' verbal expression of shame. | Neil Mercer |
| Rebecca Kitchen | What does geographical knowledge consist of from ethnic minority perspectives? Exploring the stories that relate to perceptions and link with option choices. | Liz Taylor |
| Martina Kuvalja | Self-directed language and the development of self-regulation in children with Specific Language Impairment. | David Whitebread |
| Farida Larry | Discursive assessment practices in special education: a systemic functional analysis of talk and text in a special school for young girls identified with a disability in Saudi Arabia. | Ruth Kershner |
| Man Kit Lee | Writing motivation in the context of peer collaboration in second language process writing. | Michael Evans |
| Min Kyung Lee | Parenting and children's executive functioning: a comparative study between UK and Korean parents of 4-year-old children. | Sara Baker and David Whitebread |
| Hema Letchamanan | Gender Identity Conflict in Secondary Schools in India – a study on transgender youth. | Madeleine Arnot |
| Sarah Lightfoot | Early Years Educators' professional identities: implications for transformational continuing professional development | David Frost |
| Jia Wei Lim | Development and present state of post-16 Malaysian Higher School Certificate or Sijil Tinggi Pelajaran Malaysia (STPM) literature in English: a multuple case study. | Gabrielle Cliff-Hodges |
| Emma-Louise Lord | Written calculations and gender: a mixed methods study in English Y6 primary classrooms | Andreas Stylianides |
| Martin Lytje | Our grief: exploring children's experiences of returning to school after the loss of a family member. | Ruth Kershner |
| Katia Mace-Nazina | An international investigation of identity issues amongst Third Culture Individuals. | Neil Mercer |
| Peter Marber | Democratisation, credentialisation,and polarisation: Higher Education and the unintended consequences of globalisation. | Peter Gronn and Diane Reay |
| Melissa Marsden | Teacher professional development for the integration of ICT in poorly resourced education systems: lessons learned from the One Laptop per Child programme in Brazil. | Sara Hennessy |
| Gabriela Martinez Sainz | Educators' Understandings of Human Rights: Exploring the relationship with teaching practices and human rights theories | Ian Frowe and Keith Taber |
| Nigel Meager | Using filmmaking as method in the exploration, description, analysis and interpretation of children's experience as they make art in primary school. | Richard Hickman |
| Siza Mtimbiri | A case study: exploring the relationship between HIV/AIDS and schooling with a focus on rural primary school children's perspectives. | Colleen McLaughlin and Darleen Opfer |
| Rebecca Nambi | Learner-centred pedagogy and the teaching of literacy in secondary schools in Uganda: challenges and possibilities. | Gabrielle Cliff-Hodges |
| David Neale | Early signs of self-regulation. | David Whitebread |
| Alanna O'Beirne | A complex adaptive systems approach to exploring the development of a health promoting school network in the mid-west region of Ireland. | John Gray |
| Aileen O'Connor | Can executive function and self-regulatory abilities of high-functioning children with autism be improved via a self-directed speech intervention? | David Whitebread |
| Lisha O'Sullivan | Social pretend play in the preschool years: investigating its trajectory and the role of adult involvement. | David Whitebread |
| Marianna Petrasova | The genesis and manifestation of mathematics anxiety in successful adults. | Ruth Kershner |
| David Pomeroy | Exploring the role of social class, ethnicity, and gender in how New Zealand students experience maths in the first year of secondary school. | Diane Reay |
| Shi Pu | Critical thinking and the development of academic literacy in second language education: comparison of the perspectives of Chinese postgraduate students in three settings. | Michael Evans |
| Winnie Sin Wai Pui | Promoting strategies for the self-regulation of learning among students with learning difficulties in Hong Kong and Macau. | Richard Byers |
| Ellen Quigley | Toward the middle: a study of Canadian economists. | Philip Gardner |
| Hanan Ramahi | Enabling teachers to lead change in one school in Palestine: a case study. | David Frost |
| Christopher Rauch | Trainee teachers in transition: A cross-context, longitudinal study of epistemology and teaching beliefs in teacher education | Jan Vermunt |
| Charlotte Rochez | Interpreting meanings of home-based education: a cross-cultural historical investigation. | Philip Gardner |
| Jose-Miguel Rodriguez-Reyes | Differential effects of implicit vs explicit instruction in L2 acquisition of English by Spanish speakers: the case for learnability constraints. | Michael Evans |
| Edel Sanders | Investigating the relationship between musical training and mathematical thinking in children: a school-based experiment. | Linda Hargreaves |
| Biljana Savikj | An ethnographic case study of Macedonian immigrant-background children's learning of English and home language(s) in their social networks in England: a language socialisation perspective. | Yongcan Liu |
| Jane Scarsbrook | To what extent can structured group tasks encourage imagination, articulation and development in children's notions about shape, space and measure? | Neil Mercer and Christine Howe |
| Kaylan Schwarz | How do young people make meaning of their experiences before, during and after a short-term international volunteer excursion in Sub-Saharan Africa? An exploration through narrative inquiry. | Hilary Cremin |
| Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert | The case for subject based liberal education. | Ian Frowe |
| Richard Shakeshaft | On the road to utopia? Exploring the representation of technology and the posthuman in contemporary Young Adult speculative fiction. | Maria Nikolajeva |
| Xiaofei Shi | Employing the theoretical framework of cognitive criticism to explore crossover picturebooks. | Maria Nikolajeva |
| Lysandra Sinclaire-Harding | Emotion reactivity and regulation in the middle school years: a study of individual differences. | David Whitebread |
| Pallawi Sinha | Emergent education in the homogenised world: the significance of integrating indigenous knowledge, cultural practices and skills towards future education in India. | Cathy Burke and Richard Hickman |
| Marija Skobe-Pilley | Exploring organisational employees' experience of an arts-based learning programme. | Pam Burnard and Ros McLellan |
| Matthew Somerville | Emotion regulation, well-being and supportive classroom contexts. | David Whitebread |
| Jennifer Song | Mobile learning in higher education: an exploratory case study of students' experiences, understanding, perceptions and attitudes of mobile learning. | Elaine Wilson |
| Yu Song | An investigation of the relationship between thinking style, participation in classroom dialogue and learning outcomes. | Christine Howe |
| Moritz Sowada | School inspection judgements: an Anglo-German comparison. | Peter Gronn and John Gray |
| Alireza Tabatabaie | Young Muslims, sexuality and sex and relationship education in the UK.. | Colleen McLaughlin |
| Eve Tandoi | Children reading hybrid novels in class: what are children's hybrid novels and what kinds of responses do they invite in the primary classroom? | Gabrielle Cliff-Hodges |
| Rui Tang | The city in animated feature films. | David Whitley |
| Wenna Tang | An inquiry into transnational higher education with evidence from China. | Nigel Kettley |
| Nurbek Teleshaliyev | Teachers with a capital "T": exploring commitment, professionalism and leadership of experienced, effective teachers in Kyrgyzstan. | David Frost |
| Pablo Torres | The role of culture in the development of students' self-regulated learning in the primary classroom: comparing the cases of Chile and England. | Ros McLellan and David Whitebread |
| Yi-Shan Tsai | Young readers' engagement with Manga. | David Whitley and Morag Styles |
| James Underwood | Do teachers who are engaged in working with colleagues from other nations perceive themselves to be part of an international community of fellow professionals? | David Frost |
| Mohini Verma | Temporal patterns of co-occurrence between children's self-regulatory behaviour and their private and social speech in play contexts. | David Whitebread |
| Hsaio-Lan Wang | Developmental dyslexia, phonological skills and auditory processing in Chinese | Usha Goswami |
| Tianyi Wang | Chinese learners' motivation in learning a third language---a mixed-method inquiry at one Chinese university | Linda Fisher |
| Mandy Winters | What can secondary music educators learn from multi-perspectival conceptions of composing? Three voices - different worlds. | Pam Burnard |
| Anna Wong | A multiple case study exploring Hong Kong adolescents' engagement with school music and their perceived well-being through the satisfaction of basic psychological needs. | Pam Burnard and Ros McLellan |
| Winona Wu | The role of digital social networking in young Taiwanese students' intercultural adjustment on transition to schools in England | Linda Hargreaves |
| Chenyan Xu | Metacognition and children's language acquisition in China. | David Whitebread |
| Cora Lingling Xu | Who am I? A multiple case study of the identity construction(s) of mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong higher education institutions. | Diane Reay |
| Ji Yu (Summer) | How does learning space impact upon student learning in higher education? An exploration through a comparative case study in China. | Jan Vermunt and Catherine Burke |
| Faye Dorcas Yung | Representations of East Asian cultures in English fiction for children - a study on cultural representations and authenticity | Maria Nikolajeva |
| Mujadad Zaman | Whither knowledge?: Locating the 21st century university in the knowledge society. | John Beck |
| Heyi Zhang | Relationships between parental scaffolding, children's motivational resources and self-regulated learning in Chinese preschool children. | David Whitebread |