Research Student Projects

The research group has a thriving body of research and master students who meet several times each term to discuss their ideas and present their developing research. Over the last three years the Higher Education and Professional Learning Research Group often in conjunction with the ESRC Research Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) has hosted 16 research students. Outlines of current projects are provided below and they give a good insight into the range of research topics we are interested in; you can access these outlines by clicking on each person’s name.

Barbara Banda: Transfer of training from post-Experience off-the-job Management Programmes: An exploration of the Participant’s Experience of the Transition back to the Workplace.

Ellen Behrstock: The “3 Rs” for School Teachers: Recruitment, Retention and Renumeration – A Comparative Study.

Helen Carasso: English Universities and the Quasi-Market after the 2004 Higher Education Act

Olivia Chang: Knowledge Acquisition by Organizations: China’s High Technology Enterprises and High-Skilled Knowledge Workers.

Andrew Freeman-May: The nature and development of paramedic expertise.

Matthias Grossman: Entrepreneurship and Business Development Programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Analysis of the Implementation of the Empretec Programmes in Ghana and Namibia.

Eiji Ito: Curricular Reform at Japanese Universities

Ashish Jaiswal: Implementation of Curricular Innovation in Business School Education

Ioanna Kinti: Balancing at the boundaries of organisations: knowledge co-configuration between experts in an e-Science project

Jennifer Ketchum: Collision Course: Maritime Deck Officers’ Learning of Collision Avoidance Procedure from the Classroom to the Ship.

Linariah Lukman: Making sense of Post-16 Education Policy: A policy Framework Analysis.

Natalie Lundsteen: Learning Between University and the World of Work

Marian McLauchlin:Further Education as a Business

Emily Prentice: Participation in Post 16 Education: Regional variations in Participation, Retention and Achievement.

Inshur Shagunov: Training for Ministry in Theological Colleges in Central Asia

Sawarin Suwichakornpong: Quasi-Modernity: Rethinking the Thai Educational State and History of Education

Anna Touloumakos: Now you see it, now you don’t: the Paradox of Skill Shortages and Over Education.

Michael Wilkinson: Entrepreneurial Learning: Socio-Cultural Perspectives

Kai Yu: Diversification of Higher Education in China and the Student Learning Experience