People
Ms Emefa Amoako
emefa.amoako@st-annes.ox.ac.uk
DPhil student
Research Interests: My current research interests are in the area of Education, Gender and Development; Educational Aid, International Aid Agencies (both Bilateral and Multilateral) and the Delivery of Aid in Developing Countries; Interorganisational network of interactions between aid donors/lenders and recipients and how these influence education policy.
Ms Nichola Clarke
DPhil student
Research interests: Relationships between individual and social perspectives on thinking and reasoning Situated and distributed understandings of mathematical activity Problems with the notion of "ability"
Mr Alaster Douglas
DPhil student
Research Interests: I have worked as a teacher and senior manager in four secondary schools. My last position as a Deputy Head Teacher responsible for staff development led me to be particularly interested in the role schools play in developing beginning teachers. My DPhil research is an ethnographic study considering how secondary school subject departments contribute to beginning teachers’ learning.
Dr Tony Eaude
tony.eaude@education.ox.ac.uk
Research Fellow
Research Interests: Spiritual development, especially in children; Young children’s learning, especially spiritual, moral, social and cultural development, and values; Faith and identity, especially the role of the school in supporting and developing this; Bilingualism and minority ethnic achievement; Action research and the teacher-as-researcher.
Professor Anne Edwards
anne.edwards@education.ox.ac.uk
Director of Research and convenor of OSAT.
My main teaching responsibilities are in the area of research methods. I was a member of the ESRC Research Grants Board until July 2007 and am a member of the 2008 Education RAE panel. I am also a Professor 2 at the University of Oslo.
Research Interests: My research centres on (i) professional learning and professional identity in teaching and related professions including medical education; (ii) social inclusion of children and adults; and (ii) research design. I draw on sociocultural approaches to understanding learning and on activity theory inspired analyses of learning environments. I am developing the concept of relational agency as an enhanced form of agency which involves the mutual alignment of professional actions when working on complex objects of activity. Currently this involves looking at how practitioners from different professional background negotiate that alignment when operating outside the safe institutional shelters of home organisations.
Dr Viv Ellis
viv.ellis@education.ox.ac.uk
University Lecturer, Tutor for English Education
Research Interests: Teacher education and development, informed by CHAT, with a particular focus on the concept of subject knowledge; DWR in school settings; CHAT perspectives on Composition and Rhetoric, especially genre; the history of subject English in schools; sexuality and pedagogy, particularly the relationship between literacy practices and the formation of identities.
Dr Hubert Ertl
Hubert.ertl@education.ox.ac.uk
University Lecturer in Higher Education and a Fellow of Linacre College; Director of MSc degree in Higher Education; Associate Research Fellow of the ESRC Research Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE)
Research Interests: Research interests include international aspects of higher education, reform processes in vocational education and training, EU educational policies, the notion of competence in education and training, widening participation in higher education, and the transfer processes between education and training and the world of work.
Dr Russell Francis
russell.francis@education.ox.ac.uk
Russell is a Post Doc at MIT’s Comparative Media Studies having completed his doctorate at Oxford University’s Department of Education. Before embarking on a research career he taught English, Media and Philosophy in schools and sixth form colleges in the South of England. He also has degrees in Literature and Philosophy, Critical Theory, Intelligent Systems and Educational Research Methodology.
Research Interests: Russell uses social cultural and activity theory in an attempt to better understand the implications of media change for learning, cognition and education. Early work investigated the use of multiplayer role playing games and Learning Design tools to support teaching and learning in the humanities classroom. Later work employed ethnographic methods to explore students’ informal use of new media. His doctoral thesis, The Predicament of the Learner in the New Media Age offers a methodology and conceptual framework for understanding emergent learning practices in new mediascapes. He is currently writing his first book: Identity and Agency in Virtually Figured Worlds (Routledge, forthcoming) that explores how learners are transforming the quasi-virtual contexts of their own learning and personal development. Find out more and link up at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/russellfrancis99
Hannah Grainger Clemson
Brasenose College
hannah.graingerclemson@education.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests: the use of drama strategies across the secondary curriculum (current DPhil); teaching and learning of Shakespeare (ERM MSc 2007); Socio- cultural Activitiy Theory and links bewteen the Russian psychological/scientific, artistic and literary movements of the late 19th / early 20th century; Performance Ethnography
Dr Hazel Hagger
hazel.hagger@education.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests: The nature, acquisition and development of professional expertise; student teacher learning; mentoring; school /university partnerships
Dr Geoff Hayward
geoff.hayward@education.ox.ac.uk
Associate Director of the ESRC Research Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE); Director Nuffield 14-19 Review; University Lecturer in Educational Studies
Research Interests: My research interests lie in the policy and practice of vocational and professional learning. Specifically I am concerned to understand how people develop their knowledge, skills and competence in particular workplace and educational settings, and the impact of policy initiatives on these processes. Theoretically this work is influenced by a number of traditions drawn from psychology, sociology and political science.
Professor Mariane Hedegaard
Mariane.hedegaard@psy.ku.dk
Convenor of PPUK (Practice, Person, Development, Culture) Centre, Department of Education, Copenhagen University
Research interests: My research centre is:
- studying children in their everyday life across different institutions. The focus is on children’s activities across different institutional practices, home, school and after school activities, and to follow how children’s activities in families influence their activities in school and after school and vice versa
- formulating a cultural-historical methodology for studying children’s development in everyday settings drawing on the cultural-historical approach of L.S. Vygotsky and the phenomenology approach of Alfred Schutz, where both institutional practice and children’s motives and engagement is incorporated.
Dr Nick Hopwood
nick.hopwood@learning.ox.ac.uk
Research officer at the Centre for Excellence in Preparing for Academic Practice, hosted by the Oxford Learning Institute.
Research Interests: My research interests concern the experiences of doctoral students and postdoctoral lecturers and researchers. I draw on sociocultural and activity theory to explore what and how people learn, expressions of agency, mediation, the role of social interaction, and challenges to notions of disciplinarity that are embodied in students' participation in and migration across different systems within and beyond university settings. My website (http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lina0699) gives further details of current projects, publications, consultancy, teaching, and the focus of my doctoral research.
Dr Ioanna Kinti
Ioanna.kinti@education.ox.ac.uk
Research Assistant in SKOPE Centre.
Research Interests: Development and management of collaborative work processes, and the coordination of expertise, between professionals originating from different disciplinary, institutional and organisational backgrounds. The current application context is research collaborations in high-technology and innovation.
Ms Jenny Lim
jenny.lim@education.ox.ac.uk
DPhil student
Research Interests: To research teacher learning, professional development of in-service teachers of English using the sociocultural approach; using ‘activity’ as a unit of analysis to study school, university, institution and organisation in partnership; to research voice and dialogue using discourse analysis as the theoretical and analytical framework; to understand the challenges, constraints of literacy development in secondary schools and how partnership enhances literacy teaching among teachers; to study the impact of curriculum and assessment changes on teacher learning, using activity theory.
Ms Natalie Lundsteen
natalie.lundsteen@education.ox.ac.uk
DPhil student
Research Interests: The undergraduate student perspective on workplace learning. Knowledge transfer between university and the world of work. Current educational policy advocating expansion of higher education and potential economic and social implications.
Mr. Jimmy(Qiming) Mao
qiming.mao@education.ox.ac.uk
Visiting doctoral student
Research Interests: Teacher learning; Instruction and Curriculum; Schooling Reform and teacher development.
Professor Lynn McAlpine
Lynn.mcalpine@learning.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Higher Education Development
Research Interests: factors influencing learning in higher education: formerly, how academics come to understand teaching and learning; more recently, how early career academics learn about, contribute to and contest academic work; conceptually an interest in socio-cultural representations of learning and identity construction
Dr Jane McNicholl
jane.mcnicholl@education.ox.ac.uk
Lecturer in science education
Research Interests: Main responsibilities involve co-leading the science PGCE programme; examiner for MSc in Professional Development in Education and for PGDES.
Dr Alis Oancea
alis.oancea@education.ox.ac.uk
Research Fellow at the Department of Education, with the Oxford Institute of Ageing; courses taught include educational policies and reform, contemporary social theory, and philosophy of education research; Associate Research Fellow of the ESRC Research Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE)
Research Interests: Alis’s research interests are in the fields of education and research policy and governance, policy futures, research evaluation, philosophy of social research, and lifelong learning policies. Alis’s current projects include an audit of quality criteria for the assessment of education research in the UK; a (forthcoming) cross-disciplinary study of research impact; comparative work on research assessment in several countries; a review of and system performance in post-compulsory education and training, as part of the Nuffield Review of 14-19 Education and Training in England and Wales; and an exploration of public discourses about education research in England. She is an expert reviewer and involved in research evaluation for a number of national and international organisations, including the European Commission, the European Science Foundation, and the Wellcome Trust.
Miss Sandra Romenska
sandra.romenska@education.ox.ac.uk
DPhil student
Research Interests: Innovation and change in higher education, processes of institutional reform, systemic change; Education and development, education for reconstruction, education and conflict; Complexity theories and the possibilities for their application in the social sciences; Research methodologies and comparative social science, in particular possibilities for combining qualitative and quantitative approaches. Structural equation modelling and agent-based modelling; Future studies.
Dr Yoko Tsuruta
yoko.tsuruta@hertford.oxon.org
Yoko teaches Japanese education and society, English communication, and intercultural understanding at Meiji Gakuin University and Kanagawa University in Japan, having completed her doctorate at the Department of Education, University of Oxford.
Research interests: Comparative and international education (policy and practice); Intercultural communication and socio-cultural adaptation; Educational psychology; Psychological and social research methodology (quantitative and qualitative).
Dr Anne Watson
Anne.watson@education.ox.ac.uk
Reader in Mathematics Education
Research Interests: My main areas of research in Mathematics Education are exemplification and task design in mathematics teaching and learning, from a variation theory perspective; the role of mathematics education in social justice issues; the use of fine-grained approaches to analysis of mathematics interaction within socio-cultural perspectives