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Nottingham ESRC Doctoral Training Centre

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The School of Education is part of the Nottingham ESRC DTC (Doctoral Training Centre), one of just 21 centres to receive accreditation by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

Over the next 5 years, the Centre will provide financial and research support to around 200 students undertaking cutting-edge interdisciplinary research covering 13 major thematic disciplines and 28 different training pathways that span all five faculties at The University of Nottingham.

Follow this link for information on research and funding opportunities at the Nottingham ESRC DTC

 

ESRC Studentship holders in Education

Current ESRC studentship holders in Education are conducting research in the following areas:

"NGOs, non-formal education and global social justice in Britain and Spain"

"Researching Creative Education: Work with young people at the Broadway Cinema and Media Centre" 

"HE student choices of new technologies for learning
Image and voice in lecturing"

"Differential responses to bullying by 'tweenage' and 'teenage' girls" 

"Representations of Australian national identity in texts read by children living in the state of Victoria, 1900-1918"

"To what extent does the history curriculum promote a Culture of Peace?" 

"Loving Leadership in secondary schools" 

"Narrative Interrelation Theory and its Pedagogic Application" 

"Narrative Interrelation Theory and its Pedagogic Application" with the School of English Studies

"Academies and School Improvement: A Critical Study" with the School of Sociology and Social Policy

Current and recent interdisciplinary topics supervised by Education academics

These topics are supervised in conjunction with the following Schools:

Business School

"The university education of management accounts and the expectation gaps of stakeholders"
 

School of Computer Science

"Mobile learning: Implementing mobile learning from bottom up"

"Intelligent recommendations in individual and group computer-assisted language learning environments"

"Immediate Feedback as a Supporting Tool in a web text-handling support system"

"The Use of Learning Styles in Adaptive Hypermedia"
 

School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies

"Global citizenship, development and intercultural education"
 

School of English Studies 

"Narrative Interrelation Theory and its Pedagogic Application" (ESRC Studentship)
 

School of Geography

"Water literacy, citizenship and the sustainable schools strategy: transition education for environmental sustainability" 
 

School of Psychology

"Emotion Understanding During Computer-Supported Collaboration"

"Disaffected youth and the use of media"

"Social Software Supported Children's Education Out of School: Informality and Transition of Learning"

"Can Children Create Mind Maps as Planning Tools for Writing?"

"Emotion Understanding During Computer-Supported Collaboration"

"Collaborative Knowledge Building Through Multi-Path Video Creation"

"Explaining individual differences in strategy variability amongst secondary school mathematics students"
 

School of Sociology and Social Policy

"From Person-Centred to a People-Centred Approach"

"Academies and School Improvement: A Critical Study" (ESRC Studentship) 
 

Recent School of Education ESRC graduates

Dr Tina Byrom
'Preaching to the Converted': Social Class, Higher Education Choice and the Paradox of Widening Participation
Graduated 2008
Currently Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Nottingham Trent University

Dr Mary Sheard
Teacher Learning Through Critiquing Videos of Literacy Instruction
Graduated 2008
Currently Research Fellow, Institute for Effective Education, University of York

Dr Simon Bailey
Producing ADHD: An Ethnographic study of Behavioural Discourses of Early Childhood
Graduated 2010
Currently Research Associate, Manchester Business School

Dr Lindsay Davies
Adult Teaching and Learning Theory: A Psychoanalytic Investigation
Graduated 2010
Currently Learning and Development Manager - Academic Practice (Researcher Continuing Professional Development) at Nottingham Trent University

Dr Jo McIntyre
Why They Stayed: A Study of the Working Lives of Long Serving Teachers in Inner City Schools
Graduated 2010
Currently Lecturer, School of Education, University of Nottingham


Dr Sarah Lewthwaite
Disability 2.0: Student dis/Connections. A Study of Student Experiences of Disability and Social Networks on Campus in Higher Education
Graduated 2011
Currently Research Associate, King’s Learning Institute, King’s College London

Dr Helen MacKenzie
Students' Experiences of Academic Play within Transitional Space in Higher Education
Graduated 2011
Currently Research Assistant, 'Student's Experience of Feedback' project, University of Leicester

 

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