If you are interested in doing a PhD with me, please get in touch to discuss this further.

Below you will find an overview of current PhD and EdD students and students whose work I successfully supervised in the past. This gives you an indication of the range of topics I have supervised in or are currently supervising in.

At the Stirling Institute of Education there are opportunities for full-time and part-time PhD study, both on campus and in distance studying mode (which requires an annual face-to-face meeting). We are particularly interested in supervising students from North-America via distance studying mode.

current students

PhD: Gillian Cowell (1+3)

EdD: Morag Redford

EdD: Alan Massey

PhD: Patrica Hannan:

PhD: Jane McDonnell: “Young people’s democratic learning”

PhD: Edward Trezise: “Levinas and educational management”

PhD: Perry Lewis: “Liberal education for democracy”

PhD: Sarah Rich: “Intercultural communication in the TESL classroom”

supervised to completion

2008

PhD: Kang Zhao: “Lifelong learning, identity and narrative: A theoretical investigation ”

2007

PhD: Dilly Fung: “First year non traditional students in Higher Education”

PhD: Yingchun Li: “Classroom Culture and the Construction of Learning Opportunities: An Ethnographic case stidy of two EFL Classrooms in a Higher Education Setting in China”

PhD: Jennie Davis: “Tentative futures: Exploring the formation and transformation of young people’s vocational aspirations”

2006

PhD: Michael Tedder: “Learning biographies of adult learners”

EdD: Denise Summers: " Becoming a teacher in the post-compulsory sector: student teachers' perceptions of influences on the development of their professional identities"

2005

PhD: Deborah Osberg: "Curriculum, Complexity and Representation: Rethinking the Epistemology of Schooling through Complexity Theory"

EdD: Alberto Abouchaar: “The recent language of teacher education at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia: A deconstructive discourse analysis”

EdD: Helen Wright

EdD: Christopher Steed:  “Reflexive learning and human violence: An educational project”

2003

PhD: Ivan G. Andrews: “A case study of educational activity conducted by local United Reformed Churches in Devon"

EdD: Graham Bennett: “The literacy hour and teacher professionalism”

EdD: Philip Rankilor: “Teachers and auxiliary staff in school”

2002

PhD: Ma Kwa Hueng: “Citizenship and education: Comparing the perceptions of student teachers in Hong Kong Special Administration Region and Mainland China in a time of transition 1997-2002”

MPhil: Geoffrey Hall: “The teaching of art and the cultural dimension”