Education Staff
Academic Staff
| Name | Area of Expertise | Telephone | |
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| Higher Education Teaching and pedagogical research. | joe.allen@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 3424 | |
| Authorship and interpretation; critical Higher Education Studies; visual and arts-based methodologies; creative arts higher education; post-colonialism, post-conflict, race and gender. | d.belluigi@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5948 | |
| Applied linguistics, language education, literacy studies, higher education, digital literacy and epistemology. | i.bhatt@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 1489 | |
| Support and interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorder; using Applied Behaviour Analysis to teach new skills and reduce challenging behaviours. | n.booth@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 3264 | |
| Modern Languages education; Initial Teacher Education; international dimension of schooling. | i.collen@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5960 | |
| all aspects of using modern information technologies in educational contexts, assessment in education, structural equations modelling and issues in mathematics and computing education. | p.cowan@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5931 | |
| School ethos and intergroup relations; Shared Education and school relations in Northern Ireland and other divided societies. | caitlin.donnelly@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5943 | |
| Shared Education in Northern Ireland and other societies; educational leadership. | g.duffy@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5260 | |
| Health and wellbeing; child development; programme evaluation. | l.dunne@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5042 | |
| Testing and assessment and their impact on students' lives; gender and its interaction with assessment; educational assessment research and practice. | j.elwood@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5967 | |
| Citizenship and human rights education; children’s rights: participation, wellbeing, civil and political rights; children's rights-based and participatory research. | l.emerson@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5927 | |
| Indigenous/heritage language use and reclamation; language, sign and power; linguistic ethnography; analysis of social media practices. | m.engman@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5158 | |
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Applied Behaviour Analysis; autism; social communication; play-based intervention, technology-based training; assent; naturalistic intervention; parent-training. |
jenny.ferguson@qub.ac.uk | ||
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Educational Trajectories and Transitions; Language and Education Policy; Educational Assessment; Young People's Educational Experiences. |
leanne.henderson@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 1834 | |
| Education in divided societies; inter-group relations; inequalities in education; shared education. | joanne.hughes@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5934 | |
| Science education and assessment; primary children's attitudes to science and their concept development; teacher professional development for science; outdoor learning. | k.kerr@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5945 | |
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Initial Teacher Education; Science Teacher Recruitment and Retention: Science Education at Post-Primary Level; Education for Sustainable Development |
h.khamanra@qub.ac.uk | ||
| Injustice and inequality; SEN/Inclusion; Capability Approach (Nussbaum); education policy; philosophy of emotions; feminism and gender; literacy/linguistic capital. | a.mackenzie@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5930 | |
| Social emotional development, academic attainment; programme evaluation, randomised controlled trials and systematic review methods. | s.j.miller@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5944 | |
| School and teacher effectiveness, school-to-school collaboration and curriculum. | hos.ssesw@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5929 | |
| Interface between religion and education; teacher education; role of religion in school; shared education; role of religion and religious education in teacher education. | j.nelson@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5904 | |
| Language and education; discourse in educational contexts and intercultural contexts; English language learning and teaching; applying corpus linguistics research to education; knowledge construction; speaking skills. | a.oboyle@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)289097 5935 | |
| Prevention and early intervention to improve outcomes of those facing disadvantage; social, emotional and wellbeing outcomes of children and young people; educational attainment. | l.ohare@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5973 | |
| Applied Behaviour Analysis; Autism Spectrum Disorder; developmental disabilities; quality of life; challenging behaviour; verbal behaviour; technology-based instruction. | d.ramey@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 1828 | |
| Educational programme design and evaluation; language and literacy; Educational Effectiveness, RCTs, Early Years and Primary Education, SEN/Inclusion. | j.roberts@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 3177 | |
| Initial Teacher Education; Mathematics Education at Post-Primary Level; Numeracy at Post-Primary Level. | g.scullion@qub.ac.uk | ||
| Learning and literacy; disability research and research methods; attainment for students from socio-economic disadvantage; impact of vision impairment. | a.thurston@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5169 | |
| Bilingual/multilingual education; fairness issues in educational assessments; linguistically and culturally responsive teaching and teacher education; language teacher education. | s.turkan@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 1811 | |
Research Staff |
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| Improving learning in schools, specifically literacy, with a particular focus on pupils from socio-economic disadvantaged backgrounds. Educational programme design and evaluation, including randomised controlled trials. | maria.cockerill@qub.ac.uk | email only | |
| Early numeracy development, quantitative methods and effectiveness of educational interventions. | n.craig@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5017 | |
| Language teaching, learning and use across multiple communities and settings in Ireland; shared identities and languages; inclusive language education. | jayne.duff@qub.ac.uk | ||
| Small rural primary schools and their relationship with the community. | m.fargas@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 3195 | |
| Language Trends for England, Scotland Northern Ireland, Wales and Republic of Ireland; language education at primary and post-primary level; young people’s attitudes to languages. | h.mckelvey@qub.ac.uk | ||
| Early intervention research and process evaluation in attainment, health and wellbeing; interventions for improving outcomes for children and young people from socio-economic disadvantage. | j.okeeffe@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 3287 | |
| Internationalisation of Shared Education, particularly in the US and Israel, and the transnational network structures that emerge from such collaboration. | ga.robinson@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 3164 |