Outputs (128)

Connecting people and planet through reading for pleasure (2025)
Book Chapter

This chapter reflects on research using MG Leonard’s Beetle Boy to consider how reading for pleasure has the potential to impact upon social and environmental action. Research with children and teachers revealed how reading the book supported them to... Read More about Connecting people and planet through reading for pleasure.

Women in STEM: How one county is making SPARCs (2025)
Journal Article

On International Women’s Day 2024, Pembrokeshire County Council joined Pembrokeshire College in the launch of the Sustainable Power, Renewables, and Construction (SPARC) Alliance. This new alliance promotes gender diversity in these underrepresented... Read More about Women in STEM: How one county is making SPARCs.

Preservice teachers learning to teach reading using one-to-one tutoring: Does learning 'stick' for tutees and tutors? (2025)
Journal Article

Teaching reading is a key element of initial teacher education programmes in England. This study contributes to the research about the most effective way to ensure preservice teachers have the necessary skills and knowledge to teach reading. One-to-o... Read More about Preservice teachers learning to teach reading using one-to-one tutoring: Does learning 'stick' for tutees and tutors?.

Making, knowing and seeing art: An exploration into the importance of art knowledge for teaching within a broad and rich primary school curriculum (2025)
Thesis

This thesis explores the importance of art knowledge for teaching within a broad and rich primary school curriculum. The research was conducted across an English city and surrounding area over a ten-month period, during the academic year of September... Read More about Making, knowing and seeing art: An exploration into the importance of art knowledge for teaching within a broad and rich primary school curriculum.

The ‘cruel optimism’ of professional development (2025)
Journal Article

The starting point for this critical exploration of the inner logic of professional learning and development is an orientalist reading of The Great Wave, the iconic woodblock print by the Japanese artist Katushika Hokusai. How might ‘seeing double by... Read More about The ‘cruel optimism’ of professional development.

Sliding down troublesome funds of knowledge and climbing up powerful skills: Identifying the new 'snakes and ladders' of Criminology teaching in an English FE college (2025)
Thesis

This research is an ethnographically-informed case study which seeks to understand how academically successful and emotionally supportive learning environments can be created for Level 3 Criminology students. It draws upon a funds of knowledge framew... Read More about Sliding down troublesome funds of knowledge and climbing up powerful skills: Identifying the new 'snakes and ladders' of Criminology teaching in an English FE college.

Beyond the eatwell guide: Learning to value what we eat (2024)
Journal Article

Going against the grain? Exploring EdD students’ engagement with arts-based research (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Despite growing interest in the potential value of arts-based research (ABR) for educational inquiry (Siegesmund & Cahnmann-Taylor, 2018), limited consideration exists regarding its accessibility, and relevance, to practice-based professional doctora... Read More about Going against the grain? Exploring EdD students’ engagement with arts-based research.

"VR is more than game, it’s way too brilliant for that" – An illuminative mixed methods case study exploring virtual reality in FE health and social care curriculum (2024)
Thesis

With an increasing interest in digital technologies in education, new opportunities exist to bring real world contexts into the classroom setting using virtual reality.  Virtual reality (VR) is a new technology that can serve to enhance simulation-ba... Read More about "VR is more than game, it’s way too brilliant for that" – An illuminative mixed methods case study exploring virtual reality in FE health and social care curriculum.

School art 2024: Compliant conciliation or a quiet revolution? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In 2004 Downing and Watson published School Art: what’s in it? on the content of the taught curriculum in English secondary art and design education. They reported that, despite negligible prescribed content in the National Curriculum for Art and Des... Read More about School art 2024: Compliant conciliation or a quiet revolution?.