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School of Education, Midwifery and Social Work

Below you can view all the staff in the School of Education, Midwifery and Social Work who are available for doctoral supervision.

Click on the department you are interested in to explore opportunities for supervision. You'll then be able to find out more about each member of staff and find out how to contact them by visiting their profile.

Department of Midwifery

Dr Melania Calestani

  • Topics: Health inequalities, maternity care, spiritual care, culture, health and illness, critical understandings of race and ethnicity, critical medical anthropology
  • Research methods: Qualitative and ethnography
  • Availability: None in 2023
  • Contact: View Melania's profile

Dr Lindsay Gillman

  • Topics: Midwifery, teaching and learning in higher education
  • Research methods: Qualitative – open to discussion
  • Availability: PhD/EdD
  • Contact: View Lindsay's profile

Department of Education

Dr Michael Allen

  • Topics: Science education, preschool learning and climate change education
  • Research methods: Quantitative and structured interviews
  • Availability: MPhil/PhD/EdD
  • Contact: View Michael's profile

 

Dr Christos Dimitriadis

  • Topics: Mathematics education, gifted education, students with high ability, twice-exceptional students, and thinking skills and teaching thinking
  • Research methods: Qualitative and mixed-methods
  • Availability: MPhil/PhD/EdD
  • Contact: View Christos's profile

Dr Dejan Ljubojevic

  • Topics: Critical literacy, technology enhanced learning, learning design, learning design analytics and machine learning in education
  • Research methods: Design-based research and mixed-methods
  • Availability: MPhil/PhD/EdD
  • Contact: View Dejan's profile

Dr Daryl Maisey

  • Topics: Early years, safeguarding and child protection in education
  • Research methods: Qualitative
  • Availability: EdD
  • Contact: View Daryl's profile

 

Dr Paty Paliokosta

  • Topics: Inclusivity, anti-oppression and underserved communities, systemic inequalities, reasonable adjustments and neuroinclusivity, and socially just transitions for vulnerable groups (intersectionality)
  • Research methods: Qualitative, participatory research, narrative and visual research
  • Availability: Unknown
  • Contact: View Paty's profile

Dr Ruth Wood

  • Topics: Educational technology and technology enhanced learning
  • Research methods: Qualitative
  • Availability: MPhil/PhD/EdD
  • Contact: View Ruth's profile

Department of Social Work and Social Care

Dr Maria Brent

  • Topics: Adults, safeguarding, self-neglect, hoarding, learning disabilities, dementia, older people, carers, and risk and decision-making
  • Research methods: Qualitative approaches, ethnography and mixed methods
  • Availability: MPhil/PhD/EdD
  • Contact: View Maria's profile

Prof Rick Hood

  • Topics: Child protection and children's social care
  • Research methods: Qualitative and mixed methods
  • Availability: PhD (but at capacity for 2023/24)
  • Contact: View Rick's profile

Prof Wilson Muleya

  • Topics: Theory application in practice, exploring the effectiveness of different intervention approaches, and strategic approaches to the adaptation of new technologies in learning and teaching in HE
  • Research methods: Unknown
  • Availability: Unknown
  • Contact: View Wilson's profile

Dr David Nilsson

  • Topics: Adoption/fostering, healthcare social work, and health and social care management
  • Research methods: Qualitative or mixed methods
  • Availability: MPhil/PhD/EdD
  • Contact: View David's profile

Learning and Teaching Enhancement Centre

Dr Tania Dias Fonseca

  • Topics: Education for sustainability and sustainable development, STEM Education, pedagogies in higher education, and equality, inclusion and diversity in higher education
  • Research methods: Qualitative and mixed
  • Availability: MPhil/PhD/EdD
  • Contact: View Tania's profile

Dr Annie Hughes

  • Topics: Pedagogies in higher education, higher education policy and practice, inclusive education and educational attainment gaps
  • Research methods: Qualitative and mixed
  • Availability: PhD/EdD
  • Contact: View Annie's profile

Dr Martha Mador

  • Topics: Enterprise and entrepreneurship education for the health sector, and innovation systems in the health sector
  • Research methods: Qualitative and mixed
  • Availability: MPhil/PhD/EdD
  • Contact: Email Martha

Dr Hilary Wason

  • Topics: Critical thinking and dialogic teaching, professional development, professional learning, peer learning, pedagogies in higher education, curriculum design and development, and skills development
  • Research methods: Qualitative and mixed
  • Availability: MPhil/PhD/EdD
  • Contact: View Hilary's profile