Current PhD students
Meet and be inspired by our Education PhD students.
| Name | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Abate Kenna | Interactive maths games: Mathematical generalisation and higher-order thinking |
| Afrah Alkhalaf | Learner-generated context for ecological sustainability |
| Alisha O'Neill | A longitudinal study exploring the development and significance of blame placement in relation to help-seeking tendencies in a school environment |
| Amelia Ryder | Transformative learning through art and creativity |
| Anbreen Ulfat | A critical review of adult students' educational identities who Receive a Diagnostic Assessment of an SpLD |
| Artemis Christinaki | Deconstructing community psychology: A case study of the community dynamics in refugee camps of Greece |
| Aysenur Gucbilmez | In what ways can a dyslexia-friendly classroom approach benefit students with dyslexia? |
| Basemah Al-Senafi | Policy and decision-making about assessment of English language for young learners in Kuwait |
| Beatrice Halstead | |
| Belinda Hughes | An investigation into the Chief Executive Officer of a multi-academy trust in England |
| Bing Liu | Building world-class universities in China: Strategies and influences at a famous Chinese university |
| Bobbie Dutton | An evaluation of the crisis care pathway within the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership |
| Bowen Zhang | |
| Choen Yin Chan | An intercultural study of intergenerational relationships and cultural identity of UK Chinese families |
| Cristián Iturriaga Seguel | Literacy discourse and practices in deaf education: The privileging and marginalizing of subjectivities |
| Daniel Alderson | Constructions of discourse in group analytic perspectives of homosexuality |
| Diana Ahmad Busra | Professional development and change in ESL lecturers' pedagogical beliefs and actions about the role of technology in a Malaysian polytechnic context |
| Disi Ai | Third language learning, multiculturalism and identity: ethnic minority students in IMAR of China |
| Dylan Williams | Students' perceptions of English-medium instruction in South Korean higher education |
| Edmund Aspbury | The structure of the student world: Using Heidegger’s being-in-the-world, to explore behaviour in the language learning environment |
| Elizabeth Hale | Responding to educational disadvantage: A case study of a complex, multi-faceted school strategy to mitigate the impacts of disadvantage on children's outcomes |
| Emilia Howker | Developing hybrid activities through home-school dialogue in disadvantaged communities |
| Emily Banwell | An evaluation of the i-THRIVE system within the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership |
| Esther Cummins | To what extent (if at all) does the hidden curriculum in faith schools support the outworking of the Prevent strategy? |
| Fatema Al Hussain | Job satisfaction and stress among special needs teachers working with dyslexic students: A case study in Saudi Arabia |
| Felix Kwihangana | Exploring enabling factors and barriers for technology integration in pre-service language teacher training in Rwanda |
| Gillian Egeli | |
| Haleema Sadia | Constructing identities through visual methods: Transitional narratives of female Pakistani students in Manchester |
| Heather Cockayne | Learning to unlearn: An exploration of how Chinese PGT students navigate the academic and cultural challenges in UK HE |
| Huda Ahmed | Factors affecting the academic attainment of Yemeni boys in the UK |
| Huili Si | |
| Huran Mirillo | The experiences of 'migrating faculty': Narrative and ecological perspectives |
| Huseyin Ulukuz | Use of augmented reality for context-aware informal learning |
| Huw Morgan | The impact of cognitive load theory and multimedia learning principles upon the learning experience of undergraduate accounting and finance students |
| Janice Shaw | Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and an exploration of its relationship to personal construct psychology |
| Jessica Heal | Social media and schoolgirl femininity: Power, performance and resistance |
| Jonathan Herbert | A narrative exploration of the impact of widespread internet access and ICT provision on educational attainment in white British boys from deprived areas of the UK |
| Ka Hei Lei | The relationship between mathematics self-efficacy and academic performance: The role of task difficulty perception in a cross-cultural perspective |
| Kimberly Petersen | An investigation to examine the longitudinal relationship between mental health and other domains of competence in primary school children |
| Kirsty Frearson | Universal school-based prevention: Examining the impact of the good behaviour game on pupil outcomes in primary education |
| Krismiyati Krismiyati | Teachers' intentionality in technology practice in an Indonesian context |
| Lada Smirnova | Integrating technology into the university language classroom: A study of complexities and perezhivanie in teachers' experience |
| Laura Goodfellow | Understanding proximal duty-bearer engagement with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) |
| Lily Verity | |
| Loretta Anthony-Okeke | Crossing the bridge to independence: A study of Nigerian IFP students in private sixth form colleges in England |
| Louise Black | Exploring the SEL logic model in relation to a dual-factor model of mental health |
| Luan Carpes Barros Cassal | "Who defends the queer child?" A study with trans teenagers on gender recognition at schools |
| Luting Zhou | A comparative study of language learning policies through play in the mainland of China, Hong Kong and Singapore: From teachers' perceptions |
| Mandy Pierlejewski | Resisting datafication in early years foundation stage |
| Martyn Edwards | |
| Mary Finn | 'In a lucid and scholarly manner': A study of genre in doctoral theses in medical and human sciences |
| Mohammed Amejee | |
| Mohammed Khan | |
| Nafeesa Nizami | Becoming a pre-trial therapist: A reflexive self and social inquiry |
| Neny Isharyanti | Exploring Indonesian pre-service teachers' experiences and practices in using technology for teaching |
| Ola Demkowicz | Investigating the relationship between cumulative risk exposure, resilience and mental health during early adolescence and how young people experience this process |
| Olga Dolganova | Exploration of classroom cultures of learning in the Russian higher education context |
| Oluwatoyin Afolabi-Ajayi | Investigating interactions within a collaborative research partnership: Impact on Early Childhood teacher's instructional practices |
| Omar Kaissi | Disabled male corporeality at the school |
| Parise Carmichael-Murphy | Adolescent boys, social stress and (dis)engagement in education |
| Pauline Brown | Beyond pupil premium: Poverty and disadvantage in Northern schools |
| Raichael Lock | |
| Rebecca Grant | Lessons from 'odds-beating' schools: Understanding how schools serving disadvantaged areas achieve good outcomes |
| Rebecca Phillips | Home and school literacy practices of Somali children in year one of primary education: An analysis of the relationship |
| Rebecca Simpson-Hargreaves | Examining young children's responses to human rights picture books |
| Rosie Mansfield | Mental health promotion in schools |
| Said Al Furqani | |
| Samantha Ballington | De-radicalising 'prevent': Encouraging discussion and connected participation through the development of anonymous online communities |
| Samar Albalawi | Enlarging the space of science education |
| Sara Allnjawi | Interacting in a gamified online environment: The impact of rewards’ timing with cognitive styles on enhancing students’ academic performance and persistence in the Saudi context |
| Sofia Eleftheriadou | Collaboration problem solving and science teaching and learning |
| Tamsin Linehan-Mccaldin | The experiences of students preparing for GCSE examinations while receiving teacher messages: An interpretative phenomenological analysis |
| Taslima Ivy | Promoting student-centred pedagogic practice in Bangladeshi EFL multimedia classrooms |
| Timothy Greenwood | Supporting innovation in inclusive practice in a higher education institution through the action research practice of 'learning history' |
| Tom Fryer | |
| Victoria Hirst | Cradle-to-career school designs: Learning from insider experiences |
| Ying Yang | |
| Zahra Alijah |