Education Staff
Academic Staff
| Name | Area of Expertise | Telephone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Joe Allen | Higher Education Teaching and pedagogical research. | joe.allen@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 3424 |
| Professor Carl Bagley | Educational policy; ethnography; critical arts-based approaches to educational research. | hos.ssesw@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5929 |
| Dr Dina Belluigi | 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 |
| Dr Ibrar Bhatt | Applied linguistics, language education, literacy studies, higher education, digital literacy and epistemology. | i.bhatt@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 1489 |
| Dr Andrew Biggart | Educational disadvantage and inequalities; policies and interventions to tackle educational underachievement in children and young people. | a.biggart@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5946 |
| Dr Nichola Booth | 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 |
| Dr Ian Cantley | Teachers' pedagogical practices; improving student achievement and interest in mathematics; foundations of educational measurement models. | i.cantley@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5936 |
| Dr Sin Wang Chong | Assessment feedback in language and higher education and language classroom assessment, especially from sociocultural and ecological perspectives. | s.chong@qub.ac.uk | |
| Dr Ian Collen | Modern Languages education; Initial Teacher Education; international dimension of schooling. | i.collen@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5960 |
| Dr Pamela Cowan | 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 |
| Professor Karola Dillenburger | Applied Behaviour Analysis; evidence-based intervention in autism; parent training; child protection; child behaviour management. | k.dillenburger@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5985 |
| Dr Caitlin Donnelly | 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 |
| Dr Katerina Dounavi | Applied Behaviour Analysis; autism; evidence-based interventions; telehealth; parent training; verbal behaviour; professional supervision; inclusion. | k.dounavi@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5951 |
| Dr Gavin Duffy | Shared Education in Northern Ireland and other societies; educational leadership. | g.duffy@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5260 |
| Dr Laura Dunne | Health and wellbeing; child development; programme evaluation. | l.dunne@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5042 |
| Professor Jannette Elwood | 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 |
| Lesley Emerson | 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 |
| Dr Mel Engman | 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 |
| Dr Brian Fennell |
Behavioural interventions in schools; learning strategies for autism spectrum disorders, intellectual disabilities, and challenging behaviours. |
b.fennell@qub.ac.uk | |
| Professor Tony Gallagher | Education in divided societies; equality and inclusion through education; shared education. | am.gallagher@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5357 |
| Professor Joanne Hughes | Education in divided societies; inter-group relations; inequalities in education; shared education. | joanne.hughes@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5934 |
| Dr Karen Kerr | 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 |
| Dr Caroline Linse | Language assessment; parent connections related to TESOL; use of authentic literature in second language learning classrooms. | c.linse@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 3441 |
| Dr Katrina Lloyd | Children’s mental health and wellbeing; survey research with children and young people; secondary data analysis of large-scale survey data. | k.lloyd@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5962 |
| Professor Laura Lundy | International children's rights with a focus on: the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; education; decision-making; national education; social security law. | l.lundy@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5942 |
| Dr Alison MacKenzie | 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 |
| Professor Tess Maginess | Adult education; innovative, creative and arts-based pedagogies; older people; dementia; mental health; non-traditional learners; literature. | t.maginess@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 2512 |
| Dr William McClune | Science education with a focus on the importance of scientific literacy; science in the media and its impact on the public response to science; teacher education. | w.mcclune@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5938 |
| Dr Cathal McManus | Conflict and conflict transformation; othering; political extremism and sectarianism; peace processes; nationalism and identity politics. | c.p.mcmanus@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5914 |
| Professor Sarah Miller | 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 |
| Dr James Nelson | 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 |
| Dr Aisling O'Boyle (on sabbatical leave for Semester 2, from 1 February 2021) | 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 |
| Dr Liam O'Hare | 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)289097 5973 |
| Dr Devon Ramey | 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 |
| Dr Jennifer Roberts | 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 |
| Dr Catherine Storey | Literacy, Educational Technology, Improving educational attainment for at-risk groups, Autism Intervention, Applied Behaviour Analysis, Behaviour Management. | c.storey@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5984 |
| Professor Allen Thurston | 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 |
| Dr Sultan Turkan |
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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| Dr Maria Cockerill | 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 |
| Dr Nicole Craig | Early numeracy development, quantitative methods and effectiveness of educational interventions. | n.craig@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5017 |
| Dr Aideen Gildea |
Improving health, wellbeing and educational outcomes for young people; social mobility and parenting; supporting families; implementation science and evaluation. |
a.gildea@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5193 |
| Dr Amy Hanna | Silence and the right to be heard; injustice; children's rights; participation; respectful pedagogy. | amy.hanna@qub.ac.uk | |
| Dr Ciara Keenan | Systematic review and meta-analysis methods. | c.keenan@qub.ac.uk | email only |
| Dr Rebecca Loader | Education and social cohesion, identities in education, faith schools, intercultural education, and intergroup relations. | r.loader@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 1363 |
| Laura Neeson | Child wellbeing; Intervention evaluation and process evaluation. | l.neeson@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 |
| Joanne O'Keeffe |
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 |
| Dr Karen Orr | Education, psychology, community-based participatory research and children’s rights. | karen.orr@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 3809 |
| Dr Gareth Robinson | 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 |
| Dr Patrick Stark | Educational programme design and evaluation; language and literacy development; neuroscience, psychology and education. | p.stark@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5924 |