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Academic Staff

Name Area of Expertise Email 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 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
Professor Tony Gallagher Education in divided societies; equality and inclusion through education; shared education. am.gallagher@qub.ac.uk  +44 (0)28 9097 5357
Dr Leanne Henderson

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
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 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 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 Yecid Ortega Language and literacies education, social justice and applied linguistics from international perspectives. y.ortega@qub.ac.uk  
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

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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 Montserrat Fargas-Malet Small rural primary schools and their relationship with the community. m.fargas@qub.ac.uk +44 (0)28 9097 3195
Dr Erika Jimenez Education among migrant and minority ethnic groups; Palestinian youth; decolonial approaches to human rights; modern slavery; children's rights-based and participatory research.  e.jimenez@qub.ac.uk +44 (0)28 9097 3679
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
Dr 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 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
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