Education research students awarded PhDs

Posted on 26 January 2017

Eleven research students were awarded their PhD at the Degree Ceremony held on 20th January 2017.

This is the highest number of PhD awarded by our Department at a degree ceremony.

Many congratulations to the following students:

Adolphus, Telima. Investigation of school-based factors affecting the enrolment and attainment of senior secondary school physics students in Rivers State, Nigeria.

Alwedinani, Jawaher. Gender and subject choice in higher education in Saudi Arabia.

Brining, David. The challenges faced by teachers of English as a foreign language to young learners in international contexts and their training and development needs and opportunities.

Katsikopolou, Ioanna. Finding one’s place in life: Exploring the relation between upper secondary vocational education and social cohesion in times of economic crisis. The cases of Greece and England.

Mak, Winfred. The Positive Psychology of Chinese Students Learning English at UK Universities.

McIntyre, Nora. Teach at first sight: Expert teacher gaze across two cultural settings.

Peng, Yang. The recruitment and retention of teachers in rural areas of Guizhou, China.

Saddler, Helen. Management of teaching assistants to promote the social inclusion of pupils identified with special education needs in mainstream English primary schools.

Scally, Jayme. Intercultural competence development: US undergraduates in Spain.

Swift, Chelsea. Negotiating contexts for reading: becoming 'someone who reads'.

Ugbaja, Dozie. The rhetoric and reality of the English language and internationalisation: Stakeholder perspectives on varieties of English and intelligibility within higher education in countries categorised as native speaking.

A full list of current PhD students and their research areas can be found on our PhD web pages.