Current and recent CRESJ PhDs

Current CRESJ Postgraduate Researchers

Current CRESJ Postgraduate Researchers

Arwa Alhumaidan: Exploring the Gender Stereotypes in Children's books in Saudi Arabia (Supervised by Vanita Sundaram)

Wejdan Almutawa: Blended Learning: How Much is Too Much Technology in Early Years Education? (Supervised by Kerry Knox)    

Rosanna Armstrong: Is citizen education the same as character education? (Supervised by Leah Roberts and Eleanor Brown)

Sahana Arun Kumar: Conversations on Consent (Supervised by Vanita Sundaram)    

Nate Bellot: Development Education within the Secondary Education System in England: A Critical Pedagogy for Post-Development (Supervised by Eleanor Brown)

Abigail Bowling: Choosing to Teach: Social class and progression onto teacher training in Yorkshire (Supervised by Paul Wakeling and Sally Hancock)

Marina Cartier: British children's response to translated humorous picturebooks (Supervised by Clementine Beauvais)

Asep Casmana: A whole public-school approach in promoting Global Citizenship Education in Indonesia (Supervised by Eleanor Brown)    

Rebecca Clark: A comparative study of young people growing up on council estates set in different local contexts to understand the effects of place and socio-economic standing on school attainment and progression to higher education (Supervised by Reva Yunus and Paul Wakeling) 

Dawn Evans: Exploring African and Caribbean Women's Journey Towards Senior Position in Further Education (Supervised by Vanita Sundaram)

David Gilani: Individualised connectedness: how can universities enhance student outcomes by helping students to better understand their own belonging needs?  (Supervised by Liz Thomas and Daniel McArthur)

Katie Heffron: Decolonising the university: decolonising ourselves to transform the systems and practices that shape us (Supervised by Eleanor Brown and Lynda Dunlop)

Lucy Hemingway: Reading for racial literacy: Exploring the role of reading communities in developing racial literacy among teachers (Supervised by Chelsea Sellars and Constantino Dumangane Jr)

Heather Holmes: A Study of the Reading Habits of Secondary School English Teachers (Supervised by Amanda Naylor)         

Chika Hosoda: Teaching Professional’s Understanding of human rights and diversity for Citizenship Education in England (Supervised by Reva Yunus and Leah Roberts) 

Maha Jabali: The use of Social Media within the undergraduate student population of Saudi Arabian universities (Supervised by Clementine Beauvais)

Victoria Jack: Effective transcultural communication (Supervised by Nadia Jessop)

Emma Jackson: Developing an Intersectional Approach to Sex and Relationships Education in England and Wales     

Huaijue Jiang: How to teach RSE in secondary schools in England? Self-review of experienced RSE teachers on gender equality and implications for the future induction training of RSE teachers (Supervised by Vanita Sundaram) 

Alexander Kemp: Care-experienced graduates studying postgraduate taught degrees: motivations, experiences and the impact of the undergraduate ‘cliff-edge’ of support (Supervised by Zoe Baker and Paul Wakeling)    

Meiyao Lu: Equality in Education in China: An Analysis of the Policy of Children of Migrant Workers to Sit National College Entrance Exam Locally (Supervised by Daniel Kyereko, Paul Wakeling)         

Sachin Mohan Mohite: Assessing Citizenship Education in India (Supervised by Leah Roberts)

Valeria Riveros Fuentes:The Effectiveness of the Use of Literature-to-Film adaptations in the Development of Reading Comprehension in the Chilean English Classrooms (Supervised by Clementine Beauvais) 

Alhareth Sait: Internationalisation of small higher education institutions: challenges and opportunities. A case study from Saudi Arabia (Supervised by Paul Wakeling and Sally Hancock)

Alya Shamshul Ariffin: The nature of the gaze in young adult literature (Supervised by Clementine Beauvais)
Jiqiong Sheng: Becoming a Consumer in England: International Postgraduates' Identity and Transition (Supervised by Paul Wakeling and Sally Hancock)

Helen Thomson: What are the factors influencing boys’ (non-)selection of English in post-compulsory secondary education in England? (Supervised by Amanda Naylor)     

Tasneem Walji: Is global learning the key for a prospective key stage three geography curriculum in the digital world? (Supervised by Naomi Holmes)     

Michelle Woods: What can be learnt from students who have persisted in HE after seriously considering leaving, to improve the persistence of others within the Irish higher education sector (Supervised Liz Thomas and Zoe Baker)

Recently completed CRESJ PhDs

Recently completed CRESJ PhDs

Jessie Shepherd: The effectiveness of Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) on primary students when taking into account gender, cultural, ethnicity, and migration differences (Supervised Dusana Dorjee and Vanita Sundaram)

Caroline Casey: The degree apprenticeship pathway into the legal profession: a game  changer? (Supervised by Paul Wakeling)

Hatice Herdili Sahin: The design of visual arts education curriculum policies and teacher interpretation: the interface between curriculum provision and the implementation process. (Supervised by Kerry Knox)

Louise Johnson: How To ‘Be Girl’: A study of how the historic juvenilia and present day creative writing of young girls can facilitate discussions about what it means to ‘be girl’. (Supervised by Clementine Beauvais)

Emre Karatas: Assessment of Historical Thinking in Secondary Schools (Supervised by Leah Roberts)

Sihem Salem: Global Citizenship Education in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Classrooms: Views of the Algerian Oral Expression Teachers and their Students (Supervised by Eleanor Brown)

Katherine Smith: Gender in the assigned texts for GCSE English Literature      (Supervised by Clementine Beauvais and Vanita Sundaram) 

Annis Stenson: Investigating laddish identities in universities (Supervised by Vanita Sundaram)

Janina Suppers: Young people’s participation in emerging citizenship contexts and the role of citizenship education: A mixed-methods case study from a rural community in Germany (Supervised by Eleanor Brown)

Eleni Zotou: Primary trainee teachers' views about cultural diversity and their sense of preparedness towards teaching in culturally diverse classrooms. (Supervised by Vanita Sundaram)