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. | carl.bagley@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 1370 |
| Professor 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 (sabbatical leave January to June 2025) |
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 Jenny Ferguson |
Applied Behaviour Analysis; autism; social communication; play-based intervention, technology-based training; assent; naturalistic intervention; parent-training. |
jenny.ferguson@qub.ac.uk | |
| Maria Hatchell |
Initial Teacher Education, English (Language and Literature), Literacy and Post-Primary Education. |
m.hatchell@qub.ac.uk | |
| 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 Hazel Khamanra |
Initial Teacher Education; Science Teacher Recruitment and Retention: Science Education at Post-Primary Level; Education for Sustainable Development |
h.khamanra@qub.ac.uk | |
| 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 |
| Professor 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 |
| 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 |
| Professor Daniel Muijs | School and teacher effectiveness, school-to-school collaboration and curriculum. | hos.ssesw@qub.ac.uk | +44 (0)28 9097 5929 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 Jayne Duff |
Language Trends for England, Northern Ireland and Wales; language education at primary and post-primary level; young people’s attitudes to languages. |
jayne.duff@qub.ac.uk | |
| 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 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 |