People and contact

CeNTraL coordinator

Jane Speedy (Jane.Speedy@bristol.ac.uk or + 44 (0) 117 331 4401)

Jane's research interests include 'troubling the edges' between narrative therapy and research practices, the generation of creative and critical research methodologies, particularly within the 'new ethnographies', the formation of narrative identities and the representation of storied lives/lives at the margins.

From May 18-28 2009 she is at the 5th International Qualitative Inquiry congress in the USA. Subscribe to Jane's QI2009 blog.

Core members

Tim Bond
Ethical, legal and professional issues for counsellors multi professional working; the interface between counselling, organisations and cultures; loss and bereavement, qualitative evaluations of counselling services and research ethics and methodology.
Laurinda Brown
Laurinda is interested in effective mathematics teaching and learning; complex decision-making and intuition; embodied cognition and ways of knowing.
Alf Coles
Listening and hearing in the mathematics classroom; the development of classroom cultures; teacher development and the impact of competency-based curriculum innovation.
Ruth Deakin-Crick
Ruth's interests are assessment and learning; lifelong learning; the assessment and monitoring of 'learning power'; whole school approaches to the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of pupils; citizenship education values education; diversity and educational provision and theology and education.
Kate Hawkey
Historical narratives, using narratives in creative history education.
Helen Jelfs
Michiko Kaneko
Malcolm Reed
Socio-cultural perspectives on writing, literacy and interaction; applied sociocultural theory; pedagogies for challenging circumstances. Malcolm teaches on the EdD Narrative and life story research.
Rachel Sutton Spence
Sheila Trahar
Sheila's research interests include cultural influences on learning, cultural constructions of epistemologies, teaching and learning in multicultural higher education environments, learning as transformation and adults as learners.
Donna West, GSoE

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Associate members

Christine Bell
Nell Bridges
Briege Casey, Dublin City University
Bronwyn Davies, University of Melbourne
Kim Etherington
Kim's interests include explorations of the consequences of childhood abuse and trauma; researching counselling process; the impact of research and research training on the personal development of counsellors, and narrative and reflexive research methodologies.
Ken Gale, University of Plymouth
Suzanne Gannon, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Cindy Gowen
Ying-lin Hung
Viv Martin
Dione Mifsud, University of Malta, Malta
Cathy Riessman, Boston College University, US
Artemi Sakellariadis
A recent graduate of GSoE's PhD programme, Artemi is now coordinator of CSIE (the Centre for Studies in Inclusive Education, based at the University of the West of England).
Tami Spry, St. Cloud State University, US
Jonathon Wyatt, University of Oxford
Wan Ching Yee, GSoE

Research students