Education

Dr Sally Barnes, The integration of technology into the teaching and learning process; computer-supported collaborative learning in distance education.

Dr Angeline Mbogo Barrett, Education and development; teacher professionalism and identity; pedagogy in Africa.

Professor Tim Bond, Professional ethics for counselling and cognate roles; research ethics and narrative approaches to research; 'trust'.

Ms Laurinda Brown, Mathematics education; effective mathematics teaching and learning; complex decision-making and intuition; embodied cognition and ways of knowing.

Dr Alf Coles, Listening and hearing in the mathematics classroom; the development of classroom cultures; teacher development; ways of working with video; metacognition.

Dr Ruth Deakin Crick, Transformative learning; organisational learning; schools as complex adaptive systems; learning how to learn; learning dispositions; inquirybased learning; citizenship education; values in education; curriculum as narration; competence as an educational goal; spirituality and learning; moral development; business and community engagement.

Professor Michael Crossley, Theoretical and methodological scholarship on the future of the field of comparative and international education; research and evaluation capacity; international development co-operation; and educational development in small states.

Dr Sibel Erduran, Argumentation in science; discourse and language in science education; applications of history and philosophy of science in science education; epistemological reasoning in chemistry; public understanding of science.

Professor Keri Facer, Educational futures; digital cultures; social justice; university/public/ civic/community engagement; connected communities.

Dr Anthony Feiler, Special educational needs and inclusive education; disabled children (enhancing communication and friendships); early literacy intervention; developing collaborative links between schools and families.

Dr Frances Giampapa, Negotiation of identities in multilingual contexts; critical ethnography; issues of methodology in language research; language and globalization; multiliteracies; EAL/ESL ethnic minority students and equity in education; language contact and linguistic ideologies.

Professor Harvey Goldstein, Statistical modelling techniques in the construction and analysis of educational tests; educational (school) effectiveness; methodology of multilevel modelling.

Dr Paul Howard-Jones, Neuroscience and education; game-based learning and creativity.

Dr Talia Isaacs, Second language speaking and listening assessment; rating scales and rater processes; mixed methods research; second language acquisition; language for specific and academic purposes; intelligibility and crosscultural communication; language shift and maintenance.

Dr Tim Jay, The relationship between context and transfer of learning; children's development of mathematical cognition; theoretical perspectives on mathematics education; relationships between children's out-of-school experience and their experience of classroom mathematics; adoption of new technologies and the role of these new technologies in people's learning.

Helen Knowler, The inclusion of children and young people who experience social, emotional and behavioural difficulties in educational settings; special and inclusive education; the Continuing Professional Development of teachers and teacher learning; the social and emotional aspects of learning; writing as a method of inquiry.

Dr Lisa Lucas, Sociology of higher education; higher education policy and management; comparative systems of quality assurance and evaluation; academic work and identity; doctoral education.

Dr Elizabeth McNess, Teachers' work; comparative policy analysis; pupils' perceptions of schooling; effectiveness and quality in schooling systems; comparative methodology.

Dr Sara Meadows, Developing evidence-based and policy-relevant models of how complex factors such as parental education, teen parenthood and poverty have their impact on child development.

Dr Federico Olivero, Use of ICT in the teaching and learning of mathematics; proving and dynamic geometry; use of digital video as a methodological and analytical tool; use of videopapers in professional development.

Dr Malcolm Reed, Sociocultural perspectives on literacy and interaction; applied sociocultural theory; narrative ethnography.

Professor Susan Robertson, Globalisation; regionalisation; education policy; knowledge-economy; teachers' labour.

Dr Rachel Sutton Spence, British Sign Language, Deaf folklore and creative sign language - poetry, narratives and humour.

Dr Fiona Steele, Statistical methods for social research, including multilevel modelling, event history (survival) analysis and structural equation modelling; applications in demography.

Professor Rosamund Sutherland, Teaching and learning with ICT with a particular focus on mathematics education; informal learning and children's computing in the home.

Professor Sally Thomas, Educational quality and improvement; school evaluation and self-evaluation; learning communities and professional learning; citizenship; education in developing countries (China, Africa); research methods using qualitative, quantitative (including multilevel modelling) or a combination of both approaches.

Professor Leon Tikly, The quality of education in low-income countries; globalisation and education in low-income countries; the achievement of Black and minority ethnic learners in the UK; South African education; the management of change.

Dr Sue Timmis, ICT in teaching and learning in higher education; the lived experience of students and young people using digital tools; computer-supported collaborative learning and communication; Cultural Historical Activity Theory and sociocultural approaches to learning.

Dr Sheila Trahar, Cultural influences on learning and teaching in higher education; methodological and epistemological implications of conducting research across cultures; international higher education; diversity in higher education.

Dr Jocelyn Wishart, ICT: motivation, psychology and learning, in particular the use of mobile devices; ICT in schools; ICT for distance and for informal learning; teaching and learning in science and psychology; the use of ICT to support teaching.

Dr Helen Woodfield, Second language acquisition, interlanguage, intercultural and crosscultural pragmatics; politeness and language.

Miss Wan Ching Yee, Out-of-school learning; research ethics; identity, ethnic diversity and the home; widening access to higher education; literacy learning, numeracy learning and transfer.

Dr Guoxing Yu, Educational assessment, including all aspects of language testing and assessment; reading in a foreign or second language; written communication; measurement and development of learning power; international comparisons in educational assessment; philosophy of educational assessment; student self- and peer-assessment; school effectiveness and educational quality; research methods; large-scale quantitative data management and analyses (eg multilevel modelling using MLwiN); use of qualitative data analysis software (e.g. MAXqda).