Meet LSRI’s faculty and students. Together we strive for a rich and interdisciplinary understanding of learning.
Faculty
| Our Staff | Research Interests |
| Shaaron Ainsworth | Representational learning; Technology Enhanced Learning |
| Peter Blanchfield | Digital games for learning |
| Charles Crook | Social media & collaboration; Cultural psychology of education |
| Pryce Davis | Learning in informal settings; sense-making in the public engagement of science |
| Tony Fisher | Design of ICT for learning, and teacher professional development |
| Jane Medwell | Homework, handwriting and composition in primary schools |
| Mary Oliver | Science education, engagement and learning |
| Sarah Speight | Teaching and learning in higher education; online learning |
| Denise Sweeney | Learning and teaching in higher education; learning design |
| Freydis Vogel | Collaborative learning in small groups; teacher education |
| Jonathan Halls | Primary science education; early years education |
Honorary Professors
Current Phd and EdD students
| Student | Thesis Topic |
| Caroline Anderson | The experiences of university students with differing epistemic beliefs in response to an intervention designed to support them in constructing arguments from multiple online documents? |
| Gemma Rolfe | Primary Computing Three Years On: How can we change the teaching of computational thinking within a primary school? |
| Ipek Saralar | How can technology enhanced learning improve turkish middle school students’ understanding of three dimensional geometry? |
| Karen Pinney | Using Rubrics to Support the Development of Self-Regulated Learning for First Year Undergraduate Tourism Students |
| Jiahong Liao | Teaching of Chinese characters in the UK |
| Nurjanah Binti Mohd Jaafar | How do non native speakers of English read multi-representational texts? |
| Rachael Lehner-Mear | Homework and mothering |
| Robert Whyte | Designing computing interventions to support the development of children’s literacy skills |
| Emma Stringfellow | Professional Vision in fMRI interpretation |
Some of our graduated doctoral students and their topics can be found here
