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Dr Viki Veale (viki.veale@stmarys.ac.uk)
Senior Lecturer in Early Years and Primary Education, St Mary’s University

Areas of research interest

Research interests include:

  • the lived experiences of teachers in maintained Early Years settings
  • education policy and professional confidence
  • leadership in Primary school settings.

Publications and presentations

  • Presentation: Right from the Start: Supporting the retention of qualified teachers in maintained Early Years Settings. BELMAS Annual Conference: Troubling Educational Leadership Through Authentic Engagement (July, 2023)
  • Presentation: Mental Health: Shared Concerns, Shared Vision. University of Worcester: Children’s Alliance Annual Conference (June 2023)
  • Presentation: Making Meaning through Metaphorical Carnivalesque: Exploring the core competency framework through an early childhood lens. (With Karen Vincent: Canterbury Christchurch University). IPDA Annual conference. (November, 2022).

Members

Kerry Assemakis (kerry.assemakis@stmarys.ac.uk)
Senior Lecturer in Primary English, St Mary's University, Twickenham

Robert Campbell (robert.campbell@stmarys.ac.uk)
Course Lead and Senior Lecturer in Secondary Science with QTS, St Mary's University, Twickenham

Dr Jane Chambers (jane.chambers@stmarys.ac.uk)
Associate Professor, Head of the School of Education, St Mary's University, Twickenham

Areas of research interest

Research interests include:

  • professional identity of teacher educators who have caring responsibilities
  • professional identity of school-based teacher educators.

Publications and presentations

  • Edwards-Leis, C.E. and Chambers, J. (2024*) Can pedagogy in universities be critical? in C. E. Edwards-Leis and M. Price (Eds.) Pedagogy in Higher Education: A critical review, London: St Mary's University Press.
  • Presentation: The future of Professional Education in Higher Education: Perspectives from Initial Teacher Education, Youth and Community Work and Social Work, BERA Conference 2023. Birmingham: 14th September 2023

Jemima Davey (jemima.davey@stmarys.ac.uk)
Subject Lead Education Partnerships and Senior Lecturer in Primary Education, St Mary's University, Twickenham

Areas of research interest

Research interests include:

  • professional identity formation and development
  • mentoring and supervision in education
  • teacher autonomy and agency in the classroom
  • cross-curricular approaches to primary education.

Publications and presentations

  • Davey, J. (2024*) Tech in Teaching: Exploring the impact of digital learning on emerging professional practice, in C. E. Edwards-Leis and M. Price (Eds.) Pedagogy in Higher Education: A critical review, London: St Mary's University Press.
  • Presentation: Using Critical Global Citizenship Education to challenge the traditional notion of science education, New voices in Global Education & Learning, ANGEL. Online: 19th April 2023.
  • Strachan, A. and Davey, J. (2022) Saving the planet one science lesson at a time: challenging the traditional notion of sustainability and climate change education. Primary Science 175.
  • Strachan, A. and Davey, J. (2022) Saving The Planet One Science Lesson At A Time. Hatfield: Millgate House Publishers.

Professor Anna Lise Gordon (annalise.gordon@stmarys.ac.uk)
Professor of Education, St Mary's University, Twickenham

Areas of research interest

Research interests include:

  • teacher resilience and wellbeing
  • professional development for teachers
  • wellbeing of children and young adults
  • character education
  • bereavement in schools.

Publications and presentations

  • Gordon, A.L., (2023) Early career teaching and resilience. In: Tierney, R.J., Rizvi, F., Erkican, K. (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education, vol. 5. Elsevier, pp. 153–160.
  • Gordon, A. L. (2023). Grief matters: Exploring the impact of bereavement & grief on learning for All. British Educational Research Association.
  • Gordon, A. (2020) Educate – Mentor – Nurture: Improving the Transition from Initial Teacher Training to Qualified Teacher Status and Beyond, Journal of Education for Teachers, Vol. 46(5).

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René Hartmann (rene.hartmann@stmarys.ac.uk)
Senior Lecturer in Primary Mathematics, St Mary's University, Twickenham

Areas of research interest

Research interests include:

  • creativity in mathematics
  • neurodivergence and how it manifests in mathematics
  • ADHD and the obstacles and opportunities for the mathematics learner and teacher.

Laura Minogue (laura.minogue@stmarys.ac.uk)
Interim Head of Academic Professional Development, St Mary's University, Twickenham

Areas of research interest

Research interests include:

  • the experiences and identity of early career academics
  • relational pedagogies in Higher Education
  • arts-based teaching and research methods
  • the use of freewriting in academic contexts.

Publications and presentations

  • Minogue, L., and Price, M., (2024*) From the academic encounter to a curated space: developing relational pedagogy, in C. E. Edwards-Leis and M. Price (Eds.) Pedagogy in Higher Education: A critical review, London: St Mary's University Press
  • Presentation: Using Creative Pedagogies on the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, Advance HE Accredited Programme Leaders’ Network, online 27th June 2023
  • Minogue, L., Murphy, C., & Salmons, K., (2018) Embedding Learning Development: a model for collaborative practice, Journal for Learning Development in Higher Education, Vol 13

Lisa Panford (lisa.panford@stmarys.ac.uk)
Course Lead PGCE Secondary Languages with QTS, St Mary's University, Twickenham

Areas of research interest

Research interests include:

  • anti-racist, decolonising, and inclusive pedagogies in languages education  
  • reflective and critical writing in teacher preparation programmes 
  • collaborative decolonising initiatives.

Publications and presentations

Dr Mark Price (mark.price@stmarys.ac.uk)
Associate Professor of Education, St Mary's University, Twickenham

Areas of research interest

Research interests include:

  • transnational postgraduate partnership and pedagogy
  • professional identity and narrative learning
  • postgraduate research supervision.

Publications and presentations

  • Mariaye, H., Price, M., Ramasawmy, J.S., Melvin, M. and Mohabeer, T. (2023) ‘Narrative encounters of pedagogic partnership, and the development of collegial capital in higher education’, Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 8(1), pp.17-29.
  • Mariaye, H., Price, M. and Ramasawmy, J.S. (2023) ‘Transition into Transnational Postgraduate Education: Reflections from Programme Facilitators’ in Samuel, M.S. and Mariaye, H. (Eds) Transforming Postgraduate Education in Africa, Durban, SA: CSSAL.
  • Minogue, L. and Price, M. (2024*) ‘From the academic encounter to a curated space: developing relational pedagogy’ in C. E. Edwards-Leis and M. Price (Eds.) Pedagogy in Higher Education: A critical review, London: St Mary's University Press.

Sophie Wilson (sophie.wilson@stmarys.ac.uk)
Associate Professor and Course Lead Secondary Geography with QTS, St Mary’s University

Areas of research interest

Research interests include:

  • curriculum making
  • Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
  • sustainability.

Publications and presentations

  • Dave, H. and Wilson, S. (2023) ‘The curriculum and the teacher’ in Podesta, E and L Hoath. (ed.) Professional Studies for Secondary Teaching, London, Learning Matters, Sage Publishing.
  • De Lázaro Torres, M.L., De Miguel González, R., Donert, K., Linder-Fally, M., Parkinson, A., Prodan, D., Wilson,S. & Zwartjes, L. (2022) Toolkit of Innovative Pedagogical Approaches for Teaching with GIS, including the GI Ped Framework + Model.
  • Puertas Aguilar, M.A., Conway, B., De Lázaro Torres, M.L., De Miguel González, R., Donert, K., Linder-Fally, M., Parkinson, A., Prodan, D., Wilson, S. & Zwartjes, L. (2022). A teaching model to raise awareness of sustainability using geoinformation.