University of Sunderland

Trish Spedding

MSc (CBIS), PGCE (PCET), BA (Hons)
Senior Lecturer

Location:
Forster Building, City Campus

Phone: 0191 5152416/3192/2395/2201
Email: trish.spedding@sunderland.ac.uk

Biography

Teaching Areas

Trish is Programme Leader for the PGCE in Post Complusory Education and Training (PCET) and teaching responsibilities include the MA in Advancing Pedagogy PCET, the BA (Hons) in Education and Training and the Diploma for Teavhers of Adult Literacy.

Research Interests

Her main research interests include raising achievement in teaching and learning, thinking skills, pedagogic practice and continuing professional development (CPD) in the PCET sector.  She has published work on raising achievement, education policy implementation, learning styles and prison education.  She has presented papers on thinking skills interventions, practitioner experience, collaborative working, public policy implementation and its evaluation.

Selected Publications

Raising Achievement in Northumbria Project: Final Report, Sunderland, University of Sunderland Press

Nixon L, Gregson M and Spedding P (2008) Practitioners' experiences of implementing national education policy at the local.  An examination of 16-19 policy.  London EPPI-Centre, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London

Nixon L, Gregson M and Spedding P (2007) Pedagogy and the intuitive appeal of learning styles in post-compulsory education in England, Journal of Vocational Education & Training Vol.59, No1, March 2007.

Moseley D et al (2006) Developing oral communication and productive thinking skills in HM Prisons, London: LSDA

Gregson M and Spedding P (2005) Philosophy Goes to College: An Evaluation of a Thinking Skills Intervention in Post Compulsory Education and Training in the North East of England, Brisbane, Australian Academic Press.

Gregson M & Spedding P (2004) Learner Journeys: North East Learners Voices, London: LSDA

Consultancy

Over the last four years she has been working in a consultancy and teraching capacity in collaboration between the University and the national improvement service for POst Compulsory Education and Training, the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS).  This includes the successfull award of centre for excellence one of only 11 awarded nationally and the prestigious Research Development Fellowship programme (RDF).  The programme is supporting practitioners from across the counrty to develop teaching and learning and their own thinking and research skills with the support of research bursaries.