Education
To contact any of the Education experts below please speak to the University of Sunderland press office in the first instance: 0191 515 3276 or 0191 515 3265 / pressoffice@sunderland.ac.uk
| Name | Steven Anderson |
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| Job title | PE Co-ordinator for Schools |
| Faculty | Applied Sciences |
| Areas of expertise | Motivation, specifically alluding to secondary school pupils in relation to exercise, PE (physical education) |
| Name | Paul Alan Armstrong |
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| Job title | Lecturer in Organisation Studies |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Sociology of work, organisation studies, organisational behaviour, organisation theory, equality, organisational development, professional learning and reflective practice, employee wellbeing, employee engagement, pedagogical epistemologies |
| Name | Dr Nicola Ballantyne |
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| Job title | Senior lecturer |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Domestic violence, National Probation Service, pedagogical research in higher education, student retention |
| Name | Alexander Bickerton |
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| Job title | Lecturer |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Further education and higher education, creative and leisure studies, consultancy/training projects for organisations in the North East of England |
| Name | Dr Chris Bowerman |
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| Job title | Principal Lecturer in Computing, Engineering & Technology |
| Faculty | Applied Sciences |
| Areas of expertise | Computer science, artificial intelligence, use of technology in education, e-learning and the use of technology for teaching |
| Name | Dr Felicity Breet |
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| Job title | Associate Dean |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | International student learning, cultural awareness |
| Name | Lisa Buckle |
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| Job title | Lecturer |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | English for academic purposes |
| Name | Dr Noel Carter |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy |
| Faculty | Applied Sciences |
| Areas of expertise | Transplantation, molecular biology, microbiology, science teaching |
| Name | Dr John Clayton |
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| Job title | Researcher |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Digital inclusion |
| Name | Dr Andy Convery |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer PCET |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Action Research in PCET |
| Name | Prof Bridget Cooper |
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| Job title | Professor of Education |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Emotions/empathy in teaching and learning |
| Name | Angie Coulthard |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer Primary Education |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Reading |
| Name | Tim Crocker |
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| Job title | Principal Lecturer Culture |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Lifelong learning |
| Name | Lynne Dagg |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer ICT Ed |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | ICT/Computing, especially in a school setting |
| Name | Professor Mark Davies |
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| Job title | Professor of Bioscience |
| Faculty | Applied Sciences |
| Areas of expertise | Ecology, whole-organism biology, molluscs, regulation of higher education, learning and teaching in higher education |
| Name | Kate Duffy |
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| Job title | Advanced Practitioner |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Initial Teacher Training in Post Compulsory Education and Training Sector, professional development of teachers, enquiry based learning, philosophical enquiry within FE/HE, critical thinking, Moral education and character development in HE/FE, Social science methods of research, policy and reality of practice within education, management in post compulsory education, practice of mentoring and coaching within education |
| Name | Dianne Fleetham |
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| Job title | Primary Team Leader |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Primary drama |
| Name | Dr Maggie Gregson |
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| Job title | Team Leader PCET |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Collaborative and reflective practice |
| Name | John Grey |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer, ICT Ed |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | ICT/Computing in Secondary Education |
| Name | Anne Gribbens |
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| Job title | Senior lecturer, Social Sciences |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Practice Educators |
| Name | Ian Ground |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Team Leader North East Centre for Lifelong Learning |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Aesthetics and the philosophy of art, philosophy of the mind, lifelong learning |
| Name | Karen Hadley |
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| Job title | Head of Law |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Contract law, legal theory, education law |
| Name | Dr Lynne Hall |
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| Job title | Principal lecturer |
| Faculty | Applied Sciences |
| Areas of expertise | User experience: design, development and evaluation of innovative interactive technology, Knowledge Transfer, R&D collaborations with industry and community / public sector |
| Name | Helen Horton |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer Social Services |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | SEN |
| Name | Dr Teresa Leopold |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Social identity, events and festivals, event experience, migration, social constructivism, community empowerment, disaster recovery, dark and heritage tourism, pedagogic development of an event and tourism curricula, destination management, community empowerment, event and the social sciences, political economy of tourist migration |
| Name | Dr Jo McCormack |
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| Job title | Team Leader MFL |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Contemporary French Society |
| Name | Dr Lawrence Nixon |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer PCET |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Continuing Professional Development in PCET |
| Name | Jerry Norton |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer Social Services |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Social policy/Early Years |
| Name | Colm O'Brien |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer in Lifelong Learning |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Archaeology, methods and archaeology of Northern England, Early Medieval History and archaeology including eg: Northumbria in the Age of Bede, the monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow, people of 7th and 8th centuries eg Benedict Biscop, founder of the Wearmouth-Jarrow monastery, Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, artefacts such as the Lindisfarane Gospels book and the Codex Amiatinus |
| Name | Elewechi Okike |
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| Job title | Principal Lecturer |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Principles of accounting, cost accounting, financial accounting/reporting, management accounting, accounting theory, auditing, corporate governance, international accounting; accounting for business (MBA Programme), managing equality and diversity, business ethics, research methods, supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate research projects; including supervision of PhD students |
| Name | Professor Kevin Petrie |
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| Job title | Professor of Glass and Ceramics |
| Faculty | Arts, Design and Media |
| Areas of expertise | Glass, ceramics, printmaking for glass and ceramics, research and PhDs in art and design, teaching in art and design |
| Name | David Prinn |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer PCET |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Adult Numeracy |
| Name | Dr Gail Sanders |
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| Job title | Principal lecturer |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Professional identity, adult learning |
| Name | Trish Spedding |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer PCET |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Assessment for learning in PCET |
| Name | Karen Tait |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer Social Services |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | SEN/Early Years |
| Name | Steve Watts |
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| Job title | Head of Department (Culture) |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Geography Education |
| Name | Dr Fritz Wefelmeyer |
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| Job title | Team Leader English |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | English |
| Name | Ian Whyte |
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| Job title | Principal Lecturer Sports Coaching |
| Faculty | Applied Sciences |
| Areas of expertise | Coaching and coach education, elite performers |
