Research Assistant and Salaried Academic Tutor
Completing my BA honours degree in Primary Education (2:1) with QTS in 2014 sparked my interest in the power of stories, the arts, and aesthetic experience, in igniting interest, releasing imagination, and deepening engagement in language land literacy development for children and adults alike.
I joined the University of Sunderland in 2015, as an academic tutor and then as a part-time Lecturer and Research Assistant for the University's Centre for Excellence in Teacher Training (SUNCETT).
My research interests include the study of the acquisition and development of English language and literacy where the focus is on the development of creative pedagogic approaches to teaching, learning, and assessment in initial and continuing teacher education.
My original research explored the potential of digital and tabletop storytelling devices to increase primary school children's motivation to write.
My PhD involved supporting research in the National Practitioner Research Programme funded by the Educational and Training Foundation for teachers of vocational education across England. This involved the pedagogic use of, aesthetic experience, the arts, and multimedia, including film, music, ICT, and popular culture in the development of academic writing, scholarship, and research in vocational education, where the aim was to improve educational practice through arts-based educational research (ABER).
In February 2024, I completed my thesis, What Can Education Learn from the Arts? : an exploration of the role of aesthetic experience in education and its contribution to the creation of mind.
Teaching and supervision
I assist in teaching and supervision on the ETF-SUNCETT customised MA module and MPhil research degrees which currently support the work of 50 researchers from the Further, Adult and Vocational Education sectors.
Research interests for potential research students
Publications
Article
Gregson, Margaret and Gregson, Daniel (2024) DEEPER THAN REASON: WHY PRACTICAL AND PRODUCTIVE FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE NEED TO BE RESTORED TO VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. International Journal of Higher Education Pedagogies (IJHEP), 5 (1). ISSN 2669-2333
Gregson, Margaret and Gregson, Daniel (2023) On the Same Side: reimagining educational evaluation and improvement for a more equitable world. Comparative International Education Society Conference 2023.
Gregson, Daniel and Gregson, Margaret (2023) Arts Based Educational Research (ABER): adventures in pedagogic practice and teacher education for a more equitable world. Comparative International Education Society Conference 2023.
Gregson, Daniel (2020) Drawn to Story. Education Sciences, 10 (71). ISSN 2227-7102
Gregson, Daniel, Gregson, Margaret and Spedding, Patricia (2019) Top-down and Inside Out: breaking boundaries between research, theory and practice. Journal of Management Policy and Practice, 20 (3). pp. 36-52. ISSN 1913-8067
Conference or Workshop Item
Gregson, Daniel (2023) The Didactives of the Image: Toward a Wider Conception of Language in Educational Research. In: Association for Research in Post Compulsory Education Conference, 15-17 July 2022, Oxford.
Gregson, Daniel (2023) Arts-based Educational Research in Action in Vocational Education. In: UNSPECIFIED.
Gregson, Margaret and Gregson, Daniel (2023) On the Same Side: reimagining educational evaluation and improvement for a more equitable world. In: UNSPECIFIED.
Gregson, Daniel and Gregson, Margaret (2023) Arts Based Educational Research (ABER): adventures in pedagogic practice and teacher education for a more equitable world. In: UNSPECIFIED.
Gregson, Daniel, Gregson, Margaret and Spedding, Patricia (2019) Top-down and Inside-Out: breaking boundaries between, research, theory and practice. In: Comparative International Education Society Annual Research Conference (CIES 2019), April 14-18, 2016, San Francisco.
Gregson, Daniel (2018) From Homer to Homer Simpson: How Might KS2 Children's Story-writing Skills Be Supported and Developed Through The Use Of Contemporary Physical and Digital Resources? In: European Association for Practitioner Research on Improving Learning (EAPRIL) Conference 2017, 28 Nov - 1 Dec 2017, Hameenlinna.
Gregson, Daniel (2017) From Homer to Homer Simpson Workshop Powerpoint. In: EAPRIL Conference 2017, 29 Nov - 2 Dec 2017, Hameelinna (Finland). (Unpublished)
- Primary English language specialist
- The role of oracy and storytelling in the development of literacy
- Supporting practitioners across the education and training sector to engage in research and develop scholarship through creative media and the arts
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- Member of the European Association for Practitioner Research on Improving Learning (2017 – ongoing)