Education blogs

This blog post highlights and explores a piece of research enabled by the University’s participatory research fund, conducted by myself (Dr Helen Benstead), Vicki Jowett and Vicky Graham who work across the MA Education and MA SEND programmes in the School of Education. The research focused on trialing a specific set of innovatively designed qualitative… Continue reading Innovative approaches to involving children with SEND in research: exploring a participatory research study

Having spent 14 years as a teacher and school leader before moving into educational research in higher education, Dr Elizabeth Hidson is delighted to have contributed to editing and writing for the ninth edition of Learning to Teach in the Secondary School: A Companion to School Experience, published today (29th July, 2022) by Routledge. The… Continue reading From teacher to textbook editor: lecturer publishes first co-edited book

Dr Elizabeth Hidson is a Senior Lecturer in the International Initial Teacher Training team. Before joining the University of Sunderland, she worked as a postdoctoral research associate on a number of funded educational technology projects. The recently-published Video Enhanced Observation for Language Teaching: Reflection and Professional Development, edited by Professor Paul Seedhouse, contain’s Elizabeth’s chapter… Continue reading Dr Elizabeth Hidson publishes chapter in new book on video-enhanced lesson observation

My passion is qualitative research that creates better knowledge and understanding of the lives and experiences of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities and their families. The research I have carried out is fundamental to developing knowledge and understanding of children’s multi-faceted needs to allow them to achieve better holistic outcomes… Continue reading School Exclusions