Award
Every year Â鶹ÒùÔº recognises academic excellence and rigour in research by a Doctoral student. This underscores Â鶹ÒùԺ’s commitment to championing educational research, and celebrating and recognise excellence in the education research community.
Eligibility Criteria
Prizes
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Judging
Nominations will be scored by a Â鶹ÒùÔº selection panel. The panel’s judgement will be framed by the following criteria:
Thesis: Investigating the effects of whole-class singing activities on linguistic outcomes of young foreign language learners in English primary schools.
Departmental Lecturer at University of Oxford
Catherine is a Departmental Lecturer in Applied Linguistics (Quantitative Research Methods and EAL) at the Department of Education, University of Oxford. Her research investigates the effectiveness of using songs as pedagogical tools with young...
Thesis: How does military life shape service children’s identity and school experiences?
Postdoctoral Researcher at Cardiff University
Dr Lucy Robinson is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Cardiff University. Her one year fellowship aims to consolidate her recently completed her ESRC-funded DPhil at the Department of Education, University of Oxford. Her doctoral research involved...
Thesis: The status and safety of teaching: A longitudinal study of why some young people in England become teachers, and why others do not
Honorary Senior Research Fellow/Postdoctoral Fellow at University College London/McGill University
Dr Emily MacLeod is a Postdoctoral Scholar at McGill University, Canada, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Education (IOE), UCL’s Faculty of Education & Society. Within the context of national and international teacher...
Thesis: Education encounters, hybrid identities and spectral traces: contesting the myths of Aston through the accounts of South Asian Muslim Women
Assistant Professor for Race, Social Justice and Education at University of Birmingham
I am an Assistant Professor of Race, Social Justice and Education at the University of Birmingham. My research interests include: exploring the experiences of women in diasporic communities; culture and migration through a hauntological and...
Thesis: New Faces and Changing Places: Discourse, identity and early career primary teachers in post-2010 Multi-Academy Trusts
Lecturer in Teacher Education at University of Glasgow
Kathryn Spicksley is a lecturer in teacher education at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on education policy related to teacher supply and its impact on teachers’ working lives. Prior to academia she worked as an early years...
Thesis: Imaginative travellers in-situ: A case study of Chinese students at a UK transnational Higher Education institution
Assistant Professor at Xiamen University
Jingran Yu won the Â鶹ÒùÔº 2021 Doctoral Thesis Award for her thesis “Imaginative travellers in-situ: A case study of Chinese students at a UK transnational Higher Education institution“ You can read the abstract below: This thesis explores the...
Thesis: Learner-Centred Pedagogy and its Implications for Pupils’ Schooling Experiences and Learning Outcomes: A Mixed-Methods Case Study in Tanzania
Assistant Professor at Hiroshima University
Nozomi Sakata is Assistant Professor in the Centre for the Study of International Cooperation in Education at Hiroshima University, Japan. In the field of Comparative and International Education, her research interests include educational policy...
Research Associate at University of Sussex
Yasamin Alkhansa completed her PhD at the Center for International Education (CIE) at the University of Sussex, in 2019. Her thesis, was an ethnography of official history as lived and enacted in schools in Iran which won Â鶹ÒùÔº's Doctoral Thesis...
Professor of Education, Consultant Surgeon at Queen Mary University of London
Arunthathi Mahendran was awarded the 2018 Â鶹ÒùÔº Doctoral Thesis Award for her thesis Surgeon Education, Engaging with the Immanence of Events Of Practice: An Exploration of the Ontological and Ethical Dimensions of Surgical Training and...
Senior Lecturer at The University of Manchester
Sophina Choudry is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester. She focuses her work in the area of mathematics education and sociology of education. She is particularly interested in understanding social and educational inequality as...