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Current Research Students (including completions from 2004)

Darryll Bravenboer (PhD, successfully completed, January 2009)
Commodification and the official discourse of Higher Education. (Co-supervised with Graham Haydon).
Jeremy Burke (PhD)
An analysis of pedagogic texts in secondary mathematics and modern foreign languages.
Soh-young Chung (PhD, successfully completed, August 2009)
The crafting of crisis: a sociological analysis of the "cultural studies paradigm shift" in literary studies
Rod Cunningham (EdD, successfully completed 2004)
An exploration of the potential of complexity theory for addressing the limitations of current models of change and innovation in educational practice.
Russell Dudley-Smith (PhD) (russell.dudley-smith@westminster.org.uk)
The (re)production of subjectivity in the activity (classifications (contestations of the public domain), interactions, and (recruitment of) texts (particularly textbooks, newspaper articles and ICT)) of development studies at secondary level.
Jaamiah Galant (IoE Sub-Sahara Centenary scholarship, PhD)
The production of university knowledge.
Dermot Kelly (PhD)
The contextualising and recontextualising of management discourse.
Colin McCarty (PhD)
The pedagogic use of computer games.
Mary Rees (EdD)
Teacher educators and professional confidence
Natasha Whiteman (ESRC Studentship, PhD, successfully completed February 2007) natashaewa1@yahoo.co.uk
The Establishment, Maintenance and Destabilisation of Fandom: A study of two online communities and an exploration of issues pertaining to internet research.'
Yueh-lin Tu (PhD)
Young adults learning how to dress in Taiwan.