Dr Dely Elliot
- Research Associate (International Educational Consultancy and Scottish Council for Research in Education)
telephone: 01413302467
email: Dely.Elliot@glasgow.ac.uk
Biography
Dely is a researcher with the International Educational Consultancy and the SCRE Centre, School of Education, College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow. Dely previously taught kindergarten, primary children and undergraduate students and currently teaches Educational Psychology and supervises students at postgraduate level.
Dely gained a BEd Hons (Cum Laude) from the University of Santo Tomas, Philippines and an MSc in Counselling Psychology (Dean's Prize) from Assumption University, Thailand. In her PhD from the University of Nottingham, she investigated how lecturers' emotional intelligence impacts on the learning process. The role of emotions in effective teaching is one in which she retains a strong interest and which she believes has wide application in education.
Research interests
Role of emotions in teaching practice, learning creativity, learning in a cross-cultural context, the hidden curriculum, primary physical education, at-risk learners, creative research methodology.
Research collaborations
The Primary Physical Education Project. This is a joint research project between the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Photovoice Project: Empowering Learners through Images and Stories. This was collaborative work with Adam Smith College, Cardonald College and Reid Kerr College.
Research to Support 'Schools of Ambition'. Funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department. (A collaboration between the Universities of Glasgow, Strathclyde and Aberdeen)
PISA 2006 Project. Collaboration with Australian Council for Educational Research and partners in 56 other countries.
Grants
- GlowScience Evaluation
Funded by Learning and Teaching Scotland, 2010
Principal Investigator (£12,000) - Literature Review on Teacher Education in the Twenty First Century
Funded by the Scottish Government, 2010.
Co-Investigator (£25,000) - Employers' Perceptions of the Employability Skills of New Graduates
Funded by the Edge Foundation, 2009
Co-Investigator. Directed by Kevin Lowden (£50,000) - Highland FLaT Research
Funded by The Highland Council, 2009
Co-Investigator (£15,000) - Professional Culture Amongst New Entrants to the Teaching Profession
Funded by the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS), 2008
Co-Investigator (£40,000) - The Primary Physical Education Project (Educational development, research and services (Scotland) grant regulations 1999)
Funded by the Scottish Executive - Teachers Division, 2008
Co-Investigator. Directed by Theresa Campbell (Glasgow) (£270,000) - Collection, analysis and reporting of data on Curriculum for Excellence draft experiences and outcomes
Funded by Learning and Teaching Scotland, 2008
Co-Investigator. Directed by Professor Ian Menter and Profesor Vivienne Baumfield (£131,000) - Photovoice Project: Empowering Learners through Images and Stories (undertaken with three Scottish colleges)
Faculty of Education Research Office, University of Glasgow Pump Priming Grant, 2008. (£5,000) - Literature Review of Current Approaches to the Provision of Education for Children with Dyslexia
Funded by HM Inspectorate of Education, 2007
Principal Investigator (£9,576) - A Study of Young People Not in Education, Employment or Training in Fife (2006-2007)
Funded by the Fife NEET Strategy Group, 2007
Principal Investigator (£15,174) - Evaluation of the Understanding Standards Website
Funded by the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), 2007
Principal Investigator (£10,000) - A Feasibility Study for College Collaboration on Increasing Participation in Degree level Study.
Funded by Lauder, Elmwood and Adam Smith Colleges with support from the Scottish Funding Council, 2006
Principal Investigator (£27,950) - Research to support Schools of Ambition (2006-2010)
Funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department, 2006
Co-Investigator. Directed by Professor Menter (Glasgow), Professor Christie (Strathclyde), and Professor Livingston (Aberdeen) (£364,000) - Research consultancy/Research workshop
2005-2008
£2,000
Awards
- Photovoice Project - Winner in the Scotland's Colleges Annual Awards 2008 for Promoting Equality and Diversity
- Literature Review of Current Approaches to the Provision of Education for Children with Dyslexia - GTC England Research of the Month for December 2008.
PhD Supervision
Previous Student
Jutima Methaneethorn (Graduated June 2009)
Topic: Towards Motivation Modelling within A Computer Game Based Learning Environment: An Empirical Study
Dely also contributes to the supervision of students at both Master's and PhD levels.
Teaching
Dely Elliot is a researcher based in the School of Education. Dely is the course coordinator for the Educational Psychology module, part of the MSc in Psychological Studies Programme.
She occasionally offers research workshops (e.g. Questionnaire Design, Data Analysis and Introduction to NVivo).