Dr Margaret Mcculloch

- University Teacher (Professional Learning and Leadership)
- Adviser of Studies (Social Sciences College Academic and Student Administration)
telephone: 01413303090
email: Margaret.McCulloch@glasgow.ac.uk
Research interests
Professional identity in teacher education; discipline-specific issues of teaching and learning in Higher Education; career transitions; inclusive education - policy and practice; dyslexia; the development of children's metacognitive skills, particularly in relation to reading comprehension.
Research collaborations
Part of team working on Literature review for teacher education in the 21st Century. Scottish Government, 2010.
Teaching
Margaret teaches classes in Educational Studies as part of the BEd programme, including the specialist option in years 3 and 4 in Additional Support for Learning. She also teaches courses within the MEd in Inclusive Education and the MEd in Professional Development and Enquiry (Chartered Teacher). She is also involved in MEd and PhD thesis supervision.
Margaret is co-ordinator of year 3 of the BEd programme and course convener of Educational Values for Self-Development in year 1 of the programme. She is also the School of Education's disability co-ordinator.
She is currently seconded to the Learning and Teaching Centre for 0.2 of the week as an Academic Development Fellow, working with colleagues from Physics and Veterinary Medicine on developing the new discipline-specific element of the New Lecturer and Teacher Programme.
Consultancy
Margaret has worked as an associate assessor with the Education and Training Inspectorate of Northern Ireland, 2009 - 2010
Academic and professional body membership
General Teaching Council of Scotland
Scottish Support for Learning Association
Scottish Educational Research Association
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
