Meet the Team
CenTCS is committed to collaborative and distributed ways of working. The Director works closely with CenTCS Fellows in shaping and carrying out strategic and operational Centre activity, while Associates and Postgraduate Researchers contribute to and collaborate across Centre projects and activities.
Director
Professor Brianna L. Kennedy
Professor of Education and Director, CenTCS
My work focuses on educator practices that support the inclusivity and deep learning of underserved students. I am particularly interested in how educators learn to challenge pre-conceived notions of these students and become transformative change agents.
Dr Max Antony-Newman
Lecturer in Education
Parent engagement; immigrants and refugees in education; social inequality; social justice
Dr Utkun Aydin
Lecturer in Mathematics Education
Mathematics Education, Test Anxiety, Metacognition, Assessment, University-School Partnerships
Dr Lauren Boath
Senior Lecturer in Science Education
Science education; teacher education; practitioner inquiry
Professor Aileen Kennedy
Professor of Teacher Education
Teacher professional learning; education policy; social justice
Alison Mitchell
Professional Learning and Policy Lead (School Leaders Scotland)
Educational Leadership, Ethics In Education, Social Justice, Leadership Praxis, Research Practice Partnerships
Dr Mark Peart
Lecturer in Teacher Education
Digital Citizenship, Creative/Active pedagogies, Digital Learning and Teaching, Youth Participation and Voice
Dr Kevin Proudfoot
Senior Lecturer
Education Policy; Mixed Methods Research; Teachers' Work and Professional Learning; Accountability Systems
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Dr Ruth Unsworth
Lecturer in Education Studies
New materialisms; place-responsive pedagogy; teaching as a social practice; material culture of education; teacher agency and epistemic (in)justice in teacher education
Dr Francisco Valdera-Gil
Senior Lecturer in Languages Education
Communicative Language Teaching teacher education; interaction in the target language; culturally responsive pedagogical approaches; alignment of curriculum, assessment and pedagogy
Mark Breslin
Senior Lecturer Initial Teacher Education: Health and Wellbeing
ITE, Social Emotional Learning, trauma informed responses, child identity, classroom and school relationships, mixed methods research, emotional regulation, child mental health, inclusive education
Dr Rhona Brown
Lecturer in Education Studies
Pedagogies; Teacher Agency; Language(s) in Education; Teacher Education; Children's Learning
Dr Helen Burns
Lecturer in Education (School of Education)
Culture, Literacies, Inclusion and Pedagogy
Angela Curley
Lecturer in Education: Social subjects
Equity; self-efficacy in teachers of social subjects; community of practice; contemporay social issues; ITE
Dr Leyla de Amicis
Lecturer in Education
Psychology of environmental sustainability, decolonising education, school interventions for enhancing pro-social and pro- environmental behaviour
Dr Dobrochna Futro
Dr Julie Harvie
Senior Lecturer in Educational Leadership
Educational Leadership, Curriculum Development, Interdisciplinary Learning, Pedagogy
Professor Lavinia Hirsu
Professor of Education, Language, and Literacy
linguistic inclusion in multilingual contexts and translanguaging, arts-based practices and methodologies, cultural responses in contexts of crisis, permaculture design and sustainability, emergent digital practices and education-based responses to new technologies (XR and AI)
Fiona McGregor
Lecturer in Education
Art and Design Education, Interdisciplinary Learning (IDL), Multidisciplinary curriculum development, Curriculum knowledge and disciplinary hierarchies, Identity and education, Attainment and educational inequality
Dr Cristina Mio
Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education
Mathematics Education; Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice; Beliefs and attitudes towards mathematics and mathematics teaching/learning
Dr Gabriella Rodolico
Senior Lecturer in Science Education
Extended Reality (XR) in education: Virtual Reality (VR); Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR),the role of Generative AI in Higher Education; Digital Learning methodologies, with a particular emphasis on Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL).
Nicole Smith
Lecturer in Museum Education
Informal learning and museums, place-based education, identity, belonging and cultural heritage, storytelling and digital literacies, community-based education, children and digital media
Dr Kathryn Spicksley
Lecturer in Teacher Education
The early career phase in teaching; teacher education; education policy; teacher wellbeing and workload; critical discourse analysis/corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis
Kat Brack
PhD Scholarship:
Accounting for Teacher Professional Learning at Scale
Teachers' work and professional learning, accountability systems, transformative education.
