University of Exeter

Faculty Member, Graduate School of Education

Lecturer/ Assistant professor

College of Social Sciences and International Studies

About

I am a Lecturer in education the Graduate School of Education at the University of Exeter, having previously worked as a senior research associate at the University of Cambridge. Before that, I was a research fellow at the Open University in Milton Keynes and also worked as a junior lecturer and research fellow at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

My research focuses on the complex inter-relationship of learning and the social context and on understanding the social, discursive and temporal nature of teaching and learning processes. I am particularly interested the role of language in teaching and learning.

Another one of my interests lies in educational uses of technology, in particular in issues to do with pedagogy and dialogue around technology in education. I have been involved in research on the role of Interactive Whiteboards for teaching and learning, the use of wikis in primary school science and computer supported collaborative learning in primary education.

Currently, I became involved in a EU funded project on technological support for dialogue in science learning and I am also developing research in the use of mobile and ubiquitous technology in higher education.

Other research that I have been involved in includes a government funded research project called 'Dialogic Teaching in science classrooms' (with researchers in Leeds and Cambridge) and an ongoing research programme called 'Thinking Together', aimed at improving children's skills in communicating, learning and reasoning (with researchers in Cambridge and other universities).

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