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SEdS Staff
Professor in Mathematics Education
Interests include secondary mathematics education, international comparisons and innovative research methods. Christian can be found on X as @cbokhove
Professor of Education and Head of Southampton Education School
Chris has a long-standing interest in how people go about harnessing great ideas to improve the human condition and investigates this using a variety of methodological approaches
Associate Professor
Tae-Hee’s research interests include education reforms and policy, teacher education and change and comparative education.
Lecturer
Ben works within the research centre on Mathematics, Science and Health Education, and is primarily focused on mathematics education and assessment in HE.
Professor of Education
Chris’ current research interests centre around the social context of education, developing our understanding of the relational capital of students, educators and educational leaders.
Associate Professor
Davidās main research interests are centred in the psychology of writing and the development of understanding through writing. This involves research into the cognitive and social processes involved in writing.
Associate Professor,Ā Psychology of Education
James’ research interests include Early Childhood Education and Care, developmental psychopathology, educational effectiveness and structural equation modelling.
Teaching Fellow
Henry’s research interests include professional learning communities, leadership emergence and development, job satisfaction and work motivation.
Senior Research Fellow
Sarah’s current research interests focus on Higher Education, critical disability studies, digital accessibility and social media research.
Lecturer
Nora’s research interests include educational effectiveness and educational technology. Nora enjoys using innovative research methods including eye-tracking and big data.
Associate Professor
Nicola’s research focuses on issues of educational inequalities, social stratification, social theory and the political economy.
Postgraduate Students
Hannah is currently investigating the association between mild head injury and aggression through the course of child development. This involves a secondary analysis of the Millennium Cohort Study, which is a birth cohort following those born in the millennium.
Research interests include: creativity, educational measurement and evaluation, game-based assessment and learning, digital literacy and educational equity.
Chloe’s research considers how we can improve the way we screen for behaviours associated with AutismĀ through a secondary data analysis of Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire data found in the Millennium Cohort Study.
Jiachen Hao
Jiachen’s research interests include cross-cultural (Chinese and English) comparison of writing attitudes, writing process, and learning from writing. Jiachen’s project is quantitative research and the main statistical technique used is Structural Equation Modelling (SEM).
Janet’s research uses longitudinal data to investigate the development of co-morbid alcohol use and mental health disorders, using a mixture of person-centred analyses and structural equation modelling
Natalia Lavrushkina
Natalia is an EdD student in Southampton Education School at the University of Southampton, researching Social Networks of a Research Community.
Hongyeās current research focus on the use of assistive technology in mainstream schools in England.
Xiaohan’s research interests include learner identities, collaborative learning and higher education.
Amy’s research focuses on the cognitive processes in writing-to-learn. Amy is interested in quantitative methods, open science and reproducibility.
Rose’s research interests include: Mindfulness, Resilience, Creativity, Mental Health, Anxiety, Depression and Stress, as well as Quantitative Methods including SEM, LMM and Regression.
Yin Wang
Yin’s research uses quantitative economic methods to study social phenomena such as education policy effectiveness, inequality in educational attainment and inter-generational transmission of education, by using large cross-national survey data.
External SEdS Staff
Professor of Global Health and Demography
His research interests are mainly focused in lower resource settings around the world, especially looking at comparative analyses. These broadly fall under the title of Global Health, and specifically relate to access to healthcare for groups of the population.
Lecturer
Rebecca’s research interests include domestic violence and abuse, mental health and violence against women and girls.
Associate ProfessorĀ
Claire’s research is located in the area of quantitative social/personality psychology. In particular, she conducts research on narcissistic dysfunction in the interpersonal domain.
Lecturer in Social Psychology
Nicholas’ research interests include social and affective neuroscience, the concept of self, and self-regulation.
