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2024

Baynham, Joanna Claire (2024) What professional knowledge do student geography teachers need to know? Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Bryce-Clegg, Alistair (2024) Shifting the gaze: exploring more-than-human entanglements in reception classrooms. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Barber, Joe Paul (2024) ‘I’m going to tell you what this poem means’: a study of literary critico-theoretical concepts in the practice of secondary English student teachers during their PGCE programme. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Jawad, Rahma (2024) Investigating the impact of rich media resources on students’ self-efficacy, statistics anxiety, and performance. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Gordine, Rebecca Elizabeth (2024) An investigation into how Early Years policy is interpreted and enacted in an infant school in England R E 2022. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Williams, Karen (2024) Questioning identities: being and becoming a lecturer. An exploration of how early years professionals from a range of practice backgrounds are authoring themselves as University Lecturers. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Liddy, Fiona Jane (2024) Discovering and Revealing Experiences of Belonging and Othering Amongst Ethnic Minority Children in a UK Primary School Setting. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Thomson, Callum (2024) Online professional identity development in university teachers: how do specific concepts or practices utilised by university teachers influence their professional identity when teaching online? Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Khan, Kamal Uddin (2024) An Examination of the Common Inspection Framework and its Impact on Independent Muslim Schools in the UK. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Harrop, Susan June (2024) An exploration of primary-school teachers’ engagement with teachmeets. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

2023

Hughes, Catherine Ann (2023) A study of the role of fixed play equipment on relationships between five-and six-year-olds in an international school playground in Ethiopia. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Brooks, Lisa Zudita (2023) A psychoanalytical examination of the experience of the Specialist Leader of Education in English secondary schools. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Asif, Uzma (2023) ‘Miss are you a Muslim?’: an exploration of identity and image of female Muslim teachers and their implications in education. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Turnbull, Chloe-Amelia Carole (2023) Exploring autonomy and agency in the early years classroom using notions of figured worlds. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Martins, Nicola Ruth (2023) Art and design learning journey: interactions between learners and materials. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

2022

Dickson, Jane Elizabeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8764-8263 (2022) The destruction of the good student: using poetic transcription to represent students’ perspectives of labelling and exclusion from mainstream school. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

2021

Hallworth, Deborah Jane (2021) Challenging behaviour in primary schools: How is the problem constructed by professionals in North West England? Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Gardiner, R. M (2021) Assimilation and Resistance: Becoming Music Teachers in a Marginalised Educational Context. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Caldwell, Joanne (2021) Perceptions of Identity in Higher Education: Professional Services and Academic Staff. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

2020

Pheasey, C. G. M. (2020) Going to university? Exploring the value and purpose of Higher Education for first year sport students. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Pawlik, P. (2020) The discursive construction of the mastery curriculum in mathematics. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Haddock, E. C. (2020) What is autism really? The multiple realities of autism in practice. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Golamhossen, Louise Anne (2020) ‘A no go area’: exploring the constructed reputation of a primary school. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Forbes, A M (2020) Positioning you within Education: A critical exploration of the Lead Practitioner role in English secondary schools. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Fielding, c. J (2020) Inclusion for the Excluded: Applying Critical Realism Within an Alternative Provision Academy for Excluded Primary School Pupils. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Evans, S. M. (2020) Emergent Educational Practice in Community Settings. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

2019

Goodley, Claire (2019) Beyond the terrors of performativity: teachers developing at the interface. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Crompton, Zoe (2019) A sociocultural exploration of young children’s relationships with science: towards a practice theory of interest. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Graham, S (2019) Staff perceptions of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) in a post-92 institution. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Hussain, S Yasmin (2019) Internationalisation: The opportunities and challenges associated with student outward mobility at undergraduate level in UK higher education. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

2018

Newton, Rebecca (2018) Looking from the inside out: reflecting on teacher agency within a performative context. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Booth, Charlotte Elizabeth (2018) Becoming and being a student teacher: a psychoanalytical exploration of teacher fantasies. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Edwards, Monica Jane (2018) Everybody is just Manchester: mothers’ perspectives on (non)engagement with services as a lens to trouble a neoliberal equality discourse in early years policy. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

2017

O'Sullivan, Rachel Ann Sarah (2017) Establishing sustainable school-based teacher research activity as a mechanism to support teachers’ career-long professional development. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

McNulty, Joanne (2017) Being betwixt and between strangeness: an autoethnographic exploration of transition. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Patterson, Rebecca Victoria (2017) ‘Tractatus de imagine mundi’, (a view of an imaginary world). Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Dore, Michael James (2017) Subject and subjects: conceptions of high school English. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Palmer, Pauline Margaret (2017) Changing times, changing values: an exploration of the positionality and agency of teacher educators working in higher education. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

2016

Henning, Elizabeth (2016) Transforming challenging schools through the leadership of superheads. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Mayall, Helen (2016) Teaching and learning criticality: a case study of post-qualifying social work education. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Creaby, Fiona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3986-2639 (2016) Identity in practice: a sociocultural exploration of leadership learning and development. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Facchin, Tavia Ann (2016) How is the professionalism of supply teachers constructed in contemporary times? Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Guthrie, Clare Patricia (2016) How do mature undergraduate students self-author? A narrative enquiry of four accounting and finance undergraduate students. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

2015

Flynn, Judith Margaret (2015) Teachers’ pedagogic discourses around bilingual children: encounters with difference. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Dubsky, Rachel Cliodhna (2015) Professional boundaries in teacher-pupil relationships: does the model of professional conduct in regulatory standards and codes of conduct impose teacher-pupil relationships that are pedagogically and personally limiting? Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Kenny, Deborah (2015) Vocation, caring and nurse identity. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Jones, Dawn Anita (2015) Teachers’ professionalism, self-identity and the impact of continuing professional development (CPD). Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

2014

Nash, Maureen Anne (2014) Teachers and teaching assistants working together: the perceptions of teaching assistants within a national framework. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Wisby, Deborah Ann (2014) ‘I always wanted to be a nurse’ how do sexual health nurses construct their identities within the context of role change? Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Rushton, Ian (2014) Acting like teachers: re-thinking educational identities in the lifelong learning sector. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Skarratt, Julie Patricia (2014) Wearing a cloak of invisibility: an exploration into the working experiences of female part-time teachers. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Harrison, Michaela Jane (2014) Travelling through written spaces: a nomadic enquiry into the writing of student teachers. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

2013

Butcher, Valerie Ann (2013) Owning the thinking: case studies of how pre-service trainee teachers, training to teach in the post-compulsory sector, construct their professional teaching identities within a framework of accountability. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Bostock, John Raymond (2013) Conceptualising teacher education in professional training. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Regan, Maria Angela (2013) Using student peer facilitators for asynchronous online discussion to extend professional development amongst undergraduate medical students. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Wall, Tony (2013) Professional identities and commodification in higher education. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

2009

McCarthy, Jillian W. (2009) The effects of e-learning on nurse identity construction. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

2008

Capstick, Andrea Josephine (2008) 'I'm wondering now if I'm the only person who remembers': using film and narrative biography to resist socal amnesia in dementia studies. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.