Name: Tamar Angel
Programme: PhD in Education
Research title: The life stories of Arab Israeli citizen bibliotherapists
Research theme: Focuses on conceptions and experiences during training and practice for the purpose of illuminating the needs and perspectives of this group. The research conceptualises an original body of knowledge about a profession still relatively new in Israel, drawing applicable recommendations.

Name: Chris Brown
Programme: PhD in Education
Research title: Factors influencing the use of research evidence in educational policy making and how a better understanding of these might improve use of research
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Name: Debbie Hellerstein
Programme: PhD in Education
Research title: The significance of cultural differences on reading comprehension processes of the young adult EFL learner in a college classroom in Isreal
Research theme: A study examining the impact of cultural, religious and linguistic backgrounds on young adult students' approach to - and their process of - learning reading comprehension in English as a Foreign Language.

Name: Ofira Honig
Programme: PhD in Education
Research title: Postgraduate art therapy training in Israel: Personal and professional transformation through dynamic art-based experiential transformative courses
Research theme: This research project sets out in concrete terms the process of planning/designing and conducting art therapy training courses taught in dynamic experiential art-based mode. It conceptualises the transformative effect on students.

Name: Geoffrey Kent
Programme: PhD in Education
Research title: Intersubjectivity and Group Work: Examining students' interactions from a perspective of communicative action
Research theme: Exploration of how small group interactions around problem-solving in secondary school mathematics can be understood using a theoretical framework of Communicative Action inspired by Habermasian Critical Theory.  

Name: Sarah Leaney
Programme: PhD in Education
Research title: Class culture and secondary education in Britain: A comparative analysis of processes and outcomes
Research theme: How recent changes in education policy effect processes of social class inclusion and/or differentiation. Investigation of the transformation and relevance of the comprehensive school in the coalition government's vision of education.

Name: Keith Perera
Programme: PhD in Education
Research title: An investigation into the teaching and learning of an A level media studies unit within the context of a changing media ecology
Research theme: The nature of formal media study in the context of the technological changes driven by Web 2.0 and the increased use of ICT in schools promoting eLearning. Keith seeks to defend the conceptual nature of pre-web age media study and argue for its contemporary relevance allied to a broader vision of 'multiliteracies' using Ethnographic Action Research to develop a hybridised variant of practitioner research inflected by poststructuralism.

Name: Channah Persoff
Programme: PhD in Education
Research title: Encouraging critical/creative thinking skills through teacher modelling and pupil's use of questions of texts within the collaborative class
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Name: Vanessa Regan
Programme: Doctor of Education (EdD)
Research title: How can beginning teachers help their students to speak in the target language in modern foreign language classrooms?
Research theme: An action research project exploring issues raised in influencing the classroom practice of beginning teachers during the practicum and in expecting young people to speak in another language.

Name: Robert Rosenthal
Programme: Doctor of Education (EdD)
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Research theme: How hosting trainee teachers and participating in Professional Learning Committees can contribute to curriculum development and school improvement through developing a culture of teachers-as-researchers. 

Name: Adi Shapira-Faians
Programme: PhD in Education
Research title: Case study of 'Social Skills Learning Groups' for adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Research theme: How participation in social skills learning groups supports the acquisition of social skills among adolescents with ADHD from three points of view: the educational staff; therapists (group facilitators) and participants.

Name: Yael Sharon
Programme: PhD in Education
Research title: Researching 'the meaning of life' with children
Research theme: Using a phenomenological and constructivist approach to analyse data derived from 30 semi-structured interviews with eight year old children. Results to date show that these children have a clear vision of the best way to live and have rich personal meaning to their lives.

Name: Jacqui Shepherd
Programme: PhD in Education
Research title: Transitions to further education and work for young people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
Research theme: A longitudinal study tracking the transition pathways of young autistic adults as they leave special education and progress to further education, training or employment.

Name: Rebecca Webb
Programme: PhD in Education
Research title: Doing the Rights Thing: Constructions and contestations of a 'rights' and 'respect' culture. An ethnography of a primary school in the UK
Research theme: An interrogation of the ways in which 'rights' and 'responsibilities' posit and frame conceptualisations of child and adulthoods, technologies of schooling and citizenship.

Name: James Williams
Programme: PhD in Education
Research title: The underlying views and conceptions of science teachers on the Nature of Science
Research theme: The move from content-based science teaching to process-based teaching is a major - if not the most influential - shift in how science is delivered in schools since the teaching of science became a formal part of the non-statutory education system in the UK in the late nineteenth century. My research aims to show what conceptions practising teachers have of the nature of science and how those conceptions affect curriculum delivery and scientific literacy.