Staff profiles
Dr Bronwen Maxwell
Deputy head of CEIR / principal lecturer in professional development
Phone 0114 225 5166
E-mail b.maxwell@shu.ac.uk
Bronwen Maxwell is deputy head of the Centre for Education and Inclusion Research and a principal lecturer in professional development in education.
Bronwen's research interests include teacher development, initial training, early career development and continuing professional development (CPD), whole school workforce development, partnership working, 14-19 education and teaching and learning in the post-compulsory education and training (PCET) sector. She is also interested in the policy aspects of teacher development, 14-19 and post-compulsory education and training.
She has experience of research leadership including national case study research into the impact of e-learning within further education (FE) on behalf of the then Department for Education and Skills (DfES), and is currently leading an evaluation of the national leadership and management development programme for 14-19 Diploma consortia on behalf of the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) / National College for School Leadership (NCSL). Bronwen has experience of qualitative and quantitative methods and is particularly interested in the use of mixed methods to provide different perspectives on research topics.
Before moving to the research centre, Bronwen led the Masters in Professional Development in Education Programme, and continues to lead the Masters route in post-compulsory education and training. Bronwen has many years experience of leadership and teaching in higher education, further education and adult and community education. Current teaching includes research and evaluation methods, mentoring in the PCET context, PCET policy and practice and research supervision.
Building on her own experience as a practitioner researcher, Bronwen is particularly interested in supporting practitioners to undertake research that develops their own or their organisations' practices. Bronwen has extensive experience of initial teacher training in the PCET sector, undertakes inspections of PCET initial teacher training on behalf of Ofsted and is a Fellow of the Institute for Learning.
Selected publications since 2001
Coldwell M, Maxwell B, McCaig C, Davies J and Stevens A (2011) NQT Quality Improvement Study for the Training and Development Agency for Schools Synthesised key findings from all five stages of the NQT Quality Improvement Study (PDF 644KB)
Coldwell M, Davies J, Maxwell B and McCaig C (2011) NQT Quality Improvement Study for the Training and Development Agency for Schools Part 4 Report: The Third Year of Teaching (PDF 964KB)
Maxwell, B. (2010) Teacher knowledge and initial teacher education in the English learning and skills sector. In Teaching Education 21, 4, 335-348
Maxwell, B. (2010) In-service initial teacher education in the learning and skills sector in England: integrating course and workplace learning In Vocations and Learning 3:3 and Online First DOI 10.1007/s12186-010-9045-2
Coldwell, M., Maxwell, B. and McCaig, C. (2010) Cultures of career development: senior leaders' and early career teachers' views of career (PDF 441KB) Paper presented at British Educational Research Association (BERA) conference, September 2010.
Coldwell M, Maxwell B, Shipton L, Boylan M (2010) Assessing the Impact of the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) on Teachers and Learners for NCETM
Stiell B, Maxwell B, Willis B, Stevens A (2009) A Community use of Schools in Rotherham (PDF 412KB) for Rotherham MBC
Steil B, Willis B, Stevens A, Wolstenholme C, Maxwell B (2009) Rotherham School Meals Research Project
Maxwell, B. (2009) Becoming a teacher in the learning and skills sector: Conceptual and practice development. In Research in Post-Compulsory Education 14:4 P459-478
Maxwell, B. (2009) Becoming a teacher in the learning and skills sector: the inter-related influences of workplace, course and individual dispositions. Paper presented at the Researching Work and Learning Conference, Copenhagen June 2009
Maxwell, B, Coldwell, M. and Simkins, T. (2009) Possibilities of partnerships as sites for learning: leadership development in English 14-19 Diploma consortia. Paper presented at the British Education Research Association Annual Conference September 2009.
Simkins, T., Maxwell, B., Aspinwall, K. (2009) Developing the whole school workforce: culture and strategy Paper accepted in the Journal of Professional Development, 35:3 p433-450
Maxwell, B. and Coldwell, M. (2008) CEL/NCSL 14-19 Leadership and Management Development Final Evaluation Report 2007-8
Maxwell, B (2007) The positive impacts of interactive whiteboards on student learning outcomes in FE colleges, and the conditions under which outcomes can be maximised (PDF 143KB). Paper presented at the BERA Annual Conference 5 - 8 September, 2007, Institute of Education, London
Finlayson, H, Maxwell, B, Caillau, I. and Tomlinson, J. (2006) e-learning in Further Education: The Impact on Student Intermediate and End Point Outcomes (PDF from DfES website) DfES Research Report RR739
Maxwell, B. (2005) Becoming a teacher in the learning and skills sector: comparing policy assumptions and the lived experiences of trainees Paper presented at the BERA Annual Conference 14 - 17 September University of Glamorgan
Maxwell, B. (2005) Feedback as a tool to develop professional capability: Students' perceptions, experiences and use of feedback on a post-compulsory education and training initial teacher education programme Paper presented at the SRHE conference 13 - 15 December 2005 University of Edinburgh
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