Network staff
Dr Cathy Burnett
Senior lecturer in primary English, BA (Hons), PGCE, M.Ed., EdD
Phone 0114 225 3666
E-mail c.burnett@shu.ac.uk
Cathy is a senior lecturer in primary English. She leads the University's Language and Literacy Research and Scholarship Group and co-leads the University's Teacher Education Research and Scholarship Group. Her research interests focus on digital literacy and the developing professional identity of pre-service teachers, with a particular focus on relationships between literacies within and beyond formal educational contexts. She is currently working on a JISC funded project, 'Digital Futures in Teacher Education'.
Cathy is co-editor of the journal Literacy and served previously on its Advisory Group. She was a core member of the Economic and Social Research Council-funded seminar series 'Children and Young People's Digital Literacies in Virtual Online Spaces'. She is visiting fellow at Birmingham City University.
Selected recent research publications
Burnett, C. (2011) 'Pre-service teachers' digital literacy practices: exploring contingency in identity and digital literacy in and out of educational contexts.' Language and Education, 25(5) 433-459.
Burnett, C. and Merchant, G. (2011) 'Is there a space for critical literacy in the context of social media?' English Teaching, Practice and Critique, 10(1) 41-57.
Burnett, C. (2011) 'The (im)materiality of educational space: interactions between material, connected and textual dimensions of networked technology use in schools.' E-Learning and Digital Media, 8(3).214-227.
Burnett, C. (2011). 'Medium for empowerment or a 'centre for everything': students' experience of control in digital environments within a university context'. Education and Information Technologies, 8(3).214-227.
Burnett, C. (2011) 'Shifting and multiple spaces in classrooms: an argument for investigating learners' boundary-making around digital networked texts.'Journal of Literacy and Technology, 12 (3).2-23.
Burnett, C. (2010) 'Technology and literacy in early childhood educational settings: a review of research'. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. 10 (3) Pp. 247-270.
Burnett, C. (2009) 'Research into literacy and technology in primary classrooms: an exploration of understandings generated by recent studies'. Journal of Research in Reading (special edition: Digital Literacy. 32 (1) Pp.22-37.
Burnett, C. (2009) ''That's more like they know me as a person': one primary pre-service teacher's stories of her personal and 'professional' digital practices.' Literacy (special edition: Literacy and Identity). 43.2. Pp.65-74.
Burnett, C. (2009) 'Personal digital literacies versus classroom literacies: investigating pre-service teachers' digital lives in and beyond the classroom'. In: Carrington, V. and Robinson, M. (eds.) Digital Literacies: social learning and classroom practices. London: Sage. Pp.115-129.
To view a fuller bibliography by Dr Cathy Burnett, visit the Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive.
Doctoral students
- Alison Tyldesley - A sociocultural approach to higher education students' experiences with academic literacies
- Helen Childerhouse - The nature of nurture: interpretation, implementation and identity
- Richard Pountney - A commentary on 'Making the Curriculum: a case study of course planning in higher education'
