Network staff
Dr Paul Garland
Programme Leader for Research Degrees, Faculty of Development and Society
Postgraduate Research Tutor for Education doctoral students
Programme leader for the EdD (Professional Doctorate in Education)
BA (Hons), PGCE, MEd, PhD
Phone 0114 225 4821
E-mail p.garland@shu.ac.uk
Research interests/current work
I am the Programme Leader for Research Degrees in Education, in the Faculty of Development and Society. This role includes the Postgraduate Research Tutor for Education doctoral students and the programme leader for the EdD, a Professional Doctorate in Education. Doctoral students in education currently number 81 (22 PhD and 59 EdD). Most of my teaching is on research methodology and social theory on both our EdD programme and on our MRes provision. I also frequently teach doctoral students in the European Universities that are part of our Erasmus Intensive Programme network (see below). Apart from a general interest in research methodology, my specific interests are professionalism and professionalisation of teachers; application of thinking of Habermas to postgraduate pedagogy; doctoral experiences and trajectories; participatory research methodologies.
Current doctoral students
Denyse Hodgson - Involving cancer patients in curriculum delivery: a participatory research approach.
Geoff Bright - Educational disaffection among young men in an ex-coalfield area of Derbyshire.
Helen Childerhouse - The nature of nurture provision: practices and possibilities.
John Dunning - The professional higher education hospitality management lecturer – an investigation into attitudes and approaches.
John Perry - The auditioning academic. From industry to academic professional: stories of the journey.
Jon Waterfield - What is the relationship between undergraduate pharmacy education and professional practice?
Narumon Chunlahawanit - Teachers’ views on brain research applications to teaching the Thai language.
Nick Chown - A treatise on language methods and language games in autism
Rob Baker - Contexts of cultural capital in collaborative practice in further education.
Steve Holmes - A field analysis of a 14 – 19 education partnership.
Doctoral completions
2010 - Xi Fang (PhD) Teaching the New English Curriculum in a Chinese School: an Ethnographic Study
2007 - Nicola Wood (PhD) Transmitting craft knowledge: designing interactive media to support tacit skills learning
2004 - Peter Spencer (EdD) Towards a reconceptualising of skill: a study of skills in Higher Education
Research collaborations
I coordinate a network of 12 universities from 11 different countries in Europe to run Erasmus Intensive Programmes. This network has been in existence for 5 years. Currently we are in the second year of a three-year IP called ERMEC: Educational Research Methodologies in a European Context. Last year the IP culminated in an intensive 12-day residential programme in Antalya, Turkey with over 50 postgraduate students and 13 staff from the collaborating Higher Education Institutions. Each year's programme culminates in a publication of students' papers, following a reviewing process by some of the IP staff. This year the Intensive Programme will culminate in a summer school in Estonia, hosted by the University of Tallinn. I am currently working with one of our partner institutions, University of Tampere, Finland, on comparative research on teacher formation in England and Finland.
At Sheffield Hallam University, I lead an ongoing research project on doctoral students' trajectories that uses a participative methodology to both explore the doctoral experience and to enable the exploration of methodological issues through practice.
Publications
Garland, I. and Garland, P. (2012 forthcoming), Changing roles, responsibilities and relationships in performative cultures: Primary teachers and assistants, inPerformativity in Education in the UK: Effects, consequences and agency Ethnography and Education Book Series Series Editors: Dennis Beach, Bob Jeffrey, Geoff Troman and Geoffrey Walford.
Garland, P., Larson, A., Lofstrom, E and Garland, I. (eds) (2012 forthcoming) Perspectives on European Educational Policy and Practice: papers from the Erasmus Intensive Programme Summer Schools, Haapsalu, Estonia, August 2009 and 2010, Sheffield Hallam University Papers in Education, Sheffield: SHU Press.
Garland, P., (2012 online), What can the work of Habermas offer educational researcher development programmes? In Studies in Higher Education Volume 39, Number 5, available on line.
Garland, P., Larson, A., Lofstrom, E and Michalak, J. (eds) (2010) Perspectives on European Educational Policy and Practice: papers from the Erasmus Intensive Programme Summer School, Haapsalu, Estonia, August 2008, Sheffield Hallam University Papers in Education, Sheffield: SHU Press.
Garland, P. (2008), 'Action theory in Habermas and educational practices', in Hudson, B. and Zgaga, P. (eds) Teacher Education Policy in Europe: a voice of Higher Education Institutions, Teacher Education Policy in Europe Network, Umeå: University of Umeå, Faculty of Teacher Education.
Coldwell, M. Garland, P. et al (2007) Support Staff in 14-19 Applied Learning Programmes: A Preliminary Study unpublished: TDA
Garland, P. (2007). Intellectualising teaching: theorising and changing practice, in. Garland, P. et al (Eds.) Analysis of Educational Policies in a Comparative Educational Perspective. Pädagogishe Schriften. Der Pädagogischen Akademie des Bundes Oberösterreich, Universitätsverlag Rudolf Träuner, Linz.
