Dr Anne Chappell
Head of Department / Reader - Education

Topics

Current Doctoral Supervision

• Ann-Dale Emberton: Continuing professional development: social worker or organisation led. Whose choice?
• John Perkins: Secondary school teachers’ perspectives of progress.
• Bhavisha Soma: High stakes assessment? The stories of children, parents and teachers.
• Akta Vaghela: Managing teachers’ continuing professional development in a secondary school in England.
• Sarah Wolfenden: Coaching as a tool of compassionate practice for university staff.

Doctoral Completion

• Lewis Fogarty: Leadership in early childhood education and care: Insider perspectives (Awarded 2024).
• Joe Hanley: Look who’s talking: Social work podcasts as continuing professional development in England (Awarded 2024 and Winner of the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for Doctoral Research).
• Asma Lebbakhar: Equality and diversity in secondary schools in London (Awarded 2023).
• Kee Hean Lim: The utility of the Kawa ‘River’ model in exploring the recovery journey of mental health service users (Awarded 2019).
• Rebecca Turvill: How are young children developing number sense, post National Numeracy Strategy? (Awarded 2016).

Doctoral Examination and International Evaluation

• Graham Robertson: Speaking ‘freely’ and ‘frankly’ in a school context: A Foucauldian approach to ’schooling’ (External Examiner, University of East London, November 2023).
• Jawaher Subayil Almutairi: Introducing Lesson Study in English as a Foreign Language Education: A Case Study of Saudi Arabia (Internal Examiner, Brunel University London, March 2023).
• Fathimath Thaufeega: Institutional and learner readiness for e-learning in the Maldives (Brunel University London, December 2016).
• Anna Velasco Martínez: “I’m not feminist, but…”: Myths and beliefs of undergraduates about feminism (University of Barcelona, February 2017)