Dr Ellen McHugh
Senior Lecturer in Education

Topics

University students and their experiences;

Widening participation, Higher Education, retention and young people;

Social housing and welfare;

Food poverty in educational spaces;

Children and HE Students from Armed Forces Families;

Transnationalism, migration, belonging, identity and gender.

Research supervision

Current Doctoral Supervision

• Jazz Pink (PhD Student): Teacher reflections on relationship and sex education (RSE), their knowledge, and the curriculum taught to students.
• Karen Western (EdDoc Student): A participatory study of coping with bereavement among HE students

Doctoral Completion

• Joe Hanley (EdDoc Student): 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).
• Lingran Zhou (Phd Student): Video-Production-Oriented Spoken English Pedagog (VPOSEP): A research into the efffects of video production on Chinese EFL (English as a Foreign Language) Learners' spoken attainment (Awarded 2024)
• Donna-Marie Holder (PhD Student): “Who am I? More than autism!” Race, Ethnicity, Culture and Autism: An auto/biographical unpacking of intersectional identities among Black British children and young people with autism in English special schools". (Awarded 2024)