School of Education
Faculty of Education Community and Leisure
I M Marsh Campus, Barkhill Road, Liverpool L17 6BD,
Research Directory 2004
Research in the Faculty takes place in 5 centres: Primary, Professional & Education Studies (PPE), Secondary & Vocational Education (SVE), Sport & Dance Studies (SDS), Physical & Outdoor Education (POE) and Tourism, Consumer & Food Studies (TCF). The activities of the faculty are diverse as are the academic specialist areas and interests of the staff. In a number of cases groups of researchers across centres share expertise in educational, health, leisure and scientific research much of which is applied in nature. There is a vibrant research culture, led by 4 professors and 6 readers across the faculty. The emphasis on research is reflected in the planned appointment of director of research to lead research strategy development across the faculty.Research groups within the faculty exist in the areas of food and nutrition, education, special needs and inclusion, leisure and tourism, physical education, dance and sport. These groups pursue varied research themes supported by an active research student and post doctoral group. In 2004 the faculty set up a “Centre for Educational Research and Evaluation” drawing together pedagogic and other educational researchers from across the university. This centre will become a hub of educational research in the region. The success in external research funding achieved in 2004 will accelerate further development and strengthen the already excellent links between teaching and research.
The faculty welcomed a number of research visitors from across Europe in 2004 as well as influential figures from government health and education agencies. Stronger links with European partners are being developed through UKRO and SOCRATES programmes.
The faculty will continue to promote applied research and offer cutting edge research opportunities in its areas of strength.
Current Research Active Staff
Mike Aiello (BA (Hons) MA, MSc, PGCE)
Research interests: CPD; Foundation Degrees; higher learning delivery through work-based partners; effective strategies for assessing management learning through work-based assessment.
Tel: 0151 231 5211 Fax: 0151 231 5338 Email: m.aiello@ljmu.ac.uk
Dr Gaynor Bagnall (BSc, PhD)
Research interests: Consumption, consumer culture, identity and lifestyles; class and the cultural omnivore; social networks, social integration and social capital in middle class communities; production and consumption of heritage, the visitor experience; urban tourism and urban regeneration.
Tel: 0151 231 5341 Fax: 0151 231 5357 Email: g.bagnall@ljmu.ac.uk
Steve Burns (ONC, C & G. PGDip, MA)
Research interests: Performance management and urban tourism.
Tel: 0151 231 5257 Fax: 0151 231 5357 Email: s.d.burns@ljmu.ac.uk
Prof. Diana Burton (BEd, MEd, PhD) Professor of Education
Research interests: teacher professionalism, performance management; role and identities within teacher education; mentoring; learning approaches.
Tel: 0151 231 5264 Fax: 0151 231 5357 Email:d.m.burton@ljmu.ac.uk
John Clarke (BA, MA. PGCE)
Research interests: Professionalism among HE lecturers; relationship between education and work; policy in Post 16 Education.
Tel: 0151 231 5275 Fax: 0151 231 5399 Email: j.j.clarke@ljmu.ac.uk
Stuart Fairclough (BEd, MSc.)
Research Interests: Physical activity and health in children: physical activity levels; multi disciplinary approaches to physical education and physical activity research; physical activity measurement.
Tel: 0151 231 5384 Fax: 0151 231 5357 Email: s.j.fairclough@ljmu.ac.uk
Dr Diane Grant (BA, PhD)
Research interests: Issues in relation to government policy and the effects on consumers/society; examples include 'New Deal' for lone parents, community initiatives, impact of poverty on lifestyles and choices.
Tel: 0151 231 5301 Fax: 0151 231 5357 Email: d.k.grant@ljmu.ac.uk
Dr Allan Hackett (BSc (Hons), MPhil, PhD, CBiol, MIBiol, SRD) Reader in Community Nutrition
Research interests: The measurement of food intake and nutritional strategy especially children (comparison of vegetarians and omnivores); the promotion of healthier eating habits and factors affecting dietary change.
Tel: 0151 231 5266 Fax: 0151 231 5357 Email: a.f.hackett@ljmu.ac.uk
David Hardy (MA)
Research interests: Adventure tourism and recreation in particular its relationship to commodification; the relationship between sport adventure and social values;
rural tourism and recreation; the use of outdoors education and recreation in the development of young people.
Tel: 0151 231 5249 Fax: 0151 231 5357 Email: d.p.hardy@ljmu.ac.uk
Sandra Hiett (BA( Hons), PGCE, MA)
Research interests: Art and design education; gender issues in
education; cultural diversity and education; equality and inclusion;
action research methodologies.
Tel: 0151 231 5331 Fax: 0151 231 5357 Email: s.hiett@ljmu.ac.uk
Nicky Hepworth (BEd (Hons)
Research interests: Physical Education and sport in school and community clusters; continuity, progression and transition at the primary and secondary interface; the National PE and Sport Strategy including sports colleges and school sport co-ordinator Programmes; developing sports alliances in order to implement the Merseyside sport strategy; games education and teaching styles.
Tel: 0151 231 5376 Fax: 0151 231 5357 Email: n.j.hepworth@ljmu.ac.uk
Prof. David Huddart (BA, PhD) Professor of Quaternary Geology and Environmental Education
Research interests: Sedimentology of glacioflurial sequences and landform genesis in modern Arctic environments and Pleistocene sequence landforms in Britain/Alaska; sedimentology of Pleistocene laher (volcanic mudflow) and volcaniclestic sequences in lake basins and their relationship to human and megafaunal populations in the Basin of Mexico and the Valsequillo basin, Puebla (Mexico); sea level changes in NW Britain and its associated archaeological record.
Tel: 0151 231 5247 Fax: 0151 231 5357 Email: d.huddart@ljmu.ac.uk
Joanne Ives (BSc (Hons), PGCE)
Research interests: Food hygiene and safety in local homes; assessment of current level of hygiene/knowledge practices; the identification of new areas/routes to disseminate food hygiene knowledge; link between food poisoning cases and domestic practices.
Tel: 0151 231 5327 Fax: 0151 231 5338 Email: j.ives@ljmu.ac.uk
Margaret Jepson (BEd (Hons), MA)
Research interests: Teaching and learning styles in higher education and associated assessment issues; international dimensions to the teaching of consumer studies and home economics; key skills in higher education and the capability curriculum.
Tel: 0151 231 5298 Fax: 0151 231 5399 Email: m.b.jepson@ljmu.ac.uk
Marion Jones (BA (Hons), MA, PhD)
Research interests: Mentoring across a wide range of educational, vocational and professional contexts.
Tel: 0151 231 5277 Fax: 0151 231 5357 Email: m.jones@ljmu.ac.uk
Derek Kassem (BSc, MA.)
Research interests: young children's understanding of number; social and political context of mathematics; racism and ethnic minority educational achievement.
Tel: 0151 231 5251 Fax: 0151 231 5399 Email: d.kassem@ljmu.ac.uk
Prof. Sheila Maxwell (MSc, PhD) Professor of Biochemical Nutrition
Research interests: Nutrition in relation to women and children's health; the effects of aflatoxin ingestion on the health of children; the effects of weight reducing diets on the health of young women; iron status of young women and children's dietary intakes.
Tel: 0151 231 5290 Fax: 0151 231 5357 Email: s.maxwell@ljmu.ac.uk
Dr. Mark Meadows BA (Hons), PhD.
Research interests: Symbolic interaction as motivation for consumer behaviour; work motivation, role clarity and self efficacy for lone parents.
Tel: 0151 231 5828 Fax: 0151 231 5357 Email: m.r.meadows@ljmu.ac.uk
Sarah Nixon (BSc (Hons)
Research interests: Sports development, sports management, developing sporting opportunities.
Tel: 0151 231 5213 Fax: 0151 729 0030 Email: s.nixon@ljmu.ac.uk
Dr. Joyce Porter (BSc (Hons) PhD, PGCE, MRSC CChem)
Research interests: Children's learning in science; models of professional development in science teaching; ICT in science.
Tel: 0151 231 5313 Fax: 0151 231 5357 Email: ecsjpor2@ljmu.ac.uk
Deborah Pownall (Cert Ed. M.Ed, MA)
Research interests:The role of the Education Sector in supporting the leisure and tourism industry; curriculum content and development and its suitability for domestic tourism; the development of networks within the FE sector to help support the development of the sector; the problems of recruitment and retention for small to medium size businesses within the leisure and tourism industry.
Tel: 0151 231 5296 Fax: 0151 231 5357 Email: d.pownall@ljmu.ac.uk
Dr Harkirtan Singh-Raud (BSc (Hons), PGCE, MRSC, CChem, G I Biol, MCollP, PhD, FRSA)
Research interests: The attitudes and aspirations of Asian women towards education and employment; issues related to race, gender and education; multicultural education; attitudes of Asian male undergraduates to education and Asian masculinities; Asian science undergraduates and their under-representation in school science teaching.
Tel: 0151 231 5262 Fax: 0151 231 5357 Email: h.singh-raud@ljmu.ac.uk
Dr Martin Selby (BA, MSc, PhD)
Research Interests: Urban tourism and urban regeneration; destination image and tourism representations; tourism consumers, including tourist satisfaction and quality; the culture of tourism, tourist experience, and performativity; cultural and ethnic tourism; skills and training in the tourism industry.
Tel: 0151 231 5369 Fax: 0151 231 5357 Email: m.selby@ljmu.ac.uk
Prof. Pat Shenton (MSc, MEd, DipEd, CertEd) Professor of Physical Education
Research interests: Learning, teaching and assessment in initial teacher training; professional development, peer review and appraisal; Physical Education and School Sport in school and the community.
Tel: 0151 231 5279 Fax: 0151 231 5393 Email: p.a.shenton@ljmu.ac.uk
Dr. Leonard Stevenson (BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD)
Research interests: Development of rapid diagnostic methods for the detection of micro-organisms (food-borne pathogens, food spoilage microbes and associated toxins); rapid use 'on site' microbe and toxin identification technologies for use in the food Industries; food authenticity tests; aspects of gene expression and gene regulation in prokaryotic and eukaryotic micro-organisms; food hygiene and safety training courses.
Tel: 0151 231 5322 Fax: 0151 231 5399 Email: l.stevenson@ljmu.ac.uk
Dr Tim Stott (BSc, PhD ,PGCE)
Research interests: Fluvial geomorphology: suspended sediment and bedload dynamics; yields, bedload tracers, bedload trapping, channel change; bank erosion; forestry effects on erosion and sediment transport (the Alps, Mid-Wales, Cheshire); environmental education in schools and outdoor centres.
Tel: 0151 231 5329 Fax: 0151 231 5357 Email: t.a.stott@ljmu.ac.uk
Philip Vickerman (BSc (Hons) MEd PhD)
Research interests: Special educational needs and training of physical education teachers; disability sport; inclusion policies and practices in sport and physical education; sport development and young people; community physical education, sport and dance.
Tel: 0151 231 5253 Fax: 0151 231 5357 Email: p.vickerman@ljmu.ac.uk
Barbara Walsh MSc, Cert Ed PE
Research interests: Aspects of schools/partnerships and training in relation to teaching, learning and mentoring; specialist sports colleges and training schools.
Tel: 0151 231 5319 Fax: 0151 231 5357 Email: b.walsh@ljmu.ac.uk