Staff Profile
Robin is currently principal investigator on an ESRC-funded study of school management, accountability and learning outcomes in Mumbai and Kathmandu, working in collaboration with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Tribhuvan University. He also received grants from the Higher Education Academy, and the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.
Robin is also co-editor of the Comparative Education Review and has served on the Executive Committee of the British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE). In 2014, he received the George Bereday Award from the Comparative and International Education Society for his application of social network analysis to international student mobility in higher education.
Janet is Director of the School of Education's programmes in Hong Kong, the EdD and the recently launched MSc Education, and she also directs the EdD in Bristol. She lectured previously at the Institute of Education, University of London and the Department of Education University of Oxford, having been a teacher and administrator in schools in England. She was Deputy Director of an EIC Action Zone in London from 2001 to 2004, with particular responsibility for primary to secondary school transfer.
Janet is a philosopher of education, a member of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA), the International Network of Philosophy of Education (INPE) and the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB), where she is on the Editorial Board of its topical pamphlet series, ‘IMPACT’. She takes a comparative interest in the relationship between philosophy of education and teacher education and is developing a new model of critical reflection for teachers called 'Philosophy for Teachers' in England, Hong Kong and South Africa. She co-authored a paper concerned with the contribution of research to teachers' professional learning from a philosophical perspective commissioned by the BERA/RSA Inquiry into Teacher Education. She also co-edited 'Learning Teaching from Experience' (2014, Bloomsbury) with Viv Ellis.
Her teaching subject is RE which she supports on the Secondary PGCE. Professional associations she belongs to specifically concerned with RE include: NATRE (the National Association Zof Religious Education), AULRE (the Association of University Lecturers in Religion and Education) and the International Seminar on Religious Education and Values (ISREV). She project managed the RE Subject Review for England initiated by the Religious Educational Council for England and Wales (REC) from June 2012- September 2013. She has an ongoing research interest in the Changing Nature of ITE in RE in both primary and secondary phases and with that expertise in mind she was co-opted onto the NATRE Executive in 2015. She is currently engaged in researching the place of dialogue in schooling, including the contribution which RE makes to promoting good community relations.
Professor Jennifer Rowsell has been a researcher for over twenty years in Literacy Studies. Her scholarship explores ways to expand literacy to match the kinds of skills and practices children, teenagers, and adults use and understand today.
Her research interests include multimodal, makerspace and arts-based research with young people; digital literacies research; and, more recent work in posthumanist and affect approaches to literacy teaching and learning as well as research on the digital divide. She has conducted research in Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Lisa Lucas joined the Graduate School of Education in October 2002. Her background is in Sociology and she was previously a Research Fellow in the Department of Educational and Professional Development at University College London working on projects relating to Widening Participation initiatives in Higher Education.
She is the Director of the MPhil/PhD Programme. She is also Deputy Director of Teaching, Learning and Assessment. She teaches across a wide range of courses on the MSc Educational Research, MEd
Her most recent research projects include, a Higher Education Academy (HEA) study looking at the links between research and teaching in higher education. She is author of The Research Game in Academic Life, published in 2006 by SRHE/Open University Press and Academic Research and Researchers (2009), edited with Angela Brew and also published by SRHE/Open University Press.
Richard Watermeyer is Professor of Education in the School of Education at the University of Bristol and is a sociologist of educational policy, practice and pedagogy. His research is predominantly concerned with a sociological analysis of change in higher education as motivated and framed by currents of, and challenges to global capitalism and (the weakening of) its policy incantations. He is especially well known for his internationally comparative and critical analyses of public engagement and societal impact generation as valorised academic functions.
Richard is the author of Competitive Accountability in Academic Life: The Struggle for Social Impact and Public Legitimacy (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar); co-editor of Pedagogical Peculiarities: Conversation at the Edge of University Teaching and Learning (Leiden/Boston: Brill/Sense); and is principal editor of the forthcoming Handbook on Academic Freedom (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar).
Sue Timmis is a Senior Lecturer in technology Enhanced Learning and her work centres on educational engagement and empowerment and in particular on the role of digital technologies in rethinking learning, identity and collaborative working. Most of her work is focused on higher education and in particular undergraduate student learning and increasingly in relation to social justice and widening participation. Sue is also very interested in methodological innovation and participatory research and has developed very successful models of co-produced research in higher education where students act as co-researchers, working alongside researchers in communities of inquiry. Sue is PI on a current project combining these interests called DD-lab or digital diversity, learning and belonging.
Sue was Centre Director for Centre for Learning, Knowing and Interactive Technologies. from 2008 - 2014. She was a contributor to STELLAR, the EU Network of Excellence in Technology Enhanced Learning which ended in 2012, where she was a member of the Scientific Capacity Committee. She is Director of the PhD programme, teaches and supervises students on Mphil/Phd,EdD and MSc programmes.
Sue joined the Graduate School of Education in June 2008. Prior to this, she worked at the University of Bristol for 11 years, based in the Institute for Learning and Research Technology (also in Berkeley Square) where she was a Research Fellow, manager and project manager. Research projects included Victorious, an EU-funded project on higher education students’ mobility in a digital world, the SOLE project, a major study of HE and FE students' online learning experiences across six discipline areas, and eChina - a unique collaborative programme funded by the Chinese Ministry of Education and HEFCE.
Sue held a previous research post at the University of Bath and before that was a freelance interactive designer and educational consultant for several years as well as a a spell setting up and working in a worker's co-operative - Context Computing Ltd based in Bristol. In her first life she taught in secondary schools in both London and Derbyshire and was Head of Modern Languages at a comprehensive school in the London Borough of Newham.
Dr Yu is Reader in Language Education & Assessment, Coordinator of Doctor of Education in Applied Linguistics and TESOL and co-coordinator of Centre for Assessment and Evaluation Research, at the University of Bristol.
He was the winner of the Jacqueline A. Ross Award (2008) for the outstanding doctoral dissertation in the area of Language Testing (awarded by the TOEFL Program of Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. USA). He completed his PhD dissertation - Towards a model of using summarization tasks as a measure of reading comprehension - at the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol (2005), with the support of ORS and UoB Postgraduate Research Scholarships.
He was the Book Review Editor of British Association for Applied Linguistics News (ISSN 0965-5638) for seven years. He spearheaded the establishment of BAAL Testing, Evaluation and Assessment SIG in 2009, and was the Deputy Covenor for a few years. Dr Yu is an Executive Editor of Assessment in Education.
He is also on Editorial Board of:
- Assessing Writing
- Language Assessment Quarterly
- Language Testing
- Language Testing in Asia
- International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Teaching and Learning
Dr Yu is a referee for Economics and Social Research Council (ESRC) and academic journals including: