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RESEARCH

Research in education and technology

My research examines how knowledge, judgement, and lived experience shape teaching and learning. I also love physical computing and the opportunities it provides for experimentation, problem-solving, and learning through making. My work also explores how teachers and learners engage with computing, cybersecurity, and educational reform, and how educational approaches affect participation, learning, and student outcomes.

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I employ empirical, philosophical, and evaluative methodologies to inform educational practice, guide programme development, and support professional learning.

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CURRENT RESEARCH

Areas of inquiry

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PHYSICAL COMPUTING

Teachers' lived experiences

My doctoral research examines teachers' lived experiences of physical computing, including the relationships among care, professional identity, technical challenge and curriculum practice.

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EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE

Knowledge and professional judgement

My philosophical research examines how knowledge, expertise, care and responsibility inform professional judgement, including when and how educators intervene in the concerns of others.

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CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION

Adversarial reasoning

I investigate how young people interpret intent, evidence and manipulation in digital environments, and how investigative cybersecurity learning develops reasoning, participation and cyber identity.

SELECTED WORK

Selected research and writing

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DOCTORAL THESIS

‘Leaping-in’ and ‘leaping-ahead’

A hermeneutic phenomenological study of teachers' lived experiences with physical computing in English secondary schools, examining care, professional identity, pedagogy and technical practice.

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EdD thesis · University of Leeds · 2025

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PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY

When should we leap in?

This article develops the concept of solicitous professional judgement to examine when and how educators should apply their expertise in light of others' concerns.

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Philosophy of education · Article manuscript

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CYBERSECURITY RESEARCH

Developing adversarial reasoning

Research through the CyberRise programme examines how investigative cybersecurity learning can develop adversarial reasoning, participation, cybersecurity self-efficacy and cyber identity.

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School-based study · With Sheffield Hallam University

Research · Education · Evaluation
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