what is the type of research that a previous teacher of the University of Lancaster (official name) is known for?
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Graham M. Smith Graham M. Smith is a British political theorist. Currently he is a lecturer at University of Leeds. Smith is known for his research on friendship and its relation to the understanding of the political. He previously taught at Lancaster University and is the co-editor of the online, peer-reviewed, open-access journal "".
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Lancaster University Lancaster University, also officially known as the University of Lancaster, is a public research university in the City of Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established by Royal Charter in 1964, one of several new universities created in the 1960s.
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David Childs (academic) David Childs (born September 1933) is a British academic and political historian, who is Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Nottingham. His research chiefly concerns the modern German state and the field of German studies, and helping the public develop a greater knowledge of the history and politics of the former East and West Germany.
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Andrew C. Porter Andrew Calvin "Andy" Porter, Ph.D. (born July 10, 1942) is the former Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and also serves as Penn GSE's George and Diane Weiss Professor of Education. Porter is an educational psychologist and psychometrician who has made significant contributions to education policy and has published widely on educational assessment and accountability, teacher decisions on content and how curriculum policy effects those decisions, opportunities for students to learn and achievement indicators, measuring content and standards alignment, teacher professional development, educational research methodology, and leadership assessment. Porter's current work centers on the VAL-ED project, a research-based evaluation tool that measures the effectiveness of school leaders by providing a detailed assessment of a principal's performance funded by the US Department of Education/IES. Porter also works on two projects funded by the National Science Foundation that focus on the effects of teacher professional development on improving teaching and learning.
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Alan Bryman Alan Bryman (1947-2017) was Professor of Organisational and Social research at the University of Leicester, prior to this Bryman spent 31 years at Loughborough University. He is best known for three main areas of work. Bryman has long been associated with research methods and in particular the use of mixed methods; this led to him publishing the book "Social Research Methods" and "Quantitative Data Analysis with SPSS 12 and 13: A Guide for Social Scientists" with Duncan Cramer. His Quantity and Quality In Social Research (1988) is yet another significant contribution in the field of research methods.
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Geoffrey Hugo Lampe Geoffrey William Hugo Lampe MC (13 August 1912 – 5 August 1980) was a British theologian and Anglican priest who dedicated his life to theological teaching and research. He was Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology at the University of Birmingham from 1953 to 1960. He then moved to the University of Cambridge where he was Ely Professor of Divinity from 1960 to 1970 and Regius Professor of Divinity from 1970 until his retirement in 1979. He was also a member of the General Synod of the Church of England.
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Durham University Department of Physics The Department of Physics at Durham University in Durham, England, is a large physics and astronomy department involved in both undergraduate teaching and scientific research. In the most recent subject review report by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) for Higher Education, the Department achieved maximum marks (24/24) and in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise the Department retained a Grade 5A rating. In addition, the Department's research into Space Science and Astrophysics was rated as number one in Europe and fourth in the world by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators (1998–2008).
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Peter Davison (professor) Peter Hobley Davison (born 1926), OBE, Ph.D., D.Litt, Hon. D. Arts, is Research Professor of English at De Montfort University, Leicester, and Emeritus Professor of English at Glyndŵr University. Davison is considered an authority on the life and works of George Orwell.
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Language Teaching Research Language Teaching Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the fields of education and linguistics related to the teaching of any second language, in particular the teaching of specific skills and language for specific purposes. The journal's editor-in-Chief is Rod Ellis (University of Auckland). The journal was established in 1997 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.
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Clare Blackburn Catherine Clare Blackburn is a British biologist. She received her Bachelor of Science degree at University of Edinburgh in 1984 and her PhD at Imperial College London in 1991. At present, she is the Professor of Tissue Stem Cell Biology of MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh.
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Stephen Constantine (historian) Stephen Constantine is professor emeritus of modern British history at Lancaster University. He received his BA from Wadham College, Oxford, in 1968 and his D.Phil from Nuffield College, Oxford, in 1984. Constantine joined Lancaster University in 1971 and retired in 2010. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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Gerry Stoker Gerry Stoker (born 4 February 1955), is a British political scientist noted for his works on local government and his textbooks. He is also a lecturer at the University of Southampton.
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Nathaniel Gage Nathaniel Lees Gage (August 1, 1917 – August 17, 2008) was an American educational psychologist who made significant contributions to a scientific understanding of teaching. He conceived and edited the first "Handbook of Research on Teaching" (Gage, 1963), led the Stanford Center for Research and Development of Teaching, and served as president of the American Educational Research Association. Gage was a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, where he moved in 1962 after 14 years at the University of Illinois. Deborah Stipek, dean of the Stanford School of Education, called Gage a "giant among educational researchers."
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Anthony Kelly (academic) Anthony Elliott-Kelly FAcSS or Anthony Kelly, better known as Tony Kelly, is an Irish academic who is currently Professor of Education (and former Head of Department) at the University of Southampton, England, specialising in education / schooling theory as it relates to school improvement, school effectiveness and school leadership, and system-wide policy.
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Roger Cashmore Roger John Cashmore (born 22 August 1944) is the Chair of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Previously he was Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford and Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford.
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Tough Young Teachers Tough Young Teachers is a British documentary television series that was first broadcast on BBC Three on 9 January 2014. The six graduate teachers featured in the series are Charles Wallendahl (University of Oxford), Chloe Shaw (Royal Holloway, University of London), Claudenia Williams (University of Birmingham), Meryl Noronha (King's College London), Nicholas Church (Imperial College London) and Oliver Beach (University of Birmingham & Cornell University).
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Graduate College, Lancaster Graduate College is the only college in Lancaster University to take postgraduate students rather than undergraduates. Until its creation in 1992 each of the other eight colleges also took postgraduates. The university had a lot of success in postgraduate work, and it was felt postgraduates should have their own college for social, administrative and accommodation purposes. All incoming postgraduate students are members of the college, even including those Lancaster graduates who were members of other colleges when undergraduates.
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Institute of Learning Innovation The Institute of Learning Innovation, formerly the Beyond Distance Research Alliance, is a teaching and research group based at the University of Leicester. It was founded by Professor Gilly Salmon, and now directed by Professor Gráinne Conole. The Institute of Learning Innovation has and currently works on numerous UK-based and European funded education research projects (over 30 as of August 2013) on topics around technology-enhanced education, and offers PhDs as well as an MSc in Learning Innovation by Distance Learning. Research topics have included educational use of podcasting, e-readers, virtual worlds, open educational resources and open education, and learning design.
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Derek Long Derek Long (born 11 August 1925) is a former professor of structural chemistry at the University of Bradford, working in the field of Raman spectroscopy.
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Julia Barrow Julia Steuart Barrow, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 5 December 1956) is a British historian and academic, who specialises in medieval and ecclesiastical history. Since 2012, she has been Professor in Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds and Director of its Institute for Medieval Studies.
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Joseph Lancaster Joseph Lancaster (25 November 1778 – 23 October 1838) was an English Quaker and public education innovator.
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Camilla Toulmin Camilla Toulmin (born 1954 in Melbourne) is a British economist and former Director of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). Her career has focused on policy research about agriculture, land, climate and livelihoods in dryland regions of Africa. She became a senior fellow of IIED in late June 2015, and is Professor of Practice at the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University.