Undergraduate and Taught Postgraduate Teaching

I primarily teach courses for the School of Psychology and the links below allow access to materials associated with these courses. I also occasionally teach for the LSRI and School of Education. For materials from tutorials at conferences, workshops and summer schools, follow the activities link.

Module Convener for Psychology

Psychology of Digital Technology

 Thursday 11-1pm

Contribute Lectures for Psychology
Cognitive Development and Learning Monday 11-1pm
Cognitive Psychology

Tuesday 3-5pm

Thursday 9- 11 am

Current PhD Supervision

I supervise PhD students in the area of learning sciences.I want to understand more about the cognitive, social and affective processes involved in learning and how we can use this knowledge to design better educational experiences. If you do too, please contact me.

In particular, I am interesting in supervising PhD students in the following areas:

I also occasionally supervise students in all areas of Technology Enhanced Learning if the proposed projects are sufficiently psychological in nature (as opposed to primarily technology or education focussed).

If you are interested in doing a PhD, you may be eligible for a Research-Council funded studentship and, in addition, the School of Psychology offers around ten studentships per year and the LSRI often has studentships available on a competitive basis.

Student    

Co-Supervisor   

Topic
Cherry Poussa Heather Wharrad  Web based learning and self efficacy
Giulia Gelmini  Claire O’Malley Collaborative story telling
Matthew McFall Mike Sharples Wonder and learning
Sherriden Masters Charles Crook Anonymity in Role play
Terry O'Brien Camilla Gilmore Maths and Cognition


Past PhD Supervision

Student    

Co-Supervisor   

Topic
Carmen Tomas   Do Coyle The role of text segmentation in foreign language learning
Jake Habgood    Steve Benford The effectiveness of educational games
Tim Jay Peter Gates Individual differences in strategy variability amongst secondary school mathematics students
Marije van Amelsvoort Gellof van Kanselaar How diagrams support collaborative argumentation-based learning
Ulises Xolocotzin Charles Crook Affect in CSCL
Ralph Bartell  Mike Sharples Multi-path video
Elaine Cockburn    Colin Harrison The effectiveness of mind maps for planning writing