Our students
We supervise many higher degree research students at the masters and doctoral levels. Below is a list of topics and students being currently (as of October 2023) supervised at the doctoral level. Supervisors in LSPSE are in bold.
| Student | Topic | Supervisors |
|---|---|---|
| AYURZANA, Odonzaya | Examination of Work-life-study Balance of Mid-career Professionals: Impact on Wellbeing of Master Students | Susan Geertshuis (BS) Gavin Brown |
| BASMA, Layla | Teachers’ and Parents’ Perception of Student Mathematics Achievement in Lebanese Schools | Christine Rubie-Davies, Louisa Allen |
| FAN, Lingling | Teacher expectations of rural and ethnic minority students in China | Christine Rubie-Davies, Lin McDonald |
| GAO, Haoyu | Gender Differences and School Factors in the Choice of STEM Subjects in New Zealand | Tanya Evans (FoS), Gavin Brown |
| GHASEMI, Maryam | Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Educational Outcomes: Schools’ Support for Children and Young People with ACEs | Kane Meissel, Ladan Hashemi (City University of London) |
| GRANT, Molly | Educational Trajectories of Children Who Experience Socioeconomic Deprivation in Early Childhood | Kane Meissel, Dan Exeter (FMHS) |
| HONG, Meiyangl | Cognitive and health antecedents of achievement at schoo | Gavin Brown, Jane Harding (FMHS) |
| HUANG, Luling. | How does the Context Shape the Metacognitive Experiences of Chinese Secondary School Students in SLA? | Jason Stephens, Maree Davies. |
| HUANG, Wanning | Improving the usefulness of automated feedback to promote learning in online courses | Jason Stephens, Gavin Brown |
| HUO, Chuanwei | Group Learning and L2 Motivation | Jason Stephens, Lawrence Zhang |
| JIANG, Ke | Enhancing meaningful mutual feedback, self-evaluation, and self-reflection: The user experience analysis of e-portfolio as assessment | Gavin Brown, Larry May |
| JUN, Jonghyun | Children's Well-being During the Transition to School | Kane Meissel, Maria Cooper |
| LI, Ya | Relations between teacher expectations and language learning in Chinese | Christine Rubie-Davies, Jason Stephens |
| LIU, Ketong | Predicting Minority Students’ Academic Performance with Machine Learning Techniques | Gavin Brown, Simon Urbanek (FoS) |
| LIU, Lu | Exploring teacher personality relations with teacher expectations, student motivation and teacher beliefs | Christine Rubie-Davies, Shengnan Wang |
| MUNN, Idoya | Twice-Exceptional Students in NZ: Identifying Exceptionalities | Kane Meissel, Frauke Meyer |
| NANAYAKKARA, Sudheera | Following dreams: Sri Lankan immigrants’ and their children’s perception of identity and cultural values | Penelope Watson, Esther Fitzpatrick |
| NATHAN, Vanessa | Associations between Parent Executive Function, Parental Behaviours and Executive Function Skills in Preschool Children | Deb Widdowson, Louise Keown |
| RIEGEL, Kaitlin | Affective processes in mathematics assessment: Examining the role of self-efficacy, stress mindset and academic emotions | Tatiana Evans (FoS), Jason Stephens |
| SCARLET, Shelley | Relationships Matter: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Relational Training on Teachers and the Students they Support in Aotearoa New Zealand | Pat Bullen, Frauke Meyer |
| SHEN, Miaomiao | Optimisation of Teacher’s Expectations' and Learning Effects for Vulnerable Student Groups in Rural Areas in China | Christine Rubie-Davies, Annaline Flint |
| SIRRI, Dayana | Instrument Development to Assess Teachers’ Competency in Developing Multiple-Choice Item for Summative Assessment | Gavin Brown, Amanda Harper (FoS) |
| STANSFIELD, Rochelle | Teacher self-efficacy for teaching mixed ability grouping | Gavin Brown, Christine Rubie-Davies |
| STEPHENSON, Sophie | Children's Responses to Peer Provocation | Kane Meissel, Liz Peterson (FoS) |
| TUPAI, Tessa | Exploring the Postgraduate Experiences of being a First-Generation University Student in New Zealand | Christine Rubie-Davies, Helen Dixon |
| UMUTONIWASE, Carine | Safeguarding and sustaining civic engagement in Africa | Laura Chubb, Pat Bullen |
| VAN DER WERFF, Samantha | A Culturally Responsive Investigation into School Avoidance in Aotearoa Schools | Pat Bullen, Katrina Phillips |
| WANG, Jiangnan | The Practice of Home–Kindergarten Partnerships based on Children’s Interests in Early Childhood Education: Stories from Chinese Urban Kindergartens | Angel Chan, Deb Widdowson |
| WANG, Ying | Teachers' conceptions of assessment: Comparing inventories in a Chinese context | Eleanor Hawe, Gavin Brown |
| WONG, Rochelle | The role that emotional intelligence competencies play in effective relationships | Pat Bullen, Laura Chubb |
| XU, Bing. | Ways to engage students: Assessing Chinese university students’ engagement in collaborative learning and exploring the factors associated with it | Jason Stephens, Kerry Lee |
| XUE, Jiao | A multimodal perspective on gender in English language: Textbooks and teacher talk | Lyn McDonald, Annaline Flint |
| YANG, Guang | Teacher expectations and relations with teacher efficacy and learning English as a Foreign Language in Chinese universities | Christine Rubie-Davies, Frauke Meyer |
| YANG, Mia | Play hard work hard: The role of child-initiated play in self-regulation | Deb Widdowson, Angel Chan |
| ZHANG, Anbang | Navigating Pathways to Enhanced Academic Engagement: A Longitudinal and Predictive Analysis of the Interplay between Dispositional Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Basic Psychological Needs, and Academic Motivation among Chinese High School Students | Christine Rubie-Davies, Georgi Toma |
| ZHANG, Yan | Examination of Students’ Feedback Perceptions and Self-Regulated Learning at Chinese Higher Vocational Colleges | Gavin Brown, Jason Stephens |
| ZHANG, Yilin | Effects of early childcare participation in infancy on the development of Executive Function: a longitudinal study | Kane Meissel, Maria Cooper, Deb Widdowson |
| ZHAO, Yuxian | Parents and early childhood academic success: Impact and influences | Gavin Brown, Deb Widdowson |
| ZHOU, An | Relationship between (informal) teacher leadership on teacher professional learning | Frauke Meyer, Gavin Brown |