I am a Senior Lecturer in Education and Joint Director of the University of Glasgow Educational Assessment Network (UGEAN). I am also a member of the International Educational Assessment Network (IEAN) and serve on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Technology Education. My work explores how curriculum, assessment and pedagogy inter-relate. My focus for this work ranges from teacher reasoning and classroom practice to large-scale educational reform and system change. I have a particular interest in relational understandings of assessment and pedagogy developed from a non-performative and non-positivistic stance.

Following my graduation from the University of Glasgow in 2001, I taught secondary school Design & Technology in Falkirk and was awarded a PhD scholarship from the Underwood Trust. This scholarship allowed me to pursue post-graduate research into pupils’ technological problem solving which sparked my passion for research and led to my joining the University of Glasgow as a lecturer in 2012.

Over time, I have undertaken a range of different roles including Graduate Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant, Lecturer in Design & Technology Education, Programme Leader in Initial Teacher Education, Post-Graduate Supervisor, Project Research Lead, Co-Investigator, and Principal Investigator on a range of funded research projects. I have also work with research and policy colleagues in a range of countries including England, the United States, Northern Ireland, Canada, Slovenia, New Zealand, and Norway.

I very much welcome discussion with anyone who shares similar or related interests as well as applications for those interested in pursuing PhD research.

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