• Race, ethnicity, cultural diversity as they impact on the experiences and attainment of minority ethnic students and minority ethnic staff educational leadership and practice in schools, further and higher education;
• Social justice in education
• Critical race theory
• Critical theories

• Special educational needs and disability
• Difficulties in literacy and dyslexia
• Issues of challenging behaviour in schools
• Curriculum, pedagogy and assessment in schools
• Practitioner action research

• Teaching of English in schools
• Careers and identities of English teachers
• Teacher expertise
• English in Education

• Inclusion and SEN
• Teacher Professional Development & Educational Leadership
• Psychology related topics (particularly developmental psychology)

• Educational ideas of John Dewey
• Relationship between political philosophy and education
• Philosophy of education
• Citizenship and democratic education
• Educational leadership and governance
• Psychoanalysis and education
• History of education
• The study of English/Literacy at various phases
• Further and adult education
• Professional identity in education

Research sits at the intersection of philosophy, education, and English studies and includes:

• Identity
• Academic decentring (close to intellectual/academic decolonization)
• Radical/anarchist education
• Political philosophy
• Political/aesthetic education
• Literature/popular culture
• Civil liberties
• Language
• Subject English/creative writing

• Teacher Education
• Teaching and Learning
• Further Education and Skills
• Mentoring
• FE leadership

• Deschooling
• Critical and radical pedagogies
• Critical university studies
• Higher Education

• Higher education curriculum change
• Evaluation of higher education practices
• Education for sustainability
• Climate change education
• Equality Diversity and Inclusivity and decolonisation in higher education

• Memory and education
• Teacher Education
• Handwriting

• Leadership and management in educational contexts
• The leadership and management of change in educational contexts
• The compulsory redeployment of teachers
• Special educational needs and disability
• Teachers' lives and careers

• Multi agency working, the roles beyond the educator
• Professional identity
• How education is impacted upon by parents and families
• SEND
• Higher Education

• Evaluation in higher education
• Science teaching and learning in primary school
• Teacher beliefs
• Teacher and student motivation
• Self-theories (growth-mindset, grit, self-regulation)
• Classroom discourse and discourse analysis
• International assessments

• Teenage pregnancy and motherhood
• Media and policy representations of university students
• Youth transitions
• Constructions of youth and risk
• Media analysis
• Interpretative phenomenology analysis (IPA)
• Interviewing
• Creative research methods

• The experiences of career changers into secondary school teaching
• The development of teacher identity
• Approaches to teaching reading, writing and oracy in the English classroom