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Dr Anne Chappell
Head of Department / Reader

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Current Doctoral Supervision

  • Raj Kakaiya: The implementation of Nursing Degree Apprenticeships in the NHS (Ed D).
  • Lesley O’Keeffe: Commuter student: university support and student experiences (Ed D).
  • Jazz Pink: Teacher reflections on relationship and sex education (RSE), their knowledge, and the curriculum taught to students (PhD).
  • Majda Tadjerout: Enhancing quality assurance in Higher Education in England (PhD).
  • Sarah Wolfenden: How does coaching, as a tool of compassionate practice, empower staff to resist toxic environments in higher education? (PhD).

Doctoral Completion

  • Ann-Dale Emberton: Continuing professional development: social worker or organisation led. Whose choice? (PhD Awarded 2026).
  • John Perkins: What is ‘progress’ in the English Secondary school system? Perceptions of Secondary school leaders (Ed D Awarded 2026).
  • Bhavisha Soma: High stakes? 10-11 year old children’s stories of primary school assessment (PhD Awarded 2025).
  • Lewis Fogarty: Leadership in Early Childhood Education and Care: Insider Perspectives (Ed D Awarded 2024).
  • Joe Hanley: Look who’s talking: Social work podcasts as continuing professional development in England (Ed D Awarded 2024). Winner of the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for Doctoral Research.
  • Asma Lebbakhar: Equality and diversity in secondary schools in London (PhD Awarded 2023).
  • Kee Hean Lim: The utility of the Kawa ‘River’ model in exploring the recovery journey of mental health service users (PhD Awarded 2019).
  • Rebecca Turvill: How are young children developing number sense, post National Numeracy Strategy? (PhD Awarded 2016). Awarded Dean’s Prize for Innovation and Impact in Doctoral Research.

Doctoral Examination and International Evaluation

  • Laura Minogue: Pracademics in transition: an arts-based exploration of the lived experience of second career academics (External Examiner, St Mary’s University, June 2026).
  • Cheralyn May: At Least I Wasn’t in an Inner-City Flat with a Partner I Hated: An Auto/Biographical Study of Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic (External Examiner, University of Plymouth, April 2025).
  • Graham Robertson: Speaking ‘freely’ and ‘frankly’ in a school context: A Foucauldian approach to ’schooling’ (External Examiner, University of East London, November 2023).
  • Jawaher Subayil Almutairi: Introducing Lesson Study in English as a Foreign Language Education: A Case Study of Saudi Arabia (Internal Examiner, Brunel University London, March 2023).
  • Anna Velasco Martínez: “I’m not feminist, but…”: Myths and beliefs of undergraduates about feminism (University of Barcelona, February 2017).
  • Fathimath Thaufeega: Institutional and learner readiness for e-learning in the Maldives (Brunel University London, December 2016).