Dr Ellen McHugh
Senior Lecturer in Education
Gaskell Building 230
- Email: ellen.mchugh@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 268977
Topics
University students and their experiences;
Widening participation, Higher Education, retention and young people;
Social housing and welfare;
Food poverty in educational spaces;
Children and HE Students from Armed Forces Families;
Transnationalism, migration, belonging, identity and gender.
Research supervision
Current Doctoral Supervision
- Jazz Pink (PhD Student): Teacher reflections on relationship and sex education (RSE), their knowledge, and the curriculum taught to students.
- Karen Western (EdDoc Student): A participatory study of coping with bereavement among HE students
Doctoral Completion
- Joe Hanley (EdDoc Student): Look Who’s Talking: Social work podcasts as continuing professional development in England (Awarded 2024 and Winner of the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for Doctoral Research).
- Lingran Zhou (Phd Student): Video-Production-Oriented Spoken English Pedagog (VPOSEP): A research into the efffects of video production on Chinese EFL (English as a Foreign Language) Learners' spoken attainment (Awarded 2024)
- Donna-Marie Holder (PhD Student): “Who am I? More than autism!” Race, Ethnicity, Culture and Autism: An auto/biographical unpacking of intersectional identities among Black British children and young people with autism in English special schools". (Awarded 2024)