I carry out formal and informal research to dig deep and really understand issues. I explore the nuances of exactly how violence affects learning and develop the most effective practices to support learning for all in any educational setting – formal or non-formal – and with any age group.
What do I want to do?
- Collaborate with others to increase our collective understanding of the impacts of violence and the practices which support learning. I am especially interested in exploring the particularities for different groups and settings such as those with different abilities/disabilities, ages, or living in different contexts/countries
- Support others to carry out their own research. I’m particularly eager to work with literacy practitioners, educators in any setting, including health professionals interested in carrying out research to change practice.
Are you interested in carrying out research in your setting or in hiring me to do research, or train practitioner researchers?
What have I done?
- Carried out research with college and community-based educators and students to create Changing Education interactive materials to strengthen programs for survivors of violence.
- Carried out a national research study, and other smaller studies on various aspect of violence and learning, and led discussion online and in workshops with preliminary findings and wrote “Too Scared to Learn.”
- Led several “Research in Practice” projects with educators in various settings (including prisons, work preparation, English as an Additional Language, family literacy, community centres) to explore the impact of changing practices.
- My research underpins the entire site learningandviolence.net
Check out the research and practice pages for more details.