- School governor.
Elizabeth McCrum
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+44 (0) 118 378 6140
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Pro-Vice Chancellor (Education & Student Experience)
- Pro-Vice Chancellor (Education & Student Experience)
- Professor of Education
- EdD and PhD teaching and supervision
Areas of interest
- Pedagogy in Higher Education.
- Research and teaching in HE.
- History education.
- Teacher knowledge and beliefs.
- Historiography.
- Postmodernism.
Postgraduate supervision
Masters, PhD and EdD Level Supervision offered in the following areas:
- Pedagogy in HE.
- The initial teacher education of secondary teachers.
- History education.
- Teacher knowledge and beliefs.
- Teachers' lives and careers.
- Mentorship.
- Historiography.
- Historical research in education.
Current and Recent PhD Students, with Topics/Titles of their research:
Current
- Fay AL Sawaha. Investigating Female Bedouin Returning Student’s Identity construction in Kuwait.
- Natalie McGuiness. Assessing the Effectiveness of A-Level Business Assessment Methods in 16-19 Education: The Perspectives of Stakeholders.
- Nick Davies. Pre-service teachers’ mathematics anxiety.
- Dani Hall. How School Governors Make Sense of Their Role.
- Ben Smart. Exploring the interplay between creative practice and design theory evident in the assessed artifacts of undergraduate design students.
- Brigitte Stockton. How undergraduate Fashion Design students, in UK Higher Education programmes,develop professional skills and knowledge.
Previous
- Tim Clark: What impact do life histories and postgraduate training experiences have on individual researchers' methodological assumption
- Mandy Cockayne. A study of school-based mentoring using metaphor to analyse the professional lived experiences and identities of teachers who are school-based mentors in primary schools
- Emre Debreli. The impact of teacher training programs on pre-service teachers’ beliefs about teaching and learning English.
- Latife Eda Kuzuca. Exploration of History Teachers’ Expertise in Teaching. Historical Thinking
- Catherine Langrans. An exploration of influences on pharmacy student engagement and the use of digital data to monitor student engagement.
- Marlon Moncrieffe: Immigrant parents and their English born children: to what extent can their unheard stories assist in developing a broader and more coherent narrative of MMSD in our nation, England, so as to enhance opportunities in our primary school teaching and learning of English History?
- Rachel Roberts. Critical Conversations - Capturing the Impact of Evaluative Language in Mentor Meetings in Initial Teacher Training.
- Stephen M. Rutherford. An analysis of the development of self-regulated learning during the transition to Higher Education.
Teaching
- EdD.
- PhD Supervision.
Background
Elizabeth has worked at Reading since 2007 and has held teaching and learning leadership roles at programme, school, faculty and University level. Prior to Reading she worked at Kingston University.
Examining
2022- Present University Examiner University Manchester
2019- 2022 External Examiner Oxford Brookes University PSF Pathway
2015- 2019 External Examiner University Bedfordshire CPD Scheme
2009- 2013 Chief External Examiner Secondary PGCE Canterbury Christchurch University College
2003- 2009 External Examiner Secondary PGCE History Manchester Metropolitan University
Awards and honours
- 2017 National Teaching Fellowship
- 2016 Principal Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy
- 2014 University Teaching Fellowship.
- 2014 Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.
- 2008, 2010 and 2015 University of Reading Team award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning.
Selected publications
Conference Presentations:
- E. (2013) History Teachers' Thinking about the Nature of Their Subject, Teaching and Teacher Education, 35, 73-80.
- McCrum, E. (2013) Diverging from the Dominant Discourse: Some Implications of Conflicting Subject Understandings in the Education of Teachers, Teacher Development, Vol. 17, No.4, 465-477.
- Fuller, C., McCrum, E., and Macfadyen, T. (2014) Teachers' Knowledge and Experiences of Information Advice and Guidance: Some implications for the Current Policy Context in England. Education Inquiry, 5 (2) (In Press).
- McCrum, E. (2012, September). History as methodology in educational research. Paper Presented at theBritish Educational Research Association Conference, University of Manchester, Manchester.
- McCrum, E., Fuller, C., & Macfadyen, T. (2012, September). Teachers and pupils knowledge and experiences of IAG: some implications for the current policy context. Paper Presented at theBritish Educational Research Association Conference, University of Manchester, Manchester.
- John, J., McCrum E. (2012, September). 'No Greater Calling.' The discourse of persuasion in unsuccessful ethnic minority applications to initial teacher training. Paper Presented at theBritish Educational Research Association Conference, University of Manchester, Manchester.
- McCrum, E. (2011, September). Diverging from the dominant discourse: some implications of conflicting subject understandings in the education of teachers. Paper Presented at theBritish Educational Research Association Conference, University of London Institute of Education, London.
- Francis-Brophy, E., Macfadyen, T., McCrum, E., & Fuller, C. (2011, September). The Experiences of non-traditional higher education students in a traditional university setting, Paper Presented at theBritish Educational Research Association Conference, University of London Institute of Education, London.
- McCrum, E. (2011, July). Teaching history in Postmodern times: History teachers' thinking about the nature and purposes of their subject. Paper presented at theHistory Teacher Education Network Conference, University of Roehampton, London.
- Francis-Brophy, E., Macfadyen, T., Fuller, C., & McCrum, E. (2011) The experiences of non-traditional higher education students in a traditional university setting. Progress South Central.
- Francis-Brophy, E., & McCrum, E. (2010) Evaluation of online mentoring project supporting young people who are NEET or at risk of becoming NEET in Reading and Wokingham.
- Fuller, C., Macfadyen, T., & McCrum, E. (2009), An Investigation into IAG Provision for Year 11s, Progress South Central.
- Fuller, C., Macfadyen, T., & McCrum, E. (2009), An Investigation into IAG Provision for Year 11s in Reading, Reading Local Authority.
- Fuller, C., & McCrum, E. (2009, September), Class, Gender and Work Experience Placements. Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Conference, Manchester University, Manchester.
- McCrum, E., Macfadyen, T., Fuller, C., & Kempe, A. (2009, September), BERA, Vocational Education and Training: some perspectives from year 11 pupils. Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Conference, Manchester University, Manchester.
Enterprise Activity, External Roles and Consultancy: