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Sarah Marston

Dr Sarah Marston portrait
  • Head of School – leadership and management of the Institute of Education, UoR
  • Member of the UoR Senior Leadership Group
  • Member of UoR Senate
  • Member of UoR Court

Previous roles:

  • School Director of Teaching and Learning (IoE)
  • Lead Senior Academic Line Manager (IoE)
  • Programme Director Secondary Education (PGCE)

Areas of interest

  • Modern Foreign Languages and second language acquisition
  • Mentoring and Coaching
  • Educational Leadership and Management
  • Identity development, gender, values-based education
  • Climate and Sustainability Education

Postgraduate supervision

Completed:

  • Dr Suzy Tutchell (2ndsupervisor) – ‘Gender and self and the role of art in identity construction’. (2024)

Current PhD/Ed.D supervision (ongoing):

  • Alaa Alamri (2nd supervisor) – Exploring the Professional Identities of Kindergarten Teachers in Saudi Arabia
  • Phil Armstrong (2ndsupervisor) – Leadership of Early Years Education
  • Anne Burke (2ndsupervisor) – Low level disruption in UK secondary schools
  • Tiantian Zhou (2ndsupervisor) – Perceptions of transition to Kindergarten in China
  • Charlie Woodsford (2ndsupervisor) – Exploring perceptions of belonging in FE colleges
  • Tausi Lubega (2ndsupervisor) - An exploration of teachers’ beliefs, perceptions, and experiences of the curriculum reform and implementation of the lower secondary curriculum in Uganda. A case study of an urban school in Kampala.
  • Elishia Meade (2ndsupervisor) – Critical Race Theory and Women in Higher Education
  • Dawn Burnham (2ndsupervisor) – Early Years Education
  • Darren Lester (2ndsupervisor) – The lived experience of MFL teachers and implications for professional development
  • Robin Beeson (2ndsupervisor) – What are teachers and leaders’ perceptions and experiences of environmental sustainability and cross development of it?

Internal Examiner PhD:

  • Fei Lian – ‘The Moon and the Sixpence, A Qualitative Study of the Professional Identity Development of Highly-educated Female Teachers at Primary/Secondary Schools in Beijing’. (2024)

Confirmation of Registration:

  • Fengyi Wang – ‘Gender and aspirations in Chinese female students in HE’, (2024)

Teaching

  • Modern Foreign Languages and Professional Studies (Secondary Education)
  • Educational Leadership and Management

Background

  • Previous teacher and Senior Leader in secondary partnership schools
  • Local Advisor to The Circle Trust
  • Previous Governor role with UTC ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø
  • Chief External Examiner, Secondary PGCE, University of Greenwich
  • Previous External Examiner, Modern Foreign Languages, University of Roehampton
  • Previous Chief External Examiner, Secondary PGCE, University of Sussex
  • Previous External Examiner, Secondary Education, Sutton SCITT

Academic qualifications

  • Educational Doctorate ‘Exploring leadership identity development through the professional lived experiences of female secondary school headteachers’.
  • Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Management
  • SFHEA Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Masters in Education in Leadership and Management
  • PGCE Modern Foreign Languages
  • BA Hons French and German
     

Awards and honours

  • University Teaching Fellow (2021)
  • University Collaborative Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning (2023)
  • Advance Higher Education Award, Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence, Climate and Sustainability Education (2024)

Publications

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