Sarah Marston

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Head of School
- 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)