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Kelly-Ann Allen

Honorary Associate Professor
Education Studies
Email: kelly-ann.allen@warwick.ac.uk

Kelly-Ann Allen holds an honorary appointment at the University of Warwick (Department of Education Studies). She is an Associate Professor (Research) at Monash University as well as a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society and the Editor-in-Chief of the Educational and Developmental Psychologist.

Allen’s research focuses on the importance of belonging in day-to-day life, and to better understand the mechanics of how it can be enhanced across the lifespan, but particularly in educational and organisational contexts. Allen has been recognised by The Australian as one of Australia's top 250 researchers and ranked by their independent data-science partner, The League of Scholars as Best In Field (2022) in belonging/school belonging and as one of the Australian Research TOP 40 Rising Stars in 2020-2022. In 2024 she was awarded a Young Tall Poppy Award by the Australian Institute of Policy and Science and The Media Award for Public Engagement by the Australian Psychological Society recognising Allen's excellence in both her scientific work and efforts to engage the public.

Allen writes for Psychology Today and PsychWire on the science of belonging.

Elisabeth Arweck

Honorary Associate Professor (Research Focus)
Education Studies
Email: elisabeth.arweck@warwick.ac.uk

Editor, Journal of Contemporary Religion

Research

Developments in contemporary religion, including:

religious diversity, mixed-faith families, religious identity formation, religious nurture/socialisation, religion and austerity, young people & religion, young people & education, new religious movements in Europe and the US, ‘sects’/’cults’, alternative educational programmes, methods in the study & research of religion, contemporary religious trends, education & values, education & contemporary spirituality, non-religion, the social significance of religion, religious literacy, multiculturalism, interculturalism, religious belief and practice, ‘implicit’ religion

Carol Aubrey

Emeritus Professor
Education Studies
Email: c.a.aubrey@warwick.ac.uk

Research

Children's policy and services; SEN/inclusion; Early mathematical development

Jim Campbell

Emeritus Professor
Education Studies
Email: j.campbell@warwick.ac.uk

Research

Policy and practice in primary education; curriculum theory and curriculum change; education policy; educational effectiveness; teacher training and development; the education of children identified as gifted.

Louise Denne

Honorary Research Fellow

Email: l.denne@warwick.ac.uk 

Leslie Francis

Email: leslie dot francis at warwick dot ac dot uk

Research Interests

Research in religious education, shaped by creative links with practical and empirical theology and with the individual differences approach to psychology.

Stephen Gorard

Honorary Associate Professor
Education Studies
Email: stephen.gorard@warwick.ac.uk

Michael Hammond

Emeritus Professor
Education Studies
Email: m.hammond@warwick.ac.uk

Prue Huddleston

Robert Jackson

Emeritus Professor of Religions and Education
Education Studies
Email: r.jackson@warwick.ac.uk

Emmanuel Johnson

Visiting Research Fellow
Email: emmanuel.johnson@warwick.ac.uk

Personal Site: www.johnsonee.com 

Research Interests

Personal Experience; Education; Film; Identity; Belonging; Philosophy of Education; Faith and Religion; Autoethnography; Diasporic Identities; Migration; Student Experience; International Student Experience; African and Black Student Experience; Autobiographical Writing; Digital and Social Media; Poetry; Art-Research; Reflection; Authenticity; Accessibility in Research; Intercultural Relations

Iro Konstantinou

Visiting Researcher
Email: iro.konstantinou@warwick.ac.uk

Research

Wellbeing in education, reflective pedagogy, curriculum development, embedding reflection in teaching, (in)equalities in education, work-integrated/ work-based learning, school-based interventions

Dr Pontso Moorosi

Honorary Associate Professor
Education Studies
Email: p.c.moorosi@warwick.ac.uk

Eleanor Nesbitt

Emeritus Professor of Religions and Education
Education Studies
Email: eleanor.nesbitt@warwick.ac.uk

Research

The representation of faith traditions in the religious education curriculum; Religious nurture/transmission of religious culture; Gujarati and Punjabi communities in the UK; Hindu and Sikh communities in the UK; Brahma Kumaris, Sathya Sai Baba devotees; Values education in UK schools; Reflexive approaches to ethnographic research

Nidhi S. Sabharwal

Nidhi S. Sabharwal is currently Associate Professor at the Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education (CPRHE), National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), New Delhi, India.

Dr Sabharwal's current research area lies in the area of access and equity in higher education, with a focus on issue of college readiness, diversity, social inclusion and higher educational success of socially and economically disadvantaged students

Vasileios Stavropoulos

Honorary Research Fellow
Education Studies
Email: vasileios.stavropoulos@warwick.ac.uk

David Tall

Emeritus Professor in Mathematical Thinking
Education Studies

Paul Warmington

Honorary Professor
Education Studies
Email: paul.warmington@warwick.ac.uk

Christine Wilkie Stibbs

Emeritus Reader in Children's Literature and Childhood
Education Studies
Email: c.wilkie-stibbs@warwick.ac.uk

Joe Winston

Emeritus Professor of Drama and Arts Education
Education Studies
Email: j.a.winston@warwick.ac.uk 

Research Interests

The role of beauty as a value in education; Drama and values education; the role of story in drama education; Shakespeare in the primary / middle years.

Michael Wyness

Emeritus Reader
Education Studies
Email: m.wyness@warwick.ac.uk