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 伊人直播app
 - 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)