My two main research interests are:

Music Education

My doctoral study involved the creation of a conceptual model of classroom music teachers’ beliefs about how their pupils learn and the ultimate aims of the subject. I then used the conceptual model to draw together and develop existing theories of learning in music.

How New Teachers Learn

My research around the Cardiff Partnership’s research-informed clinical practice model includes a collaborative project examining how student teachers learn in the context of Wales’s Professional Standards for Teaching and Leadership. I have also participated in a systematic literature review of dialogic mentoring techniques with colleagues from the universities of Oxford and Bangor.