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Leadership Team

School of Education Senior Leadership Team

Catriona MacDon ald Head of the School of Education
Sharon Palla School Administration Manager

School of Education Executive Team

Leigh Bjorkvoll Director of Teaching and Learning Undergraduate
Dr Colin Christie Director of Teaching and Learning Postgraduate
Prof Matthew Clarke Director of Research
Catriona MacDonald Head of the School of Education
Amy McFarlane Head of Early Years and Childhood Education
Prof Kate Smith Head of Counselling, Wellbeing and Educational Psychology
Dr John Mynott Head of Initial Teacher Education
Sharon Palla School Administration Manager
Dr Charlaine Simpson Head of Postgraduate Taught and Professional Learning

Head of Departments

Prof Matthew Clarke Director of Research
Amy McFarlane Head of Early Years and Childhood Education
Prof Kate Smith Head of Counselling, Wellbeing and Educational Psychology
Dr John Mynott Head of Initial Teacher Education
Dr Charlaine Simpson Head of Postgraduate Taught and Professional Learning
Administration Team

Central School Administration

Sharon Palla School Administration Manager
Sharon Smith Depute School Administration Manager
Lorna Thomson PA to Head of School; School Secretary
Anne Malcolm Receptionist

Academic Support Staff

Wendy Arthur School Administration Assistant for MSc Leadership in Professional Contexts, MSc Studies in Mindfulness and Work Based Project
Rosemond Cochrane School Administrator, Learning and Teaching Team Lead
Neil Cruickshank School Administration Assistant for MSc Person Centred Counselling
Tracy Collier Technician
Katherine Cross School Administration Assistant for BA Childhood Practice and MEd Early Years, Interim Masters In Education (MEd)
Rhea Marnoch School Administration Assistant for PGDE Primary and Secondary, iPGDE and PG Autism and Learning
Heather McAteer

School Administration Assistant for MEd Inclusive Practice, TQFE, MEd Health and Wellbeing and Online Access

Marc McNaughton School Administration Assistant for MA in Education and Interim Sixth Century Courses
Jonathon Reading Technician
Emma Wallace School Administration Coordinator

Research

Sarah Milne School Administration for Research

Partnership Support Team

Mandy Innes Senior School Administrator
Wendy Laing School Administration Assistant

The Bounds

Marc Dressler The Bounds, Clinic Manager

Marketing

Emma Wallace Marketing and Communications Coordinator
Jacinta Pilkington School Marketing Officer
Programme Directors

Undergraduate

Vicky Simpson BA Childhood Practice Programme Coordinator
Gordon Stewart MA in Education Programme Coordinator

Postgraduate

Dr Shannon Babbie MEd Inclusive Practice and PG Cert Autism and Learning Programme Coordinator
Alan Grieve PGDE Secondary Programme Coordinator
Gillian McInnes PG Cert TQFE Programme Coordinator
Amy McFarlane MEd Early Years Programme Coordinator
Colette Savage MSc Studies in Mindfulness Programme Coordinator
Stephanie O'Reilly Med Pastoral Care, Guidance and Pupil Support
Dr Murat Oztak MEd/MSc Masters Project Coordinator
Dr Charlaine Simpson MSc Leadership in Professional Contexts, Into Headship and Middle Level Leadership Programme Coordinator
Terpsichori Kaltsouni Counselling Skills Programme Coordinator
Dr Kate Smith MSc Person Centred Counselling Programme Coordinator
Alyson Young PGDE Primary and iPGDE Programme Coordinator

Online Access

Beth McClure Online Access English Coordinator
Brenda Harden Online Access Maths Coordinator

Research

Peter Mtika Director of Post Graduate Research

Chair

Prof Pamela Abbott Chair in Education
Prof Donald Gray REF Outputs Lead
Academics

A

Christine Aldred Teaching Fellow
Jennifer Alexander Lecturer, ITE
Vanessa Alexander-Reaper Lecturer, Early Years
Leah Athanassopoulos Teaching Assistant, Counselling

B

Dr Shannon Babbie Senior Lecturer, PGT; Programme Director Inclusive Practice and PG Cert Autism and Learning
Adele Barber Lecturer; ITE
Dr William Barlow Senior Lecturer; Lead Tutor: Drama
Leigh Bjorkvoll Lecturer; Lead Tutor: Sciences; Director of Teaching and Learning (UG)
Elise Boyle Research Assistant; ITE
Caroline Breyley Lecturer, ITE
Victoria Burnett Lecturer

C

Nantia Chatzitheodorou Lecturer, ITE
Dr Shun Chen Lecturer, Counselling
Dr Colin Christie Senior Lecturer; Director of Teaching and Learning (PG)
Prof Matthew Clarke Director of Research
Susan Cowie Lecturer, ITE
Dr Elizabeth Curtis Lecturer, ITE

D

Brenda Dunn Lecturer, Early Years

F

Thomas Ferguson Tutor, ITE
Laura Ford Teaching Assistant, Counselling
Laura Fowler Lecturer, ITE
Katrina Foy Senior Lecturer
Dr Catherine Francis Lecturer; ITE
Mhairi Freeman Lecturer; ITE

G

Mary Gilchrist Tutor, ITE
Dr Archie Graham Senior Lecturer
May Gray Lecturer, ITE
Dr Maria Gregoriou Lecturer; ITE
Alan Grieve Lecturer; Programme Director PGDE Secondary

H

Angelika Hallman Teaching Assistant, Counselling
Brenda Harden Lecturer; Online Access Maths Co-ordinator
Faye Hendry Lecturer, ITE
Fraser Hepburn Lecturer, Science; Convenor for Recruitment (Secondary)

J

Dr Patricia Joyce Teaching Fellow, Counselling

K

Terpsichori Kaltsouni Teaching Assistant, Counselling, Counselling Skills Course Coordinator
Marion Kerr Lecturer, ITE

M

Catriona MacDonald Senior Lecturer; Head of School of Education
Lindsay MacDougall Lecturer, ITE
Roderick MacKenzie Lecturer, ITE
Elizabeth McClure Lecturer, ITE, Online Access English Coordinator
Amy McFarlane Lecturer; MEd Early Years Programme Coordinator
Gillian McInnes Lecturer, Programme Director TQFE
Isabella McIntyre Lecturer PGT
Andrew McLaughlin Lecturer, ITE
Julia McLeod Lecturer, Counselling
Fiona McWilliam Lecturer, ITE
Dr Helen Martin Lecturer; Lead Tutor: Maths
Annette Moir Lecturer, ITE
Dr John Mynott Senior Lecturer, Head of Initial Teacher Education

N

Lisa Nais Lecturer
Dr Yukiyo Nishida Lecturer, Early Years

O

James O'Neil Lecturer, Lead Tutor: Music
Stephanie O'Reilly Lecturer, Lead Tutor: Social Subjects. Programme Director Pastoral Care, Guidance and Pupil Support.
Dr Murat Oztak Senior Lecturer; Post Graduate Taught and Professional Learning, Programme Coordinator Masters Project.

P

Laura Puhalak Teaching Assistant, Education

R

Louise Robertson Lecturer, ITE
Dr Dean Robson Lecturer

S

Nejla Sahin Teaching Assistant, Counselling
Colette Savage Lecturer, Programme Director Studies in Mindfulness
Federica Savoré Teaching Assistant
Dorothea Scherer Lecturer
Dr Rachel Shanks Senior Lecturer
Andy Simpson Tutor, ITE
Dr Charlaine Simpson Head of Post Graduate Taught and Professional Learning
Vicky Simpson Lecturer, BA Childhood Practice Programme Coordinator
Carol Smart Teaching Assistant, Counselling
Prof Kate Smith Head of Counselling, Wellbeing and Educational Psychology
Ingrid Stanyer Lecturer, ITE, Disabilties Coordinator
Gordon Stewart Lecturer; MA in Education Programme Coordinator
Lorna Stewart Senior Lecturer; Convenor for Recruitment (Primary)

T

Dr Stephanie Thomson Senior Lecturer
Sarah Tosh Lecturer, Early Years

V

Joanna Vadenbring Lecturer, ITE
Anne Valyo Tutor, ITE

W

Iona Watt Lecturer, Early Years

Y

Kathleen Young Lecturer, ITE
Alyson Young Lecturer; Programme Director PGDE (Primary), iPGDE
Research Students

A

Suliman Alshabrmi
Leah Athanassopoulos

B

Aygul Baghirova
Joe Bezzina
Elise Boyle Espinosa

C

Ainsley Carnarvon

E

Begum Esha

F

Tomisin Fadamoro

G

Sirui Gong
Shirley Gonsalves

H

David Harrison
Louise Haynes
Farhat Hussain

J

Mohsen Jabali
Touria Jouilla

K

Ali Kaleeba Bakali
Michael Kimm

M

Maisara Maisara
Josetta Malcolm
Sian Mantovani
Elizabeth Mcclure
Suzanne McDonald
Robert Morris

N

Emmi Naja
Asterie Nyirahabimana

P

Avis Parker

R

Tracy Robbie

S

Fargana Seyidli
Alison Speakman
Gordon Stewart

T

Astrid Tonna

U

Zhanara Urazgaliyeva

V

Jordi Vilahur

W

Lesley Wallace
Serena Wong

Y

Shuyuan Yu

Athena SWAN - Bronze Award logoRecognising commitment to the advancement of gender equality in academia.

The School of Education is committed to the advancement of gender equality and opposes all forms of inequality and discrimination.

As a school, we aspire to the principles of the Athena Swan Charter and are currently seeking to adopt these principles in our policies and practices. We were the first School of Education in Scotland to achieve the Athena Swan Bronze award and are now working towards the Silver award.

The Athena Swan initiative was developed by the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) in 2005. It was set up to address gender inequalities in Higher Education, including those arising from discrimination, underrepresentation, the gender pay gap, barriers to career progression and the use of short-term contracts, as set out in the Athena Swan Charter (2005).

Our Athena Swan 'Self-Assessment Team' (SAT) is led by Prof Donald Gray and Dr Carol Hickman and includes representatives from our staff and student body. The work of the team is wholeheartedly supported by the wider school community.

Please read more about Athena Swan here .