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Dr Rachel Shanks

Dr Rachel Shanks
LL.B., M.A., PhD, SFHEA, M.CLDSC

Senior Lecturer

I am currently accepting PhDs in Education.

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Dr Rachel Shanks
Dr Rachel Shanks

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The University of Aberdeen Room 622 MacRobert Building, King's College, Aberdeen AB24 5UA.
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Biography

I have worked in higher education, community education, and the voluntary and trade union sectors. In higher education I have been a law lecturer, worked in the University of Aberdeen’s former Centre for Lifelong Learning and I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Education.

In the late 1990s I led the Trade Union Congress partnership project Bargaining for Skills, in the East and West Midlands regions in England, working with trade unions, employers, colleges and Training and Enterprise Councils. I have also been an adult education tutor and worked for the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux (NACAB) and Aberdeen CAB.

Qualifications

PhD, Education University of Aberdeen 2012
Cert., Adult and Community Learning University of Aberdeen 2011
MA, Legal Studies (by research) University of Leeds 1992
LL.B. (Hons), Law University of Leeds 1990

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Research

Research Areas

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Research Overview

Professional learning and mentoring covering both formal and informal learning.
Children and young people's rights combine my legal and community work background and my interest in social justice.

Current Research

Professional learning

Principal Investigator of BERA COVID-19 research: New teachers’ responses to COVID-19: building on Initial Teacher Education for their professional learning

Co-Investigator of Measuring Quality of Initial Teacher Education (MQuITE) in Scotland

Mentoring

University students mentoring school students

Children's Rights

Young people and participation in decision-making

School uniform, dress code and appearance policies

Supervision

My current supervision areas are: Education.

Current PhD Students

Completed PhDs

2020 David Di Domenico - Educators' views, experiences and approaches to cultural diversity: understanding pre-registration adult nursing education at a Scottish university 

2020 Maryam Alnoaimi - Citizenship Education in the Kingdom of Bahrain: A case study exploring perceptions of school principals, senior teachers, teachers and students

2019 Ramona Statache - Business Social Media Use by Remote Rural Micro Tourism Enterprises in the Scottish Highlands

2019 Madhawi Alharbi - Using Mobile Games in Teaching English as a Foreign Language Vocabulary at a Saudi Female High School

2019 Khanchai Wongchana - Thai University Student and Teacher Perceptions of Studying Tourism through English Using a CLIL Approach

2017 David Johnston - A Socio-Cultural Perspective on 'Belonging'

2017 Geraldine Prince - Art-Making and the Interpretation of Cultures: Cross-cultural teaching and learning in Edinburgh and Dubai

Research Funding and Grants

Principal Investigator of BERA COVID-19 research: New teachers’ responses to COVID-19: building on Initial Teacher Education for their professional learning.

Co-Investigator of Measuring Quality of Initial Teacher Education (MQuITE) in Scotland funded by the Scottish Government 2017-

Teaching

Courses

Teaching Responsibilities

Programme Director for the BA in Professional Development

Non-Course Teaching Responsibilities

Personal tutor

Publications

Publications 

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