Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies
I joined the University of Sunderland in November 2018, as a Senior Lecturer on BA (Hons) Childhood Studies in the School of Social Sciences. I was awarded Senior Fellow status in Higher Education Academy (HEA).
I teach undergraduate modules relating to representations of childhood, inclusion, values and ethics, childhood from global perspectives, research methodologies and methods.
My research interests include pedagogic practice in higher education, academic literacy, assessment for learning, student engagement, children's voices, children's reading in educational settings, (with a particular focus on reading for pleasure), visual literacy and participatory research.
PhD (2023) ‘Once my mam and dad have gone out of my room when it’s bedtime, I unlock my duvet cover on my bed, and I get inside and read’.
Listening to Young Children’s Voices: Researching Children’s Experiences of Reading for Pleasure.
Teaching and supervision
- The Nature and Culture of Childhood
- Children and Young People in Global Contexts
- Researching Childhood
- Theorising Childhood
I also supervise student dissertations on BA (Hons) Childhood Studies and MA Childhood and Youth Studies.
Research interests for potential research students
- Children's reading in educational settings, (with a particular focus on reading for pleasure), visual literacy, participatory research and the children's voice.
Learning and Teaching in higher education
- Assessment for learning
- Academic literacy
- The first year experience
- Student engagement
Research
Publications
Book Section
Sambell, Kay and Graham, Linda (2014) Understanding and Developing Student Engagement. London: Routledge (SEDA Series). Chapter 16 Engaging Experienced Students As Academic Mentors in Support of the First Year Experience: The Epistemic Apprenticeship Project. In: Understanding and Developing Student Engagement (SEDA Series). Routledge. ISBN 978-0415843393
Sambell, Kay and Graham, Linda (2012) Staff-Student Partnerships in Higher Education. Chapter 3 Towards an assessment partnership model?: students’ experiences of being engaged as partners in Assessment for Learning (AfL) enhancement activity. In: Staff-Student Partnerships in Higher Education. Continuum. ISBN 978-1441119933
Book
Sambell, Kay, Brown, Sally and Graham, Linda (2017) Professionalism in Practice: Key Directions in Higher Education Learning, Teaching and Assessment. Palgrave, Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN ISBN-13: 978-3319545516