Centre for
Study of Research Training and Impact (SORTI)
PhD and Research Masters Students
The work of our PhD and Research Masters' students covers a wide variety of subjects that fall within the broader SORTI framework:.
- Sleep and school life: Understanding the educational impacts of inadequate sleep in upper primary - Kim Robinson
- A cross-cultural analysis of the relationships between dispositional attributes and academic achievement
- Adjusting to doctoral study: Exploring the intellectual journey
- An investigation of the learning attributes and meta-cognition of innovative policy entrepreneurs
- Curriculum development in engineering education: A case study of change agents in the telecommunication specialty
- Examining webs as an emerged digital space to support learning processes in the online education setting
- Knowledge and use of ethics by novice researchers: A study that explores the background philosophical and practical knowledge and application of ethics thinking in phd students
- Knowledge building and problem solving using a conceptually based scaffold teaching and learning design
- Leadership in primary schools: Exploring the transformative capabilities of aspiring leaders
- A metacognitive explanation of the professional functioning: A study of mental health nurses and workplace well-being
- Nature of self-reported volitional behaviours (medicine)
- Teachers and the change process
- Coping with the experience of first year university study: A case study of Cambodian university students
- Essential soft skills for successful business graduates in Vietnam
- Metacognitive skills and anxiety in non-patient population
- School leadership preparation and development in Kenya
- Development and evaluation of a health promotion for the self-management of lymphodema programme
- Do year 10 visual arts students engaged in the production of a body of work over time develop self-determination
- Creating 21st century learners by teaching through the creative and practical arts, focusing on art and drama
- Space and design: Incorporating contemporary architectural design practice into the creative arts curriculum
- Exploring creativity: Developing individualised artistic expression in adult learners using a multi-sensory, whole-body visual arts teaching approach
- Metacognition and adolescent mental health problems
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