Dr Alison Fox

Senior Lecturer in Education

BSc (Durham); MSc (Aberdeen);

PGCE (Cambridge); MEd (Cambridge); PhD (Open University)

Tel: 0116 2297526

Alison Fox is an experienced researcher who, before coming to the University of Leicester, worked on a wide range of projects at both the University of Cambridge and at the Open University including inter-University collaborations, commissioned research, and work funded by a charitable trust. These included research concerning:

Leadership development
Educational networks/networking
The development of beginning teachers.

Alison was originally a Science teacher in Secondary Schools and Further Education for 10 years and taught Science teachers on PGCE courses for six years. She has led in-school INSET about Assessment for Learning and was invited as the Biology specialist to lead workshops at the 4th International Teacher Conference of the University of Cambridge International Examinations in Malaysia in 2007.

Alison came to the University of Leicester as an experienced teacher at Masters level, including on:

School-University partnership
Educational Leadership
Primary Education
Science Practitioners
Research Methods courses.

She is currently teaching on the Masters in Learning and Teaching and MSc in Educational Leadership (distance learning) programmes and contributing to the EdD programme.

Alison is on the editorial board of the Journal of Workplace Learning, and reviewer for a number of international journals (Educational Research Review, Pedagogies, School Effectiveness and School Improvement, Teaching and Teacher Education, The Curriculum Journal, Vocations and Learning). She is a member of the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults, the British Educational Research Association and European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction.

Research

Teaching Interests

Alison’s teaching interests include:

Practitioner inquiry
Teacher’s professional learning
Leadership development
Teacher collaboration
Networking
The role of classroom assessment in school improvement
Research ethics.

Alison teaches on the following modules at the School of Education:

Masters in Learning and Teaching
Leadership and Management in Education
Professional Enquiry
MSc in Educational Leadership (Distance Learning)

Alison also contributes to the EdD programme.

Selected Publications

McCormick, R., Fox, A., Carmichael, P. and Procter, R. (2010) Researching and Understanding Educational Networks (New Perspectives on Learning and Instruction series), London: Routledge.

James, M., Black, P., Carmichael, P., Drummond, M-J., Fox, A., Honour, L., MacBeath, J., McCormick, R., Marshall, B., Pedder, D., Procter, R., Swaffield, S., Swann, J. and Wiliam, D. (2007) Improving Learning How to Learn in classrooms, schools and networks, London: Routledge Falmer.

Fox, A., Wilson, E. and Deaney, R. (2011) Beginning teachers’ workplace experiences: their perceptions and use of support, Vocations and Learning, 4 (1),1-24 Available from Online First August 2010.

Fox, A., Deaney, R. and Wilson, E. (2010) Examining beginning teachers' perspectives of workplace support, Journal of Workplace Learning, 22 (4), 212-227.

Stutchbury, K. and Fox, A. (2009) Ethics in Educational Research: introducing a methodological tool for effective ethical analysis, Cambridge Journal of Education, 39 (4), 489-504.

Fox, A. and Wilson, E. (2009) “Support our networking and help us belong!”: listening to beginning secondary school science teachers, Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 15 (6), 701-718.

Fox, A. and McCormick, R. (2009) Events and professional learning: studying educational practitioners, Journal of Workplace Learning, 21 (2), 198-218.

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Sections

School of Education