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Professor Hilary Burgess
Professor in Education
PhD (Open University), MA, DipEd (London)
Teaching Certificate (Durham)
Tel: 0116 252 3661
Email: hb144@le.ac.uk
Professor Hilary Burgess joined the University of Leicester in September 2010 as Director of Studies in the School of Education. Before taking this post, Hilary worked for The Open University where she was Director for Postgraduate Studies in the Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET). Hilary has worked as a Senior Lecturer in Primary Education for Westhill College in Birmingham, and has taught in primary schools in Coventry and central London.
Hilary’s research focuses on schools as learning communities and mentoring in primary and secondary schools. She supports a wide range of doctoral students on both the PhD and EdD programmes, on a range of topics surrounding Continuing Professional Development and Mentoring.
Hilary is the Chair of the National Doctorate in Education Director's Network and a Council Member of the British Educational Research Association.
Research
Teaching
Hilary teaches on the following modules for the MA Learning and Teaching Programme:
ED7102 Professional Enquiry
Hilary additionally supervises doctoral students within her areas of interest.
Selected Publications
Burgess, H. and Shelton Mayes, A. (2010) "Open and Distance Learning for Pre-service Teacher Education" (pp 35-46) in Abdurrahman Umar and Patrick Danaher (Eds) Perspectives on Teacher Education through Open and Distance Learning, Commonwealth of Learning: Canada.
Burgess, H. & Wellington, J. (2010) "Exploring the impact of the professional doctorate on students’ professional practice and personal development: early indications" in Work Based Learning Journal Vol. 1 (1) pp160-176.
Burgess, H. & Shelton Mayes, A. (2010) "Achieving High Quality School Experience in Initial Teacher Education: How distance Learning and Traditional Programmes are Converging" in The International Journal of Learning Vol. 17 (10), pp. 23-36.
Burgess, H. & Shelton Mayes, A. (2009) "An exploration of higher level teaching assistants’ perceptions of their training and development in the context of school workforce reform", Support for Learning Vol. 24 (1) pp 19-25.
