Dr Steven Courtney

Supervision information

Doctoral research supervisions

I am available to supervise suitably qualified doctoral candidates with an interest in the critical sociology of educational leadership and/or education policy. 

 

Current PhD/EdD supervision

2025

Hannah Ruth McCarthy: "An exploration of the relationship between ‘T-Levels’ and professional identities within Further Education"

Supervisors: Dr Steven Courtney and Prof Helen Gunter. 

UoM-administered thesis: PhD (PT). Expected completion: 2025

 

2022

Pinyan Lin: "The shift of primary education: A study of education collectivisation in China"

Supervisors: Dr Steven Courtney and Dr Paul Armstrong

UoM-administered thesis: PhD (FT). Expected completion: 2022

 

Maud Halstead: "An exploration of how teachers experience challenges to their values and identities when working in schools serving disadvantaged communities"

Supervisors: Dr Steven Courtney and Prof Helen Gunter. 

UoM-administered thesis: PhD (FT). Expected completion: 2022

 

2021

James Twigg: "Towards an understanding of children’s perception of learning in a primary school"

Supervisors: Prof Helen Gunter and Dr Steven Courtney

UoM-administered thesis: EdD (PT). Expected completion: 2021

 

Completed PhD/EdD supervision

2020

Bee Hughes: "Being and becoming: The impact of performativity on the Headteacher in a Multi-Academy Trust"

Supervisors: Prof Helen Gunter and Dr Steven Courtney

UoM-administered thesis: PhD (FT).

 

2019

Omar Kaissi: "Researching corporeality in education: An investigation of knowledge production in gender and education research on boys and masculinities" 

Supervisors: Dr Steven Courtney and Prof Helen Gunter

UoM-administered thesis: PhD (FT).

 

2017

Stephen M. Rayner: "Academisation: a dynamic process of systemic change in England"

Supervisors: Prof Helen Gunter and Dr Steven Courtney

UoM-administered thesis: EdD (PT).

 

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