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Lesley Doyle
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Main research interests
The impact of educational transitions on learning; collaborative management practices, for example between education sectors; learning and well-being during adolescence; the links between the affective and cognitive domains in children and young people; the development of socio-cultural theory in the management of collaborative learning, for example during education and training transitions.
1. 2004-Present: Research Fellow, Institute of Education, University of Stirling:
a. Principal Investigator Evaluation of Kent County Council’s Vocational Education & Training 14-19 Programme (from Sept 2007)
b. Researcher The Social Practices of Curriculum Development in Highland Schools (with Mark Priestley from Oct 2007)
Past Projects:
- Principal Research Fellow for the PASCAL Observatory, an international research agency for effective research development and dissemination in place management, social capital and learning regions (until Sept 2007)
- Departmental Cohesion in Secondary Schools in Scotland and New Zealand (2006)
- ESRC seminar series to explore cross-regional perspectives on the transformative impact of higher education on disadvantaged groups and communities (theme leader on the cultural impact strand and series steering group member) (2006)
- International Review of Grading and Assessment for the Scottish Qualifications Authority (2006)
- Co-director and consultant for Scottish Natural Heritage/Learning and Teaching Scotland funded project on young people’s interaction with natural heritage through outdoor learning (Mannion, G., Sankey, K., Doyle, L., Mattu, L. University of Stirling (2006) Commissioned Report No. 225 (ROAME No. F06AB03)
- Project Manager for LILARA (Learning in Local and Regional Authorities), an EU funded project developing learning needs audits for learning regions (2005-August 2007)
- Research Fellow Evaluation of Programmes of Preparation for Nurse Prescribing in Scotland funded by the Scottish Executive, with Professor Nick Boreham (until 2005)
2. 1999-2004 Researcher (part-time)
- For Me or Not for Me? - That is the Question: A Study of Mature Students’ Decision Making (Report for the Department for Education and Skills 1999-2000 No 297), with Pat Davies, City University, London
- Dimensions of Difference: Higher Education in the Learning and Skills Sector (Report for the Learning and Skills Development Agency 2003) with Professor Gareth Parry, University of Sheffield
3. 1983-1986 Researcher Greater London Council (full-time)
Funded by the GLC for Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council. Project on Patterns of Employment in the Retail and Hotel and Catering Industries. Report held with K & C Borough Council since demise of GLC in 1986.
1977: University of Exeter/Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz Exchange Scholarship
1996: Teacher Training Agency (England) Research Grant Curriculum Continuity from Primary to Secondary School
1997: Canterbury Christ Church University College 3 year grant for PhD
1998: Qualifications and Curriculum Authority Grant to compare Years 6, 7 and 8 SATs results
- Doyle, L., Adams, D., Tibbitt, J. and Welsh, P. (2007 forthcoming) Building Stronger Communities: Connecting research, policy and practice, NIACE: Leicester
- Doyle, L. (2007) ‘Cultural presence’ and disadvantage: what difference do HEIs make? in M. Osborne, K. Sankey and B. Wilson (eds) Researching Social Capital, Lifelong Learning Regions and the Management of Place: an international perspective in Routledge: London
- Doyle, L (2007) Learning to Learn in a Learning Region in Lifelong Learning in Europe (LLinE), X11, 1, p42-51
- Duke, C., Doyle, L. and Wilson, B. (eds) (2006) Making Knowledge Work: Sustaining Learning Communities and Regions NIACE: Leicester
- Barr, A and Doyle, L. Setting Standards for Community Engagement in Duke, C., Doyle, L. and Wilson, B. (eds) (2006) Making Knowledge Work: Sustaining Learning Communities and Regions NIACE: Leicester
- Doyle, L. and Godfrey, R. (2005) Investigating the reliability of the Key Stage 2 test results for assessing individual pupil achievement and progress in England. London Review of Education, 3, 1, p29-45
- Doyle, L. (2002) Continuity from Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 3 (Primary to Secondary School) in England, Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Kent
- Doyle, L. and Herrington, N. (1998) ‘Bridging the gap: A case study of curriculum continuity at Key Stage 2/Key Stage 3 transfer’, Management in Education, 12, 6, p11-12.
- Doyle, L. and Herrington, N. (1998) Does learning progression for the individual child continue across the primary/secondary divide? All-in Success Journal of the Centre for the Study of Comprehensive Schools, 9, Spring 1998, 16-17.
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