Claire Kinsella

(She/her)

Claire has a particular interest in pedagogies for the development of learner agency and her PhD research focused on critically examining the psychosocial dimensions of learner engagement in a creative arts initiative in an Alternative Provision in the North-West of England. She has taught in a range of different higher education settings on a variety of different degree programmes including Education Studies, Educational Psychology, Early Childhood Studies, Special Educational Needs and Disability and Primary Education.

Education

  • 2017 
    Edge Hill University, PhD
  • 2010 
    National College of Art and Design, PG Dip Community Arts Education
  • 2009 
    Trinity College Dublin, BA Sociology and Political Science

Publications

  • 2019
    “You Heard Me Swear but You Never Heard Me!” negotiating Agency in the pupil referral unit classroom, Mind, Culture, and Activity
  • 2016
    Learner engagement: A review of approaches in the psychology of education and art education, Review of Education

Professional Memberships

  • Chartered Psychologist, BPS

Contact Claire for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision