Kris Stutchbury

Profile

I am a senior lecturer in Education and Director of the PGCE course. I joined the OU, full time in March 2009.

I have 20 years of experience of teaching in school. I was a Head of Science for 12 years. I joined the OU PGCE as a part-time tutor in 2005.

My research interests include, ethics, assessment and Approaches to educational change. Alison Fox and I published a paper in the Cambridge Journal of Education which describes a way of thinking about ethics in educational research and argues that ethics is not just about following guidelines, but that it underpins the whole reserach design. This work has been adopted in the faculty of educatuion in Cambrudge and has changed the way in which ethics is taught on their MEd programmes.

I conducted a small scale reseach project into APP and have subsequently been teaching about APP on our own PGCE course and on the Cambridge PGCE. I am in the process of writing this up for the Scool Science Review.

I am also co-ordinating TESSA Secondary Science. We are producing 15 units of work, based on the TESSA primary materials to support teacher educators and pre-service teachers in the lower secondary school. The project is funded by The Waterloo Foundation and involes the collaborative development of materials with 5 African partner institutions.

Teaching Interests

Science Education

Chemistry

Generic Educational issues

Research Interests

Research Ethics

Assessment

Implementing change in the developing world

Current Research

TESSA Secondary Science  a research and development project funded by the Waterloo Foundation

Publications