Potential PhD topics include but are not limited to:

• Playful and game-based learning,
• Learning cultures and contexts,
• Visual thinking and learning,
• Collaborative learning,
• Mobile and informal learning,
• Analysis of classroom interaction,
• Mixed-reality learning technology.

Applicants are invited to send research proposals outlining their research plans related to these areas.

Or

Applicants can apply to the following research questions being prioritised in 2009/10, under the following indicative headings:
Mobile learning (Supervisors: Sharples, Pemberton)

• How can we design effective methods and technologies for mobile context-based social learning?
• How can mobile technologies improve second language learning?

Visual Learning (Supervisors: Ainsworth, Coyle, Crook)

• How do we learn by drawing?
• How can visual representations support different kinds of learning?
• How to best integrate talk and image during teaching?
• What are the best representations to teach evolution?

Internet-based Learning (Supervisors: Harrison, Crook)

• What are the best tools and strategies for supporting effective Internet research by school students?

If interested in one of these questions, please outline in your research proposal why you are interested in this question, and how you would propose to carry out the research. You are particularly encouraged to contact one of the named supervisors directly.