Research Supervision
I am an experienced Primary and Secondary supervisor of research students at Honours, Masters, Doctor of Philosophy and Educational Doctorate levels. I value developing authentic relationships with students, facilitating the development of research understanding and skills, and enabling them to lead their research project. I work with students as colleagues through their research areas of passion.
Doctor of Philosophy
Primary: Ecological approaches to education and educational research: Relationality, reciprocity, and resilience (March 2024 - February 2025)
Primary: Menstruation Stigmas: Discovering the Past, Understanding the Present, and Directing the Future (October 2021 - October 2024)
Secondary: How does COVID-19 affect children’s access to urban green spaces: A comparative study between advantaged and disadvantaged family in urban China (begin October 2021)
Completions:
Motivation, expectations and realities of the teaching profession: Phenomenology of novice teachers in Ghana. University Tasmania (2023)
The Role of E-Portfolios in Higher Education: The experience of pre-service teachers, University of Tasmania, Australia (2017).
Educational Doctorate
Completions:
The effects of executive coaching on teachers, University of Tasmania, Australia. (2018).
masters
Completions:
Primary: Be like water: A case study exploring how adolescent girls and young women experience swimming in outdoor blue spaces and impact on their well-being, University of Edinburgh (2024)
Primary: Embracing the scandal to navigate my career working in the outdoors and teaching adventure sports throughout pregnancy and early motherhood, University of Edinburgh (2024)
Primary: #HereBeWomen but where they be? A narrative inquiry into women’s journey(s) in outdoor education, University of Edinburgh (2023)
Primary: The role of fires in outdoor education, University of Edinburgh (2023)
Primary: Now what? A heuristic and Poetic Inquiry into Ecological Awakening and Awareness, University of Edinburgh (2023)
Primary: Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire: The struggle for a Sustainable Transition in Appalachia, University of Edinburgh (2023)
Primary: Fibers of Reflection: Connections of Place, Community, and Self through Craft in Outdoor Environmental and Sustainability Education, University of Edinburgh (2022)
Primary: Interconnected Gendered Self In The Outdoors: An Exploratory Study On The Development Of Self And Identity With People Assigned Female At Birth, University of Edinburgh (2022)
Primary: I've got to look the part.": a narrative inquiry that troubles the implications of dressing properly as a woman in the outdoors, University of Edinburgh (2022)
Primary: Grizzly and Black Bears in British Columbia: Bear Encounters, Attacks & Behaviours, University of Edinburgh (2022)
Primary: Broadening bushcraft for a becoming world, University of Edinburgh (2021)
Primary: Wilderness Therapy in an Urban Environment: Using Key Elements to Design Short Programs for Adolescents in Need of Mental Health Care Treatment in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, University of Edinburgh (2021)
Primary: The wild period: Exploring Menstruation Experiences in the Outdoors, University of Edinburgh (2020)
Primary: The Incorporation of Traditional Knowledge into Outdoor Education and the Effects on Ecological Literacy, University of Edinburgh (2020)
Primary: Putting outdoor learning in its place: A resource to aide the development of place-based outdoor learning pedagogy in Scottish Primary education, University of Edinburgh (2020).
Primary: Things that stay the same: Developing a learning for sustainability practice for an early learning and childcare centre, University of Edinburgh (2020)
Primary: How do experiences in the outdoors therapeutically benefit, if at all, individuals of trauma?, University of Edinburgh (2020).
Primary: Incorporating outdoor ‘Erlebnispadagogik’ in Australian Primary schools: Teachers’ perspectives, University of Edinburgh (2020)
Primary: ‘What are we teaching our kids?’: A narrative inquiry into traditional Irish knowledge in Outdoor Environmental Education, University of Edinburgh (2020)
Primary: Outdoor play and learning in Primary Schools: Barriers, benefits, challenges and enablers. University of Edinburgh (2020)
Primary: Implementation of Learning for Sustainability in Scottish Schools: The teacher experience. University of Edinburgh (2020)
Primary: Shifting sands and shifting paradigms: An exploration of the learning experienced on the outdoor environmental education programme and how these experiences have influenced the decentralisation of my relationship with the world, University of Edinburgh (2019)
Primary: Walking to Understand Connection to Place: An Exploration into the Nature of how we develop Connection to Place, University of Edinburgh (2019)
Primary: What strategies do women use to combat sexism in the outdoors, University of Edinburgh (2019)
Primary: Finding wilderness: A narrative inquiry of personal perceptions of wilderness and opportunities for the concept of Wildnisbildung, University of Edinburgh (2019)
Primary: ‘Walking the talk’: A student’s perspective of enacted sustainability ethics in the food procurement for the Outdoor Education and Outdoor Environmental and Sustainability Programmes at the University of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh (2019)
Primary: No connectivity, better connections: Teenagers’ experiences of a phone-free summer camp in the US, University of Edinburgh (2019)
Primary: Wading in the dark: Exploring the place, use and impact of fear within outdoor adventurous education, University of Edinburgh (2019)
Primary: Through the looking glass: Exploring the impact of all-girls outdoor experiences on adolescent girls, University of Edinburgh (2019)
Primary: Indigenous wisdom in outdoor programs: An Australian case study. University of Cumbria, UK (2018)
Secondary: How important is father involvement for a son’s identity: An integrated look at how identity, psychology and experiential education can influence this relationship. University of Cumbria, UK (2017)
Secondary: Outdoors and empowerment: Story of an Himalayan Woman. Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Norway (submitted 2017)
Primary: Flipping the Classroom: Impact of implementation on teachers, University of Tasmania, Australia (2016)
Primary: A tale of two journeys: Experiences of transculturality and route vs routelessness. University of Cumbria, UK (2016)
Primary: What are we teaching the outdoor educators? Comparing Higher Education emphases in Australia and Norway: Outdoor Education vs Friluftsliv, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Norway (2013)
Secondary: Coastal Kindergartens: From Norway to Greece, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Norway (2013)
Honours
Primary: Loose parts play and creative writing: An investigation into whether small loose parts play can be used as a resource to support primary four pupils’ creativity in writing, University of Edinburgh (2019)
Primary: Outdoor learning: Pedagogy for promoting the motivation to learn?, University of Edinburgh (2019)
Primary: Residential outdoor learning experiences: A ‘holiday’ or an ‘opportunity for change’, University of Edinburgh (2019)
Completions - First class honours:
Primary: Students’ affective experience of connection with nature: An Australian University case study. University of Tasmania, Australia (2016)
Primary: Differentiation of teaching practice in the classroom: Girls versus boys. University of Tasmania, Australia (2015)