Staff Profile:Mrs Eileen Hyder

Name:

Dr Eileen Hyder

Job Title:

BAEd

Responsibilities:

Main responsibilities in the Institute:

Acting Co-Director of BA(Ed) programme.

Teaching:

• Main teaching: BA(Ed) programme (Curriculum English and English Subject Specialism)
• Contributes to MA modules: Readers and Texts; Poetic Language
• Contributes to PGCE English (Primary and Secondary)

Areas of Interest:

Areas of expertise and research interest:

• Theory and practice of teaching English in Primary schools;  particular interests: reader identity, poetry, developing writing
• Perspectives of inclusion and social justice
• Reading Groups
• Qualitative research methodologies: new ethnography/narrative enquiry

Areas in which you are able to supervise at Masters level:

• Teaching and learning in primary schools
• Reader development, motivation and identity
• Reading groups and libraries
• Developing writing
• Social justice
• Qualitative research methodologies

Areas in which you are able to supervise at Phd/EdD level:

• Teaching and learning in primary schools
• Reader development, motivation and identity
• Reading groups and libraries
• Developing writing
• Social justice
• Qualitative research methodologies

Current and Recent Research Projects:

• Reading Aloud in Secondary Schools
• Home/School Reading Communication Books
• Reading Groups for visually-impaired people

Research groups / Centres:

• First Language and Literacy
• Equity, Inclusion and Improvement

Publications:

• Hyder, E. (2011d). Providing support for lifelong learning through reading: a study of a library-based reading group for visually-impaired people. Paper presented at BERA.
• Hyder, E. (2011c). Libraries, reading groups and social inclusion: a study of a library-based reading group for visually-impaired people. Paper presented at BERA.
• Hyder, E. (2011b). Libraries as tools for social justice? Paper presented at the Education, Identities and Social Inclusion.
• Hyder, E. (2011a). Cross-Curricular Poetry Writing In M. Lockwood (Ed.), Bringing Poetry Alive: Sage Publications.
• Hyder, E. (2009b). Readers are Very Important People. English in Education, 43(3), 226-240.
• Hyder, E. (2009a). Listen to our words. Paper presented at BERA.
• Hyder, E. (2008b). VIP Reading Groups. Research Intelligence, 103, 17-18.
• Hyder, E. (2008a). Play It By Ear. Public Library Journal, 23(2), 16-18.

Enterprise activity, External roles and consultancy

• English Subject Leaders Network