Staff Profile:Melanie Jay

Name:

Mrs Melanie Jay

Job Title:

PGCE Programme Director, PGCE Course Leader Art and Design

Responsibilities:

Main responsibilities at the Institute of Education:

• Management and leadership of the PGCE Secondary course
• Management of Art PGCE Secondary

Teaching:

• Teaching the Art PGCE/GTP group
• Teaching a Professional Studies group for Secondary PGCE
• Ceramics workshops for BAed Art students

Areas of Interest:

Areas of expertise and research interest:

• Art education/gender issues in art education
• Sustainability in schools

Areas in which you are able to supervise at Masters, PhD and Ed D levels:

• Masters work which has a focus on Art education
• The Arts generally
• Citizenship and PSHE
• Sustainability
• Pupil voice
• School management

Current and Recent PhD Students, with topics/titles of their research:

MTL student who is a Head of Art, areas of interest include assessment in art, PLTS delivery through Art, a Masters student who has been investigating PLTS delivery through the History curriculum.

Current and Recent Research Projects:

• Working with Yota Dimitriardi on an ITCAC project, e communication as a support mechanism for Art trainees
• Working with Gill Hopper on gender issues within Art education and the impact this has on GCSE Art results and further and higher education

Research groups / Centres:

Research Groups/Centres:

• Arts research group
• Second Language

Publications:

Knowledge Transfer, Outreach/External Roles:

• External examiner for Roehampton Professional Studies PGCE Secondary;
• External moderator for Edexcel GCSE Art and Design;
• Governor of a Partnership secondary school;
• Creating international links with a secondary school in Sicily.