Staff Profile:Tony Macfadyen

Name:

Mr Tony Macfadyen

Job Title:

Resident Tutor

Responsibilities:

University responsibilities:

• Warden - Sherfield Hall
• RED facilitator
• Member of Senate (for IoE)
• Sports Management Committee
• Residences Management Committee

Main responsibilities at the Institute of Education:

• Head of Physical Education
• PGCE / GTP PE Course Leader
• Director of Enterprise
• Senior Management Group
• 14-19 Research Convenor
• IoE Research committee
• IoE Ethics committee
• Enterprise committee - Chair
• Bulmershe Site committee Chair
• Partnership Development committee

Teaching:

• PGCE PE Course
• GTP PE Course
• PGCE and GTP PE Tutor
• Module leader: 'Meaningful Learning in a Global World' ( (MA Global Futures)

Areas of Interest:

Areas of expertise and research interest [able to supervise at PhD and Masters level]:

• Physical Education
• Teaching styles and strategies
• Information, Advice and Guidance for young people
• Young people's pathways through and into education

Current and recent Research Students:

4 x Masters students (mixed ability PE; differentiation in PE; Yoga and PE; Pupils' choices at KS 4)

1 x PhD Student (disability - wheel chair basketball)

Current and recent Research Projects:

• HEFCE / Progress South Central - £55, 000 (4 projects 2008 - 2011)
• Information, Advice and Guidance for students and their experiences of Further and Higher Education (with 14-19 group members).

• Higher Education students experiences of group work (2010 - ongoing) with Science - PE research group colleagues

• PGCE and GTP trainees feelings towards their course (with Andy Kempe)

Research groups / Centres:

14-19

Global Citizenship

Publications:

Recent publications/conference presentations/professional achievements:

Planning for Learning (2010) in Bailey, R. (ed) Physical Education for Learning, Continuum: London

Decision pending on the following articles:

Graham, S. and Macfadyen, T. Learners' perceptions of being identified as very able in Modern Foreign Languages and Physical Education. Sent to BERJ

Fuller, C and Macfadyen, T. "What with your grades?" Student Decision Making and Experience of Vocational Courses in Further Education. Sent to Journal of Vocational Education and Work

Conference papers:

UCET: Macfadyen and Kempe (2010) Information, Advice and Guidance in schools' - Teachers and pupils' views. Coventry, UK. November 2010

Macfadyen and Harding (2011) Post-16 Provision of Information, Advice and Guidance for Year 11 pupils in England. The role and attitudes of secondary school staff; potential lessons for the Polish Education system. Paper presented at Krakow International Education Conference, Krakow, Poland, April, 2011.

Heighes, D and Macfadyen, T. (2010) Information, Advice and Guidance in schools - Teachers and pupils' views. Life long Learning Network Conference, Manchester; November 2011.

Fuller, C and Macfadyen T (2010) What with your grades?" FE students on vocational courses. Paper presented at BERA, Warwick, UK. Sept. 2010

Goodwyn, Fuller, Macfadyen, Francis-Brophy & Harding (2010): Advanced Skills Teachers: A critique of current policy from a national & global perspective. Paper presented at BERA, Warwick, UK. Sept. 2010

Enterprise activity; external roles and consultancy:

• UCET 14-19 committee
• Vice Chair AfPE South East
• External Examiner (Limerick; Exeter)

• Making links with a number of international partners (e.g. GEMs; EYES, Dubai; ERCi, Singapore; Raffles Institute, Singapore;)