Dr Michael Inglis

Profile

I joined the University of Leeds in 2012. I was previously a teacher educator at Liverpool John Moores University and a physics teacher in secondary schools in London and Hertfordshire. I worked in Ethiopia for 2 years (2006 & 2007) with VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas), where I supported teacher educators and school teachers as part of a national CPD programme. Before becoming a teacher I worked in the oil industry as a geophysicist with Texaco, where I designed and managed the acquisition and processing of seismic data.

Research interests

My research interests are in initial teacher education, language in science education and higher education pedagogy. My doctoral research was on student teachers’ experiences and subject knowledge conceptualisations during a pre-service Physics Subject Knowledge Enhancement (SKE) course. I was a Co-Investigator on The Linguistic Challenges of the Transition from Primary to Secondary School, a 3-year project funded by ESRC and led by Prof. Alice Deignan. I was also recently a Co-Investigator on the ASCENTS 121 Support for Science project (1-2-1 Academically Asymmetrical Paired Tutoring in Science), an intervention funded by EEF and Wellcome, and led by Prof. Ian Abrahams at the University of Roehampton. As part of the Horizons Institute Global Crucible Programme I am currently part of a research group with colleagues in Ghana and South Africa running a pilot project exploring attitudes to the roles of education, science, technology and cultural beliefs to Just Energy Transition across the Global North and South. I am also developing research into university students’ undirected use of personal IT devices during classes.

• ASCENTS 121 Support for Science
• The linguistic challenges of the transition from primary to secondary school

Qualifications

• Doctorate in Education (EdD)
• PGCert Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
• PGCE Secondary Science (Physics) Education
• MSc Geophysics
• BSc Physics

Professional memberships

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
• Association for Science Education

Student education

I have several years experience as a teacher educator on Science PGCE, BSc with QTS and PGCert in Education for SCITT (School-Centred Initial Teacher Training) programmes. Here at the University of Leeds I led the Secondary PGCE Programme and I led and co-developed the BA Education programme from its inception in 2017. I currently supervise doctoral researchers and support a group of post-graduate researchers to produce the School of Education on-line journal, Hillary Place Papers.

Current postgraduate researchers

• Ed Podesta
• Julian White
• Samuel Lee