Educational and Life Transitions research theme in Education and Social Work
The Educational and Life Transitions (E<) theme has been focusing on transition across the life course, especially those linked to educational transitions (but by no means exclusive to education)
This E< research theme aligns with the University's Research Centre for Transformative Change: Educational and Life Transitions (TCELT). The former is a School Academic theme whereas the latter is a university wide centre with added representatives from different Schools across the university. The Centre is hosted within the School of Education and Social Work.
The research in the E< theme has highlighted the positive, dynamic and complex nature of transitions with the need to understand them as:
- an on-going process
- holistic and dynamic (Educational and Life Transitions theory, E<)
- multiple and multi-dimensional (Multiple and Multi-dimensional Transitions theory, MMT) with changes in identity
- requiring on-going support (SN-ABC theory) to ensure the wellbeing of the individual and significant others such as their family, peers and professionals
Current projects
- Developing a primary-secondary transitions emotional wellbeing scale
- Multiple and multi-dimensional transitions experiences of people living with neurological conditions and their significant others (Scottish Government funding)
- COVID-19 and teachers' transitions
- Using drama to support the health and wellbeing of pupils transitioning to secondary school
- New medical graduates' transitions (Lisi Gordon CI, CSO funding)
- Transitions of health care graduates due to COVID-19 (Divya Jindal-Snape PI, CIs from Schools of Nursing, Medicine and Dentistry, Tenovus funding)
- Analysis of GUS dataset to understand primary-secondary transitions (ScotCen PI, Divya Jondal-Snape CI, Scottish Government funding)
Academic leads
Divya Jindal-Snape
Professor in Community Education
d.jindalsnape@dundee.ac.uk
+44 (0)1382 381472
Beth Hannah
Senior Lecturer in Educational Psychology
e.hannah@dundee.ac.uk
+44 (0)1382381463
Lisi Gordon
Senior Lecturer
l.y.gordon@dundee.ac.uk