Dr. Lisa McAuliffe
BACKGROUND
Dr Lisa McAuliffe trained as a teacher in the English Department of the University of Athens, and worked in primary and secondary schools in Greece and in the UK for over ten years. She has always had an interest in psychology and spent a big part of her teaching career supporting children and young people with social, emotional, behavioural and communication difficulties. She contextualised this experience with a Master in Educational Psychology from the University of Bristol, and a PhD from the University of Warwick. Lisa joined the University of the West of Scotland in 2007 as a Lecturer in Education.
TEACHING & scholarly activity
Since joining the University of the West of Scotland, Lisa has developed and delivered a range of modules exploring inclusive education and psychology of learning topics. Lisa contributes to the BEd, PGDE(P) and PGDE(S) programmes, and is the programme leader of the PG Certificate and PG Diploma in Inclusive Education [click here for link]. In addition, Lisa is involved in the supervision of BEd4 Honours dissertations, and is currently supervising doctoral research in the area of giftedness. Lisa's passion for teaching was recently acknowledged by UWS students with a ‘21st Century Teaching’ award.
Lisa serves on the School of Education Research Committee and on the BEd management team. Lisa is external examiner for the BEd4 Additional Support for Learning option at Edinburgh University and for the PGDE(P) programme at Dundee University.
Lisa was a member of the Scottish Teacher Education Committee’s Inclusion Working Group that developed the Framework for Inclusion and supporting resource bank. Having been an active member of the European Affective Education Network since 1997, Lisa convened the network’s 5th conference on the Greek island of Tinos, and co-convened the network’s 10th conference in UWS.
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
British Psychological Society; Scottish branch of the BPS
European Affective Education Network
RESEARCH
Research Activity
Lisa was involved in ‘Affective Education across Europe’, a collaborative research project exploring teacher and student attitudes to affective education in 11 European countries and Israel. This study was partly funded by ESRC and was based at the Warwick Institute of Education. Lisa's ESRC funded doctoral research looked at the contribution primary schools make to the affective development and emotional wellbeing of pupils.
Research interests
Inclusive education; emotional development and well being in the school environment; psychology of learning.
Publications
McAuliffe, L. (2007). Promoting emotional well-being in schools: A Scottish perspective. In Bulut, S., Iflazoglu, A. and Tarim, K. (Eds). Affective Education in Action: Conference Proceedings. Adana: Cukurova University.
Lang, P. and Vasileiou*, L. (2005). Teachers’ understanding of emotion: An unexplored area. In Karppinen, S., Katz, Y. and Neill, S. (Eds.) Theory and Practice in Affective Education: Essays in Honour of Arja Puurula. Helsinki: University of Helsinki Press.
Katz, Y. J., Kontoyianni, A., Lang, P., Menezes, I., Neill, S., Puurula, A., Romi, S., Saccone, C., Vasileiou*, L., Vriens, L. (2002). The north and south contrasted: Cultural similarities and differences in affective education. In Torres, A. and Antikainen, A. (Eds.). Sociology of Education: A Handbook of International Perspectives. Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield.
Puurula, A., Neill, S., Vasileiou*, L., Husbands, C., Lang, P., Katz, Y. J., Romi, S., Menezes, I., Vriens, L. (2001). Teacher and Student Attitudes to Affective Education: A European Collaborative Research Project. Compare, Vol. 31, No 2, pp. 165-186.
*Vasileiou is Lisa’s maiden name
Conference Contributions
8 July 2009: Black Holes, Broken Windows and Dripping Taps: Teaching through Metaphor in Higher Education, European Affective Education Network Biennial Conference, University of the West of Scotland.
27 April 2009: Worth a Thousand Words: Using Creative Approaches to Deliver Inclusive Education in Initial Teacher Education Programmes, Scottish Teacher Education Committee Annual Conference, Westpark Conference Centre, Dundee.
30 June 2007: Promoting Emotional Well-being in Schools: A Scottish Perspective, European Affective Education Network Biennial Conference, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey.
26 June 2003: Perceptions of Emotion and Affective Education, European Affective Education Network Biennial Conference, University of Surrey Roehampton.
25 April 2000: Teacher and Student Attitudes to Affective Education: A Comparative Study, Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, USA.
25 January 2000: Youth Disaffection and Social Exclusion: Recent Developments in the UK, Seminario Internazionale, Universita La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.