Edward Edgerton
contact
Room L125 (Paisley Campus)
Tel: 0141 848 3799
E-Mail: edward.edgerton@uws.ac.uk
staff profile
Dr Edward Edgerton is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences and specialises in the teaching of Individual Differences, Environmental Psychology and Research methods and Statistics. He is an active researcher with expertise in Environmental Psychology and his primary interest is in understanding the role of school building design on students and staff. He is also involved in research on other ‘institutional’ environments such as hospitals with a particular focus on environmental design for individuals with dementia. Dr Edgerton has also conducted research aimed at understanding public participation in pro-environmental behaviours such as newspaper recycling, home-composting schemes, etc.
Recent projects include (i) an evaluation of the secondary school building programme that was undertaken by Glasgow City Council (Project 2002) (ii) an investigation into public participation in home-composting schemes promoted by a number of local authorities (iii) a collaborative project with artists to redesign (“de-institutionalise) specific spaces within a psychiatric hospital.
Dr Edgerton is currently the secretary for the International Association of Person-Environment Studies (IAPS).
Selected publications
Books/Book chapters
Edgerton, E.A., McKechnie, J., Tucker, P., Speirs, D. and Fletcher, S.I. (2002) Understanding participation in home composting: a pro-environmental behaviour? In Mira, R.G., Cameselle, J.M.S. and Martinez, J.R. (eds.) Culture, quality of life and globalisation: problems and challenges for the new millennium. Galician Association of Psychosocial Studies: La Corunna.
Edgerton, E.A, McKechnie, J. and Dunleavy, K. (2005) “Changing schools”: pupil and staff assessments of their ‘new’ schools. In B. Martens & A.G. Keul (eds.) Designing Social Innovation: Planning, Building, Evaluating. Hogrefe & Huber: Vienna.
McEwen, S., Edgerton, E.A. and McKechnie J. (2007) The School Environment and Students' Self Esteem and Behaviour. In Bust, P.D. (ed.) Contemprary Ergonomics. Taylor & Francis.
Edgerton, E.A., Romice, O. and Spencer, C (2007) Environmental Psychology: putting research into practice. Cambridge Scholars; Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Journal articles
Edgerton, E.A, & McKechnie, J. (2002) Student’s views of group based work and the issue of peer assessment. Psychology Learning and Teaching, vol. 2, no. 2, December 2002.
Tucker, P. Speirs, D., I. Fletcher, Edgerton, E. & McKechnie, J. (2003) “Factors affecting take-up of and drop-out from home composting schemes”. Local Environment, vol. 8, no. 3, pp245-259, June 2003.
Reports
Edgerton, E. & McKechnie, J. (2004) Glasgow’s PPP School initiative (Project 2002): An evaluation of school environments and their impact on students and staff. Paisley: University of Paisley.