Dr Tim Corcoran PhD, C Psychol, AFBPsS
Lecturer in Educational Psychology
Director MA in Globalising Education
2010-2011 BERA Meeting of Minds Fellow
Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 8185
Fax: (+44) (0)114 222 6236
Email: t.d.corcoran@sheffield.ac.uk
Room: 8.05
Research interests
Second nature
To date, Tim´s research has focussed on developing insights into the nature of our psychosocial worlds. He has investigated ways in which personhood is discursively constructed particularly within institutional contexts and professional psychological practices.
Health inclusive education
Whilst many contemporary education and health related practices continue to facilitate constructivist theory, Tim is examining the application of alternate psychosocial discourses in these fields. Theoretically, Tim works from a social constructionist position and is interested in how this stance may contribute to interdisciplinary accounts in health-education practice.
Teaching
Tim´s teaching responsibilities are shared between five programmes: he Directs the MA in Psychology and Education, is Assistant Director of the DEdPsy, a research doctorate for practicing educational psychologists and is part of the teaching teams for the MA in Globalising Education, the School of Education’s new BA in Education, Culture and Childhood and the EdD Children, Schools and Families.
As a research and practice-led educator Tim’s teaching ethos engages learning as a process which is reflective of participation. His teaching directly involves topics which have been central to his professional and academic life e.g. mental health promotion in learning contexts, theories of people learning and the constitutive nature of language as social practice.
Professional experience
Over 10 years, until the end of 2007, Tim was engaged in full time practice as a psychologist in Queensland, Australia.
He currently holds full registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the UK Health Practitioner´s Council. He is also an Associate Fellow and Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society (Division of Educational and Child Psychology).
From September 2010 Tim has been engaged as an Honorary Counsellor with the University of Sheffield Counselling Service.
Grants
2010. University of Sheffield Student Engagement in Knowledge Transfer Fund. £3000.
MA studentship with the Development Education Centre (South Yorkshire).
2010. University of Sheffield Knowledge Transfer Project Fund. £4627
When policy meets practice: Classroom teachers´ views on mental health promotion.
2009. University of Sheffield Centre for Inquiry-based Learning in the Social Sciences Scholarship of Teaching and Learning grant. £4010 (with Dr Jason Sparks)
Inquiry-based learning and International students: Developing an academic support program for International students in a research-based Masters program.
Indicative publications
2011. Health Inclusive Education. International Journal of Inclusive Education, in press
2010. What else life if not awkward? British Journal of Social Psychology, 49(4), in press.
2009. Second nature. British Journal of Social Psychology, 48(2), 375-388.
2007. Counselling in a discursive world. International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 29(2), 111-122.
2005. Legislative practice as discursive action: A performance in three parts. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 18(3/4), 263-283.
2003. Constructing Dialogic Relationships: School legislation and the Principal´s gamble. Australia and New Zealand Journal of Law and Education, 8(2), 97-109.
Research students
Franceanne Borg – First in their family: Maltese student transitions to tertiary education
Harriet Cameron – Critical conceptions of dyslexia
Alison Gardner – The experience of `belongingness´ with children with Special Education Needs (SEN) in mainstream primary school
Vicky Harold – Discourses on behaviour: Restorative practices in a Yorkshire high school
Martin Hughes - Researching behaviour: A q methodological exploration
Helen Monkman – Teachers as frontline workers: Meeting the mental health needs of children and young people
Heather Northcote – Young people´s perceptions of youth crime and young offenders
Louise Ritchie – Personal, social and emotional experiences of dyslexic children in mainstream classrooms
Carol-Ann Senah – Educating adolescent secondary students in health and wellness in Trinidad and Tobago
Julia Stollard – Love: Elephant in the classroom?
Kay Tasker-Smith – How have secondary aged school non-attendees become successful school attendees?
Sue Walsh – Exploring personal experience in learning