Dr Michaela Harrison

After several years working as a Key Stage Two teacher, I joined Manchester Met in 2008, as a senior lecturer, initially as part of the Initial Teacher Education programmes. I now mostly work on the Faculty’s masters courses, leading the Professional Development Programme – a suite of part-time masters courses for educational practitioners. My teaching focuses mainly on research methods and methodologies. I supervise a range of students across PDP and the EdD programme.

I completed my own EdD at Manchester Met in 2014 and before that, a Master of Arts in Teaching.

My research activity includes work aiming to explore the relationship between students’ writing, masters study more generally, and professional development. My general research and theoretical interests include, but are not limited to; post-structuralism, feminism, new-materialism, practitioner research and writing as a form of enquiry.

The title of my doctoral thesis was; ‘Travelling Through Written Spaces: a nomadic enquiry into the writing of student teachers’.