DrStephanie Brewster

Senior Lecturer in Education Studies

Faculty of Arts, Business, and Social Sciences

  • Senior Lecturer in Education Studies
    Faculty of Arts, Business, and Social Sciences
  • 01902323026 Ext.3026 (Work)
  • University of Wolverhampton, Institute of Education, Gorway Road, Walsall, West Midlands, WS1 3BD, United Kingdom

TEACHING INTERESTS

Undergraduate teaching:

- Special Educational Needs, Disability and Inclusion Studies
- Education Studies
- Childhood, Family and Community
- dissertation supervision

Postgraduate:

- Masters in Education
- dissertation supervision

Doctoral Completions:

  • Prof Doc Counselling Psychology An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) investigation into subjective experience of being diagnosed with dyslexia in adulthood.
  • EdD LEGO® Based Therapy: Perspectives of Young People Experiencing SEMH in Primary School.
  • PhD Promoting the political engagement of people with intellectual disabilities

    Current doctoral supervisions:
  • An exploration of the language attitudes of lecturers at a widening participation institution in the West Midlands
  • A comparative case study into Year 11 pupil and teachers' views of the role of resilience in preparing for KS4 optional subjects in a selective and non-selective secondary school
  • Student motivation and the poverty-attainment gap
  • The participation of vocational subject teachers in sixth form university advising.
  • SEND Inclusion in PVI (Private, Voluntary and Independent) Early Years Settings: A Study of Lived Experience and Rising Demand
  • Unmasking Neurodiversity among International Students in UK Universities
  • The Relationship Characteristics of Autistic Neurodiverse Couples, Their Counselling Experience, and Potential Counselling Recommendations
  • Exploring Neurodiverse Learners’ Narratives in Mainstream Primary Schools to Reveal Classroom Realities and Support Sustainable Inclusive Practices.     
  • The experiences of the pandemic of parent/carers of autistic adults
  • Neurodivergent teachers in the UK: Exploring lived experiences of support, identity, and professional growth through qualitative narrative inquiry. 

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Can schools improve outcomes for socio-economically disadvantaged students by focussing on their motivation?
    3 Aug 2021
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    What are the attitudes of early career university lecturers towards their students’ spoken English?
    12 Jul 2021
  • DOCTORAL EXAMINATION
    A QUALITATIVE INVESTIGATION OF THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP IN THE FACILITATION OF EMPOWERMENT IN PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPY FOR ADULT WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
    18 Sep 2018
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Supporting people with learning disabilities’ political engagement
    1 Jul 2017
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    LEGO® Based Therapy: perspectives of young people experiencing SEMH in primary school.
    18 Nov 2016
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis investigation into the subjective experience of being diagnosed with dyslexia in adulthood
    5 Oct 2015 - 11 Sep 2018