Technology and Education Research Group

Back in June (Tues June 9th) the Communication & Systems Department held a research day for full-time and part-time PhD students.

In the morning, each student gave a short presentation of an aspect of their research. The photo above shows Paul Herring giving his talk on research into technology-enhanced learning for children with autism. Paul is supervised by TERG members Roger and Karen, and by Kieron Sheehy (from the Faculty of Education and Language Studies).   

In the afternoon, participants headed off to the Open University Library for a session on keeping up-to-date on research literature. This was  led by Fiona Bowtell.

PhD student Paul Herring has recently had a journal paper published. Paul, who is supervised by Roger, Karen and Kieron Sheehy from FELS, has recently passed his probation.  Paul’s paper is:

Herring, P. (2009). “Can computer assisted learning help autistic children communicate?” SLD experience(53): 23-28.

Paul Herring, part-time PhD student, has a paper accepted for presentation at the ALT-C conference in September. The paper is titled:

Investigating a ‘virtual tutor’ approach for improving the communication skills of children with autism.

It is co-authored with Roger Jones and Kieron Sheehy (from the Faculty of Education and Language Learning). Paul is supervised by Roger, Kieron and Karen.

The faculty will have some studentships available to departments and research groups.  So it would be great to come up with:

- interesting project ideas

- good potential students

The studentships could be collaborations with other research groups within the faculty, or elsewhere in the university.

Next deadline for the process is 1st March!