There are 40 post-graduate research projects, 35 of these are Ph.D.s and 5 are M.Phil.s
All but 2 or 3 of our post-graduate students were in full-time employment and had read or heard about Self-Organised Learning (S-O-L) and were interested in how it might be applied in their work situation.
Between them they covered a wide range of different types of employment. They varied from a Grammar School teacher responsible for all the Science staff, various University Staff, to a psychologist in the Cabinet Office, an Ex-Naval Education Officer who had become the Headmaster of a Primary School, the Training Manager of the London Fire Service, an Inspector in Metropolitan Police, the Mail Manager of the Reading Post Office and the staff Training Manager of the Midland’s T.S.B Banks. They were all, even a Zen apprentice and others in even more interesting occupations, seeking to apply SOL in their very different employment situations; including a South African who worked as a consultant to a number of British companies and first Division Goalkeeper who had retired to become head of the Sport’s section of a teacher training college. As you may imagine they formed a lively and interesting group.
They are listed overleaf and more detailed information of their theses is available on C.S.H.L. Publications button, and from the Brunel University Library.
| PhD | ||
|---|---|---|
| READING STRATEGIES AND LEARNING OUTCOMES | Elizabeth Sheila Augstein | April 1971 |
| AN EXPLORATION OF A MATHEMATICAL COMMAND SYSTEM | Len R Chapman | July 1974 |
| A CONVERSATIONAL SKILLS APPROACH TO PERSONAL RECONSTRUCTION : LONGITUDINAL STUDIES USING THE REPERTORY GRID | Fraser Reid | September 1976 |
| PURPOSIVE PREFERENCES FOR MULTIATTRIBUTED ALTERNATIVES: A STUDY OF CHOICE BEHAVIOUR USING PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY IN CONJUNCTION WITH DECISION THEORY | Cliff McKnight | September 1976 |
| CONSTRUCTIVE ALTERNATIVES IN EDUCATION An exploration of the relationship between aspects of Personal Construct Theory and method, and current educational issues within Teacher Education. |
Maureen Pope | January 1978 |
| ON BECOMING A PERSONAL SCIENTIST: INTERACTIVE COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR DEVELOPING PERSONAL MODELS OF THE WORLD | Mildred Shaw | January 1978 |
| COURSE EVALUATION AND THE REPERTORY GRID | Roger F Beard | May 1982 |
| MANAGEMENT OF LEARNING: APPLYING A CONVERSATIONAL METHODOLOGY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SYSTEM OF SELF-ORGANISED LEARNING AT THE JUNIOR STAGE OF SCHOOLING | Graham Cecil Crosby | September 1984 |
| THE GENESIS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTENT An Asynchronous Machine Analogue for the Study of Micro genetic processes in Psychological Development |
Dionysius Kallikourdis | December 1987 |
| ARCHITECTURE AND SPACE FOR THOUGHT | Ranulph Glanville | 1988 |
| CONSTRUCTION OF PERSONAL WORK – THEORY IN THE YOUNG ADMINISTRATOR | Donald McLeod | January 1988 |
| CONVERSATIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVING STUDENTS LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION | Maria Luisa Figueroa | March 1988 |
| THE INSTITUTION AS A LEARNING SYSTEM | Maurice Randall | June 1988 |
| KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AS AN ENGINEERING PROCESS | M.Davoodi | June 1989 |
| DEVELOPING A LEARNING CONVERSATION IN STRUCTURED GROUP DISCUSSION: ART STUDENTS’ UNDERSTANDING OF THE PROJECT METHOD POLYTECHNIC STUDENTS’ EVALUATION OF THEIR COURSES |
Sally Richardson | January 1990 |
| TOWARDS AUTONOMY AND ‘RESPONSIBILITY FOR LEARNING’ IN ORGANIZATIONS | Mike van Oudtshoorn | March 1992 |
| A REFLECTIVE APPROACH TO SPORT PSYCHOLOGY AND PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY WHICH INCLUDES A STUDY OF A GROUP OF INTERNATIONAL ROWERS | Roy Groves | March 1992 |
| AN INVESTIGATION INTO TEACHER AND PUPIL PERSPECTIVES ON THE LOGO PHILOSOPHY USING THE REPERTORY GRID TECHNIQUE | Wynne Bell | June 1992 |
| A STUDY OF EMERGING STYLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONSTRUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS | James Stuart Hutton | January 1993 |
| CONVERSATIONAL USES OF THE REPERTORY GRID FOR PERSONAL LEARNING AND THE MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE IN SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS | Elizabeth Ann Cowne | June 1993 |
| TEACHING COMPETENCE A PERSONAL CONSTRUCT VIEW | Graham Johnson | May 1994 |
| A CONVERSATIONAL RESEARCH INTO SELF-ORGANISATION AND LITERACY LEARNING BY PUPILS WITH `EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIOURAL DIFFICULTIES’ | Hamid Sepehr | May 1994 |
| PRODUCTIVE LEARNING A STUDY OF MEANS AND METHODS OF INTEGRATING LANGUAGE LEARNING, EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATIONAL OPTIONS IN THE PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING MATERIALS THAT DERIVE THEIR CONTENT, FORM AND VALUE FROM THE DIRECT EXPERIENCE OF LEARNERS LEARNING | Terry Miles | October 1994 |
| THE SELF-ORGANISED-LEARNING OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN FREE ACCESS GROUPS STUDYING FOR ‘SERIOUS EXAMINATIONS’ | Steve Coombes | 1995 |
| A REFLECTIVE STUDY OF MODELS OF MANAGEMENT | Harold Norman Chell | November 1996 |
| ‘MORE CHANGE FROM THE BILL’ USING SELF-ORGANISED LEARNING IN ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE WITHIN THE METROPOLITAN POLICE | Charles Holleyman | 1996 |
| DIMENSIONS OF EMBODIMENT TOWARDS A CONVERSATIONAL SCIENCE OF HUMAN ACTION | David M. Mills | 1996 |
| EXPERIMENTING WITH SELF-ORGANISED LEARNING FOR ORGANISATIONAL GR0WTH – A PERSON-CENTRED APPROACH | Andrew Taylor | April 1997 |
| A LEARNING CONVERSATION APPROACH FOR TEACHER APPRAISAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT | Norma Hadfield | August 1997 |
| CONVERSATIONAL STRUCTURES IN ORGANISATION LEARNING: A SELF-ORGANISED LEARNING APPROACH TO COUNSELLING |
Lyn van Rheede van Oudtshoorn | September 1997 |
| ASSESSMENT AND LEARNING | Laurence Solkin | September 1998 |
| EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING AN EXPLORATION OF THE EFFECT OF ZEN EXPERIENCE ON PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION | Mary Thomas | April 1999 |
| READING-TO-LEARN MATHEMATICS | Chris Fenwick | August 2000 |
| LEARNING CONVERSATIONS IN HEALTH CARE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY: A NEW PARADIGM FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF STRUCTURES OF MEANING |
Peter G. Leatherdale | 2002 |
| THE PRACTICE AN EXPLORATION OF THE ROLE OF THE LEARNING COACH, AND LEARNING CONVERSATIONS, ON COMPUTING PROJECTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION | Brian D Morris | May 2003 |
| M. Phil | ||
| PHOTOGRAPHY, PERCEPTION AND LANGUAGE: TOWARDS A THEORETICAL GROUNDWORK FOR IMAGE EDUCATION | Andrew McTaggart | July 1982 |
| The Exchange Grid: A Repertory Test Instrument for Conversational Intervention into Dyadic Entanglement | Stephen Mendoza | January 1988 |
| A Learning-to-Learn approach in Foreign Languages | Vida Borras | January 1988 |
| A Study of a ‘Conversational Paradigm’ Approach to Psychotherapy: With Specific Reference to Cybernetic Concepts and Neuro-Linguistic Programming |
Ludwig Vogel | April 1996 |
| Body, Belief and Learning: An Experimental Investigation |
Richard Ives | September 1996 |