Dr Kelly Dockerty
| Biography | Kelly is a Senior Lecturer in Education, Registered Scientist with the Association of Science Education, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is an active researcher, and an expert in scaffolding educators in their professional practice through leadership and mentoring. Kelly embraces the exceptional creativity in sharing knowledge through a process of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) across a range of knowledge bases and disciplines, at a local, regional, and international level. Kelly has published works to support educators and practitioners in primary schools with professional learning, sharing knowledge and expertise and aiding reflection on how professional identities are created in complex ways in a range of spaces. Kelly’s current research is examining how the quest for knowledge by educators in online and augmented spaces impacts on mental health, wellbeing, and developing professional identities. Kelly established the Conversation Interfaces Personalising Learning in Initial Teacher Training Project (CIPLiITT). These dialogic multimodal interfaces enable education students to engage in professional dialogue about key topics challenging learners in classrooms, where they can share known knowledge, enhance emergent knowledge and co-construct new knowledge to support their practice. Kelly's research interests include educators' professional lives and identity formation, STEM education, and policy analysis. She has expertise in narrative approaches to research using Life-History Interviewing as a method, and Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) as a tool for analysing narrative data. |
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| Scopus Author ID | 57209807738 |
| PhD Supervision Availability | Yes |
| PhD Topics | Kelly welcomes supervision in areas including educators' professional lives and identities, education policy and practice, science, outdoor learning, and STEM education. |