Dr Sarah-Louise Jones

Dr Sarah Jones

Reader in Global Education

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Arts Cultures and Education
  • School of Education

Qualifications

  • BA
  • MA
  • PGCert
  • PhD / DPhil

Summary

In addition to being the Academic Lead for Education Studies and TESOL in the School of Education, Sarah is also the Programme Director for the Online Masters in Education, supervises a range of PhD and EdD students and is the PI on two externally funded international research projects. Sarah is also leading the team developing the Global Competence Framework for the University of Hull.

Nationally, Sarah is the outgoing Vice Chair at the professional Association for Information Technology in Teacher Education (now TPE), which liaises with the UK government and other national agencies on technology and policy in education.

Internationally, Sarah is the RDC Chair on Global Education at the Association of Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE). She is also the Founder and Trustee of the Education Futures Collaboration, a professional charity for educators at all levels across the international stage, who wish to work collaboratively to improve the quality of education worldwide through evidence-based research (see www.MESHGuides.org).

She also has considerable experience and interest in working in rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa.

In 1997, Sarah was a member of the successful First All-Female Expedition to the Geographic North Pole via the Canadian Arctic and subsequently received the 1997 UK Woman of the Year Award.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals:

SDG 4 - Quality Education

SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities

SDG 17 - Partnership for the Goals

Recent outputs

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Book Chapter

Global Competence Education Strategies: A View from around the World and Considerations for Implementation

Briga, E., Jones, S., Howland, C., & Liles, M. (2023). Global Competence Education Strategies: A View from around the World and Considerations for Implementation. In C. Ullom, & N. Guler (Eds.), At School in the World: Developing Globally Engaged Teachers. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield

The Nonformal Education Sector and Global Competence Education

Howland, C., Jones, S., Liles, M., & Rey Vasquez, C. (2023). The Nonformal Education Sector and Global Competence Education. In C. E. Ullom, & N. Guler (Eds.), At School in the World: Developing Globally Engaged Teachers. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield

Supporting Research Informed Teaching using a Mobile Application

Connolly, C., Jones, S., Hall, A., & Procter, R. (2022). Supporting Research Informed Teaching using a Mobile Application. In E. Baumgartner, R. Kaplan-Rakowski, R. E. Ferdig, R. Hartshorne, & C. Mouza (Eds.), A Retrospective of Teaching, Technology, and Teacher Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic (195-199). USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education

Journal Article

Young peoples' perceptions of digital, media and information literacies across Europe: gender differences, and the gaps between attitudes and abilities

Jones, S. L., & Procter, R. (in press). Young peoples’ perceptions of digital, media and information literacies across Europe: gender differences, and the gaps between attitudes and abilities. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/1475939X.2023.2210152

Assessing global competence within teacher education programmes. How to design and create a set of rubrics with a modified Delphi method

Parmigiani, D., Jones, S. L., Silvaggio, C., Nicchia, E., Ambrosini, A., Pario, M., …Sardi, I. (2022). Assessing global competence within teacher education programmes. How to design and create a set of rubrics with a modified Delphi method. SAGE Open, 12(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440221128794

Research interests

Sarah’s main research interest is in the field of Global Education, including Global Citizenship, Global Competence, Education for Sustainable Development, Planetary Citizenship and the like. As a research-practitioner, she is interested in ‘shifting pedagogies’ which can be disaggregated into three areas of focus which are interlinked and have enabled her to win external funding for international research projects. Her research investigates the way emerging Global Education pedagogies are transforming teaching practices, student learning experiences and educational opportunities in different contexts, locally, nationally and internationally. Her own PhD investigated the notion of pedagogic shift and transformational change in international partnerships and collaborations.

Three Interlinked Research Interests:

•Global Education, Global Citizenship, Global Competence, Education for Sustainable Development

•Translational Research in Education

•Education and Community Engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa

ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6218-0882

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Global Competence in Teacher Education

Funder

EC European Commission

Grant

£90,971.00

Started

1 September 2019

Status

Ongoing

Project

Building a Research Infrastructure for School Teachers

Funder

EC European Commission

Grant

£69,589.00

Started

1 September 2019

Status

Ongoing

Project

GCRF 2019 PPF17: Enabling scalability of the reading to learn methodology in STEM education using video observations in South African township schools

Funder

00 University of Hull

Grant

£13,089.00

Started

1 February 2019

Status

Complete

Project

Erasmus - International Skills Inventory and Training Programme for Global Citizens

Funder

EC European Commission

Grant

£154,616.00

Started

1 September 2015

Status

Complete

Project

QR - GCRF - PPF12 - Understanding the transformational potential of Community Engagement Projects within a South African educational landscape

Funder

00 University of Hull

Grant

£11,845.00

Started

1 December 2019

Status

Complete

Co-investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Learning without borders (Thailand)

Funder

British Council

Grant

£45,200.00

Started

1 March 2017

Status

Complete

Project

Designing and Evaluating Innovative Mobile Pedagogies

Funder

British Council

Grant

£116,950.00

Started

1 September 2017

Status

Complete

Postgraduate supervision

Sarah welcomes applications associated with:

•Global Education

•Global Citizenship

•Global Competence

•Education for Sustainable Development

•Intercultural Competence

•Planetary Citizenship

•Cosmopolitanism

•Cultural Intelligence

Awards and prizes

UK Woman of the Year 1997

1997

Awarded UK Woman of the Year 1997 for being a member of the First All Female Expedition to the Geographic North Pole.

Charity role

Trustee and Founder of The Education Futures Collaboration Charity

2011

Membership/Fellowship of professional body

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Authority

2016

National/International learned society/body role

RDC Chair of Global Education

2021

The Research and Development Community Chair on Global Education at the Association for Teacher Education in Europe

Other

First All Female Expedition to the Geographic North Pole - Penguin Delta

1997

Team member of the First All Female Expedition to the Geographic North Pole (February to May 1997) - also known as The McVite's Penguin Polar Relay. It took 73 days to pull 150lb sleds across 500 miles (800 km) of shifting pack ice in temperatures as low as minus 40 °C, not including wind chill.

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