Dr Kelly Dockerty

Dr Kelly Dockerty

Senior Lecturer in Education and Registered Scientist (RSci)

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Arts Cultures and Education
  • School of Education

Qualifications

  • BSc (Northumbria University)
  • PGCert (University of Leeds)
  • PGCert (University of Hull)
  • MEd (University of Hull)
  • EdD (University of Sheffield)

Summary

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.

Recent outputs

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Journal Article

Ensuring children have the right knowledge and skills at the right time

Dockerty, K. (2024). Ensuring children have the right knowledge and skills at the right time. Primary science review : the primary science journal of the ASE, 15-17

Training teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic: using live video for observation of practicum

Dockerty, K. (2022). Training teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic: using live video for observation of practicum. Research on Education and Media, 14(2), 15-21. https://doi.org/10.2478/rem-2022-0017

Cross-curricular real-world sustainable dilemmas

Dockerty, K., & Gleisinger, J. (2022). Cross-curricular real-world sustainable dilemmas. Primary Geography, 34-35

Using video as a form of artistic communication: preparing for undergraduate assessment in Initial Teacher Education (ITE)

Dockerty, K. (2021). Using video as a form of artistic communication: preparing for undergraduate assessment in Initial Teacher Education (ITE). Research on Education and Media, 12(1), 22-33. https://doi.org/10.2478/rem-2020-0004

Developing pre-service teacher knowledge using online forums: supporting confident and competent teaching practices

Dockerty, K. (2019). Developing pre-service teacher knowledge using online forums: supporting confident and competent teaching practices. Journal of education for teaching : JET, 45(4), 402-416. https://doi.org/10.1080/02607476.2019.1639260

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

1-2-1 Academically asymmetrical paired mentoring: Improving GCSE science attainment amongst disadvantaged students

Funder

Education Endowment Foundation

Grant

£121,920.00

Started

1 January 2021

Status

Complete

Project

HEIF: Teacher to Researcher: supporting pupils mental health and well-being with a whole-school approach

Funder

University of Hull

Grant

£1,500.00

Started

1 March 2024

Status

Complete

Co-investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

ASCENTS 1-2-1

Funder

Education Endowment Foundation

Grant

£75,163.00

Started

1 January 2023

Status

Ongoing

Project

ECPE PPF: Engaging young people in the circular plastics economy

Funder

EPSRC Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council

Grant

£48,200.00

Started

1 October 2019

Status

Complete

Postgraduate supervision

Kelly welcomes supervision in areas including educators' professional lives and identities, education policy and practice, science, outdoor learning, and STEM education.

Journal peer reviewer

Research on Education and Media

2023

Membership/Fellowship of professional body

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

2019

Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)

2003

National/International learned society/body role

Registered Scientist (RSci)

2012

Recognition from the Association of Science Education (ASE)

Scholarship role

Inspired by Hull Award

2023

I was honoured to receive the award - Most Outstanding Contribution to Developing the Scholarship of Learning and Teaching

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