Prospective PhD Students
If you are interested in studying for a PhD in an area that matches my research interest you are welcome to email me with ideas at paola.iannone@ed.ac.uk .
Current and Completed PhD students
Chiara Canclini Learning mathematics with Intercative Theroem Provers. To complete 2027
Samah Taha, Feedback in e-assessment. To complete 2026.
Saf Shah, Undergraduate Students’ Conceptions of Intuition and Rigour and their Awareness of the Roles of Proof. Completed 2025.
Mohammad Turk, A comparative case study of engineering undergraduates: An exploration of learners’ epistemological beliefs and professional identity development. Completed 2020
Thi Thu Huyen Nguyen, A study of implementation of authentic assessment in a range of professional courses in HoChi Minh City University of Pedagogy, Vietnam. Completed 2018
Breda O’Brien, Effective Teaching: Accounting students perspectives of post-primary and higher level education experiences. Completed 2015.
Peter Paul Okurut, Facilitating Conceptual Change through Classroom Intervention: Learning Fractions from Prior Knowledge in the Ugandan Educational and Cultural Context. Completed 2013
Che-Yu Shen, An Exploration of Students’ Construction of Meaning through Symbolic Manipulation and Table / Graph Use in Statistical Inference Tasks: The Cases of Normal and Distributions. Completed December 2013
Modh Faizal Niza Lee Abdullah, Communicating mathematically: self regulating strategies and mathematics learning in secondary school. Completed August 2011