Duncan McBride (MSc)

Lecturer in Teacher Education (Leadership and Learning)

Contact details

Address

Street

Charteris Land (Room 1.11)
Moray House School of Education and Sport
University of Edinburgh
Holyrood Road
Edinburgh
EH8 8AQ

City
Edinburgh
Post code

Availability

  • Monday - Friday

Biography

Background

As a secondary practitioner with over 17 years experience, I have worked in various roles and settings across the sector.  I am an educator at heart and believe firmly in the promise of education to enrich the lives of individuls whilst making a wider contribution to building and sustaining healthy communities and strong democratic societies.  As a  school leader, I worked to create opportunities for collaborative professional learning which supported practitioners to develop research-based practices in their classrooms, develop a culture that enables collaboration and reciprocal learning and strengthen our approach to engaging with, developing and sharing our pedagogical knowledge.  As such I have drawn on the work of others in the fields of practitioner enquiry, leadership of learning and developing cultures that support collaborative learning whilst developing my own skills and abilities in leading and managing sustainable change.  I have a strong commitment to social justice, equality and diversity in education and recognise the importance of supporting practitioners at all levels to embed these values at the heart of what we do so we can continue, collectively, to work towards a better future.

Qualifications

MEd Leadership and Learning (with Standard for Headship)

PGDE Secondary Education (Computing)

Bsc Information Technology

Responsibilities & affiliations

  • Early Phase Partnerships & ITE
  • Placement Unit and School based learning
  • Student support and engagement
  • Cohort Leads

Committees attended:

  • UG & ITE
  • Early Phase Group (EPPG)
  • TEP Steering Group
  • Learning & teaching innovation
  • Space and estates
  • Student experience and support
  • Place2Be steering group

 

 

Research summary

I am a lecturer in Teacher Education (Leadership and Learning).  My research interests include leading and facilitating collaborative professional learning, school leadership and school improvement with particular attention to prevalent and persistent themes such as identity, social justice and intersectionality.  I am particularly interested in how grand narratives of neo-liberalism and post-modernism are influencing discourse in education and the  consequences of this for policy and practice.  I believe in the transformative power of education and seek to support activism within the profession built upon a knowledge-rich foundation of critical thinking, enquiry and research based practice.

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