Research

Helena’s research interests are in the field of the learning and virtual learning environments and her research has been funded by the Teacher Training Agency. She has written on the subject of ICT in schools and higher education for journals and in books.

Publications

Published:

Campion, H (2004) ‘The School Environment’ In A Browne and D Haylock (eds) Professional Issues for Primary Teachers, London:Paul Chapman Publishing, pp 17-30

Campion, H (2004)         The Use of Space in 21st Century Education Culture. The Classrooms and Schools of the Future - A Perspective on Policy, Forum, Volume 46, No.1, pp 39-40

Gillespie, H (2006) Learning Technology in Schools: Overcoming the Barriers and

Identifying the Benefits.  London, David Fulton 

Gillespie, H (2006)  ‘Virtual Learning in Primary Science’.  In Warwick, P, ICT In Primary Science Buckingham, Open University Press

Gillespie, H (ed) (2007) Learning and Teaching with Virtual learning Environments. Exeter. Learning Matters

Harnett, P,  Gillespie, H,  Riley, M,  Harris, H  Webb, A, Wrenn, A (2007) Teaching Emotive and Controversial History.  London, Historical Association

Gillespie, H and Gillespie, R (2007) Science for Primary School Teachers. Buckingham, Open University Press

Gillespie, H (April 2008) Whiteboard Active Life in Tudor Times. London, BBC

Gillepsie, H and Wolllard, J (2009) Personalisation. The Association for Information Technology in Teacher Education.

Gillespie,H (2009) New Initiatives affecting Primary History. The Historical Association

Bradshaw,P and Gillespie, H (2009)  An evaluation of the use of the BBC News School Report project in initial teacher education. ITTE
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In Preparation:

Bradshaw,P and Gillespie, H and Younie,S (2010)  An evaluation of the use of the BBC News School Report project in initial teacher education. ITTE

Gillespie, H and Walker,R (2010) "Changing Spaces, Changing places" in Future Proofing Education: Transformative approaches to new technologies and student diversity in futures oriented classrooms. New York: Springer

Research Conference Papers

Gillespie, H (2004) The use of a virtual learning environment to support individual learning in initial teacher training. Annual Conference of the Association of Information Technology for Teacher Education.  Chester, July 2004

Walker, R and Gillespie, H (2004) Virtual Classrooms and the Persistence of Recitation – First International InnoEd conference. Leeds July 2004

Gillespie, H (2005)  With Pictures Too? The delivery of Multimedia content via a VLE. Annual Conference of the Association of Information Technology for Teacher Education.  Dundee, July 2005

Gillespie, H (2006) The potential of Virtual Learning. Annual Conference of the Association of Information Technology for Teacher Education.  Canterbury, July 2006

Gillespie, H (2007) The Media, Teachers and Technology – the debate continues ITTE Research Conference. Cambridge 2007

Gillespie, H (2010) The factors which future proof a classroom: How technologies and spaces merge. ITTE Research Conference. Cambridge 2010

Presentations  at Professional Conferences

Gillespie, H (October 2004 and October 2005)  Authentic ICT in the Early Years. Early Years and Primary Education Exhibition, Business Design Centre, London

Gillespie, H (May 2005) Developing Historical Vocabulary. The Historical Association Conference, Black Country Museum, Dudley

Gillespie, H (March 2006) Inclusive ICT. The Education Show, NEC Birmingham

Gillespie, H (May 2007) Fame and Fortune – teaching about famous people at KS1. The Historical Association Conference, Trinity All Saints, Leeds

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Sept 2009 – June 2010

Evaluation Report on BBC School Report TDA project

Commissioned by the TDA via ITTE (The Association for Information Technology in Teacher Education) this project will look in more detail at the impact on trainees learning of involvement with BBC News School Report. 40 training providers are expected to be involved this year.

March 2009 – July 2009

Evaluation Report on BBC School Report TDA project

Commissioned by the TDA via ITTE (The Association for Information Technology in Teacher Education) the impact of trainees’ involvement in the BBC News School Report Project was evaluated. 8 training providers were involved nationally and the report was used to plan the 09/10 project

September 2005 – September 2006

Interactive Whiteboards – development of pedagogy and practice in ITE

In association with RM’s CPD project and ITTE, the aim is to explore and develop the use of IWBs for trainee teachers.

Jan 2005 – July 2006

East of England E-Learning Communities of Practice

Working with a UEA team and the VLE provider Netmedia, the project seeks to develop trainee teachers’ use of a VLE as a tool for teaching and learning. The grant from the TTA is £20,000

July 2004 – July 2006

Science Subject Knowledge for Trainee Primary Teachers

The delivery of multimedia content via Virtual Learning Environments

Working with a UEA team to investigate the delivery of multimedia content via a virtual learning environment to support subject knowledge acquisition on the Primary PGCE. The grant from the TTA is £9705.

March 2004 – December 2006

Structures, management and process in initial teacher education: A systematic literature review and analysis of current research and knowledge.

Working with a team from UEA and The University of Warwick, the team aims to investigate the current research in the field of ITE. The project with follow the systematic review methodology and a final report will be produced. The grant from TTA is £74,495.

September 2003 – June 2005

The use of a virtual learning environment to support individual learning in initial teacher training

Working with 2 colleagues from UEA, the team is investigating how VLEs can support trainees on their PGCE, with regard meeting their individual needs. The findings will shape future practice in using the VLE on the Primary and Secondary PGCE courses. The findings also will be disseminated to partnership schools though a conference, and to regional ITT providers though regional meetings. The TTA are preparing a website for national dissemination of findings. The grant from TTA is £9550.

March 2003 – July 2004

Effective Mentoring Project

In conjunction with the Cambridge University, the project has collected a comprehensive resource of video material of trainee teachers and their mentors working in school. The team used this to produce 2 CD ROMs for use by training institutions and partnership schools to support effective mentoring practice. The grant from the Teacher Training Agency is £77,000.