Professor Rosemary Webb BA(Hons), MA, PhD, TCert
Professorial Research Fellow (part-time)
Email: rosemary.webb@manchester.ac.uk
I have had a varied career in primary education including teaching for twelve years in infant, primary and middle schools and working as a professional officer for primary education at the National Curriculum Council. I have researched and published widely on the impact of government education policy particularly on primary education. Recent research projects include home-school support workers and pupils disaffected from school (HO and DfES), key workers for disabled children (Treasury Evidence Based Policy Fund, DfES and DoH), comparative studies of educational reform in England and Finland (Finnish Ministry of Education) and the impact of New Labour education policy on primary teachers work (ATL). I am on the Steering Committee, and was a past chair, of the Association for the Study of Primary Education (ASPE) and convene the BERA/ASPE Special Interest Group on Primary Teachers Work. I am on the editorial board of the British Educational Research Journal and Education 3-13.
Main research interests
Primary/elementary education (especially the impact of government reform on primary school teachers' work, teaching and learning at KS2 and leadership and management) and inclusion in both the primary and secondary phase.
Selected recent publications
Webb, R. (ed.) (2006) Changing Teaching and Learning in the Primary School. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Webb, R. and Vulliamy, G. (2006) The impact of New Labour's education policy on teachers and teaching at key stage 2, Forum, 48 (2): 145-157.
Webb, R., Vulliamy, G., Sarja, A. and Hämäläinen, S. (2006) Globalisation and leadership and management in primary schools: a comparative analysis of England and Finland, Research Papers in Education, 21 (4): 407-432.
Greco, V., Sloper, P., Webb, R. and Beecham, J. (2006) Key worker services for disabled children: the views of staff, Health and Social Care in the Community, 14 (6): 445-452.
Webb, R. (2005) Leading teaching and learning in the primary school: from 'educative leadership' to 'pedagogical leadership', Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 33 (1): 64-91.
Locke, T., Vulliamy, G., Webb, R. and Hill, M. (2005) Being a 'professional' primary school teacher at the beginning of the 21st century: A comparative analysis of primary teacher professionalism in New Zealand and England, Journal of Education Policy, 20 (5): 555-581.
Webb, R., Vulliamy, G., Hämäläinen, S., Sarja, A., Kimonen, E. and Nevalainen, R. (2004) A comparative analysis of primary teacher professionalism in England and Finland, Comparative Education, 40 (1): 85-109.
Webb, R., Vulliamy, G., Hämäläinen, S., Sarja, A., Kimonen, E. and Nevalainen, R. (2004) Pressures, rewards and teacher retention: a comparative study of primary teaching in England and Finland, Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 48 (2): 169-188.
Vulliamy, G., Webb, R., Locke, T. and Hill, M. (2004) Primary pedagogy and teacher professionalism: a comparative analysis of England and New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 39 (2): 255-274.
Webb, R. and Vulliamy, G. (2003) Bridging the cultural divide: the role of the home-school support worker, British Educational Research Journal, 29 (3): 285-305.
Vulliamy, G. and Webb, R. (2003) Reducing school exclusions: an evaluation of a multi-site development project, Oxford Review of Education, 29 (1): 33-49.
Vulliamy, G. and Webb, R. (2003) Supporting disaffected pupils: perspectives from the pupils, their parents and their teachers, Educational Research, 45 (3): 275-286.