Teaching

• EdD Professional Doctorate
• PhD/MPhil
• MA Education
• PGCE Primary Education
• BA (Hons) (QTS) Primary and Secondary
• FdA Professional Studies in Primary Education

Biography

After gaining a BA (Hons) in music and completing my PGCE, I taught for fifteen years in East Sussex, London, and abroad as a VSO volunteer teacher trainer in Nepal on a non-formal village education programme. I held various management roles in Primary Schools and have co-ordinated a number of subjects including science, mathematics, ICT and music. I left a post as Senior Teacher in September 2003 to join the University of Brighton, where I completed an MA Education.

Since joining the University of Brighton I have developed a research focus on teachers’ professional development with technologies and published widely in the field of technology, pedagogy and teacher education. I gained my PhD in 2011, and am interested in further research into teacher education and professional development.

I undertake peer reviews for international journals on technologies in education and was a member of the of the organising committee for the CAL 09 ‘Learning in Digital Worlds’ international conference held in Brighton, UK. I am also co-editor of the School of Education’s ejournal, Research in Education (R.Ed).

Research interests

• Professional knowledge and understanding of ICT in education
• Student teachers’ professional learning with technologies
• Pedagogy
• Creativity
• Narrative methodologies

Recent Research Projects

(2011) PhD - Narrative ecologies as a conceptual model for teachers’ professional learning with new technologies and media in primary education, funded by University of Brighton
(2009) Preparing Early Years Practitioners for the challenges of embedding the use of ICT into their professional practice, Funded by the TDA

Consultancy

E-Safety and young people - East Sussex Children & Young People’s Trust

Selected Publications

Books

Turvey, K. (Forthcoming) Narrative Ecologies: Teachers as Pedagogical Toolmakers, London: Routledge
Allen, J. Potter, J. Sharp, J. Turvey, K. (2011) (4th Ed) Primary ICT: Knowledge, Understanding and Practice, Exeter: Learning Matters

Journal Articles (peer reviewed)

• Turvey, K (In preparation) ‘Capturing and characterising convergence of social networking and professional practices in teacher education,’
• Turvey, K (2012) ‘Constructing narrative ecologies as a site for teachers’ professional learning with new technologies and media in primary education,’ E-learning & Digital Media, 9:1 
• Turvey, K (2010), ‘Pedagogical designs to capture the symbiotic nature of professional knowledge and learning about e-learning in Initial Teacher Education in the UK’ in Computers & Education, 54: 3, 783-790
• Turvey, K (2008), ‘Student teachers go online; the need for a focus on human agency and pedagogy in learning about e-learning in initial teacher education,’ in Education and Information Technologies, 13: 4, 317-327
• Turvey, K. (2006) Towards Deeper Learning through Creativity within Online Communities in Primary Education, Computers and Education, 46:3, 309-321
• Loveless, A., Burton, J. & Turvey, K. (2006) Developing Conceptual Frameworks for Creativity, ICT and Teacher Education, International Journal of Teaching for Thinking and Creativity, 1:1, 3-13
• Turvey, K. (2005) ‘Elearning, efacilitation, ecommunities, epedagogies: a professional standpoint based on evidence,’ Reflecting Education, 1:1,  24 – 40

Other publications and reports

• Turvey, K (2011) ‘The ethical challenges of researching primary school children’s online activities: A new ethical paradigm for the virtual ethnographer?’ An. Inst. de Ist. „G. Bariţiu” din Cluj-Napoca, Series Humanistica, tom. IX, 2011, p. 101–111, Available online: http://www.humanistica.ro/anuare/2011/Continut/Art%2007.pdf
• Turvey, K. Totraku, P. Colwell, J. (2010) ‘Preparing Early Years Practitioners for the challenges of embedding the use of ICT into their professional practice; what are the challenges?’ TDA
• Turvey, K. Totraku, P. Colwell, J. (2009) ‘It would have been useful to know about that piece of software!’ Research in Education, 2:1, 9-13
• Eastwood, R. & Turvey, K. (2008) ‘Equal opportunities or loaded dice? The 2007 Admissions Code after the Brighton and Hove adjudication,’ Research Intelligence, British Educational Research Association (BERA), 102, 20-21

Conferences

• Turvey, K (2009), ‘Pedagogical designs to capture the symbiotic nature of professional knowledge and learning about e-learning in Initial Teacher Education in the UK’ International Conference of Computer Assisted Learning (CAL, 2009), Brighton, UK
• Turvey, K. (2008) ‘ICT and Creativity: Realising the potential and recognising the limitations.’ Keynote given at international conference, ICT for Teaching & Learning ‘Creatively,’ November 2008, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil