Dr Terry Wassall
Principal Teaching Fellow in Sociology
I am a Principal Teaching Fellow in the School. In addition to teaching at both undergraduate and postgradute levels and assisting in the supervision of PhD students, I have particular responsibilies for developing and supporting the use of computer and information technologies in teaching and support of student learning.
Research Interests
My research interests are in the development of sociology theory as a scientific enterprise. My approach is centrally informed by the work of Norbert Elias and the critical realist perspective. Key concerns include: the development of a theoretically informed social research methodology and, more substantively, the relationship between society, the environment and ecological processes.
In addtion I am engaged in a number of projects investigating and developing e-learning techniques for supporting learning and teaching.
Presentations and papers on 'Web 2.0', social software and technology enhanced learning (TEL)
Promoting and supporting C&IT in the Curriculum: Bottom up meets top-down at the ALT-C 2001 Conference, Changing Learning Environments, Edinburgh, September 9-11, 2001.
Blogs and Wikis in Education:A WUN seminar in the e-learning series: Researching the Immediate World. University of Leeds. 16 March 2006
Web 2.0 and the Networked Learner: JISC RSC/YH E-learning Conference: Engaging the Digital Learner. National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford. 19th June 2006
Web 2.0, Personal Learning Environments and New Ways of Learning: The Learning Differently Conference. University of Central Lancaster. 26th - 30th June 2006
Using Weblogs as E-portfolios: JISC 1 day event: A Beginner’s Guide to E-portfolios. Leeds University. 27th March 2007
The Institutional Deployment of Web 2.0: JISC virtual conference Using Web 2.0 Technologies for Learning and Teaching. 30th April to 3rd March 2007.
Blending the learning and research ecologies: 5th Annual University of Leeds Learning & Teaching Conference: 10 & 11 January 2008.
Teaching
I teach social science research methods, particularly quantitative methods, to undergraduate and post graduate students. I also teach a sociology of the environment module and make contributions to other modules on topics related to social theory and the realtionship between social and ecological processes.
PhD Supervision
I jointly supervise PhD projects that are sociologically based investigations of environmental issues and problems
Contact Details
- Room: SSB 12.01
- Tel: 0113 3434434
- Email: t.wassall@leeds.ac.uk