Dr David Wharton

I co-wrote (with Jeremy Grant) two well-regarded education textbooks for the British Film Institute: Teaching Auteur Study and Teaching Analysis of Film Language, and contributed a quarter of the entries to the Hodder A-Z of Media and Film Studies.

My fiction and poetry have appeared in various literary magazines. My novel, Finer Things, was published by Sandstone Press in 2019. I have recently finished another, based on true events in Victorian Leicester.

I will consider PhD projects on all aspects of English literature teaching, on creative writing pedagogy, on Lifelong Learning, and on media in education. I am also interested in culture change in educational institutions. My strong preference is for qualitative methodology. 

My current students are engaged in research on:

• Multimedia production as a teaching, learning and assessment tool in UK university English departments;
• Counselling as a strategy for countering the teacher recruitment and retention crisis in UK secondary schools;
• Creating a reading culture in a UK secondary school (A practice-based PhD).

At present, my slate of PhD students is more-or-less full. However, I might still be persuaded by a particularly well-developed and interesting research proposal, especially one relating to creative writing pedagogy.

BA (Hons) Literature: University of Essex

MA Modern Literature (Since 1850): University of Kent at Canterbury

PGCE English: University of Leeds

PhD English (Creative Writing) University of Leicester