Amanda Nuttall is an Associate Professor in the School of Education. She completed her DPhil study at the University of Oxford in 2023.  Her research is focused on understanding how teachers experience identity transitions and revisions when they engage in Master’s level research activity.  This research focus is influenced by her own experiences as a research-active teacher in disadvantaged schools, alongside recent work in developing research literacy for students, teachers and tecaher educators.

Amanda's research focuses on initial and continuing teacher education policy and practice, alongside conceptualisations of teachers’ professional work through a lens of social justice. Building on her PhD work she is developing research around the potential of universities as sites for transformational learning across porfessions. She is particulalry interested in exploring boundary crossing in spaces where class, gender and professional experiences intersect. Amanda is a qualititive researcher with interests and experience in diary methods, narrative and lived-experience led research.