Faculty:Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine and Social Care
School:Education and Social Care
Location: Chelmsford
Areas of Expertise: Education and teaching
Research Supervision:Yes
Philip is an experienced educator at both Secondary and Higher Education levels, with interests in a variety of aspects of education, and Science education in particular.
Having gained a BSc in Geology, Philip worked as a research scientist with the British Antarctic Survey, during which time he completed a PhD in palaeontology. He then spent a year as a post-doctoral researcher at the Université Claude Bernard, Lyon (France), and also carried out consultancy work.
Philip became a Science teacher in 1991, and taught in comprehensive schools in Cambridgeshire and Essex. For eight years, prior to moving to Anglia Ruskin University in 2009, he was the Head of Science at a large comprehensive school in Essex.
Philip would be pleased to consider supervising doctoral students with the following research interests/topics:
Holley, D. and Howlett, P., 2016. Engaging Our School Teachers: an Augmented Reality (AR) Approach to Continuous Professional Development. EAI Endorsed Transactions on e-Learning, 3(10): e3
Sentance, S., Howlett, P., Holley, D. and Miller, M. 2014. Supporting students on placement in developing observational skills using mobile technology. Networks, 17, 25-33.
Sentance, S. and Howlett, P. 2014. Streamlining practice-based monitoring: a solution for staff, students and placement mentors. Networks, 17, 57-62.
Holley, D., Hobbs, M., Howlett, P. and Sawyerr, W. 2013. 'The Chaotic Science Lab': Supporting trainee science teachers – a cross departmental project. Networks, 16, 51-57.
Such, C., Davis, G., Miller, M., Howlett, P. and Everett, C. 2012. Exploring the impact of training on the use of interactive whiteboards (IWB) and how lecturers integrate their use in Higher Education Classrooms. Networks, 15, 17-21
Holley, D., Howlett, P. and Rudman, N., 2016. Collaborate and create: co-designing a calmer classroom with children. Association of Learning and Technology Annual Conference: Connect, Collaborate, Create, University of Warwick, 6th-8th September 2016.
Howlett, P., Holley, D., and Rudman, N., 2016. Out of the mouths of babes. using children’s views in the preparation of training and development resources for student teachers. Anglia Ruskin University Annual Conference: Engage. 17th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, Chelmsford, 23rd June 2016.
Holley, D. and Howlett, P., 2015. Engaging Our School Teachers: an Augmented Reality (AR) Approach to Continuous Professional Development. 2nd EAI International Conference on e-Learning e-Education and Online Training (e-LEOT), Novedrate, Italy, 16th-18th September 2015.
Holley, D., Hobbs, M. and Howlett, P., 2015. Visual Transformations: developing Augmented Reality (AR) in the classroom. [Workshop]. Look/Make/Learn: Visual Transformations in Learning, Teaching and Assessment, The Association for Learning Development in HE Conference, London Metropolitan University, London, 12th May 2015.
Howlett, P., 2014. Animated learning as an alternative way of developing understanding [Workshop]. Anglia Ruskin University Annual Conference: Engage. 15th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, Cambridge, 1st July 2014.
Howlett, P. and Holley, D., 2014. Using visual approaches for qualitative research and (re)conceptualising science [Workshop]. Look/Make/Learn: Visual Transformations in Learning, Teaching and Assessment, The Association for Learning Development in HE Conference, London Metropolitan University, London, 28th January 2014.
Holley, D. and Howlett, P.J., 2013. ‘Tagging’ critical learning incidents for learning: a design for students on the move (apps). BERA Annual Conference, University of Sussex, Brighton. 3-5th September 2013.
Sentance, S., Howlett, P. and Holley, D. 2013. Supporting students on placement in developing observational skills using mobile technology. Anglia Ruskin University Annual Conference: Engage. 14th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, Chelmsford, 20th June 2013.
Sentance, S. and Howlett, P. 2013. Streamlining practice-based monitoring: a solution for staff, students and placement mentors. Anglia Ruskin University Annual Conference: Engage. 14th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, Chelmsford, 20th June 2013.
Holley, D., Howlett, P., Lee, C., Sentance, S. and Miller, M. 2013. Changing Places: learning on the move. Anglia Ruskin University Staff Research Conference, Cambridge, 15th January 2013
Holley, D., Hobbs, M., Howlett, P. and Sawyerr, W. 2012. Second life science lab. The Association for Information Technology in Teacher Education Summer Conference, St Anne’s College, Oxford, 5-7th July 2012.
Holley, D., Hobbs, M., Howlett, P. and Sawyerr, W. 2012. The chaotic classroom in 3D. Anglia Ruskin University Annual Conference: Engage. 13th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, Cambridge, 25th June 2012.
Such, C., Davis, G., Miller, M., Howlett, P. and Everett, C. 2011. Exploring the impact of training on the use of interactive whiteboards (IWB) and how lecturers integrate their use in Higher Education Classrooms. Anglia Ruskin University Annual Conference: Innovate.12th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, Chelmsford, 28th June 2011.