Fiona Patrick is a senior lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. She is a member of the Cultures, Literacy, Inclusion and Pedagogy research and teaching group (CLIP) and of the University of Glasgow Educational Assessment Network. She has worked for several years in the university, developing knowledge and expertise of theory and practice in assessment and pedagogies.
Her research and scholarship is focused around two themes: the development of pedagogical reasoning as a core professional knowledge in teacher education, and understanding assessment in relation to curriculum and pedagogy. Her research on assessment focuses on the Camau i'r Dyfodol project which works with education professionals and policymakers in Wales to co-construct knowledge of learning progression and assessment in the context of the new Curriculum for Wales.
Fiona uses qualitative interpretivist approaches in her research and scholarship, and she has particular expertise in inductive thematic analysis and conducting narrative synthesis literature reviews.