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Matt McLain

School of Education

Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies

Email: M.N.McLain@ljmu.ac.uk

Telephone: 0151 231 4622

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Matt works with collaborative partners in the School of Education for academic programmes, as well as research and scholarship projects. In recent years, he has worked with organisations in Cyprus (Κύπρος), the United Arab Emirates (الإمارات العربية المتحدة), Ireland (Éire), Malaysia (Malaysia/مليسيا), and Japan (日本), as well as visiting other countries including Kuwait (الكويت), Sweden (Sverige), China (中国), Peru (Perú) and Eqypt (مصر) to explore potential partnerships and knowledge exchange. His current academic and research interests include digital education and society, teacher education and development, and design and technology education.

Matt is an experienced teacher educator, having previously taught design and technology (D&T) in secondary schools for 12 years. He is passionate about all things learning, teaching and assessment! As an academic, Matt has experience in educational leadership and management, as well as working as a senior lecturer, educating the next generations of teachers, as excellent practitioners, valuing social inclusion, collaboration, leadership and research.

Matt is also an active member and Trustee of the D&T Association. As a curriculum influencer, he was involved with the redrafting of the National Curriculum (2014), advising on non-statutory guidance for the DfE’s D&T Expert Group for the new programmes of study and on the future of the subject. He has also advised on and contributed to the development of the 2017 GCSE and A/AS Level Subject Criteria for design and technology as a drafter for the DfE.

Matt is research active and completed his PhD by Published Work in December 2022, which focused on demonstration as a signature pedagogy in D&T. His other professional and research interests include subject knowledge development, curriculum design and philosophy of technology. He has recently been using a variety of qualitative and quantitative methodologies and methods in his research, including Q Methodology and systematic literature review, adopting a philosophical perspective influenced by Pragmatism.

Matt's key skills include:
■ Curriculum design, Pedagogy and didactics;
■ Design and technology education;
■ Educational research and leadership;
■ Consultation and consensus building;

Matt supervises postgraduare researchers, and is open to receiving PhD proposals in the fields of:
■ Design and technology education;
■ Signature, nomadic, and future pedagogies;
■ Teacher education and development;
■ Digital education and society;

Languages

English

Degrees

2022, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, Doctor of Philosophy
2011, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
2005, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom, MA Managing School Design and Technology
1998, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom, Postgraduate Certificate in Education – Secondary Design and Technology (11-18)
1992, Liverpool Polytechnic, United Kingdom, BA (Hons) Architectural Studies

Academic appointments

Senior Lecturer in Education and Professional Learning, School of Education, Liverpool John Moores University, 2021 - present
Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education, School of Education, Liverpool John Moores University, 2020 - 2021
Head of Secondary Programmes, Education, Health and Community: Teacher Education and Professional Learning, Liverpool John Moores University, 2014 - 2020
Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education (Design and Technology), Education, Health and Community: Teacher Education and Professional Learning, Liverpool John Moores University, 2009 - 2014
Advanced Skills Teacher (Design and Technology), Rainford High Technology College, 2005 - 2009
Head of Systems and Control, Rainford High Technology College, 2002 - 2005
Teacher of Design and Technology, De La Salle Roman Catholic High School, 1998 - 2002

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