Dr Betts Fetherston - Staff Profile
| Name | Dr Betts Fetherston |
| Contact Position | Senior Lecturer |
| Room and Building | Pemberton Building Rm P0.04f |
| Email Address | a.b.fetherston@bradford.ac.uk |
Biography
Teaching Awards
Baronness Lockwood Award for Distinguished Teaching, University of Bradford, 2009
Bradford University Teaching Fellow, 2009 (3-year appointment from 2010-2013)
British International Studies Association Higher Education Academy C-SAP Award for Teaching Excellence in International Relations, 2008
Administrative Responsibilities
2005-2009 Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research Areas
Peace Education, Critical Pedagogies, Transformative Learning, Peacebuilding, Transformative Conflict Resolution, Participation, Qualitative Methodologies
Research Projects
Project 1:'Educating for Peace: The Role of Transformative Learning In Meeting the Challenges of Peacebuilding'. Aim of project is to work in post-conflict areas developing ethical and effective curricula for peacebuilders based on the curriculum developed in Bradford. (current funding, £5000). Initial aim is to investigate the transformative potential of critical pedagogy through exit interviews of participants in Center for Peace Studies, Zagreb's 1-year peace studies programme (10 years of data).
Project 2: 'Educating Ethical and Effective Practitioners: Conflict Resolution as Critical Pedagogy.' Aim of project is to bring participatory critical pedagogy into teaching in Higher Education to more effectively prepare student to work ethically and effectively particularly in conflict and post-conflict areas. Involves interviews with students from the module 'Negotiating Praxis' asking the question, "how does transformative learning happen". This is directly linked with project 1, which takes the outcomes of project 2 and apply them in a post-conflict setting.
Project 3: 'Participation in Higher Education - participatory research project conducted on 2007-8 with 4 Third-year UG students'; funded by HEA C-SAP. Research on what limits/enables participation in higher education. Again issues around participation and engagement have resonance for projects 1 and 2. Conference paper: Fetherston, B., L. Ball, J. Kinsella, T. Lawfield and S. Walker, Sailing Down the River: (mis)Adventures in Participation, paper presented at the International Peace Research Association Conference, Leuven, Belgium, 14-18 July 2008. Further writing up and publication underway.
Project 4: Developing a 'Critical' Conflict Resolution Curriculum, 2005-7 - a project developed with Rhys Kelly which re-vamped our 1st year Undergraduate introductory Conflict Resolution module, attempting to create spaces for reflection and deep (and transformative) learning that would make it more likely students graduating from our programme would be ethical and effective practitioners. Paper listed above, Fetherston & Kelly (2007) and Kelly & Fetherston (2008) were the outcome. Funded by Bradford University's Teaching Quality and Learning Enhancement Group (TQEG).
Students Supervised
Barbara Mitchels - Trauma, therapy and conflict : posttraumatic stress and the process of peacemaking following the 1991-1995 war in Croatia, explored through the work of Adam Curle, PhD awarded, 2003.
Ceri Bowen - Intrapsychic conflict in response to trauma: understanding the individual subjective state with a view to linking it to the social/community levels, MPhil awarded, 2003.
Martha McManus – Resilience and war trauma : peacekeepers' perspectives, MPhil awarded, 2004.
Current PhD Supervision Students:
Rachel Muir - PhD Researcher (ESRC funded). Project Title: 'Conflict Resolution Theory Reconsidered: A Genealogical Analysis'.
Rick Wallace - PhD Researcher. Project Title: 'Conflict Transformation, Peacebuilding and Social Justice'.
Daniel Schaefer - PhD researcher. Project Title: 'Peacebuilding Efforts of LNGOs in former Yugoslavia'.
Dagona Zubairu - PhD Researcher. Project Title: 'The Effects of Personality and Gender on Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome Among Children: Implications for Conflicts and Peacebuilding'.
Heather Blakey - PhD Researcher. Project Title: 'Revitalising Local Democracy: the case of participatory budgeting in the UK'.
Mel Rohse - PhD Researcher. Project Title: 'Analysing storytelling as a practice of reconciliation in societies emerging from a protracted conflict'.
Bibliography
Fetherston, B., et al (2008) 'Sailing Down the River: (Mis)adventure in Participation', paper presented at International Peace Research Conference, Leuven, Belgium, 15-20 July 2008.
Kelly, R. & B. Fetherston (2008). 'Productive Contradictions: Dissonance, Resistance and Change in an Experiment with Cooperative Learning', Journal of Peace Education, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, pp. 97-111.
Fetherston, B. & R. Kelly (2007). 'Conflict Resolution and Transformative Pedagogy: A Grounded Theory Research Project on Learning in Higher Education', Journal of Transformative Education, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 262-285.
Fetherston, B., (2002) 'Double Bind: Essay on Counselling Training', Counselling and Pyschotherapy Research, Vol.2, No. 2, pp. 108-125.