Dr Elizabeth Malone

Dr Elizabeth Malone

Reader in Education, Pedagogy and Citizenship

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Biography

Dr. Elizabeth Malone is a Reader in Education, Pedagogy and Citizenship in the School of Education at MMU. She was recently awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in recognition of her compassionate curriculum work for students and staff. 

Prior to working at MMU, Elizabeth was the Head of Primary Programmes at John Moores University, where she had responsibility for the management and co-ordination of the various primary initial teacher training programmes, including Programme Leader responsibilities for the 3-7 and 5-11 postgraduate routes (Core and School Direct).

Before working at LJMU, Elizabeth taught primary school children in both in England, France and Taiwan. When employed as a qualified primary teacher, in England, her specialist subject was primary foreign languages, a research area within which she maintains an active interest.

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Research outputs

National and International Conferences

  • Malone, E., Ross, H., Wood, P. 2024. “Wobbly Wellbeing and Dyslexia”. British Education Research Association (BERA) Conference 
  • Malone, E., Ross, H., Wood, P. 2024. “Wobbly Wellbeing and Dyslexia: One School’s Experiences”.  Teacher Education Advancement Network (TEAN), Manchester. Conference 
  • Malone, E., Saini, P., Poole, H. 2023. “How Trainee Teachers’ Intersectionality Exacerbates Issues of Wellbeing.” Iceri2023 Proceedings, 16th Annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Seville.
  • Malone, E., 2017 “Intercultural Understanding: The renewed case for teaching in primary schools” British Education Research Association (BERA) Conference, Brighton Sept 
  • Malone, E., 2017. “Primary Foreign Languages Teacher Education Post -2010: Does the intercultural aspect matter anymore or more than ever?” Teacher Education Advancement Network (TEAN), Birmingham. 
  • Malone, E., 2016. ““I think it’s great, as long as I don’t have to teach it”: English Primary School Teachers’ Perspectives of Foreign Language Teaching.” 16th International Education Conference, Hawaii.
  • Malone, E., 2015. “Going back to school: What HE can learn from primary school.” Higher Education Academy Social Science–Inspire Conference, Manchester.
  • Malone, E., 2010. How to Motivate Students who are new to Chinese Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) Chinese Conference, London.
  • Malone, E., 2010Getting Started with Mandarin Centre International Language Teaching (CILT) Primary Languages Show 

Other Conferences

  • Malone, E., Wood, P., Meraz, M., Bresnahan, S., Berry, J., & Owen-McVey, A.  “School of Education Little Book of Hope”. Liverpool John Moores Students at the Heart Conference, Liverpool. [accepted for presentation in June 2024]
  • Malone, E., and Astbury, L. 2018 Supporting Primary School Teachers with Mental Health, LJMU Institute of Health Research Conference, Liverpool. 
  • Malone, E, and Astbury, L. 2017 Holding difficult conversations. LJMU Teaching & Learning Conference, Liverpool. 
  • Malone, E., Harlowe, G., Qershori, J., Johnson, C., and Bewes, L., 2015 Tackling Homophobic Bullying LJMU Teaching & Learning Conference, Liverpool. 

Publications

Books (Solo Authored)

  • Malone, E. 2020. Your Booksmart, School-Savvy, Stress-Busting Primary Teacher Training Companion. Sage Publications Limited. ISBN: 9781526494207.

Journal Articles

  • Wood, P. & Malone, E. (2024) ‘Gendering Emotions Work in Primary Schools: “Effortless” or “Important”?’ in Journal of Research in Childhood Education Full article: Gendering Emotions Work in Primary Schools: “Effortless” or “Important”? (tandfonline.com)
  • Malone, E. 2023. “How Trainee Teachers’ Intersectionality Exacerbates Issues of Wellbeing.” Education 3-13.
  • Beaumont, J., Putwain, D., Gallard, D., Malone, E., Marsh, H.W., Pekrun, R. 2023. “Students’ Emotion Regulation and School-Related Wellbeing: Longitudinal Models Juxtaposing Between- and Within-Person Perspectives.” Journal Of Educational Psychology.
  • Malone, E. 2022. “Primary foreign languages national curriculum expectations in England: implications for practice from the Ofsted curriculum research review for languages and the 24 languages subject inspections.” Education 3-13.

National Newspapers

  • Malone, E. 2022. “Five ways to teach foreign languages in key stage 1.” Times Education Supplement.
  • Malone, E. 2022. “Why a learning walk is a must for all governors post-pandemic.” Times Education Supplement.

National Reports

  • Malone, E. 2022. “Foreign Languages: School Practice.” Association for the Study of Primary Education Bulletin 
  • Malone, E. 2022. “Deja Vu: Where are we with foreign languages?” Association for the Study of Primary Education Bulletin 
  • Mistry, M., Malone, E. 2020. “What do parents feel about the impact of Covid-19 on supporting children learning from home?” Association for the Study of Primary Education Bulletin 

Podcast

  • Malone, E., 2022 Association Study Primary Education Déjà vu: Where are we with primary foreign languages? 

Press and media

Elizabeth was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2024: Dr Elizabeth Malone | Advance HE (advance-he.ac.uk)

Elizabeth was selected to be one of LJMU’s 200 bicentenary people: https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/bicentenary/our-people/elizabeth-malone/elizabeth-malone-profile