Dr Marguerite Muller

Marguerite Müller is a lecturer in Education and Society and leads the MA Education Management programme.

She holds a BA in Fine Arts, a PGCE, a Master's of Education, and a PhD in Higher Education studies. Marguerite has taught in various educational contexts from South Korea to South Africa.

In her research, she employs post-qualitative, narrative, participatory and arts-based inquiry to explore issues of educator identity and subjectivity in the higher education space. Her goals are to engage in innovative and accessible scholarship of education that contribute to a fair and just society for all.

Research and PhD supervision

Dr Muller's research interests include: 

• Social Justice in Education Leadership.
• Decolonisation and Decoloniality in Education.
• Creative Arts Education.
• Teacher Developmental Studies.
• Arts Based Inquiry.
• Narrative Inquiry.
• Participatory methods of inquiry.
• Visual methodologies.
• Self-study.
• Post-qualitative inquiry.

She is interested to supervise PhD students in the following areas: 

• Arts-based and post-qualitative educational research.
• Educator subjectivity and identity.
• Education transformation.
• Social Justice in Education.
• Decolonisation of Education.

Teaching

Dr Muller leads the MA Education Management on which she teaches the modules:

• Education Leadership
• Gender, Power and Inequality in Education Leadership

On the BA Social Sciences, Dr Muller teaches the 'Education for the 21st century: a global perspective' module.