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Dr Memory Malibha Stratton

Profile summary

  • Research Staff
  • Post Doctoral Fellowship
  • Faculty of Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies
  • School of Education, Childhood, Youth & Sport
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Professional biography

Dr Memory Malibha-Stratton is a post-doctoral fellow at the Open University in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language and Sport (WELS). She completed her doctoral research in 2020 on the use of personalised audio recordings by students while studying. This research has contributed to the understanding of how some students use digital media to craft socio-culturally inclusive learning spaces, access role models, personalise their learning experiences and construct more resilient learning narratives and identities – to better engage with their education.

 Background

Memory’s taught across secondary and tertiary levels at schools, colleges and universities in London and East Yorkshire. She has contributed to research projects in industry, NGOs and at universities.

Research interests

  • Student educational failures at secondary and tertiary levels
  • Teacher interventions, strategies and resources
  • Educational development and policy (Global South and North)
  • Learning identities, trajectories, experiences and agency
  • Media and technology for increased educational engagement, crafting learning environments, access to community and inclusion

Teaching interests

  • Undergraduate and postgraduate research methods
  • Academic study skills
  • Project research
  • Theoretical frameworks

Impact and engagement

Current Research and Development Activities 

Pilot study: collaborative research with educational practitioners and their students to address educational failure(s).

Research goals:

  1. To identify and assess the needs of students with educational failures, outside of academic support.
  2. To identify effective resources and strategies for teachers to help support and transform students’ educational experiences and engagement.
  3. To transform the educational experiences of students with a negative perception towards education, their learning identities, trajectories and agency.

 

Previous Research and Development Activities 

‘Safer places to learn,’ GPE-KIX Asia, The Open University and FIT-Ed, August 2023

Communities of Excellence Programme (CEP), The power of community collaborations to improve children’s learning and wellbeing, Centre for the Study of Global Development, The Open University and The Education Commission, April 2023 – July 2023

"Building a better picture" – Practitioners’ views of using a listening approach with young disabled children, The Open University, 2020

The Listening Practices Of Secondary School Students Whilst They Are Studying, Doctoral thesis, The Open University, 2020

Plasma mEV levels in Ghanain malaria patients with low parasitaemia are higher than those of healthy controls, raising the potential for parasite markers in mEVs as diagnostic targets, London Metropolitan University, The University of Hull, University of Ghana, The University of Hertfordshire, 2020

Gender Equality Audit and Monitoring (GEAM), ACT project, AdvanceHE and HORIZON2020, 2019

Round three supported work to address hate crime and incidents on the grounds of religion or belief and involved a network of 11 projects, AdvanceHE and Office for Students (OfS), 2019

The attainment rates of biomedical undergraduates by ethnicity, gender, language acquisition and educational history, London Metropolitan University, 2011-2012