Lindsey Smethem

Contact

• workRoom B88 Dearing
  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
• work0115 951 4460
• fax0115 951 4599
• lindsey.smethem@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Lindsey's research interests revolve around teachers' work and lives and include recruitment and retention of teachers; initial teacher education; induction of newly qualified teachers; mentoring beginning teachers; professional development of teachers; building resilience in beginning teachers; modern languages education.

Expertise Summary

Lindsey Smethem is a member of the Centre for Research in Schools and Communities. She currently teaches on the Graduate Teacher Programme; she supervises MA and PhD students and students on the Professional Doctorate (EdD) in Education. She has taught on the one-year PGCE course and the flexible PGCE courses. She coordinated the School of Education's NQT Support Programme for three years until 2004. She was the University of Nottingham coordinator of an EU funded Lingua project which developed teaching approaches and materials for 'Staging Foreign Language Learning' (2001-2004). Partners in this project were the Niedersächsisches Landesinstitut für Fortbildung and Weiterbildung im Schulwesen und Medienpädagogik (coordinating institution), Universidade Catolica Portuguesa - Centro Regional das Beiras - Polo de Viseu, Cornelsen Verlag and Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza, Poznan (Kolegium Jezykow Obcych UAM).

Lindsey Smethem is currently Course Leader for the Graduate Teacher Programme.

Lindsey is a qualified teacher and has 15 years experience of teaching modern languages in the maintained secondary sector, 11 of these as head of department.

Her doctoral thesis investigated beginning teachers' perspectives on teaching as work, induction, retention and career trajectory.

Research Summary

Lindsey's doctoral thesis was on induction and early professional development of newly qualified teachers of modern languages. She has written articles and given conference papers on this study. Her… read more

Recent Publications

• DAY, C. AND SMETHEM, L., 2010. Partnerships between schools and higher education.. In: VERLOOP, N., ed., International Encyclopedia of Education 3rd ed. Elsevier. (In Press.)
• DAY, C. AND SMETHEM, L, 2009. The effects of reform: have teachers really lost their sense of professionalism?. In: Journal of Educational Change 2-3. 10. Springer Netherlands. 141-157 (In Press.)
• SMETHEM, L., 2007. Retention and intention in teaching careers: will the new generation stay? Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice. 13(5), 465-480
• SMETHEM, L., 2007. Teaching: a life-long profession?: the effects of work-life on the new generation of teachers Nottingham: Nottingham Jubilee Press. Available at: <http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/shared/shared_edu/pdfs/research_pdfs/978-1-906235-03-1lsmethem.pdf>

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Lindsey is a member of the Centre for Research in Schools and Communities. Her research supervision areas include:

• routes into teaching
• mentoring during initial teacher education
• induction
• early and continuing professional development of teachers
• modern languages education

Research proposals: please email Lindsey if you would like to discuss the appropriateness of your research topic. See also: School of Education research supervision areas.

Current Research

Lindsey's doctoral thesis was on induction and early professional development of newly qualified teachers of modern languages. She has written articles and given conference papers on this study. Her research interests include routes into teaching, mentoring during Initial Teacher Education, Induction and Continuing Professional Development of teachers.

• DAY, C. AND SMETHEM, L., 2010. Partnerships between schools and higher education.. In: VERLOOP, N., ed., International Encyclopedia of Education 3rd ed. Elsevier. (In Press.)
• DAY, C. AND SMETHEM, L, 2009. The effects of reform: have teachers really lost their sense of professionalism?. In: Journal of Educational Change 2-3. 10. Springer Netherlands. 141-157 (In Press.)
• SMETHEM, L., 2007. Retention and intention in teaching careers: will the new generation stay? Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice. 13(5), 465-480
• SMETHEM, L., 2007. Teaching: a life-long profession?: the effects of work-life on the new generation of teachers Nottingham: Nottingham Jubilee Press. Available at: <http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/shared/shared_edu/pdfs/research_pdfs/978-1-906235-03-1lsmethem.pdf>
• SMETHEM, L. and ADEY, K., 2005. Some effects of statutory induction on the professional development of newly qualified teachers: a comparative study of pre- and post-induction experiences Journal of Education for Teaching. 31(3), 187-200
• SMETHEM, L.A., 2003. Listening. In: JIMÉNEZ RAYA, M. and LAMB, T., eds., Differentiation in the modern languages classroom Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 55-68