Dr Jenny Hallam

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Job title: Lecturer in Psychology

Email: j.hallam@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: (01332) 593060
Room: N204a

Recent publications

Barlow, C. M., Jolley, R. P. and Hallam, J. L. (2011). Drawings as Memory Aids: Optimising the Drawing Method to Facilitate Young Children's Recall. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 25, 480-487.

Hallam, J., Das Gupta, M., and Lee, H.A.N. (2011) Painting dinosaurs - the ways in which a Reception class context shapes and limits children's opportunities to creative expressive art. Chapter in Faulkner, D. & Coates, E. (Eds) Exploring Children's Creative Narratives London, Routledge.

Hallam, J., Das Gupta, M., and Lee, H. (2008) An Exploration of Primary School Teachers' Understanding of Art and the Place of Art in the Primary School Curriculum. Curriculum Journal. Vol 19(4).

Hallam, J., Das Gupta, M., and Lee, H. (2011): Shaping children's artwork in English primary classes: insights from teacher-child interaction during art activities, International Journal of Early Years Education. DOI:10.1080/09669760.2011.629489

Hallam, J., Lee, H., and Das Gupta, M. (2012). Multiple interpretations of child art-the importance of context and perspective. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Vol 6(2), 185-193.

Hallam, J., Lee, H., and Das Gupta, M. (2011). An Investigation into the ways in which Art is taught in English Reception classes. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Vol 5(2), May 2011, 177-185.

Hallam, J., Lee, H., and Das Gupta, M. (2009) An Analysis of the Presentation of Art in the British Primary School Curriculum and its Implications for teaching. Chapter in S. Herne and S. Cox (Eds) Readings in Primary Art Education. Bristol: Intellect Books

Hallam, J., Lee, H., and Das Gupta, M. (2007) An Analysis of the Presentation of Art in the British Primary School Curriculum and its Implications for teaching. International Journal of Art and Design Education 26.2 pp 206 - 214

Richardson, M., and Hallam, J., (in press)Exploring the Psychological Rewards of a Familiar Semi-Rural Landscape: Connecting to Local Nature Through a Mindful Approach. The Humanistic Psychologist

Faculty: Education, Health and Sciences

School: School of Science

Subject Area: Psychology

Teaching responsibilities

I teach on the online and campus based undergraduate degree programmes. Most of my teaching focuses on qualitative research methods and I am the qualitative subject lead. I also teach Developmental Psychology, Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology and Social Psychology.

Professional interests

I completed my PhD 'A Critical Analysis of Art Education in English Primary Schools' at Staffordshire University in 2008. My PhD research used ethnographic methods informed by social constructionism to explore the educational contexts which shape children's artistic development. The thesis brought a new research approach to the study of child art within developmental psychology and sought to identify educational practices which could be detrimental to the development of expression in children's artwork.

Research interests

My current research interests centre on -

1) Exploring children's experiences of art in the classroom and how children would like to see art taught.

2) Designing, implementing and evaluating art interventions designed to enable primary teachers to teach art more effectively.

3) Investigating how art is taught and evaluated by teachers working in different educational systems (State, Steiner and Montessori).

4) Examining how child artists and non artists conceptualise artistic processes.

5) Young people's involvement with community art projects

Recent Conferences

Brady, K. and Hallam J. (2012) Taking Away Children's Innocence: A Foucauldian discourse analysis exploring parents' concerns about the premature sexualisation of children. Paper presented at the Applied Qualitative Research Conference, Derby 21st June.

Hallam, J., Hewitt, D. and Buxton, S. (2012). An exploration of children's experiences of art in the classroom. Paper presented at The International Journal of Art and Design Education Conference, Liverpool 19^th-20th October

Hallam, J, Hewitt, D., and Buxton, S. (2010) Exploring children's experiences of art in the classroom Paper Presented at BPS Psychology of Education Section Annual Conference Milton Keynes 12th-14^th November

Hallam, J., Lee, H., and Das Gupta, M., (2009) Creating creative approaches to art teaching: the need for training Paper Presented at BPS Psychology of Education Section Annual Conference, Preston, 31^st October - 1^st November.

Hallam, J., Lee, H., and Das Gupta, M., (2009). The Social Mediation of Artistic Processes in English Primary School Classrooms. Paper Presented at the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction. University of Amsterdam, 25^th - 29^th August.

Hallam, J., Lee, H., and Das Gupta, M., (2008) Exploring the Co-creation of Child Art in an Educational Context. Paper Presented at BPS Developmental Psychology Section Annual Conference, Oxford Brookes University, 1-3 September.

Hallam, J. and Sunney, C. (2010). Inner knowing and spiritual knowledge: An investigation into the construction of religion and unstructured spirituality. Paper presented at the Exploring the Extraordinary conference York 24 - 25 September

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