Dr Sean Neill
Dr Sean Neill B.A., D.Phil
Associate Professor Research Methods
Institute of Education
Room WE019
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 8EE
Tel: 024 7652 3836
Email: sean.neill@warwick.ac.uk
Contribution to WRERU
Dr Sean Neill has specialised for many years on quantative analysis methods, including multilevel modelling, especially for surveys, as well as observational data. He is currently contributing to the REDCo European project on the analysis of questionnaires and on other quantitative data.
Research Interests
Affective education; Quantitative methods; IT and education; Non-verbal communication; Classroom interaction; Education in traditional societies; Educational policy;
Current Projects
Socrates – Eubuildit (Buildings telling European History), EU
The EuBuildIT project is a collaboration between universities, schools, institutions for teacher training and institutions for e-learning and museums from six European countries. Its objective is to show that buildings are a witness to European cultural heritage. For primary students the materials draw attention to features of buildings and ask children to interpret them; for secondary and tertiary students, in addition, attention is drawn to controversial issues within or between communities to which buildings present an enduring testimony. The project themes include religious and sacred buildings and how their place in cultural identity varies between European countries; this theme also links to themes in a previous Socrates project, NEOTHEMI, including the symbols in Coventry Cathedral, the Cathedral’s work on reconciliation, and work in Germany on virtual reconstructions of the synagogues destroyed during the Nazi era.
Information on religious buildings in Britain can be found here
Selected Publications
Neill,S.R.St.J (2008) Assessment of the NEOTHEMI virtual museum project - an on-line survey, Computers & Education, 50 (1), 410 - 420 (0360-1315)
Neill,S.R.St.J. (2007) The Origins of Virtue: should affective education pay more attention to the ‘biology of virtue', in Learning beyond Cognition, 115 - 132, Editors: Niels Kryger and Birte Ravn (ISBN 978-87-7684-169-0), Copenhagen: Danish University of Education Press
Neill,S.R.St.J. (2004) The past is a foreign country - they do things differently there, in NEOTHEMI: Cultural heritage and ICT, theory and practice, 22- 30, Editors: Karpinnen,S. (952-10-1287-0)
Katz,Y.J., Kontoyianni,A., Lang,P., Menezes,I., Neill,S.R.St.J., Puurula,A., Romi,S., Saccone,C., Vasileiou,L. & Vriens,L. (2003) North and South Contrasted: cultural similarities and differences in affective education, in The International Handbook on the Sociology of Education, 360- 380, Editors: Torres,C.A. & Antikainen,A. (0-7425 - 1770 - 5)
Neill S (2002) Symbols of citizenship, in Neothemi: Cultural Heritage and ICT at a Glance. http://www.edu.helsinki.fi/tt/neothemi/neothemi.pdf Helsinki: University of Helsinki, 113- 117, Editors: Karpinnen,S (952-10-0460-6)
