Dr Jamal Lahmar

BSc (Hons), PGCE, MA, PhD, SFHEA

School of Education

Director of the MA in Education

j.lahmar@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 8140

The Wave

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Dr Jamal Lahmar
School of Education
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH

Research interests: Jamal's research interests centre on affective aspects of epistemological development within a neoliberal educational frame, exploring socio-political influences on narratives of the self through the application of autoethnography and bricolage. Jamal also has a keen interest in quantitative methods in educational research, drawing on extensive experience as a statistical methods educator and analyst including Professor Jackie Marsh’s “Technology and Play” and MakEY projects.

Publications

Journal articles

Little S & Lahmar J (2024) Understanding parents’ pragmatic and emotional attachments to “their” language in multilingual family contexts: exploring self-assessment options for family well-being. International Journal of Multilingualism. View this article in WRRO
Scott F, Parry B, Marsh J, Lahmar J, Nutbrown B, Scholey E, Baldi P, Law L & Yamada Rice D (2023) Addressing the ‘whys’ of UK children’s YouTube use: a purposes approach. Social Media and Society, 9(4). View this article in WRRO
Marsh J, Lahmar J, Plowman L, Yamada-Rice D, Bishop J & Scott F (2020) Under threes’ play with tablets. Journal of Early Childhood Research. View this article in WRRO
Marsh JA, Plowman L, Yamada-Rice D, Bishop J, Lahmar J & Scott F (2018) Play and creativity in young children's use of apps. British Journal of Educational Technology, 49(5), 870-882. View this article in WRRO
Billington T, Gibson S, Fogg P, Lahmar J & Cameron H () Conditions for mental health in education: Towards relational practice. British Educational Research Journal.

Reports

Payne MI, Fashanu C & Lahmar J (2017) Nurturing Roma Pupils at Secondary School: A Longitudinal Study at Firth Park Academy, Sheffield

Datasets

Marsh J, Arnseth DHC, Beech A, Bishop J, Blum-Ross DA, Chesworth E, Dýrfjörð K, Ellis H, Erstad PO, Fashanu C , Hjartarson DT et al Makerspaces in the Early Years: Current Perceptions and Practices of Early Years Practitioners, Library and Museum Educators and Makerspace Staff - A Survey.
Marsh J, Beech A, Bishop J, Chesworth E, Ellis H, Fashanu C, Hyatt D, Kay L, Kontopodis M, Ktenidis A , Lahmar J et al UK (Sheffield) (Makerspaces in the Early Years).

Teaching activities

Jamal teaches research methods across a number of courses for the School of Education including the BA in Education, Culture and Childhood, MSc Psychology and Education (Conversion) and MA in Education.

His taught programmes cover a broad range of research skills including computer-aided analysis using IBM SPSS.

Jamal contributes to programmes across the school in matters related to research supervision and statistical skills. He also works for the Sheffield Q-step programme, supporting quantitative methods teaching across the Faculty of Social Science.

Jamal is a qualified teacher of secondary mathematics and teaches on the Mathematics Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) programme along with the follow-on MA Applied Professional Studies in Education course.

He leads sessions exploring contemporary issues in mathematics education, teaching with digital technologies and action-research methodologies. Prior to working in higher education, Jamal was a teacher of GCSE and A-level Mathematics and Learning Coordinator for A-level Statistics at a Sixth-Form College.

Professional activities and memberships

Fellow of the Sheffield Methods Institute
Resource developer for the Sheffield Q-step centre – supporting quantitative methods teaching across the Faculty of Social Science
Marie Skowdowska Curie Research Fellow on the Makerspaces in the Early Years (MakEY) project