Dr Madeleine Findon
Senior Lecturer MA Education (International Lead)
Education and Inclusion
email: m.findon@worc.ac.uk
Maddy started working at the University of Worcester in November 2023. She has worked in academia since 2011, starting at the University of Warwick and then more recently at the University of Birmingham. Prior to this, her background included working as an Early Years Professional and as a TESOL teacher in both the UK and Spain.
She mainly teaches on the MA Education, though she also contributes to the Education Studies and Special Educational Needs, Disabilities and Inclusion undergraduate programmes as well as supervising postgraduate research students. In particular, she has taken on the role of International lead for the MA, working with the growing number of international students who are choosing to study at Worcester.
As a result of this latter role, Maddy has been engaging in teaching, research and knowledge exchange activities concerning the internationalised and intercultural academic environment. She has collaborated with students on research and publications that foreground the experiences of international students and has contributed a strand on intercultural education to the Learning and Teaching in Higher Education programme. She is a member of the Decolonisation Working Group and has been building a peer-mentoring programme across the Department for Education and Inclusion to foster community and ease the adaption of students to the new academic environment.
Maddy completed her PhD in 2015, which investigated how creativity has been fostered through early years education systems in England and Catalonia. She continues to champion the early years sector and currently co-convenes the Leadership in Early Years Education Research Interest Group for BELMAS as well as the Leadership in Early Years Education Special Interest Group here at Worcester. This latter group has been successful in obtaining a BELMAS grant to enable them to develop a new network to support the development and practice of early years leaders.
Qualifications
- PhD – Education (University of Warwick)
- Postgraduate Award in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (University of Warwick)
- AFHEA
- MA – Educational Research Methods (University of Warwick)
- EYPS (University of Worcester)
- BA Hons – Early Childhood Studies (with Practitioner Options) (University of Worcester)
- TESOL (City College Coventry)
Teaching & Research
Teaching Interests
- EDST1203 - Education’s Past, Present and Future: Mapping Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- EDST3201 - Listener, Learner, Leader: becoming education change-makers
- MAED4101 – Research Methods in Education
- MAED4106 – Contemporary Issues in Education
- MAED4119 – Understanding and Developing Pedagogy
- SEND2108 – Becoming a Reflective Learner and Practitioner
Research Interests
- Leadership
- Early years
- Mentoring
- Resilience
- Creativity
- Inclusion
- Intercultural education
- Internationalisation
Publications
- Findon, M., Mahama, J., & Ojo, O. 2025. Share Your Voices: Capturing the perspectives of international students. Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal, 7(1), 269–289. Retrieved from https://sehej.raise-network.com/raise/article/view/1411
- Findon, Madeleine A., Malik, Rabiat. 2025 Chapter 11 Title: Global voices: empowering students for world-class education. Learner voices, perspectives, and positionings. Abingdon: Routledge. (in press)
- Findon, Madeleine A., Johnston-Wilder, Sue. 2025 Unit 1.3: developing your resilience: managing stress, workload and time. Learning to Teach, 10th edition. Abingdon: Routledge. (in press)
- Findon, Madeleine A. 2022. ‘The true cost of changing childcare ratios’. Social Sciences Birmingham blog, 21 July. Available at: https://blog.bham.ac.uk/socialsciencesbirmingham/2022/07/21/the-true-cost-of-changing-childcare-ratios/
- Findon, Madeleine A., Johnston-Wilder, Sue. 2022 Unit 1.3: developing your resilience: managing stress, workload and time. Learning to Teach, 9th edition. Abingdon: Routledge.
- Perry, T., Findon, M. and Cordingley, P., 2021. Remote and blended teacher education: A rapid review. Education Sciences, 11(8), p.453.
- Perry, T., Findon, M., Cordingley, P., Braim, B., Davison, I., Whatmore, T., Cottle, D., Anbreen, N., Crisp, B. 2020 Teacher Education Modality Rapid Review: Modes, Affordances and Evidence on Remote and Blended Initial and Continuing Teacher Education. STEM Learning. Available: https://thomasperry.education/2020/09/23/a-rapid-review-of-remote-and-blended-teacher-education-what-is-it-does-it-work-how-can-we-make-it-effective/.
- Youdell, D., Benson, S., Bhopal, K., Child, F., Day Ashley, L., Diamond, C., Findon, M., Grosvenor, I., Guldberg, K., Zhu, H., Jorgensen, C., Kitching, K., McGimpsey, I., Naseen, J., Pennacchia, J., Perry, T., Rumbold, K. 2020. The impact of COVID-19 on Education and Children’s Services – Inquiry. Written Evidence Submitted by the School of Education, University of Birmingham.
- Findon, Madeleine A. 2020. ‘Constructing a new reality: leadership lessons from other times of crisis’. Social Sciences Birmingham blog, 28 May. Available at: https://blog.bham.ac.uk/socialsciencesbirmingham/2020/05/28/constructing-a-new-reality-leadership-lessons-from-other-times-of-crisis/.
- Heshmati, H., Johnston-Wilder, S. and Findon, M. (2019). Developing Pre-service Maths Teachers’ Resilience Using the Growth Zone Model, IJIIE.
- Findon, Madeleine A., Johnston-Wilder, Sue. 2019. Unit 1.3: developing your resilience: managing stress, workload and time. Learning to Teach, 8th edition. Abingdon: Routledge.
- Findon, Madeleine A., Johnston-Wilder, Sue. 2018. Working together to promote academic safe-guarding. School Leadership & Management, 38, pp. 164-186.
- Findon, Madeleine A., Johnston-Wilder, Sue. 2017. Addressing the low skill levels of university undergraduates in the United Kingdom. Warwick Journal of Education Transforming Teaching, 1, pp. 36-54
External Roles
Co-convenor for Leadership in Early Years Education Research Group - BELMAS