Dr Jamal Lahmar

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

School of Education

Director of the MA in Education

EDU - Jamal Lahmar
Profile picture of EDU - Jamal Lahmar
j.lahmar@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 8140
The Wave

Full contact details

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 Marshs Technology and Play and  projects.

Publications

Journal articles

  • Little S & Lahmar J (2024) . International Journal of Multilingualism.
  • Scott F, Parry B, Marsh J, Lahmar J, Nutbrown B, Scholey E, Baldi P, Law L & Yamada Rice D (2023) . Social Media and Society, 9(4).
  • Billington T, Gibson S, Fogg P, Lahmar J & Cameron H (2022) . British Educational Research Journal, 48(1), 95-119.
  • Marsh J, Lahmar J, Plowman L, Yamada-Rice D, Bishop J & Scott F (2021) . Journal of Early Childhood Research, 19(3), 283-297.
  • Marsh JA, Plowman L, Yamada-Rice D, Bishop J, Lahmar J & Scott F (2018) . British Journal of Educational Technology, 49(5), 870-882.

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, D羸rfj繹r簸 K, Ellis H, Erstad PO, Fashanu C , Hjartarson DT et al .
  • Marsh J, Beech A, Bishop J, Chesworth E, Ellis H, Fashanu C, Hyatt D, Kay L, Kontopodis M, Ktenidis A , Lahmar J et al .
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 , 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