Dr Deborah Seward, PhD
- Senior Lecturer (Primary and early years education) PGCE Primary Cohort Leader, Carlisle Campus.
- Institute of Education
- Education

- Email: deborah.seward@cumbria.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1228 616051
- Location: Carlisle - Fusehill Street
Qualifications and memberships
PGCiLTHE
MA Education
PhD Education Research
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Professional Affiliate of the Chartered College of Teaching
Academic and research interests
Student teacher identity development
Leadership and management
Student and children's learning
Publications
Seward, D. and Renwick, A. (2012) Feeling like a teacher in the making: Teacher Identity in Year One Undergraduate Teacher Education [Power-point presentation BERA Symposium] University of Cumbria. 6 September.
Seward, D. and Renwick, A. (2013a),’”Choosing some teacher cardigans”: Teacher identity in year one of an undergraduate early years teacher education programme’, Tean Journal 5(3), pp. 17-26.
Seward, D. and Renwick, A. (2013b) Replacing the Cardigan: Teacher Identity in Year Two Undergraduate Initial Teacher Education Students. [Power-point presentation BERA] University of Cumbria. 5 September.
Seward, D. (2018) Creating Waves: undergraduate student teacher identity development [Power-point presentation LED] University of Cumbria. 23 May.
Seward, D. (2018) Undergraduate student teacher identity development: transformation, consolidation or rejection? [Power-point presentation ECER] University of Cumbria. 7 September.
Recent external roles
Primary school governor