Dr Andri Christodoulou BA, MA, MRes, PhD
Lecturer
Dr Andri Christodoulou is Lecturer within Southampton Education School at the University of Southampton.
Andri joined the University of Southampton as a lecturer in Education in 2011, after completing postgraduate and doctoral studies in science education. Their research focuses on how teachers' classroom discourse can support science learning, especially in relation to the use of argumentation as an instructional approach.
Dr Christodoulou is interested in how teachers' professional learning can be formulated, implemented and sustained in order to provide productive classroom discourse practices and successful science learning within primary and secondary classrooms. They have previously conducted research on argumentation and dialogic teaching practices within secondary science classrooms, on science inquiry practices in primary and secondary education, and on how argumentation and inquiry practices can be used as pedagogical approaches within socio-scientific issues-based education.
Before coming to Southampton, Andri taught in different contexts and to various age groups teaching in primary schools in Cyprus, language teaching in post-compulsory education whilst studying in London, and teaching modules on qualitative data analysis whilst at King’s College London. At Southampton Education School, they have taught and acted as placement tutor for trainee teachers on our Primary PGCE and Secondary Science PGCE courses.
They were the programme director for the MSc Education programme (2017-2020) and an associate programme director for the same programme (2014-2017).
Andri's current teaching responsibilities include teaching on the MSc Education, and supporting doctoral students. They also work closely with colleagues on the Secondary Science PGCE course.