Dr Sheeba Viswarajan
Senior Lecturer
Course Leader for PGCE Secondary Science, University of East London
Department of Education , School of Childhood and Social Care
Dr Sheeba Viswarajan is a Senior Lecturer in Secondary Education (Science) at the University of East London, specialising in chemistry. With 16 years of teaching experience in India and England, she has been working in higher education since 2013, focusing on the PGCE secondary science course.
Qualifications
- EdD
Overview
Dr Sheeba Viswarajan is a Senior Lecturer in Secondary Education (Science) at the University of East London, specialising in Chemistry.
With 16 years of teaching experience in India and England, she has taught the PGCE Secondary Science course since 2013 and Course Leader since 2025. She has contributed to education leadership as an elected member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Education Division Council and the Chemistry for All Advisory Group, enhancing chemistry education in disadvantaged schools. Dr Viswarajan's doctoral research, “Does the New Science GCSE Curriculum Improve the Effectiveness of Practical Work in Key Stage 4 Classes?”, explores the impact of curriculum changes on practical science education.
She leads the Amplifying Voices project, a longitudinal study on international PGCE trainees and Early Career Teachers (ECTs), examining barriers to enrolment, financial incentives, and racism. She also leads the EON XR Study, exploring Extended Reality (XR) in science education and applies cognitive science principles and AI in teaching. Dr Viswarajan reviews for the British Educational Research Journal (BERJ).
PUBLICATIONS
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Publications
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- Meeting the Black Swan: Teacher educators’ use of ICT—pre, during and eventually post Covid19 Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education. 5 (1), pp. 17-33. https://doi.org/10.7577/njcie.3974
- Teacher Educators and Expansive Learning in the Workplace and Beyond Frontiers in Education. 5 (Art. 84). https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2020.00084
- Developing a Pan-European Approach to Teacher Educators Research in Teacher Education. 9 (2), pp. 39-45. https://doi.org/10.15123/uel.88z7v
- Book Reviews: Explaing Primary Science Research in Teacher Education. 9 (1), p. 48. https://doi.org/10.15123/uel.88z56
- GCSE practical work in English secondary schools Research in Teacher Education. 7 (2), pp. 15-21. https://doi.org/10.15123/PUB.7290