Research centres and networks
The School of Education is home to five research centres - each engaged in a programme of systematic research, capacity building and impact generation around their particular substantive and methodological concerns.
The School is also home to several networks that aim to stimulate lively debate and contribute to new understandings.
In combination, centres and networks combine to create a dynamic research atmosphere. They also contribute to developing expertise that enables us to shape debates, policy and practice in ways that benefit teachers, learners, parents and policy makers both within the UK and globally.
Research Centres
- Centre for Comparative and International Research in Education (CIRE)CIRE brings together researchers, who address issues of social, environmental and epistemic justice in education theory, policy and practice with a comparative sensibility to global-local dynamics.
- Centre for Higher Education Transformations (CHET)CHET researchers represent a broad range of disciplinary traditions including sociology, cultural studies, management studies and critical policy studies which inform critical analyses of higher education in transformation and higher education as transformative.
- Centre for Multilevel Modelling (CMM)CMM focuses on producing new statistical methods for tackling research questions, developing new software for implementing this methodology and disseminating these techniques to the national and international social science community.
- Centre for Psychological Approaches for Studying Education (PASE)PASE focuses on core psychological issues and how they relate to education.
- Centre for Teaching, Learning and Curriculum (TLC)The Centre for Teaching, Learning and Curriculum (TLC) is concerned with questions relating to education in schools, universities, community and out-of-school contexts, including a focus on issues of social justice.
Networks
Research Networks are flexible groupings of academic staff who are interested in, excited by or wish to explore the development of a research topic which crosses the natural boundaries of existing Research Centres. Network activities may be locally, nationally or internationally-based and include reading groups, seminar series, generating research proposals and publications.
- Mathematics Education Research Network (MERN)The Mathematics Education Research Network provides a unifying grouping for members of the School who work in the area of mathematics education. MERN connects diverse research within mathematics education, with a common focus on learning. Areas of interest include: new technologies, teacher development, assessment, language and multilingualism, classroom culture and algebra.
- Language, Literacies and Education Network (LLEN)The Language, Literacies and Education Network (LLEN) brings together a diverse and interdisciplinary group of scholars using a range of methodological approaches and working from cognitive, social, cultural and ideological perspectives to interrogate educational challenges on a national/international scale. Of importance to this work are our civic and diverse educational partnerships that allow us to address the societal inequalities that are reproduced within educational systems.
- Educational Futures Network (EFN)The Educational Futures Network (EFN) brings together those explicitly working on education and sustainable futures across the School of Education to share and develop theoretical expertise and empirical insights on the relationship between education and the future, and to develop methodological expertise for engaging students, staff and partners in thinking about and working ‘on’ futures in education. This includes, but is not limited to those looking at technological development, neuroscience, climate change, aging, education and international development research, peace and conflict studies, racial justice, feminist perspectives, and educational responses to crisis.