July 2012
| Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education and Erasmus Exchange
Carol Robinson has had the following paper accepted for a publication in the Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education: 'Student engagement: What does this mean in practice in the context of Higher Education Institutions?'
Carol has also recently been on an Erasmus exchange to Karlstad University in Sweden. A member of staff with responsibility for running their Doctorate in Education programme and a PhD student from Karlstad University spent a week at Brighton and had an input into the Professional Doctorate in Education programme here.
She then went onto spend a week at Karlstad University looking at how they run their Doctorate in Education programme and had an input into their programme.
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July 2012
| Declaring a research vision and strategy for next year and beyond
In June, the ERC team met together with active researchers and doctoral students to consider a number of questions about education research, how the school fits in to the wider view and what can be done to make research conducted here flourish.
There was a morning of lively discussion, laughter, agreement, disagreement and puzzlement as they addressed the questions together and heard more about the wide range of research interests and activities. They will continue to work on their research vision and strategy in July as they prepare for REF and beyond in 2012/13. |
July 2012
| Welcoming new members of staff
The ERC would like to welcome two new members of staff who will be joining them as Senior Research Fellows in autumn 2012.
Dr Vicky Johnson has experience of participatory research in international settings through her work with the charity 'ChildHope', and engagement with international and national communities.
Dr Sara Bragg has worked with the Open University and University of Sussex, and her research interests include student/youth voice and participation, and creative research methods.
Their role is to develop and promote our research profile through research projects and collaborations with external networks and partners as well as staff and students in the School of Education. |
July 2012
| Articles in current Special Issue of Continuing Studies in Education
Congratulations to both Yvonne Hillier and Nadia Edmond who have recently had articles published in the current Special Issue of Continuing Studies in Education: "Critical Perspectives on Professional Lifelong Learning".
Nadia has also submitted a jointly authored paper (with Mike Hayler) to the Journal of Education for Teaching and is currently working on a paper with colleagues at the OU. |
April 2012
| David Stephens in South Africa
David is spending a short period at Rhodes University in South Africa researching a book provisionally entitled International Education: A Narrative Approach.
His research will explore educational narratives over two generations: the older, who have experienced Apartheid and the younger who haven't. He will be carrying out his research amongst the white, black and so-called coloured community in a township outside Cape Town, called Langa. |
January 2012
| Publications from Mike Hayler and Yvonne Hillier
Congratulations to Mike and Yvonne who have both had books published: 'Reflective Teaching in Further and Adult Education' (PDF) (Yvonne) and 'Autoethnography, Self-Narrative and Teacher Education' (PDF) (Mike).
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January 2012
| Conference reports available
Tim Rudd (Education Research Centre) has produced two reports from conferences that he recently attended - 'Caught in the Education Act' (PDF) and the 'Schools Co-operative Society Annual Conference' (PDF).
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January 2012
| Suzanne Hyde on BBC2's Newsnight
Former staff member Suzanne Hyde was part of the research team involved in a recent episode of Newsnight on BBC2 that featured a report on the LSE/Guardian research into the summer riots.
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January 2012
| Yvonne Hillier involved with NIACE events
Yvonne attended the National Learning & Skills Research Network (LSRN) conference and a second event co-hosted by the Society for Research in Higher Education (SRHE). Topics focused on shaping future policy and practice on the key issues in the learning and skills sector. Click here to read the press release.
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January 2012
| Key stage 2/3 students give presentation to teachers and teacher educators from Japan
Over 30 teachers and teacher educators from primary and junior high schools in Japan visited the School of Education and were given a presentation by students specialising in ICT.
The Japanese delegation included representatives who have responsibility for policy development in different regions.
Professor Avril Loveless (Education Research Centre) has been involved with the programme and has been invited to visit Japan for the fourth time next year.
In the past she has visited Japanese schools to see the use of ICT, particularly to foster creativity and to learn about Japanese approaches to interactivity in whole class teaching. |
