Research on learning and teaching in higher education is a diverse field, pertinent to all disciplines in higher education. It is critical for improving students’ learning, wellbeing, and outcomes.
Unfortunately, this research is often undervalued and goes unrecognised beyond an educators’ immediate context.
This Research Centre aims to increase the status of research relating to learning and teaching in higher education by increasing its quality and impact.
Primarily, it aims to create a supportive network of researchers, educators, practitioners, and leaders, which exceeds disciplinary and geographical borders.
Specifically it aims to:
- provide training and support to researchers to develop and conduct rigorous pedagogic research
- foster interdisciplinary and international collaborations to create a thriving global research community
- strengthen the impact of research for practice
Some of our members’ research projects and interests include:
- Academic integrity and inclusive educational practice involving Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
- Ethical approaches to student use of Artificial Intelligence
- How GenAI is affecting assessment and feedback processes
- Impact of students identifying as educational consumers on their learning
- Understanding students from marginalised backgrounds (including widening participation/non-traditional students, students with non-traditional qualifications such as B-TECS, ethnically diverse students, students from religious groups)
- How specialist mentoring impacts students with autism and mental health issues
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and developing SoTL identities
- Note-taking strategies, writing beliefs, and impacts on students’ writing quality
- Strategies for teaching research methods among health and social care students
- Psychometric measurement and evaluation of student engagement
- Exploring the purpose and possibility of HE education for significantly contributing to a more just, equitable and sustainable world.
- Transformative learning and hope based pedagogy.
