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Faculty of Education, Health and Social Care

Research and Knowledge Exchange is a core activity, underpinning teaching and the Faculty’s delivery of the University mission: ‘To educate, to advance knowledge and to serve the public good’. Many of our projects are collaborative and involve partnerships nationally and internationally.The Faculty is home to Masters and research students and those engaged in research and knowledge exchange via Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

The Research Assessment Exercise

70% of the research submitted to the Research Assessment Exercise 2008 was of international standing, with 5% of the research defined as ’world-leading’ in terms of originality, significance and rigour.

Professionally Oriented Research

Other research and knowledge exchange is professionally-oriented and focussed on sustaining and enhancing the Faculty’s regional and national presence. The Faculty engages in professional research in order to engage fully with an evidence-based teaching profession. A significant amount of the Faculty’s current work is dependent upon attracting teachers in the region to a range of CPD provision. Staff may be engaged in activity which, while not generating income directly, makes a significant contribution to status within the region and thereby to CPD recruitment. Professional research provides the underpinning for the consultancy and CPD activities that supply much of the Faculty’s external income. Similarly, researchthat informs undergraduate and postgraduate teaching enhances the quality of the student experience.

Consultancy Expertise

Consultancy is a major income generation activity for the Faculty. It is also consonant with a key dimension of the Faculty’s mission to contribute to the improvement of learning and teaching for pupils and teachers in schools (and adult learners in the workplace). Consultancy and income generation demonstrates that we are both pro-active and re-active and have the expertise and time to develop high-quality bids. The Faculty’s Research and Knowledge Exchange Strategy contains the ‘space’ to accommodate requests for expertise from schools and other agencies, some of which will be unexpected and at short notice, alongside bids with longer lead times (such as AHRC, ESRC and DCSF theme-related bids). The Faculty sees successful partnerships as the key to maximise the likelihood of success in increasing external funding.

Strong Regional Profile

The Faculty’s long history as a significant regional teacher education provider gives us a high regional profile, particularly in the primary education community and also in certain areas of secondary and post-compulsory education. It has also extended its work in professional development with a broader clientele including a wider range of education professionals, such as medical educators and teaching assistants, and by building links with the Severn and Wessex Medical Deanery. These aspects of the Faculty’s portfolio have resulted in a growing profile in research and consultancy activity in professional development policy and practice. This has expanded to include the professional learning of the wider workforce envisaged through the Every Child Matters agenda, which will broaden to include health and social workers involved with the new developments such as full-service schools.

Strong Reputation in Education Studies

The Faculty has a strong reputation in Education Studies, based on research-led teaching and teaching-led research, particularly around philosophical and educational studies, and in the history of women’s education. Research in philosophy links with learning and teaching research through European Philosophy with a focus on theory and practice of teaching, much of it oriented towards new teachers and established teachers as well as professional philosophers and educationists. The Research and Knowledge Exchange Strategy in the history of women’s education, built around the Sybil Campbell Collection, takes professional development and career as a key foci and also engages with schools via archive initiatives.

Contacts

Head of Research and Knowledge Exchange Faculty EHSC
Dr Stephanie Spencer

Faculty Research Officer Dr Rachel Locke

Research Informed Teaching (RIT) Officer and Learning and Teaching Research Project Officer Penny Lawrence