The aim of the School of Health And Psychological Science (SHPS) Education Research Group is to address education research challenges, and to help aid change over time to shape education practice within the School.
This group will add value over and above the contributions of the individual researchers and encourage creativity and innovation in the education research portfolio, whilst disseminating pedagogical practice and innovation beyond SHPS and City.
SHPS Education Research website
Visit the Group's research microsite for more information about the Centre, including areas of research, projects and related activities.
Purpose
The SHPS Education Research Group’s purpose is to:
- Act as an externally-facing entity representing an area of research excellence in the field of health and psychology education for City, University of London;
- Facilitate and promote collaborative and/or interdisciplinary research;
- Generate research funding, outputs, external engagement, and impact over and above those which individual members might generate in isolation.
Aims
The aims of the SHPS Education Research Group’s research activities are to:
- Demonstrate intellectual cohesion in well-articulated education research problems and develop strategies to address these
- Establish a critical mass of researchers
- Undertake education research collaboratively and with researchers externally
- Develop and maintain relationships with non-academic healthcare and education providers and partners
- Submit collaborative external funding applications
- Undertake education research leading to joint outputs and impact case studies
- Undertake high-quality activity that may contribute to the REF, KEF, or other external quality benchmarking exercises
- Undertake public engagement activities in line with City’s civic engagement strategy
- Organise and run conferences and symposia
- Sponsor and organise lectures, conferences, colloquia
- Co-supervise MA and doctoral students
- Provide a supportive environment for researcher development in the field of education
Membership
- Associate Dean Education Quality and Student Experience (Group Lead)
- Associate Dean Undergraduate Studies
- Associate Dean Postgraduate Studies
- Associate Dean Partnerships and Placements
- Associate Dean Culture, Equality and Diversity
- Director of Education Enhancement and Innovation
- A Professor/Associate Professor Education
- SHPS LEaD representative