Research projects

The core research mission of PERG is to interrogate and challenge dominant ideologies, practices and discourses in the field of teacher education/teacher learning, with a view to creating conceptual, theoretical and methodological approaches with practitioners and learner.

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PERG has a broad research interest and remit, including:

To act as a forum for academic and practitioner research and activity in teacher/teaching education in all its forms
To develop work in key themes of local, national, and international interest in teacher/teaching education for practitioners, researchers, students, young people, education users, parents, communities, policy-makers and legislators
To research and develop innovative, boundary pushing pedagogies and/or methodologies of teacher learning
To explore creative methodologies across disciplines and fields on teacher/teaching education and teacher education research
To work with practitioners, students, education users, education providers, policy-makers and legislators to explore and investigate the interface between policy and practice in teacher/teaching education
To work with practitioners as researchers and build practitioner research capability
To support the development of practitioner knowledge production
To establish and sustain practitioner cultures that are developmental, reflexive and critical
To provide discursive and research fora for teachers, academics and students that are orientated towards the production of resources of hope
To organise local, national and international research events, activities and groups concerned with teacher/teaching education

Projects

The aim of this research project is to gain enhanced knowledge and understanding of the environment, ethos, curriculum and pedagogies employed in a sample of SEND madrasah settings so that the extent to which the Islamic philosophy of education is enacted in relation to these children is understood.

‘Creating “Schools of Recovery”’ (SoR) was a two-year project to explore and evaluate a partnership model with theatre...

Making Gender Equality Matter in Schools (MGEMS) makes a direct response to concerns evidenced in the research literatu...

This research aims to build a knowledge exchange e-resource that provides free access to resources and project assets ...

Birmingham City University is proud to partner with the University of Wolverhampton to deliver That’s Me! Eliminatin...

There is robust empirical evidence that students lacking a “sense of belonging” within higher education is one of the m...

A practice-led project that is underpinned by the belief that improving the student learning experience starts by impr...

Experiences, expectations and possibilities for learning and engagement in education. This research examines students’ ...

This project is supporting pedagogical universities in Viet Nam to provide digital resources and skills to meet the nee...

Understanding the impact and effectiveness of the Aim Higher Plus partnership relations and how these contribute to the...

What has been the impact of the Uni Connect programme across the West Midlands partnership on participating students, t...

The Socially Distant Stories is an ethnographic exploration about the impact of a hybrid theatre in education approach ...

The planned research project aims to explore the ways in which practising educators contribute to the governance of Bir...

BCU has pioneered an innovative ‘close to practice’ professional doctorate programme in Education, the EdD, and the UK...

The Co-MAP project responds to the urgent need to understand the impacts of Covid-19 in relation to the most vulnerabl...

This project will explore the interaction between STEAM subjects and their inherent creativity to better understand th...

This PAR project aims to build a new practitioner research team to generate meaningful research evidence on the barrier...

The research will explore which strategies and resources are being used and how useful these are to student outcomes. ...

Research projects

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Projects

Pedagogies of mercy for children with special educational needs and disability (SEND) in madrasah education

Creating Schools of Recovery

Making Gender Equality Matter in Schools (MGEMS)

STEM-Power: Enabling Progression of STEM Women Researchers

That's Me: Eliminating barriers to postgraduate research study in the West Midlands

Enhancing the transition of non-traditional students ENTRANTS

Enhancing Learning and Teaching Quality through Collaborative Observation

Pedagogies of hybridity in the post-pandemic university

Teacher Educators Digital Hub (TEDH): Supporting the digital transformation of teacher education in Viet Nam

Aimhigher Plus: The impact of regional partnership and collaboration

Aimhigher Plus: Stakeholder project

Socially Distant Stories from Beyond the Screen

Educators In Educational Governance In Birmingham

Digi-Doc: Digital Doctorate Training Hub

Co-MAP: Investigating Covid-19's impact on vulnerable young people

Re-thinking curricula: STEAM education from early years through to higher education

Building a Diverse Practitioner Learning Environment

Using vignettes to explore how supervisors and students clarify expectations during doctoral studies