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Message From the Research Dean

Welcome to the Faculty of Education research information pages.

As a large Faculty of Education in a research led University, we have developed a thriving research culture that offers a stimulating and productive environment for staff and students. This is manifested in:

• A national and international reputation for research excellence in the fields of Management and Leadership, Young Children's Second Language Learning, Mathematics Education, Special and Inclusive Education, Specific Language Impairment, and Human Communication and Deafness (rated a 5 in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise). Work in each of these areas is led by Professors who have established international reputations for their research.
  
  
• The large number of externally funded research grants and contracts from the research councils, charities and international organisations and government departments.
  
  
• A growing number of funded research students, all of whom are supported by a programme of research training that is recognised by the ESRC.
  

We offer a variety of research programmes for postgraduate students, ranging from the PhD and MPhil to professional doctorates in Educational Psychology (DEdPsy), Education (EdD), and Counselling (DCouns), and the Master of Science (MSc) in Educational Research. Registrations for these programmes for the current academic year 2002-2003 total 199 students and we intend to increase these numbers. Academic staff are, therefore, very happy to discuss any research proposal or potential project, and the Faculty Admissions Office offers further advice on methods of application to all our postgraduate courses.

The Faculty was recently restructured into the following five Research and Teaching Groups (RTGs).

Further information about each group, including the names and research interests of members of staff and current research projects is listed in the web pages for each RTG:

• Educational Support and Inclusion (ESI)
• Human Communication and Deafness (HCD)
• Language and Literacy Studies in Education (LLSE)
• Learning, Teaching and Assessment (LTA)
• Management and Institutional Development (MID)

See the Guide to Conducting Research

We look forward to hearing from you

Professor Peter Farrell
Research Dean, Faculty of Education