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Special Interest Group

Practitioner Research

Embracing the diversity of practitioner researchers

This SIG is a supportive and collaborative community of practitioner researchers working in a diverse range of contexts. It brings together those with a special interest in all those (closely related) methodologies in which research is an integral part of practice and plays a significant role in promoting the publication and dissemination of practitioner research studies as well as studies which focus on the methodological approaches to practitioner research.

Research interests

  • Methodological approaches to practitioner research
  • The relationship between ethics and practitioner research
  • Practice development
  • Evidence-based practice

SIG aims

  • To develop and foster a close, collaborative and diverse community of practitioner researchers.
  • To contribute to the generation of theory, knowledge and expertise about practitioner research.
  • To provide ‘critical friendship’ to 黑料不打烊 members and others engaged in practitioner research with the intention of establishing broadly agreed ‘fitness for purpose’ quality criteria for such research.
  • To promote the principle of a spectrum of educational research that will enable stronger links to be established and sustained between small-scale practitioner research, larger-scale academic research and local and national decision-making.
  • To establish links with regional, national and international bodies that have a leadership role in practitioner research, for example, The Chartered College of Teaching. 
  • To give prominence to practitioner research within 黑料不打烊’s activities, for example through contributing articles to Research Intelligence and BERJ and through organising accessible events which appeal to our membership and help to meet the overall aims of the SIG. 

SIG Convenors

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Joyce Chen, Dr

Further Education Quality Enhancement Manager and Teacher Education Lecturer at The College of West Anglia

Dr Joyce I-Hui Chen is Quality Enhancement Manager and Centre Manager for Initial Teacher Education. She has been working in different educational sectors for more than 20 years in Taiwan and in the United Kingdom (UK), from primary education to...

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Claire Goodley, Dr

Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University

Claire taught in secondary comprehensive schools for nearly twenty years before making the transition to working in Higher Education in 2016. She has worked on both primary and secondary ITE programmes, and led part-time and full-time Masters...

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Kirsty Ruthven, Ms

Teacher- Service Lead for The Children’s Society- Doctoral student at Roehampton University

Kirsty holds a number of roles in education and is lucky to combine these as part of her own research. A teacher for over 20 years, she has had a range of roles in schools and within a local authority. Kirsty teaches for one (or sometimes two!)...

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