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To apply for a research degree, please make sure you fulfill the entry requirements and then complete the online research degree application form and upload your supporting documents.

You should have a good honours degree (2:1 or above) or masters degree or equivalent in the relevant subject area.

International applicants should be aware of our research degree English language requirements

Learning Futures Centre

Institute for Research in Education

Learning Futures Centre

Group Head: Dr Andrea Raiker
E: andrea.raiker@beds.ac.uk

Online workspace for the centre www.educationcommunities.org

Purpose of the Centre

To support collaborative research to drive development in teacher education, curriculum and pedagogy using current and emerging technologies
To support collaborative bid writing and provide peer scrutiny for publications
To support individual and collaborative writing for publication eg. in the Journals of Pedagogic Development and Learning Futures

Themes for work of the centre

‘State of the Nation’ papers based on nationwide surveys on key themes
Large scale data set analysis
The generation of pedagogies to meet current and future imperatives
Research into change management in academic settings and new academic practices
Research and development of methodologies for professional networking including analysis of communities of practice data
Working through international communities of practice to build the knowledge base for teacher education, pedagogy and the applications of technologies in educational settings through collaborative R&D projects.

Ways of working

Meeting schedule: The groups will meet for lunch for the hour before monthly IREd seminars (Key Thinkers/Methodology seminars). Task and Finish sub-groups will take forward the initiatives arising from the meeting. The meeting schedule will be published on the links below.
Teleconferencing: To include members from different locations, including other countries, teleconferencing will available for every meeting with the pass codes available. For meeting schedules and passcodes see: www.educationcommunities.org

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