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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 ½¿É«µ¼º½ 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 ½¿É«µ¼º½â€™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. 

½¿É«µ¼º½ Practitioner Research Forum