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½¿É«µ¼º½ Educational Research Book of the Year

Closes 22 Jul 2025

This award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and innovative.

Using Matryoska dolls to facilitate early years teachers’ reflections based on the Ecological Systems Model

This blog post focuses on my use of innovative creative research methods to explore the lived experience of GTCS-registered early years teachers in Scotland. As an early years teacher I am part...

Bridging the rural–urban divide: The role of community colleges in Pakistan

Education is vital for a nation’s development to ensure socioeconomic progress. Pakistan, however, faces educational crises, including limited access to quality education and rural–urban...

A game changer for education research: An iterative survey for analysing ‘groupishness’

This blog post highlights the Iterative Survey’s special ability and demonstrates why the survey is considered ‘iterative’. To define a social group, we could record all experiences,...

Editorial: The place of the EdD in personal and professional transformation

This special issue explores the value of the professional doctorate in education (EdD) journey and the sources of motivation for individuals pursuing their doctoral research based on their...

The place of the EdD in personal and professional transformation

This special issue explores the value of the professional doctorate in education (EdD) journey and the sources of motivation for individuals pursuing their doctoral research based on their...

Finding your question

Much is written in research textbooks about understanding your positioning in relation to your question. Even more is written about ensuring that your question and methodology align. But what...

Summer 2025

Research Intelligence issue 163: (Re)shaping the future of research in further education: Opportunities, barriers & beyond

Research Ethics Case Studies 2024: Thinking it through or thinking through ‘it’? The ethics of research involving artificial intelligence and education

Research Ethics Case Studies 2024

This case study considers some of the ethical issues related to research involving artificial intelligence and education. It highlights balancing the need for data with obligations to protect...

½¿É«µ¼º½ celebrates 10 years of the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog

2025 marks 10 years of the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog, and we’re so proud of all that it has accomplished! Thank you to all those who have contributed to the Blog, whether as authors, editors, or readers. The...

From the secondary classroom to semi-structured interviews: How teaching practices can inform research methods

If teachers are to continue developing their classroom practice, we need them to take risks. Very little research has considered teachers’ attitudes to voluntary risk-taking; which activities...

The role of place in educational disadvantage

Place matters to education. It’s role in disadvantage is evident from long-standing geographies of inequality in England’s educational outcomes. Research institutes such as the Educational...