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Research networks and groups

Our research networks pull together members of staff and postgraduate students who share common research interests and allow a flexible and less formal way to explore different themes.

Members of staff can participate in whichever networks best match their interests. Network boundaries are flexible, and collaborative research across the networks and centres is actively promoted. By clustering our research around these specific areas we can encourage:

  • mentoring by people who are specialists in the same research area
  • collaborative bid writing and writing workshops
  • flexibility in allocated research time, to meet the demands of externally-funded research

Our current active research networks include:

Creativity and Emergent Educational-futures Network (CEEN)

CEEN seeks to bring together individuals with overlapping and intersecting philosophical orientations, ideologies and values that challenge the status quo on education.

Language and Education Network

This network draws together researchers who have an interest in the relationship between language and education.  This includes research into first and second language teaching and learning and research into the roles language plays in education more broadly.

Religion, Spirituality and Education Network

This group brings together researchers with an interest in the areas of spirituality, religion and education and provides a space to explore and develop themes across these areas.

Our groups include:

Educational Policy, Societies and Change

This group seeks to bring together individuals who have an interest in educational policy research.

Lesson Study Group

This network aims to promote understanding about lesson study and related practices (learning studies) in their contexts and across varied phases of education.

Education Theory Reading Group

The aim of this network is to provide a platform for discussion centred around issues in education theory.

Think Network

Think Network builds on a long tradition of teaching thinking research at Exeter.