Pedagogic Research

The Centre is keen to support bioscientists who wish to undertake pedagogic research*. Currently this support is provided in four main ways:

Funding of small-scale investigations

We fund investigations, interventions and resource development via our Teaching Development Fund and Departmental Teaching Enhancement Scheme

A place to publish

Our peer-reviewed journal Bioscience Education provides a place to publish bioscience educational research and evaluations

Comprehensive introductory information

Our wiki Getting Started in Bioscience Education Research provides pages aimed at bioscientists involved in tertiary-level teaching who are interested in developing their teaching activities with a view to research leading to publication. Topics covered include:

• Why undertake Educational Research?
• Sources of funding for Educational Research
• Data Collection
• Getting Published
• Useful Investigative Tools

Opportunities to meet with other bioscientists

You can meet other bioscientists with an interest on pedagogic research via our programme of events.

Pedagogic Research in the Biosciences
24/03/2009 - University of Leicester

An introduction to educational (pedagogic) research in the sciences
01/05/2007 - Oxford Brookes University

Getting Started in Educational Research in the Sciences
11/10/2007 - University of Salford

* for the purposes of this website 'pedagogic research' and 'educational research' are used interchangeably. However, we do make a distinction between research and evaluation. Research is used when a piece of work can be transfered beyond the immediate context that it was undertaken, evaluation is used if the findings are limited to a particular context or resource.