Secondary Teaching leading to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) PGCE: Research areas

Many of our staff in the School of Education are research active. This ensures they are in touch with the latest thinking and bring best practice to your studies.

Education research at Kingston focuses on:

• practitioner research – subject pedagogy, curriculum design, comparative curricula, educational leadership, school improvement, policy making and policy analysis;
• promotion of partnerships and networks – in response to changes in the relationship between higher education and schools as providers of teacher education;
• local management of schools; and
• professional practice – for policy makers and practitioners involved in education, teaching or related areas.

Conference attendance

Members of the School of Education regularly attend international conferences, such as:

• the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting;
• the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA) international conference; and
• the Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices (S-STEP) biennial international conference.

The latest ideas from these conferences then feed back into your teaching.  

Student research

You may be able to publish any research you undertake on the Kingston University Research and Innovation Reports (KURIR) website. This site gives anyone associated with Kingston University the opportunity to publish articles, which will be permanently available to the academic community.