Current and recent education research

Education research at the University of Hertfordshire covers a diverse range of areas.

Our research

We use both quantitative and qualitative methods including:

arts-informed approaches to research.
participative methodologies such as participatory action research.
mixed methodologies.
creative ways of working with vulnerable groups and the practitioners who serve them.

Creative approaches to practitioner research/arts-informed approaches in practitioner research
Evaluation of Attitudinal Changes of Young People in Relation to their Experience of the Aimhigher Programme
Enhancing feedback for academic writing across research degrees
Evaluating the Impact of the Rural Dimension in specialist schools (Specialist Schools and Academies Trust)
Feedback for Learning in Higher Education
Learning Together Through International Collaboration in Teacher Education in Malaysia
Professional development needs of new teachers
Music education research across the curriculum
Music education research as a tool for inclusion
Research into health-related matters - such as Skills for Health; exploring embodied manifestation and intersubjective structure of re-experiencing in adults with autism; and the BodyMind Approach (TBMA registered) for patients with medically unexplained symptoms.
Research into policing and the justice system - such as Studies of the impact of probation staff on prolific offenders; and The Choices and Consequences programme.
Research on policy and leadership - such as Work with the European Policy Network on School Leadership (a 4 year study of school leadership and implications for policy); participation in the BELMAS-UCEA Collaborative Research Project (International School Leadership Development); and development of a degrees of democracy framework as a tool for research and reflection and extending leadership capacity.

Differential Attainment of BME Students
Exploring Embodied Manifestation and Intersubjective Structure of Re-experiencing in Adults with Autism
'Hard to Reach' Foster Carers Project
Investigating leadership for social justice: strand of BELMAS-UCEA Collaborative Research Project (International School Leadership Development)
Music education as a tool for inclusion across groups and in post-conflict contexts
Reflective Practice and Critical Thinking for Teachers of the Deaf in Training in the UK
UKIERI Project on Diversity, Isolation and Integration in Higher Education

Learn about our project on learning together through international collaboration in teacher education.