Centre for Educational Research
What is the Centre for Educational Research (CER)?
Professor Dennis Hayes - Head of the Centre for Educational Research
Professor Dennis Hayes - Head of the Centre for Educational Research
The CER has a focus on innovative research into education and professional practice in schools, colleges, adult education, and in workplace settings. It incorporates the International Centre for Careers and Guidance Studies (iCeGS) whose members research, evaluate and develop good practice in advice, guidance and career development in all sectors of education as well as in the workplace.
'Research' in the centre has a broad definition that includes professional and practical developments and innovation; scholarship; and many forms of qualitative and quantitative research.
The research activity in the Centre is organised through eight research clusters:
- Changing Higher Education (CHE)
- Early Years Research Cluster (EYRC)
- European Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research Cluster (EGRTRC)
- Islam and Education Research Cluster (IERC)
- Special Educational Needs Research Cluster (SENRC)
- The Arts in Society, Therapy and Education (TASTE)
- Assessment and Learning Research Cluster (ALRC)
- Lifelong Learning Research Cluster (LLRC)
Membership of a cluster is by application or invitation but is open to new and experienced researchers.
The CER has an inclusive membership. Within the School of Education and Social Science, all academic staff, postgraduate students, associate lecturers and fellows as well as visiting and emeritus professors are members of the centre. Membership is also open to other members of the University researching education, and to further education lecturers at the University of Derby Buxton. A unique feature of the CER is that associate membership is open to teachers in schools and colleges.
The Head of the centre is Professor Dennis Hayes. Dennis is well known for his research and writing on new developments in education, the role of discussion and debate in pedagogy, and academic freedom. He is the editor of the best selling Routledge Guide to Key Debates in Education, the joint author of the controversial book The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education and is currently researching for a book on Therapy at Work.
