Centre for Educational Research
Professor Dennis Hayes Head of the Centre for Educational Research.
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), headed by Dr Tristram Hooley, 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 quantative research.
Research activity in the Centre is organised through eight research clusters: Assessment and Learning Research Cluster (ALRC), Changing Higher Education (CHE), Early Years Research Cluster (EYRC), European Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research Cluster (EGRTRC), Islam and Education Research Cluster (IERC), Lifelong Learning Research Cluster (LLRC), Special Educational Needs Research Cluster (SENRC) and The Arts in Society, Therapy and Education (TASTE).
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, all Academic Staff, Post-Graduate 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 further education lecturers at the University of Derby Buxton.
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Director: Professor Dennis Haynes
The Head of the CER is Professor Dennis Hayes who is well known for his research and writing on new developments in education, the role of discussion and debate in pedagogy, and academic freedom.
Professor Dennis Haynes is the editor of the bestselling Routledge Guide to Key Debates in Education and edited and contributed to the 2009 special edition of the British Journal of Educational Studies on Academic Freedom. He is internationally known for his controversial book The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education (2009) and since its publication, he has researched and written in defence of subject-based education. In 2011 he was appointed by Boris Johnson as a member of the Mayoral Education Inquiry, a team formed to improve the standards of education of London’s children.
Dennis has also been a member of the Editorial Board of the Time Higher Education magazine since its inception.
