The Moray House School of Education
Research

The Moray House School of Education has an extensive and growing programme of research and scholarship into education and sports-related fields, in the areas/themes shown below.

Research students are invited to apply for research degrees in any of the areas listed below (or on the more specific topics identified within departmental research. For further details, please visit our research degrees pages. Also see our current PhD students and our current EdD students pages):

• Theme 1: Children's and Young People's Learning and Development
  (including: child and adolescent studies; health and well-being of school children; pedagogy, learning and curriculum; literacy and language; outdoor education and environmental studies)
• Theme 2: Higher, Community and Language Education
  (including: teaching, learning & assessment in higher education; digital technologies and the learner in higher and adult education; professional education; community education)
• Theme 3: Education, Society and Policy
  (including: educational organisation and leadership; young people's transitions; social class and gender; policy sociology; devolution and democracy; international and historical perspectives)
• Theme 4: Equity, Inclusion and Diversity
  (including: additional support needs; lifelong learning and social inclusion; equalities and public policy; discipline and exclusion)
• Theme 5: Sport Science and Human Performance
  (including: skill acquisition; physiological and psychological responses and rehabilitation; elite performance)

Examples of other projects

Please go to our Centres' sites for examples of other staff projects
Examples of our current PhD students' projects
Examples of our current EdD students' projects