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Research Themes & Projects

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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 postgraduate research degrees 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).

Description of theme, researchers, + a selection of projects past + present


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).

Description of theme, researchers, + a selection of projects past + present


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).

Description of theme, researchers, + a selection of projects past + present


Theme 4: Equity, Inclusion and Diversity

(including: additional support needs; lifelong learning and social inclusion; equalities and public policy; discipline and exclusion).

Description of theme, researchers, + a selection of projects past + present


Theme 5: Sport Science and Human Performance

(including: skill acquisition; physiological and psychological responses and rehabilitation; elite performance).

Description of theme, researchers, + a selection of projects past + present

 


Examples of other projects


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

 

 


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