FEHW Staff Conference
Research in FEHW – an insight into
our research centres
January 20th 2015
Setting the FEHW research context
Please
Sir can I
have
some
more?
Replacement research staff
Successful REF outcomes
QR Funds
Research Session
• 5 minute research pitch by Centre Heads promoting each
research centre and its clusters
• Break out spaces for colleagues to participate in a research
cluster and go along and discuss and explore in more detail
how it might support you
• Research Fayre – a further opportunity to
discuss/experience what is going on in each research centre
over lunch
• Over to you – let us know in the next few weeks which
centre/cluster you would like to be part of
Education Research Centres
CeDARE and CRADLE will foster, lead & conduct high
quality education research with students, staff, partners and
stakeholders
Key Objectives:
• develop relevant funded inter-disciplinary & disciplinary
research projects
• nurture research clusters aligned to REF2020 strategy
• raise volume, prestige & quality of outputs for REF 2020
• support pedagogic research across the University
• support and encourage practitioner research
• Increase PGR student numbers
CRADLE
Centre for Research &
Development in Lifelong Education
CRADLE (Centre for Research
and Development in Lifelong Education) Clusters
1. PCE Readers & Writers in Lifelong Learning
Leaders: Dr Matt O’Leary & Dr Rob Smith
Supports research and writing connected to lifelong education via a
strong culture of collaborative writing and in scaffolding staff to
develop their expertise through small-scale educational research.
Cluster members are interested in theory and sociological
perspectives on educational issues. Collaborative writing activities
also extend outside the Institute to include wider FE practitioners and
other members of the PCE partnership.
Potential CRADLE Themes
Adult & Community Learning - Prof Alan Tuckett, Dr Lydia Lewis
Research into Higher Education - working with University’s new
College of Learning and Teaching to support pedagogic research.
CRADLE
Centre for Research &
Development in Lifelong Education
Exemplar projects
‘Developing a national
framework for the
effective use of lesson
observation in Further
Education’
‘Building & sustaining
partnership cultures in
vocational pedagogy’
CeDARE Centre for Developmental and Applied
Research and Evaluation Clusters
1. Childhood, Youth and Families Leader: Dr Zeta Brown
Early years, childhood and youth studies including educational &
developmental issues with families and communities, parental support
and multi-agency working
2. Digital Learning Leader: Professor John Traxler
Digital Learning, broadly including e-learning, mobile learning, distance
learning and blended learning
Pedagogy and Professional Learning Leader: Dr Linda Devlin
Learning, teaching and assessment in schools; school subject pedagogy;
professional identities of school personnel
4. Education Policy Leader: Neil Duncan (pro tem)
Social justice & inclusion; UK & international schooling policy; standards
agendas, widening participation in HE, etc.
CeDARE
Benefits of cluster
membership?
•Community of practice
We need fresh meat
Let’s get them at lunchtime
•Professional network
•Ownership of the cluster
and its direction
•Technical help from more
experienced colleagues
•Support in applying for
conference or PD
resources
•Support for research
buyout time
CeDARE
Research support at any level you
like, from being a critical friend for
your SMRSA hours, right through
to involvement with international
externally funded research projects
Perhaps the most important factor
in a successful research career is
to be connected to networks, and
the FEHW clusters all provide a
starting point for that
Do drop in at the break out spaces
later, and talk to us. Otherwise,
we’ll only hunt you down…
Centre for Psychological Science*
*In Preparation
Cognition and Individual Differences
(CID) – Dr Niall Galbraith
Encompasses a broad range of themes
addressing the causes and consequences of
individual differences in cognitive performance.
Our research areas include:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Thinking and reasoning
- Individual Differences
• Early Researcher Award Scheme (ERAS)
• Adolescent thinking and belief (ATAB)
• BPS Research Assistant Scheme
Cyberpsychology Research at the
University of Wolverhampton (CRUW)
Dr. Chris Fullwood
Promote the academic and applied sociopsychological study of the impact of the Internet
and emerging technologies on our everyday
lives:
- Online self disclosure
- Online impression management
- Personality types in cyberspace
• Social Media Motivations Scale (SMMS)
• Blogging Motivations Questionnaire (BMQ)
• Social Networking in Cyberspace conference
(SNIC 2015)
Wolverhampton Applied Research
Group – Dr Darren Chadwick
High quality research using psychological principles
and theories to explore behaviour in the following
areas:
• Educational, Developmental & Lifespan Psychology
• Criminology & Victimology
• Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities & Disability
Studies
• Organisational Psychology
• Intellectual disability and on-line behaviour
• The diagnosis, treatment and management of health
problems in adults with Profound and Multiple Learning
Disabilities
• Effects of position on arterial oxygen saturation of adults
with severe and profound learning disabilities
Security, Investigative & Forensic
Research (SIFR)- Prof. Coral Dando
• World leading research psychological processes in
forensic, investigative and security settings
• World-class research training on issues relating to the
psychology of investigative and forensic practice,
criminal justice, and the safety and security of UK
society.
Cluster Chairs: Prof Alan Nevill/ Prof Matt
Wyon
Cluster Chair:
Professor Andy
Lane
Centre for Health and Social Care Improvement (CHSCI)
Who are we?
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CHSCI is a multi-disciplinary research centre with a physical environment
on the first floor of ML Building at City Campus
Director, Prof Laura Serrant
Chair in Clinical Practice and Innovation, Prof Magi Sque
Reader in Public Health, Dr Ruoling Chen
Senior Research Fellows, Dr Vinette Cross, Dr Olga Kozlowska, Dr Angela
Morgan, Dr Wendy Walker
Research Fellow, Dr Angela Clifford
Research Assistant, Ms Amanda Rodney
Our mission
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Is to be a Centre of Excellence in Health and Social Care Research to
inform, support and enhance policy, education practice and service
provision in health and wellbeing.
CHSCI Structure
CHSCI Centre Lead
Deputy Centre Lead
Loss,
Bereavement
and End of
Life Care
Prof. Sque
Senior Researcher
Post Doc Fellow
Doctoral Students
Affiliated Staff
Research Administrator
Policy, Health
Equalities and
Social Welfare
Epidemiology
and Global
Public Health
Dr. Angela Morgan
Senior Researcher
Post Doc Fellow
Doctoral Students
Affiliated Staff
Dr. Ruoling Chen
Senior Researcher
Post Doc Fellow
Doctoral Students
Affiliated Staff
Methodologies
for Health and
Social Care
Research
Prof. Laura Serrant
Senior Researcher
Post Doc Fellow
Doctoral Students
Affiliated Staff
Associated research clusters – may be Research Group Specific,
Intergroup or Cross Faculty. Growth in activity within a cluster may
also see development of new research groupings in the future
CHSCI Research
Ongoing research - examples
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Recognising the gift of organ and tissue donation - Dr. Wendy Walker (PI)
Here to stay: People with learning difficulties from new migrant communities - Prof
David Sallah (PI) Dr. Olga Kozlowska
Socioecomonic determinants of dementia care and caregivers - Dr. Ruoling Chen
(PI)
Investigating the role of community nursing in offender health - Prof. Laura Serrant
(PI)
Future research BIDs submitted
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EC ETN: Organ and tissue donation: Advancing European systems, policy and
practice - Project coordinator Prof. Magi Sque
NIHR RfPB: Quality standards of bereavement care for families of deceased adult
renal patients: An Appreciative Inquiry - Dr. Wendy Walker
Alzheimer’s Research UK: Effects of environmental tobacco smoke and marital
status on risk of dementia in older adults - Dr. Ruoling Chen
NIHR RfPB: Barriers to healthcare for non-English speaking Polish patients in rural
communities in Lincolnshire - Prof. Laura Serrant