Research Fest 16 July

1. Dr Rosemary Stott

2.  1. My research background
 2. Your research background?
 3. Why engage in pedagogical research at
Ravensbourne?
 4. Suggested methodologies
 5. Overarching themes?
 6. Outcomes and plans?
 7. How to get started

3.  ADM – Learning Innovation
 Research profile in Film Studies
 Carried out and led pedagogical research
 E.g. 2010 Writing in the Disciplines project (online
discussion boards as preparation for academic writing)
 2011 – 2012 Staff engagement with Learning and
Technology (story telling)
 2011 – 2012 HEA change programme: Promoting
Student Engagement with Feedback project

5.  Increase our confidence as individuals and knowledge
and cohesion as an academic research community
 Develop community of learning amongst academic
staff but also between academics and service staff, e.g.
Employability team, librarians, IT staff
 Ravensbourne strategic plan, e.g. TDAP

6.  Introduction to 2 common educational
research methods:
 1. Case Study
 2. Action Research
 Why these methods?
 Researching what we are doing already

7.  Both methods are QUALITATIVE research methods
derived from Social Sciences
 Qualitative:
 ‘focusing on the total picture rather than breaking it
down into variables’
 (Ary, Research Approaches in Education, 2006, p.29)
 Goal is a holistic picture and depth of understanding
rather than a numeric analysis of data
 Open, honest rigorous

8. 3. Selecting
6.
2. Literature cases and 4. Collection 5. Analysis of
1. Design Interpreting
review units of of data data
results
analysis

9. Planning
reflection Action
Monitoring

10.  The new building
 Model for new form of industy-focused teaching
(employability)
 Digitisation and learning
 Problem-based learning
 Blended learning: how we combine online and face to
face teaching
 Mobile technology and learning

11.  Learning and Teaching Conference: January
 Online journal
 Book publication
 Writing for research workshops
 Expanding our networks
 Publicising what we do well in the wider academic
community

12. 1. Read and get inspired by existing educational research
(journals)
2. Join subject lists:
JISCMAIL LISTS: MECCSA, BAFTSS
3. TWITTER: technology and learning
4. Follow Blogs, e.g. LSE Social Sciences blog
 http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/07/10/p
ublish-then-filter-research/
University of Westminster Digital Transformations Blog
 http://www.digitaltransformations.org.uk/