Contacts & information

Director of Research: Professor Simon McGrath

Director of Postgraduate Research: Dr Lavinia Hirsu

Notable information

Research themes

International Research and Development

Our Work in the Global South

 

From local to global research

The school brings together researchers with expertise across all sectors of education: formal and non-formal, and from primary school through to higher, adult and community education. The School prides itself on the effective integration of research, theory, policy and practice.

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How our research makes a difference

Impact stories from some of our notable researchers

Research at the School of Education

The School of Education at the University of Glasgow is committed to social justice in and through education, and to education research and practice of the highest quality. We aspire to be a world leader in addressing the contemporary educational issues of our times and to making a difference for society’s most vulnerable and educationally disadvantaged. The School over the past 5 years has been ranked on at least one occasion 1st in the UK on three league tables: the Times Good University Guide, the Complete University Guide and by the National Student Survey.

A large and vibrant group of education academics committed to interdisciplinarity, staff in the School are organised across four research and teaching groups, three research centres and two research networks. Our commitment to social justice permeates all of our work, including our research and research-led teaching.

The school brings together researchers with expertise across all sectors of education: formal and non-formal, and from primary school through to higher, adult and community education. The School prides itself on the effective integration of research, theory, policy and practice.

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Research and Teaching Groups

The research of the School is organised through research and teaching groups (RTGs) and centres and with staff allocated to these on the basis of their research interests.

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Research Centres, Hubs and Networks

The School of Education is the home for a number of research centres (internal and external funded), networks and hubs.  Our specialist research centres, networks and hubs, attract members from across the School and beyond.

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Postgraduate Research

We have a large cohort of PhD and EdD candidates, both full-time and part-time associated and embedded within our research groupings with a thriving PGR community of some 180 PhD candidates, over 100 EdD participants.

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Our Alumni: the new generation of world leaders

Some of our alumni share the story of their journey and aspirations for the future.

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Our future leaders

Find out more about the research journey of our current postgraduate researchers.

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Postdoctoral scholars & visiting academics

The School of Education welcomes applications from postdoctoral scholars and academics who wish to spend either a short or longer period of time (up to a maximum of 12 months) based in the School for research purposes while registered or employed at another university.

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Staff Research Interests

Search our staff by their research interests