The Education and Social Research Institute is largely based
within the Institute of Education at MMU but also involves staff from
other departments. The Institute is one of the leading UK centres for
applied educational research and evaluation, and a thriving research
community. It is committed to research-enriched professional practice
and offers innovative approaches to research-based professionalism
across a growing range of professional areas.
The Research Institute
has developed rapidly with an outstanding portfolio of research grants
and publications, continued improvements to our ESRC-recognised
research degree programmes, and a range of national and international
events and services to research.
Our aims are:
* to promote research-based understandings of policy and
practice in education and the professions;
* to lead in debate, nationally and internationally, on the
nature and future of education and educational research;
* to contribute to the development of theory and methodology in
applied social research;
* to work closely with the users of social research at all
stages of the research process;
* to support practitioners and professionals in researching
their own practice and contexts of work;
* to provide first-class research training and support for new
and developing researchers.
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