Research
The Cass School of Education and Communities is actively involved in research and scholarship of local, national and international significance, with particular emphasis on early childhood, language and diversity, multilingualism, teacher education, race and community, learning and teaching, comparative education, professional education and social work. Our research is recognised as being innovative, supportive and responsive to very diverse educational and community needs.
In building on this recognition, the School promotes a strong research culture amongst its academic staff and its post-graduate and research students. The intellectual agenda of the School is to provide a positive contribution to local and diasporic communities in the London and South East Region of England; and in areas of especial expertise, nationally and internationally. Between them, staff have undertaken research and been involved in education policy making in many countries in Australasia, South East Asia, Central Asia, Southern and West Africa and the Caribbean as well as in Europe and North America.
Our staff are national and international leaders in their fields
Professor Helen Penn
Helen is author of several books on education focusing specifically on early childhood education. She is also a consultant for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the South African Department of Education.
Professor Jean Murray
Jean is Leader for Research and Knowledge Exchange in the School and is involved in research on teacher education, work-based learning, induction and professional development and research-capacity building.
Professor John Preston
John’s research is concerned with education equalities, disaster education and ‘race’ and ethnicity issues in education. John has acted as a consultant for UNESCO and the European Commission.
Professor Stephen Briggs
The Centre for Social Work Research (CSWR) aims to make a significant contribution to the generation of knowledge in social work, and to enhance research in the profession. In collaboration with the Tavistock Clinic, the Centre offers a distinctive approach to relationship based approaches to social work practice and policy, psycho social approaches to understanding individuals, society and institutions and inter- or multi-disciplinary perspectives on social work practice. - go to www.uel-cswr.org for more information
Professor Andrew Ravenscroft
Andrew is a psychologist (C.Psychol, AFBPsS) and technologist who works in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). He has a particular focus on designing and implementing next generation smart, social and media-rich technologies for learning in the digital age, in ways that are strongly informed by theory. He is currently leading national and international projects in this area and is the Programme Chair for European Conference in Technology Enhanced Learning 2012 (EC-TEL 2012).
