Teaching and Research Centres
The Faculty is home to four Teaching and Research Centres:
Centre for Commonwealth Education
The Centre for Commonwealth Education was established in the summer of 2008 and is funded by the Commonwealth Education Trust. Over the period 2008-2010, the Centre is developing a programme of Leading Learning for School Improvement in the countries of the Commonwealth. It is currently working in Tanzania on initiatives linked to ICT, gender, Aids/HIV, teacher education, pedagogy and leadership and in Ghana on leadership.
Centre for Education and International Development
The Centre for Education and International Development, established in
2008, seeks to explain patterns of access, quality and outcomes of education in developing countries, and to demonstrate how they can be improved. The Centre's current focus is the Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty (RECOUP) - a multi-disciplinary research team comprising seven institutions in India, Pakistan, Ghana, Kenya and UK, co-ordinated and led by the Centre. RECOUP is investigating how education affects the lives and livelihoods of people living in poorer communities in the South, and the policy interventions that might best support them.
Leadership for Learning
The Leadership for Learning Network brings together a group of academics and practitioners connected through their interest in and experience of learning, leadership and their interrelationship in education. The Network offers a programme of conferences, seminars, publications, consultancy and research and acts as an international portal for disseminating its own work and that of others within the area of leadership for learning.
Centre for Neuroscience in Education
The Centre for Neuroscience in Education, established in 2005 forms part of the Cambridge Neuroscience Initiative, benefiting from the University's status as world leader in basic and clinical neuroscience. This international centre of excellence makes us the first Education Faculty in the world to have on-site neuroimaging facilities dedicated to educational research, and its launch conference attracted 250 delegates from a wide range of countries, including many leading researchers in the field. Current research focuses upon literacy and dyslexia across languages, and mathematical cognition and dyscalculia.