Winter 2022/23
Research Intelligence issue 153: Off the cutting room floor: Learning from research when things do not go as planned
Convenor
Alison Fox, Dr
Senior Lecturer at The Open University
Dr Alison Fox (BSc, Durham; MSc, Aberdeen; PGCE, Cambridge; MEd, Cambridge; PhD, Open) is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the Open University in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research contributes to understanding contemporary issues in education; currently, the opportunities and challenges of social media for professional learning and the development of a framework for defensible ethical enquiry. She leads a new Postgraduate Teaching and Learning Pathway and chairs a module of the Postgraduate Leadership and Management Pathway.
Alison’s academic expertise in Professional Learning and Ethical Enquiry is founded on both teaching and research experience. After working as an environmental scientist, she retrained and taught Science for ten years in Secondary Schools and Further Education, was a teacher educator on Post Graduate Certificate in Education courses for Science teachers for six years and, since 2007, has taught as a lecturer on Masters and Doctoral programmes. Her research began whilst studying an MEd (1998-2000) when a school teacher, then extended through contract research (2000-2011), her PhD examining the professional learning of emergent school leaders (2006-2011) and as a senior lecturer (2011 onwards).
As a University researcher Alison’s expertise is grounded in the work undertaken across a range of projects at the University of Leicester, the University of Cambridge and at the Open University. She has examined the development of beginning teachers, school leadership development and the adoption and dissemination of classroom assessment for learning practices across schools and networks. Her funded research projects include inter-University collaborations, internationally funded projects, commissioned research, and a project funded by a charitable trust.
Alison Fox's contributions
SIG Forum Meeting – Research Methodology in Education SIG
Join the Research Methodology in Education and Care SIG annual meeting to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG over the last year and plans for 2022 This meeting will be...
Action Research – Research into Action
Online registration for this event has now closed, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register. #BERA_ActionResearch @BERANews Action Research – Research into Action is a follow-up to our...
BERA Blog post #1,000
It hardly seems possible, six years after its creation of the BERA Blog, that this is its one-thousandth post. The brainchild of BERA CEO Nick Johnson, in 2015 the BB set out to provide...
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Top Tips and Triggers – Learning from Head Teachers and Senior Leadership Teams who have research active schools
Online registration for this event has now closed, to register please email events@bera.ac.uk. #toptipsandtriggers In Summer of 2020, the Research Methodology in Education SIG and the...
Top Tips and Triggers – Learning from Head Teachers and Senior Leadership Teams who have research active schools
In Summer of 2020, the Research Methodology in Education SIG and the Practitioner Researchers SIG hosted the Principles into Practice event. An event was requested to find out how/why Head...
Reflecting on vlogs, blogs and podcasts in education research, teaching and professional development
The ubiquitous nature of the smartphone and the internet has normalised a new approach to seeking and managing information. Vlogs, blogs and podcasts (VBP) are creating literally thousands of...
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Research Methodology in Education SIG Annual Meeting
Join the Research Methodology in Education SIG annual meeting to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG over the last year and plans for 2021 This meeting will be...