Research and teacher education in the UK: Building capacity

The professional development of higher education-based teacher educators: needs and realities

“…Research and teaching are connected in more than one way. Effective teacher educators are increasingly expected by their institutes to be critical readers of research, basing their teaching on the accumulated knowledge and experience of the professional teaching community (Murray et al 2009, Elstad 2010, Loughran 2014). In addition, many academic institutes expect teacher educators to contribute to the development of knowledge in their field through their own research (Zeichner 2007, Lunenberg et al 2014.…”

Academic work and proletarianisation: A study of higher education-based teacher educators

“…As a result, in both countries, there are academic workers in university education departments who began their careers in very different sorts of institutions, often without a history of research activity (c.f. Maguire 1993, Murray et al 2009 are fairly limited, get on with the job of educating teachers.…”

Successful research capacity building in academic nursing and midwifery in Ireland: An exemplar

“…Research capacity building (RCB) is of international concern to professions such as teaching (Murray et al, 2009) and allied health professionals (White, 2003;Lazzarini et al, 2013), especially in circumstances of recent moves to university education (Boyd et al, 2009). Given that the World Health Organisation (2009) has recommended the graduate nurse, research capacity building will also remain a focus for the nursing and midwifery professions globally.…”