Re-Imagining Learning Communities

The research group Re-imagining Learning Communities (RILC) aims to create an interdisciplinary and vibrant research culture, supportive research networks and brings together researchers, from LSBU and beyond. Re-imagining Learning Communities' members build capacity through research on themes across educational policy and practice and engage with issues of equity and social justice. Re-imagining learning communities works with learning communities across the age range and in diverse settings to collaboratively re-imagine the how, what and why of education. Our participatory research aims to inform practice and policy for socially responsible and sustainable futures.  We re-imagine: who is learning for? Where does learning happen? Who owns learning? Who benefits? Who is excluded? What does community-owned learning look like? What pedagogies does it need? What new ways of being/doing do we need to imagine for educators, learners and communities?  Re-imagining Learning Communities' members also supervise a wide range of doctoral research projects

Proposals may be supervised by the following research group members (among others) Professor Nicki Martin, Professor Alex Kendall, Dr Martha Shaw, Dr Charlotte Clements, Dr Charalampia Karagianni and Dr Helen Young

Our group develops research and public engagement across the following themes:

• Innovative theoretical frameworks and creative methodologies for learning
• Social inclusion (exploring issues around anti-racist education, gender, decolonisation, SEND and neurodiversity)
• Understanding and strategising responses to youth work
• Post-compulsory education
• Inclusive and lived citizenship
• Youth school transitions to HE and employment transition
• Critical approaches to Education for Sustainable Development
• Pedagogy in Higher Education
• Beyond the classroom