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The Co-Productive Partnerships Network is an inclusive space for parents/carers of disabled children and those categorised as having Special Educational Needs (with and without a formal diagnosis) and practitioners in public services to learn from and with each other. We hope that the network will generate fruitful and positive engagement into what attendees understand co-production means to all of us and look forward to generating and strengthening ideas about how we can all come together to find productive ways of working and better futures.
The Disability Research Forum (DRF) fosters informal networks of disability scholars by providing researchers with opportunities to present their work in a friendly and encouraging environment. It has become the platform for a virtual network of disability scholars, researchers, disabled people and disability activists from around the world, providing a friendly space, through online events and seminars, for Disability Studies scholars of all stages in their academic studies or career to share their ideas in a supportive and accessible environment.
In partnership with South Yorkshire Futures, the Effective Flexible Working Practitioner Network provides an opportunity for school senior leaders and colleagues in education interested in alternative working patterns to network and share expertise around flexible working.
The EYCRC Professional Development Network aims to support high quality early years practice through regular online CPD events, hosted by SIoE staff and early years experts from the South Yorkshire region and beyond. We hope that the network supports and motivates early years practitioners working in the maintained and PVI sector and provide a forum for our staff and external partners to share good practice and the latest research findings. We welcome everyone with an interest in early years practice and pedagogy.
The Sheffield Hallam University, Early Years and Primary Literacy Network is a supportive professional network that nurtures and promotes the expertise of those interested in early years and primary literacy teaching. It aims to develop a teacher research community that will support teachers’ engagement with literacy research from a range of sources. This network enables teachers and English subject leaders within Sheffield and the surrounding regions to engage with research, share their own practice, and build supportive networks to enhance literacy provision in schools. We welcome Early Career Teachers, early years and primary teachers, English specialists, and existing or aspiring English subject leaders to join the network and collaborate in the development of research informed practice.
Our monthly semi-structured research grant proposal writing groups – open to all I2Ri staff at all career stages with input from RIS staff. These are an excellent opportunity to network across the research institute, share ideas, seek input, gain feedback and learn top tips.
We are internationally known for our expertise in language and literacy in education, not least through our impact on English teaching through our involvement in training teachers in the region. As part of Sheffield Hallam, we are committed to research which can be applied in the real world. We investigate language and literacy in real-life contexts, studying how we communicate with each other in our everyday lives, whether in schools from early years to postgraduate study, or in other workplaces.
Literacy practices change over time, and our work encompasses the breadth of contemporary life, increasingly including the digital world. As a varied group of researchers, we apply sociocultural, socio-material, post-structural, post-human, social semiotic and embodied perspectives to our work, among others. Our members work on a range of topics including early literacies, translanguaging, digital literacies, multimodality, TESOL, workplace literacy and foreign language provision.
From internationally acclaimed professors to up-and-coming thinkers, we’re all driven by our passion for applied research into understanding how humans communicate with each other, and what this means for people’s lives and in education practice.
Situated within the ‘Education and Society: Social Justice and Inclusion’ cluster at Sheffield Hallam University, this group seeks to bring together those interested in exploring neurodiversity, as framed by the neurodiversity paradigm.
We intend to promote the discussion and development of work that theorises around and applies the concept of neurodiversity, drawing particularly on an inclusive understanding of neurodivergence, framed by Kassianne Asasumasu as ‘not another damn tool of exclusion‘. In other words, we understand neurodivergence as inclusive of those who identify with any of the multiple identities that fall within the remit of this term.
This includes, but is not limited to, “Autistic people. ADHD people. People with learning disabilities. Epileptic people. People with mental illnesses. People with MS or Parkinsons or apraxia or cerebral palsy or dyspraxia or no specific diagnosis but wonky lateralization or something.”
This group is particularly interested in the cultural intersections and constructions that shape understandings and experiences of neurodivergence. We are also explicitly trans inclusive. We welcome members from across Sheffield Hallam – open to all staff and doctoral students.
The group is organised by Jill Pluquailec and Chris Bailey, who both work within Sheffield Institute of Education.
Open Research Network to support and enhance Open Research practices at Sheffield Hallam. This opportunity is open to anyone interested in Open Research. We welcome researchers, early career researchers, doctoral students, professional services staff, and anyone else with an interest in the aims of Open Research and promoting its benefits.
The Post-16 Initial Teacher Educators’ Network offers a space for providers of post-16 and Further Education initial teacher education to share resources and expertise. We are particularly interested in supporting new teachers to develop their pedagogical content knowledge.
– for practitioners to share their research and enquiry with other practitioners and Sheffield Institute of Education researchers and make links for future research and enquiry – for researchers from Sheffield Institute of Education and from our partner schools and organisations to share their research findings and engage in developing collaborative research, enquiry and development projects with practitioners – to support capacity building for practitioner-led research
SCITT (school-Centred Initial Teacher Training) partners are a valuable part of our network of teacher educators operating in the wider teacher training landscape across the UK. Through this network our SCITT Community has grown via word-of-mouth, and we continue to welcome new potential SCITTs in delivering integrated PGCE (Post-Graduate Certificate in Education) courses across all age phases and subject areas, in collaboration with SHU. As members of the SCITT community, partners can access SHU expertise in SCITT twilight sessions including input from Emeritus Fellows, network with competitors in a non-competitive environment, contribute to and attend the SHU SCITT Development events online and face-to-face in SHU. This enables- the ongoing review and development of the SCITT programme to meet the needs of the diverse SCITT community of trainee teachers.
The Sustainable Schools network at Sheffield Hallam University, is a supportive network that aims to develop, facilitate, and network those interested in climate change and sustainability. It is a forum: for practitioners to share their research and activities with other practitioners and Sheffield Institute of Education researchers and make links for future climate change and sustainability research. for researchers from Sheffield Institute of Education and from our partner schools and organisations to share their research findings, projects and engage in developing collaborative approaches. to support capacity building for developing climate change and sustainability education and research.
The Teaching Research Methods Forum is open to any Sheffield Hallam colleagues involved in dissertation supervision or teaching research methods at any level.
The aims of the Forum are: * To provide an opportunity for people involved in research methods teaching and dissertation supervision to meet one another * To create a space to share experiences and challenges relating to the design and delivery of research methods focused teaching * To enable the sharing of best practice, tips, and resources across departments and disciplines
Previous Forum topics have included: * Supervising International Students * Decolonising Research Methods Teaching * Supporting Students with Research Ethics * Supervising Quantitative Research Projects * Helping Students to Identify ‘Researchable Questions’ * Supporting Students with Literature Reviews
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Research Methods Teaching; Pedagogy; Peer Support;
