Research and consultancy
Research and consultancy activities in the Development Education Research Centre.
Research
We are engaged in a range of research projects and programmes related to development education, global learning, education for sustainable development and global citizenship education in primary, secondary, further and higher education, as well as in informal education programmes.
Key areas of research
- Policy and practice in development education and global learning
- The theory and pedagogy of global learning
- Global perspectives and global citizenship within higher education
- Young people as global citizens
- Education for sustainable development and climate justice education
- Global learning for teachers and trainee teachers
- Global learning practices within schools
- Policy and practice of global learning in Europe
- Monitoring and evaluation of global learning and development education implementation projects
- Volunteering and global citizenship
DERC research projects and programmes
- Academic Network on Global Education & Learning (ANGEL) (EU / GENE, 2017 to ongoing)
- Global Education for Teachers massive open online course (UCL, 2020 to ongoing)
- Connecting Classrooms Through Global Learning (British Council, 2020 to 2021)
- Study Abroad and Student Mobility: Stories of Global Citizenship (UCL, 2018 to 2019)
- Global Learning Programme in England (DFID, 2013 to 2018)
- Schools for Future Youth (SFYouth) (EU Erasmus+, 2014 to 2017)
- Student Volunteering and Global Citizenship at UCL (UCL, 2015 to 2016)
- Medical Students as Global Citizens: Transforming learning about global health within the undergraduate medical curriculum (UCL, 2014 to 2015)
- Makutano Junction: A Multi-media approach to effective development education (EuropeAid, 2013 to 2015)
- International School Partnerships (DFID, 2011 to 2012)
- Global Learning for Global Colleges (DFID, 2009 to 2012)
- Global Dimension in Initial Teacher Education (DFID, 2009 to 2012)
- Students as Global Citizens (DFID, 2009 to 2012)
- Learning and skills for a global economy (PDF) (LSIS, 2009 to 2010)
- Returned Volunteers Engagement with Development (VSO, 2009 to 2010)
Annual report
DERC is involved in a broad selection of different projects and initiatives related to Global Education and Learning. Our Annual Report offers a good introduction to the Centre’s recent work.
Consultancy
We have been commissioned by a range of organisations including NGOs, schools, government bodies and international institutions, to carry out consultancy inputs. These include activities such as monitoring and evaluation, training and train-the-trainer workshops, literature reviews and report writing.
Current and recent consultancy projects
- Global Schools: EYD 2015 to embed global learning in primary education (EC, 2015–8)
- Advice for Pearson PLC on Global Citizenship resources (Pearson, PLC, 2016)
- Primary Education for Global Learning and Sustainability (PDF), Commissioned Paper (Cambridge Primary Review Trust, 2015–6)
- Education, Climate and Environment, Commissioned Topic Guide (DFID, 2015)
- Connecting Classrooms Training the Trainer and Evaluation (British Council, 2012–2015)
- Global Dimension to Engineering Education (Engineers Without Borders, 2014)
- Evaluating Partnerships in Development (Link Community Development, 2009–2012)
- Final Project Evaluation: Gyaan Yatra (Asian Foundation for Philanthropy, 2012–3)
- Open Sustainability in Education Research (OSIER) (HEA-JISC, 2010–2012).
Members of the centre's team also regularly contribute via keynote addresses, seminar presentations or running of workshops for projects and activities. These have included:
- British Council
- JICA in Japan
- Suas-Educational Development in Ireland
- Global Schools Project in Sweden
- Global Education Network Europe
- Finland Education Research Association
- European Education Research Association
- British Education Research Association.