Research groups

Research groups enable collaboration between our academics, research students, research practitioners and others.

We bring together a diverse group of researcher practitioners interested in extending our collective research knowledge and expertise to make a difference to the field.

We carry out research in the social sciences of education that is independent, methodologically sound and explores fundamental issues about the purposes and processes of education and of policy.

We aim to make a transformative contribution to realising children and young people’s human rights by undertaking and promoting inter-disciplinary research, teaching, policy and practice.

We bring together academic researchers, students and practitioners with an interest in the broad disciplinary area of community learning and development.

The CEID Research Group brings together a diverse group of researchers, scholars and practitioners working on or interested in comparative education and/or education and international development.

We are a vibrant and supportive community of academic staff, researchers and doctoral students who have a shared interest in applying psychological theories, research and methods to understand and optimally support the development, learning and wellbeing of children and young people.

We bring together students, researchers, practitioners, academics and policymakers from across the early years sector. We work to make children’s rights real by strengthening and advancing early childhood research, policy and practice and the way they interconnect.

We examine sport and the sport industry at a distance, and seek to critique its politics, power, inequalities, and relationship with society as a whole.

We bring together colleagues across Moray House School of Education and Sport, the Institute for Academic Development and beyond to network, discuss current higher education research and advance collaboration.

Our interdisciplinary research team aims to use and develop evidence-informed research and education to make a positive impact on human performance.

Our research group brings together staff and students working in the area of philosophy of education.

Our research in physical culture in the context of education aims to enrich practice and improve the experiences, learning and lives of young people and their teachers.

We are a diverse group of educators, researchers and activists who have come together to understand and address Sustainability in Education.

The TILTED Research Group brings together teachers and researchers who want to ensure that future language teachers develop professional knowledge around the different ways in which one’s identity is constructed and how those ways may create sites of privilege and marginalisation.