RESEARCH ETF PRACTITIONER RESEARCH CONFERENCE RESEARCH IN PRACTICE


The many benefits of collaboration discussed by conference delegates


The importance of collaboration in underpinning research and professional development was an underlying theme of this year’s Education and Training Foundation (ETF) Practitioner Research Conference.


The power of collaboration between practitioners, between practitioners and academic researchers, between practitioners and managers, and between practitioners and students, is vital in building and sustaining a vibrant practitioner research community, delegates heard. Delivering his opening remarks to the


conference, held in July at Mary Ward House in London, Paul Kessell-Holland, the ETF’s director of insights, said: “The further education sector is traditionally thought of as under-researched, but that is changing. “There is a growing ecosystem of


research of which the ETF is part. And collaboration is a vital component in that ecosystem.


“Collaboration is a way to gain


unforeseen ideas and insights. Collaboration allows you to share the workload of a big project. Collaboration beats competition.” Paul said his vision for the FE and


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training sector was for most providers to have at least one person engaged in research in some way. The conference’s main theme was


improving educational practice through educational research, and keynote speaker Dr Lynne Rogers spoke of the need to build capacity in further education research. “How do we collaboratively work together to provide a more positive


dialogue about FE?” asked Dr Rogers, who is reader in education at UCL, Institute of Education, and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Education and Work. “How do practitioners and providers


work together to create headspace or time to think in order to build research capacity and create a larger impact?” The connections between practitioner


research and improved practice were evident in nearly 50 research abstracts


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