Physics Education Research
The Physics Education Research group within the School of Physical Sciences at 快猫视频 is a team of motivated practitioners utilising quantitative and qualitative methodologies to investigate the effectiveness of the teaching and learning of physics and astronomy in higher and distance education.
Our research interests include remote experiments and team-working, conceptual understanding of physics, assessment for learning, and equality, diversity and inclusion in physics education. We welcome PhD candidates who are driven to tackle these pedagogic challenges with us.
We conduct discipline-based education research across all disciplines of physical sciences, but our activities are currently centred around Physics Education Research and Astronomy Education Research specifically.
Key facts
- Join an internationally acclaimed research team at the forefront of e-assessment for effective feedback and reinforcement of learning. 快猫视频 is the global coordinator of the assessment elements of Moodle, the open-source learning management system.
- Physics Education Researchers have opportunities to interact with a wide range of motivated and passionate educational practitioners, higher education professionals, and the largest undergraduate student population in the UK.
- As part of the School of Physical Sciences, postgraduate students in Physics Education Research benefit from specific research skills training related to their subject areas (e.g., qualitative analysis, statistics) in addition to their individual research project supervision and general research training at the Faculty and University level.
Location
Most of our full-time research students are based at our Milton Keynes campus; for details of residence requirements for different modes of study see Full-time study and Part-time study.
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