Director: Professor Harry Torrance
ESRI is one of the leading centres for applied educational research and evaluation in the UK. It is a thriving research community with extensive links with practitioners, professionals and policy makers. We are strongly committed to maintaining the quality, vitality and social usefulness of educational and social research. We are international leaders in developing new research methodologies and approaches. We support research-enriched professional practice in teacher education, and aim to offer the best and most innovative approaches to research-based professionalism in the UK, across a growing range of occupational areas.
A summary of our aims
- to promote research-based understandings of policy and practice in education and the professions
- to support practitioners and professionals in researching their own practice and contexts of work
- to lead and participate in debate, nationally and internationally, on the nature and future of education
- to contribute to the development of theory and methodology in applied social research
- to work closely with the users of social research at all stages of the research process
- to provide first-class research training and support for new and developing researchers.