Public Lecture: Research as Education 2.0

Can doing research become the foundation for 21^st Century lifelong learning?

In this Public Lecture, Professor Andrew Brown from the UCL Institute of Education will explore the skills, knowledge, understanding, values and disposition required to thrive in the 21^st Century.

Drawing on personal and institutional research and development projects, Professor Brown will explore how the practice of doing research can provide the basis for a form of education that is flexible and dynamic to meet the emerging needs and demands of the 21^st Century.

Rather than taking educational practice as the object of research, it is proposed that research, and the production of knowledge, should be integral to educational practice.

Through practical examples, Professor Brown will explore how people might be inducted into becoming researchers, and how the process of doing research can have personal, professional and institutional impact.

This represents a challenge for educational practice and the practice of research, as practitioners and learners engaged in doing research move from being subjects in the reproduction of knowledge, to active agents in knowledge production and transformation.

As a distinguished Professor of Education and Society, Professor Brown is a sociologist with a particular interest in research capability and capacity building, along with the relationship between academic and professional discourse and practice.

Refreshments will be provided following the lecture.

Professor Brown is visiting the University of Newcastle (UON) under the President’s Visiting Fellowship scheme in conjunction with the Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education’s Visiting Fellows initiative, to foster the exchange of ideas and professional practice among the UON community.

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