Newcastle University

Research

The School of Education, Communication & Language Sciences has a range of multidisciplinary staff which includes teachers, psychologists, linguists, speech and language therapists, sociologists and media, communication and cultural studies specialists. Research in the School is wide ranging. It addresses theoretical as well professional issues and a significant proportion is interdisciplinary, inter-institutional and international.

Research Clusters

There are a number of research clusters within each section

Education:

• Professional Learning for Change
• Education, Society and Inequalities
• iLaB (ICT)
• Innovative Pedagogy and Curriculum
• Teaching and Learning in HE
• RIPE (Research in Primary Education
• Learning Environments Research Group

Speech and Language Sciences:

• Adult Impairment
• Child Language
• Phonetics

Applied Linguistics

• Language learning and teaching
• Social and professional interaction
• Language testing and evaluation
• Cross cultural communication
• Language teaching and technology

Research Centres

The school is home to one formal research centre:

• Research Centre For Learning and Teaching

The school is also home to the E.G.West Research Centre

Many research projects are are coordinated by the School as a whole. We gained a 5A grade in Linguistics (Speech & Language Sciences and Applied Linguistics) and a 4A in Education in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise.