Create a stronger knowledge-based society
Join our vibrant, fast-growing research environment and help us transform education through outstanding research delivered alongside sector partners.
Read on to find out more about Manchester Metropolitan University as the ideal academic home for your research.
For an informal discussion about education research, please contact Faculty Director of Research, Professor Mike Coldwell.
Whatever your area of education, you will join a highly collegiate and supportive faculty focused on conducting world-leading research and teaching that makes a difference. We will support you to take your research, and impact to the next level. Join us.
Our research
strength
Our education research is world leading. By research power, we ranked ninth out of 83 education submissions in REF 2021, and we are in the global top 150 of the 2023 QS World rankings.
We are looking to recruit exceptional candidates across educational age phases and areas of expertise in the broad field of education.
We are exploring the relationship between theory and practice in education within the broad areas of early childhood education; critical policy studies in education; equity, diversity, and inclusion; mathematics education; pedagogical innovation; post-developmental childhood studies; and community-based learning. We are rapidly growing our educational policy research and evaluation activity and would like to enhance this with additional statistical and process evaluation expertise.
More than 50 academics are leading debates on the future of formal and informal education, working collaboratively with our community partners and practitioners to create transformational change.
Our global research impact
Our work has impact globally, nationally and, importantly, across our region and place, as these examples illustrate.
Professor Karen Pashby is President of the Comparative and International Education Society of Canada, Dr Su Corcoran works with communities in Kenya, supported by the British Academy, and Dr Laura Trafi-Prats welcomed colleagues from Europe and the US to an international seminar on “Eco-Affective Research with Youth in Cities.”
Nationally, Professor Lisa Russell, who is Editor-in-Chief for Ethnography and Education, began work on The Leverhulme Trust project “Mapping interventions for NEET young people in England,” and Professor Cathy Lewin reported on the Education Endowment Foundation-funded evaluation of Reading Peer Assisted Learning Strategies.
Locally, Professor Rachel Holmes and Dr Christina MacRae are collaborating with Manchester Art Gallery on an AHRC project exploring how very young children interact with the physical world, allowing children’s priorities to challenge established norms about what is valuable, who should see it and how it should be seen.
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professors
There are minimal barriers to cross-disciplinary working here, making it incredibly easy to collaborate with colleagues across different faculties.
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professors
Wherever you are, someone recognises you and values your contribution, so you will feel rewarded.
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professors
Our reputation is built on inclusive and impactful research that engages with critical issues of our time and makes a positive contribution to culture, society and the economy.