Resources for Conducting Your Own Research

Below you’ll find the School of Education at University of Birmingham’s three open online courses aimed at developing teachers’ research skills. Each course takes four weeks and is completely self-paced. We encourage you to use these resources to further build on the research findings we have shared with your school.

Applying Research to Your Teaching Practice

This course helps you to find education research, assess its quality, and apply its insights.

Ways of Researching

This course gives you a grounding in key education research methods, their pitfalls and benefits.

Doing Research in Your Learning Community

This course will help you to conduct your own research to help improve an aspect of your/your school’s practice.