HIVE-PED: Higher Vocational Education and Pedagogy in England

The HIVE-PED Research Seminar Series: Higher Vocational Education and Pedagogy in England The proposed HIVE-PED research seminars series will map out the research territory, report research findings, facilitate debate, and make research-based proposals relating to the field of higher vocational education and pedagogic research in England. The seminars will build on prior research in the LLAKES and TLRP ESRC projects, on research reports from HEPI, HEFCE, SRHE, CEDEFOP and elsewhere from England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Island, Europe and international partners to define key research questions and recommendations for further research, policy development, provision and progression between further, higher and apprenticeship education sectors and related employment outcomes. A new expert group of UK and international research partners will be brought together to exchange theoretical and evidenced-based research findings, make contributions to the seminar series and collaborate in advancing research in the field of higher vocational education. Each major partner will contribute by leading one seminar on a related topic over the three years and will encourage others to contribute to the debate. Partners will also collaborate in two HIVE-PED Mini Conferences, two sessions of a global HIVE-PED Research MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) and in the production of more than 30 research publications, videos, research summaries, booklets and research methodology training guides over three years, including at least one Emerald Special Journal Edition on Higher Vocational Education and Pedagogy. Partners include UK and international experts in the field, each with significant experience of working on higher vocational education and training and post-compulsory education research. The potential contribution of longitudinal tracking data about the progression of both apprentices and FE College learners into higher education and employment will be explored. The dissemination events, publication outputs and further research funding proposals will build on both the prior research of key partners in the ESRC LLAKES Project and on the research that has been done for the University of Greenwich BIS funded research report "Progression of Apprentices into Higher Education" and report on "Progression into Higher Education from London's FE Colleges" (forthcoming, 2013). The project will work with Jim Dimond, FE &Skills Directorate, BIS, to consider appropriate policy recommendations for government arising from the research. Overseen by a User-focused Steering Group and Academic Strategic Planning Group, the series will engage academic researchers, policy makers, providers and non-academic users to report and critique the results of research, consider new evidence, debate methodological issues, formulate research questions and make recommendations for the future. The Steering Group will include Jim Dimond of FE and Skills Investment Directorate at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) representatives from UVAC, NIACE, LSIS, PwC, City and Guilds Skills Development Centre and Second Wave Youth Arts. The Academic Strategic Planning Group will be Chaired by Professor Jameson and will include Professors from the Institute of Education, King's College London, Birkbeck College, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and from Southampton, Birmingham, Huddersfield, Sheffield, Warwick and Wolverhampton Universities. The research seminars project will be managed by a small project team from the University of Greenwich led by Principal Investigator Professor Jameson, Co-Investigator Professor Patrick Ainley of the School of Education, supported by Debi Hayes, Director of the Partnerships Division, Hugh Joslin of the Centre for Work-Based Learning at Greenwich, and Co-Investigators Professor Ann-Marie Bathmaker, University of Birmingham, Dr K Orr of Huddersfield and Dr N Kersh of the Institute of Education.