Our research and consultancy activities influence change on policy and/or practice, test new approaches and ideas and promote rigorous academic debate in the field.

We support cross disciplinary approaches into:

• workplace learning
• Vocational Education, Further Education and Higher Education pedagogies
• emerging technologies in learning
• a variety of learning and assessment practices across industries, educational sectors and disciplines

We help VU to become a significant dual sector provider by:

• researching how learning takes place in, through and for the workplace
• transferring research outcomes into innovation in practice across the University
• producing educators skilled in critical and reflective inquiry