Research

Scholarship that has to work on a Monday morning.

Projects across teacher education, inclusion, early childhood, leadership, psychology and curriculum — with partners in schools, not only in journals.

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Working with eight partner schools, the team traces the practicum as a site of digital judgement — when to reach for a tool, and when the room itself is the pedagogy. Findings inform a new studio course in the BEd.
An action-research network of 22 schools is testing low-cost adaptations — seating, task design, quiet corners — and measuring belonging as carefully as attainment.
Ethnographic work in twelve kindergartens maps the everyday talk of classrooms and families, informing a play-based language framework now piloted with the sector.
Shadowing, interviews and a territory-wide survey surface the quiet work of curriculum coordination. A new short course for panel heads grew directly from the field notes.
A randomised trial across 18 secondary schools tests a tutor-time programme co-written with students. Early results show gains in help-seeking and peer support, with no loss of instructional time.
Design-based research with 40 teachers has produced a compact AfL toolkit now adopted by a cluster of aided primary schools in the New Territories.
Classroom observation and student work across three systems ask what ‘international’ means when the class is already multilingual. A joint master’s module launches in 2027.
In three districts, parents, NGOs and teachers are building neighbourhood learning maps. The work is already changing how one BEd course teaches community engagement.

Research themes

Capacity of the education workforce
Teacher learning, professional judgement, and the conditions that let educators stay and grow.
Child and youth mental health
School-based wellbeing, counselling, and the everyday architecture of belonging.
Equity, ethics and inclusion
Who the classroom is for, and how policy and pedagogy can answer that question honestly.
Parents and community
Education as a public relationship, not a service delivered to silent families.

Centres

Centre for Child and Family Science
Early development, parenting, and the science that kindergartens can actually use.
Integrated Centre for Wellbeing
Practice-near work on student and teacher wellbeing across the school years.
Centre for Educational and Developmental Sciences
Learning sciences, assessment, and the measurement of what schools claim to grow.
Centre for Psychosocial Health
Counselling, community mental health, and partnerships with the helping professions.

Scholarship that has to work on a Monday morning.

Reimagining Initial Teacher Education in a Digital Age

Inclusive Classrooms for Neurodiverse Learners

Early Language in Multilingual Hong Kong

Teacher Leadership for School Improvement

Youth Mental Health and School Well-being

Assessment for Learning in the New Curriculum

Global Citizenship without the Brochure

Parents and Community as Curriculum Partners

Research themes

Capacity of the education workforce

Child and youth mental health

Equity, ethics and inclusion

Parents and community

Centres

Centre for Child and Family Science

Integrated Centre for Wellbeing

Centre for Educational and Developmental Sciences

Centre for Psychosocial Health