Researching your teaching

Why research teaching?

As well as researching your subject, there is potential to research the teaching, or pedagogy, of your subject.

• Research into the teaching of a particular subject or discipline may suggest that it has specific characteristics
• Evidence may emerge that certain approaches to teaching are effective for particular subjects.
• All practice should be informed by evidence and it is therefore legitimate to try to gain evidence from the practice of teaching.
• Through research, teaching becomes a scholarly activity, aligning it with the research ethos of the higher education sector and creating a stronger relationship between the teaching and research elements of the HE practitioner's role. Follow the Research Resources link on the right for more on the scholarship of teaching

For further information on the scholarship of teaching see University College Dublin's site