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We are delighted to announce that AULRE and Culham St Gabriel’s Trust are hosting the following event: 

A Religion and Worldviews Research Seminar: Teachers’ engagement in and with research 

Date and Time: Thursday 14^th May 2-4pm

***Thursday 14th May ‘sold out’ in a couple of hours. An additional date of Friday 15th May 2-4pm has been added***

Registration: The event is free. Please register for Friday 15th May through Eventbrite here. Once you have registered you will be sent the joining details for the virtual seminar a few days before the event. Presentations will also be sent to participants before/after the event.

Registration closes on 12^th May.

Seminar Outline:

2pm: Setting the context: Culham St Gabriel’s vision and mission

Kathryn Wright, CEO, CSTG

2.15pm The Culham St Gabriel’s Research 7 Projects: An Update

Kevin O’Grady, Lead Consultant for Research, CSTG

2.30pm: Teachers and Texts in the RE Classroom

Robert Bowie, Director, National Institute of Christian Education Research

Chaired by Stephen McKinney (AULRE)

3pm: Emergent Technologies and RE

Paul Hopkins, Lecturer, University of Hull

Chaired by Sean Whittle (AULRE)

3.30pm: Plenary Discussion: Engaging teachers in and with research

Chaired by Kathryn Wright (CSTG)

For more information please email enquires@cstg.org.uk

This report is the outcome of a Culham St Gabriel’s Trust Research 7 funded project which has taken place over the last 12 months. The aim of the project was to consider the idea of ‘religious literacy’ as an aim for religious education and as an organising principle for curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. The project was a collaboration between Brunel University London and Hampshire Inspection and Advisory Service. Culham St Gabriel’s welcomes responses to this report particularly from serving teachers, you can email us at contact@reonline.org.uk

Spread your research quickly, easily and widely at https://researchforre.reonline.org.uk/Do you want a quick, easy and effective way to communicate your RE research to a keen audience of around 700? The Research for RE website is set up for you to use. Creating a report takes about 30 minutes. Register and click on Post my Research. You’ll be taken through a guided process, filling in seven boxes with brief information (author, institution, key data, link to source, etc.). The site has approaching 100 research reports covering RE and related areas (Religious Studies, Educational and Professional Studies, Sociology, Philosophy and Ethics, Theology, Learning Psychology, and so on). We’re very keen to keep adding to its depth and variety. Email Kevin@cstg.org.uk if you’d like help with creating your report.

Research for RE (click here to visit the site), a digital and social knowledge exchange tool is now available. This aims to overcome the barriers teachers face in engaging with relevant research by making emergent re-related research freely available in an easily accessible and relevant format that can be quickly understood and appropriately used. We have been working with a wide range of stakeholders and partners, including NATRE and AULRE, to develop this tool. Access the tool here

In addition, working with a number of different funders, we are creating a network of funded research projects, aimed at targeting the key research issues and questions for RE over the next five years, (click here for details). The projects will be distributed across the country and across a range of different institutions in order to grow and solidify centres of RE research excellence.

Following focus groups and conversations with key stakeholders and partners across the whole RE world, a list of the next major research questions/ areas of importance for RE has been developed. These seven pilot project ideas are as follows:

1: The challenge of curriculum design in RE
2: Religious literacy
3: Emergent technologies and RE
4: Teachers and texts in the RE classroom
5: Children as scientific and religious reasoners
6: Educational disadvantage, social mobility and religious identity
7: RE teachers’ engagement with research.

For further details of these seven pilot projects please see http://www.cstg.org.uk/how-we-help/research-for-re/

Research in and for RE in the UK is at a crucial junction of possibilities. Culham St Gabriel’s Trust (CSTG) has been working with partners on a strategy called Research for RE (see https://www.reonline.org.uk/news/research-in-re-a-strategic-approach-to-re-research/). CSTG’s strategy offers the possibility of real interaction and meaningful dialogue between researchers, practitioners and funders, and a proactive approach to identifying emergent RE research issues and building RE research capacity. It aims to: improve RE teachers’ access to and engagement with relevant research; to raise research capacity in the RE world and provide appropriate career pathways to develop the next generation of RE researchers; and to improve the quality, relevance and rigour of RE research.

Find out more here