Bioscience Practitioner Learning Research Group

Themes

• Health, Wellbeing and Education
• Culture, Heritage and Society

Summary

This research group considers all bioscience learners, students and tutors, and how learning identity develops as a result of changing participation within biological communities of practice, both within and outside of our University.

All learning occurs within a social context and practitioner learning occurs through participation in a defined community of practice. Biosciences is a landscape of different biological communities, each with its own research history, communication and defined practices.

This Research Group is a social research centre in Biology. It provides a conceptual framework for understanding learning. Negotiating meaning is at the core of human learning. This research group focuses on learning in terms of interdependent learners co-participating in creative practices both inside our University and in associated networks outside the formal curriculum and outside our University. Therefore, we are interested in how you negotiate your identity as a participant in a community, how you express competences such that you are recognisable to other community members. We also explore how the community helps the ‘make up’ of your identity as a person more generally.