Tertiary Education Research.

How do we know if things are working? What does ‘working’ mean in your context? I can provide focussed critical enquiry support or run a bespoke project for you.

I am committed to mainstreaming critical curiosity and research-informed practice across tertiary education. As an experienced educational researcher and developer of institutional pedagogic scholarship capacity, I have expertise running large and small scale primary research and practice evaluation projects using a wide range of approaches. I also have experience successfully cascading outputs to a range of stakeholders.

If you have introduced a new practice – or better still are planning one, and want to understand what is going on, what success might be looking like across your stakeholder groups etc. but don’t have the time or local capacity to harness the potential of your innovation, please get in touch.

Recent workshop activity provided to University, Students’ Union and College educators:

• Teaching as a focus of enquiry: an introduction.
• Getting started in research: a practical workshop.
• Education Change Intensive: mentored critical enquiry in practice.
• Publishing and cascading your pedagogic enquiry output.

Recent research activity:

• Heard-Lauréote, K., & Kell, C. (2025). Developing the developers: A values-first approach to Educational Developer growth. Innovations in Education and Teaching International https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XA8QGDV6DBCY6AM2H4QW/full?target=10.1080/14703297.2025.2530128
• Heard-Lauréote, K., & Kell, C. (2023). Intrapreneur, entrepreneur or extrapreneur, or all three? Making visible hidden skills and personal development journeys in third space professional leadership roles. Third Space Perspectives: Exploring Integrated Practice. Available at: https://www.thirdspaceperspectives.com/blog/intrapreneurentrepreneur 
• Kell, C and Wilson-Medhurst, S (2023) Boundary spanning or crossing? The human cell as a metaphor to enable change planning and operationalisation, Educational Development 24 (4): 14-19 https://www.seda.ac.uk/seda-publishing/educational-developments/educational-developments-issue-24-4-2023/
• My full outputs list is on this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oZIMdV8YPi0XU_9s4AoxUqgtcbn3gGnO/view?usp=sharing providing an overview of my research areas of interest, outputs and ideas for workshop support that could be offered on a consultancy or collaborative basis.