Education Research Scientist, Centre For Research In Pedagogy And Practice (Crpp)

Overview The National Institute of Education (NIE) is among the world’s top education institutes, recognised for its excellence in teacher education and educational research. NIE has played a key and pivotal role in shaping and developing Singapore’s teaching profession and landscape through evidence-informed, practice-focused and values-based programmes and initiatives. An autonomous institute situated within the research-intensive Nanyang Technological University, NIE is consistently ranked within the top 10 in the world for research impact in the field of Education. The Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice (CRPP) was launched in 2002 as a key research centre of the National Institute of Education (NIE). CRPP conducts rigorous, relevant and multidisciplinary education research that informs pedagogy, policy and practice in Singapore and internationally. The Centre works closely with schools, the Ministry of Education and other education stakeholders to generate evidence-based insights for classroom and system improvement. CRPP focuses on three key research areas on learner potential development, teacher development and system improvement. CRPP invites applications for the position of Education Research Scientist to contribute to its work in teacher development and system improvement. The successful candidate will join a research community committed to understanding how teachers, schools, families, communities and systems learn, adapt and improve, and to translating research into sustainable educational change. We are especially interested in candidates whose research can strengthen CRPP’s agenda in teacher professional learning, school leadership, education system reform, research-practice-policy partnerships, and ecologically oriented approaches to education that attend to classrooms, schools, families, communities and place. The successful candidate will develop and lead a coherent programme of education research aligned to CRPP’s research agenda. Applicants may bring expertise in one or more of the following areas: school-family-community relations, educational equity, community-based education research, place-based education, and ecological approaches to learner and community flourishing; participatory, design-based, ethnographic, sociological, comparative, international, longitudinal or mixed-methods research in education; research-practice-policy partnerships, practitioner inquiry, participatory evaluation, and translation of research into policy and professional practice; whole-school or whole-community approaches to education, including sustainability education, climate change education, environmental stewardship, socioecological learning, and school-community partnerships; sociological research into social mobility, including drawing on sociology of education’s focus on equity and optimizing human potential; teacher professionalism, teacher education, teacher professional learning, professional identity, teacher motivation, teacher retention, and teacher career development; school leadership, middle leadership, organisational learning, school improvement, system studies, education policy, and policy enactment; learning sciences and sociological approaches to teacher learning, classroom interaction, discourse, student voice, agency, culturally responsive pedagogies, and the instructional core. Candidates with appropriate qualifications and relevant research experience are encouraged to apply. The position would suit a scholar who is able to work across disciplinary boundaries and build strong partnerships with researchers, teachers, school leaders, policy stakeholders and community partners. Requirements Ph.D. in a relevant discipline (including education research, teacher education, learning sciences, educational leadership, education policy, sociology of education, comparative and international education, human development, social sciences or related areas); Preferably with at least 5 years of postdoctoral, research fellow, research scientist, faculty or equivalent research experience; Experience developing a coherent and promising programme of research relevant to teacher learning, school leadership, education systems, educational equity, school-family-community relations, and/or ecologically oriented approaches to education; Experience conducting high-quality empirical research in education, including qualitative, ethnographic, design-based, participatory, mixed-methods, longitudinal, survey, …