Louise Lambert

• Louise is currently working on two Transnational research projects and one institutional research project. She is also co-editing and writing a chapter for a book entitled: Rethinking and Reviving Subject English: The Murder and the Murmur which will be published by Routledge in 2022.

• Posthumanism and education
• Practice as research
• Practitioner research
• Teacher professional development
• Using creative methodologies
• Literacies in Education

• EdDoc: Post-human Enquiries in ITE
• MA Education
• BA (Hons) English Literature
• PGCE (Secondary)
• SFHEA

• International Committee member of International Professional Development Association (IPDA)
• Member of the British Education Research Association
• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Louise teaches on various modules on the Masters in Education course including Critical Pedagogies; Research Methods, and the dissertation. She also teaches Post-qualitative enquiry on our Professional Doctorate in Education (EdD).

• Co-MAP. Collaborative, Community Mapping of Young People’s Learning Experiences During COVID-19. (ERASMUS funded research project, 2021-2023)
• Co-MAP: Investigating Covid-19's impact on vulnerable young people - School of Education and Social Work | Birmingham City University (bcu.ac.uk)
• Enhancing Teacher Education in Vietnam (ETEP), (World Bank funded collaborative research project, 2021-2022)
• MA Research project (funded) into the experiences of students on Masters in Education (2020-2021) What value does a Master’s in Education have for diverse student groups? - School of Education and Social Work | Birmingham City University (bcu.ac.uk)
• Research project exploring the experiences of becoming HE educators in Vietnam and UK contexts. Research project funded by British Council in Vietnam, (2018-2020)

Louise supervises professional doctorates in areas of academic and professional literacies and in Initial Teacher Education. She also supervises in a range of areas within education at Master’s level.

Lambert, L. (2021) Diffraction as an otherwise practice of exploring new teachers’ entanglements in time and space, Professional Development in Education, 47:2-3, 421-435, DOI: 10.1080/19415257.2021.1884587

Alexandra Kendall, Tran Quynh Ngoc Bui, Thi Hoang Yen Duong, Thi Thuy Trang Kieu, Louise Lambert, Tan Huynh, Kim Anh Le, Thi Thu Lieu Le, Nguyen Duc Hanh Luu, Stuart Mitchell, Thi Thanh Hai Pham, Thanh Trung Nguyen, Thi Thu Trang Nguyen & Hoang Cam Tu Tran (2020) Giving up and getting lost in Hanoi: playing with creative research methods in transnational contexts, PRACTICE, 2:1, DOI: 10.1080/25783858.2020.1843126

Lambert, L. (2019) Becoming teacher, becoming researcher: reconsidering data analysis in post-qualitative practitioner research, PRACTICE, 1:2, 151-168, DOI: 10.1080/25783858.2019.1659633

Conference Presentations

2019: Making Practice Matter.Exploring creative and qualitative methods in Higher Education research across international contexts

Nguyen Tat Thanh University, Vietnam

2019 CSPACE Birmingham -  Becoming a higher education teacher: post-qualitative methodologies in a transnational context

2018 IPDA Birmingham– Mythologising the resilient teacher body

2018 BCU Research seminar: Feminist new materialist methodologies

2017 SIQR Education and social research institute – Education research as performance: reimagining and representing doctoral work in Education. Research Collective.

2017 TEAN Birmingham – Using assemblage exploring the experiences of becoming teacher

2016 (TEAN) Using creative research methods in close to practice research

2015 UCET teachers using research in the classroom

Louise works with a range of professional partners in education.

Twitter: @louhlambert