ED:TALK – Evidence & Dialogue ToolkitSpeaker
Riikka Hofmann is a University Lecturer in Faculty of Education where she leads the Research Strand "Dialogue, Professional Change and Leadership" in the Faculty's Cambridge Educational Dialogue Research Group (CEDiR). Her research focuses on leadership and professional change in educational and medical settings, studied from the perspective of sociocultural psychology. She also conducts research on classroom learning and dialogue, having been involved in research in the U.K., Finland and Mexico, as well as in Sub-Saharan Africa, India and Pakistan in the Faculty's REAL Centre. Her research utilises a mixed methods approach, drawing both on qualitative approaches, process analyses and evaluation designs. Riikka teaches on the Educational Leadership and School improvement Masters route as well as on a range of Masters research methods courses in the Faculty. She is the coordinator of the Research Methods strand of the Postgraduate Certificate in Educational Assessment and Examinations, ran jointly with Cambridge Assessment. She also collaborates with the Postgraduate Medical Education Centre at Cambridge University Hospitals at Addenbrooke's, the Cambridge University Health Partners (CUHP) and Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Riikka is an expert member of a Cabinet-Office led Cross-Whitehall trials advisory panel, she advises various Government departments on research methods in policy evaluations as well as advising on leadership development in the civil service Future Leaders Scheme.
Description
The development of the Toolkit was funded by two grants from the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account at the University of Cambridge (PI: Dr Riikka Hofmann). The Toolkit builds on the ESRC-funded epiSTEMe research project (Effecting Principled Improvement in STEM Education, RES179-25-000) at the Faculty of Education, led by Prof. Kenneth Ruthven, together with Prof. Christine Howe, Prof. Neil Mercer, and Prof. Keith Taber, as well as the authors of this Toolkit and Stefanie Luthman, Paula Guardia, and Fran Riga. We thank the teachers who collaborated with us on the development of this Toolkit: Luke Rolls from the University of Cambridge Primary School, Michelle Turner, Sam Jackson, Glenys Cross, Danielle Edwards, Karen Faulkes, Caron Fry and Clive Benhan from Passmores Academy, Frances Stephenson and Mark Horton from Biddenham International School and Sports College, Amy Weston and Luke Smith from Eastgate Academy, and Scott Silver and Jon Pell from Kensington Primary. It is their direct quotes that appear across this website. We also thank all the teachers who participated in the original epiSTEMe project, both in the development of the intervention, and in its subsequent large-scale field trial. The Toolkit also draws on the Toolkit authors' research with other colleagues, Dr Anna Rainio, University of Helsinki, and Dr Fiona Maine, University of Cambridge.