Ian Menter, President of BERA

Professor Ian Menter is Director of Professional Programmes at the Department of Education, the University of Oxford. Previously he was Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Glasgow. Prior to that he held posts at the University of the West of Scotland (Dean of Education and Media); London Metropolitan University (Head of School of Education); University of the West of England and the University of Gloucestershire.

Ian was President of the Scottish Educational Research Association from 2005–07 and chaired the Research and Development Committee of the Universities’ Council for the Education of Teachers from 2008 –11. He is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is a Visiting Professor at the University of Nottingham and at Newman University College, Birmingham.

Ian’s research interests are in teacher education and teachers’ work, with a particular interest in policy. He has carried out a number of ‘home international’ comparative studies within the UK, including ESRC-sponsored initiatives and has led projects commissioned by the Scottish Government and The National College for School Leadership. Ian is a member of the editorial team of the British Journal of Educational Research and is a founding editor of Review of Education, a new journal of the British Educational Research Association, launching in 2013. He is a convenor of two UKwide research groups, TEG (Teacher Education Group) and CAPeR-UK (Curricululum, Assessment and Pedagogy Reform across the UK).

His Presidential Address 'Educational Research - what's to be done?' can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqsqCThwL70