About ScotsResearch
Our Story
Established in 2012 as one of the first substantive school-based research units, The Scots College Research Office facilitates a wide range of projects, programs and publications to enrich our scholarly life, form young men with brave hearts and bold minds, and serve the common weal by bridging the divide between schools, universities, and the world of work.
We run a range of collaborative research projects with universities, industry partners and other schools in Australia and overseas. In the five core focus areas of our Patribus Initiatives — character and care, experiential education, design thinking and creativity, physical, mental and spiritual wholeness, and entrepreneurship and social leadership — we are seeking to build partnerships at depth to reinvent education.
We design and develop a suite of professional learning opportunities for staff across the College, developing not just the technical skills of teaching but the deeper elements of expertise: vocational clarity, philosophical depth, and entrepreneurial thinking. We support a number of teachers engaging in research, from a first attempt at action research right through to PhD studies and beyond, as well as custom study and applied learning pathways in leadership and pedagogy.
We bring to Scots and the wider community world-class thinkers for conferences, seminars and lectures, especially our ScotsIdeas and Clark Fellowship series, and share our own research in a range of settings in Australia and abroad.
We continue to celebrate the growth of depth and breadth in research within the College and in exciting collaborations beyond. We look forward to working with you to deepen expertise in boys’ education.
Purpose
The Scots College Research Office exists to advance the College’s Brave Hearts Bold Minds educational philosophy by building expert communities of knowledge, practice and formation.
Objectives
Specifically, this entails:
Objective 1: Encourage and coordinate the research-led practice of staff and students in the College, and contribute to staff training.
Established in 2012 as one of the first substantive school-based research units, The Scots College Research Office facilitates a wide range of projects, programs and publications to enrich our scholarly life, form young men with brave hearts and bold minds, and serve the common weal by bridging the divide between schools, universities, and the world of work.
We run a range of collaborative research projects with universities, industry partners and other schools in Australia and overseas. In the five core focus areas of our Patribus Initiatives — character and care, experiential education, design thinking and creativity, physical, mental and spiritual wholeness, and entrepreneurship and social leadership — we are seeking to build partnerships at depth to reinvent education.
We design and develop a suite of professional learning opportunities for staff across the College, developing not just the technical skills of teaching but the deeper elements of expertise: vocational clarity, philosophical depth, and entrepreneurial thinking. We support a number of teachers engaging in research, from a first attempt at action research right through to PhD studies and beyond, as well as custom study and applied learning pathways in leadership and pedagogy.
We bring to Scots and the wider community world-class thinkers for conferences, seminars and lectures, especially our ScotsIdeas and Clark Fellowship series, and share our own research in a range of settings in Australia and abroad.
We continue to celebrate the growth of depth and breadth in research within the College and in exciting collaborations beyond. We look forward to working with you to deepen expertise in boys’ education.
Purpose
The Scots College Research Office exists to advance the College’s Brave Hearts Bold Minds educational philosophy by building expert communities of knowledge, practice and formation.
Objectives
- Objective 1: encourage and coordinate the research-led practice of staff and students in the College, and contribute to staff training.
- Objective 2: locate, assess for suitability and implement world’s best practice in boys education
- Objective 3: contribute to the College’s reputation as a citizen and a contributor to the information economy
- Objective 4: support institutional research which will build TSC’s effectiveness and efficiency as a leading Christian educator of boys.
Specifically, this entails:
Objective 1: Encourage and coordinate the research-led practice of staff and students in the College, and contribute to staff training.
- form and encourage research groups within the Faculties
- establish and maintain digital frameworks which support communities of practice, and which can disseminate research activity and findings among staff
- maintain a research and publications register which makes transparent the work happening around the College
- publish an annual Research Report which promotes the College’s activities.
- build on the College’s conference series to encourage students to participate in curiosity-driven learning and research
- establish a cumulative electronic repository including quality literature, digests, data and publications collected for College projects
- engage in conferences, seminars, etc., to assess and connect to leading thinkers in related fields
- design and run benchmarking exercises for assessment of best practice
- implement and assess innovative programs for improvement based on international best practice
- engage in cooperative research with Australian and overseas universities and schools
- capture, produce and disseminate articles and teaching materials based on original and/or synthetic research by the broader College Community, in areas cognate to the College’s mission, and in ways which will build the College’s reputation
- partner with select scholars and institutions to connect the College to the larger information economy
- support graduate and research degree programs sponsored by Australian and overseas universities and other educational bodies and networks
- collate, synthesise and disseminate existing institutional research in effective, organisationally appropriate means.
- act as a portal for new institutional research endeavours which assist in making the College more effective in the pursuit of its mission