Teaching on a range of courses, especially in the area of dialogic education, Educational Psychology and research methodology.

[1] 2019-21 The Virtual Internships Project (VIP). (Industry Partners:  Wegerif, Major & Twiner). Developing and testing a new model of ‘Virtual Internships’ that features young people working in teams role-playing being interns in real enterprises, developing and designing products that respond to real-world challenges. Through participating in these virtual scenarios it is intended that learners will develop key ‘complex competencies’, in particular relating to dialogue and creativity.
[2] 2015-16 Evaluation study of the TBFF Face to Faith Programme. Now ‘Generation Global’. Funded by Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
[3] 2015-16 Novel Training through Virtual Reality. (Project led by Invirt Reality working with Flybe to explore the use of immersive virtual reality in training airline cabin crew). Funded by NATEP: National Aerospace Technology Programme.
[4] 2015-16 ICURe Innovation-to-Commercialisation programme, piloted by the SETsquared Partnership and funded by InnovateUK and HEFCE. ‘Argue to Think’ Project. Research impact from PhD of Dani Hilliard.
[5] 2013-15 Creatividad y aprendizaje colaborativo mediante herramientas web 2.0: estudio longitudinal sobre los procesos psicologicos implicados en su enseñanza-aprendizaje en secundaria. Referencia: edu2012-32415. Organismo: universidad de lleida. Led by Manoli Pifarre Turmo (PI) Funded by the Ministerio de economia y competitividad. Gobierno de españa.
[6] 2012-13 European Advanced Symposium on Theory in Education (Principal Investigator joint with Gert Biesta of Stirling) €6,000. EARLI (The European Association on Research in Learning in Instruction).
[7] 2012-14 STATSTALK (Principal Investigator), EC Marie Curie project bringing Dr Sibel Kazak to Exeter to work on talk and conceptual development in the context of teaching statistics.
[8] 2010-13 Metafora. (Principal Investigator for Exeter, and Pedagogical Director)  €2,000,000 project to develop tools for collaborative learning online in science and mathematics. Led by Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with London Knowledge Lab as other UK partner, EC Framework 7, ICT. (www.metafora-project.org).
[9] 2009-12 Science Education for Diversity. (Principal Investigator) €997,000 for an International Project developing new approaches to science education for diversity with partners in 6 countries: UK, Netherlands, Turkey, Lebanon, India and Malaysia. EC Framework 7 Science in Society. (www.science-education-for-deversity.eu).

Papers

[1] 2020-2021 Assessing Future Skills and enabling CIFER. $100,000 Epic Games. Via the Bridge at Hughes Hall .

[2] 2020-2021 Enabling the creation of a Cambridge Institute for Future Education Research. £50,000. Arm. Via the Bridge at Hughes Hall.

[3] 2020-2021 Co-I (Louis Major is PI) Fortnite to Unreal: Enabling progression from Gaming to Development. $100,000 Epic Games.

[4] 2019-2022 Virtual Internships for Enterprise Education. (PI) £316,000. BT and Huawei. 2019-2022 Philosophy of Science for Children. (PI with Laura Kerslake) £40,000. Ron Zimmern. Via the Bridge at Hughes Hall.

[5] 2015-16 Evaluation study of the TBFF Face to Faith Programme. (PI) £47,000. Funded by Tony Blair Faith Foundation.

[6] 2015-16 Novel Training through Virtual Reality. (PI at Exeter with Gabriella Giannachi as Co-I). £37,000. Project led by Invirt Reality working with Flybe to explore the use of immersive virtual reality in training cabin crew. Funded by NATEP: National Aerospace Technology Programme.

[7] 2015-16 ICURe Innovation-to-Commercialisation programme, piloted by the SETsquared Partnership and funded by InnovateUK and HEFCE. ‘Argue to Think’ Project. £50,000. Research impact from PhD of Dani Hilliard.

[8] 2013-15 Instem. (With Lindsay Hetherington) A network of science education projects. €15,000. EC, Commenius.

[9] 2013-15 Creatividad y aprendizaje colaborativo mediante herramientas web 2.0: estudio longitudinal sobre los procesos psicologicos implicados en su enseñanza-aprendizaje en secundaria. Referencia: edu2012-32415. Organismo: universidad de lleida. Manoli Pifarre Turmo (PI) and Rupert Wegerif (CoI) 18,000€ Ministerio de economia y competitividad. Gobierno de españa .

[10] 2012-13 European Advanced Symposium on Theory in Education (Principal Investigator joint with Gert Biesta of Stirling) €6,000. EARLI (The European Association on Research in Learning in Instruction).

[11] 2012-14 STATSTALK (Principal Investigator), €240,000 project bringing Dr Sibel Kazak to Exeter to work on talk and conceptual development in the context of teaching statistics. EC, Marie Curie.

[12] 2010-13 Metafora. (Principal Investigator for Exeter, and Pedagogical Director) €310,000 to Exeter as part of a €2,000,000 project to develop tools for collaborative learning online in science and mathematics. Led by Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with London Knowledge Lab as other UK partner, EC Framework 7, ICT. (www.metafora- project.org) .

[13] 2009 10 Pilot Evaluation of the impact of leadership training on academic attainment. （Principal Investigator). £10,000. The Challenger Trust.

[14] 2006 - 8 Interloc2 (Co-Investigator) £240,000 in total awarded for the cross institutional implementation and evaluation of digital dialogue games for inclusive and personalised learning. JISC.

[15] 2005 - 6 2005- 8 Interloc (Co-Investigator) £96,000 in total awarded for development of digital dialogue games for inclusive and personalised learning. JISC.

[16] 2004-6 2003-4 Argunaut (Principal Investigator UK and Pedagogical Director) €300,000 as part of a €1,500,000 project researching and developing tools to support moderating online reasoning. EC Framework 6, ICT.

[17] 2002-4 2000-3 2000-2 Dialogue and Development. (Principal Investigator joint with Philip Adey) £15,000 for a seminar series on the relationship between dialogue and development in education. ESRC.

[18] 2009-12 Science Education for Diversity. (Principal Investigator) €997,000 for an International Project developing new approaches to science education for diversity with partners in 6 countries: UK, Netherlands, Turkey, Lebanon, India and Malaysia. EC Framework 7 Science in Society. (www.science-education-for-deversity.eu) .

[19] 2009-12 SantanderMexico-ExeterResearchExchange.(PrincipalInvestigator)£45,000for hosting an exchange with four new researchers coming to spend time with us each year and one visit to Mexico to continue links. Banco Santander.

[20] 2009-10 Talking Counts. (Co-Investigator) £63,875 for an intervention programme to investigate and develop the role of exploratory talk in young children’s arithmetic. Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

[21] 2003-4 Thinking Together: SMILE. (Principal Investigator) £38,000 awarded for a collaboration with SMILE Mathematics to apply thinking together to the use of ICT in Mathematics education. The Nuffield Foundation

[22] 2002-4 Talking for Success: Thinking Together at KS1. (Principal Investigator) £84,000. Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

[23] 2000-3 Thinking and ICT in the Primary Curriculum. (Co-Investigator with Neil Mercer as PI). £60,000. The Nuffield Foundation Language,

[24] 2000-2 EMILE project: an ethnographic comparison of the use of ICT across Europe. (Principal Investigator in UK, EARLI and Open University) £134,820 as part of a much larger project. European Union, Minerva

[25] 1998-2000 Laptops and Literacy. (Co-Investigator) £40,000. British Education and Communications Technology Association.

[26] 1996-98Investigatingreasoning,talkandtheroleofcomputersinprimaryclassrooms (Co-Investigator with Neil Mercer as PI) £39,000. Economic and Social Research Council.

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Publications

[1] Wegerif, R (2020) Researching online dialogues: Introducing the ‘Chiasm’ methodology. Chapter 8 in:Kershner, R., Hennessy, S., Wegerif, R., & Ahmed, A. (Eds). Research Methods for Educational Dialogue. Bloomsbury Publishing.

[2] Wegerif, R. (2019). Towards a dialogic theory of education for the Internet Age. The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Dialogic Education, 14.

[3] Wegerif, R. (2019). Dialogic education. In Oxford research encyclopedia of education.

[4] Wegerif, R. (2018). New Technology and the Apparent Failure of Democracy: An Educational Response. On Education.

[5] Wegerif, R. (2018) A dialogic theory of teaching thinking. In Kerslake, L and Wegerif, R (eds) The Theory of Teaching Thinking. Routledge.

[6] Wegerif, R., Doney, J. Andrews, R., Larkin, S., Mansour, N., and Jamison, I (2017) Exploring the ontological dimension of dialogic education through an evaluation of the impact of Internet mediated dialogue across cultural difference. Learning Culture and Social Interaction.

[7] Phillipson, N. and Wegerif, R. (2017) Dialogic Education: Mastering Core Concepts through Thinking Together. London: Routledge.

[8] Wegerif, R., Fujita, T., Doney, J., Linares, J. P., Richards, A., & Van Rhyn, C. (2017). Developing and trialing a measure of group thinking. Learning and Instruction, 48, 40-50.Wegerif, R, Li, L. and Kaufman, J.C. (2015) The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Teaching Thinking, Routledge.

[9] Kazak, S., Wegerif, R., & Fujita, T. (2015). The importance of dialogic processes to conceptual development in mathematics. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 90(2), 105-120.

[10] Wegerif, R. (2013) Dialogic: Education for the Internet Age. London: Routledge

[11] Wegerif, R. (2011)  Towards a dialogic theory of how children learn to think. Thinking Skills and Creativity. 6 (3) 179-195

[12] Wegerif, R.(2010) Mind-Expanding: Teaching for Thinking and Creativity. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press/mcgraw Hill

[13] Wegerif, R. (2007) Dialogic, Education and Technology: Expanding the Space of Learning. New York: Springer-Verlag.

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Conferences

Associations.

Active in the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction. I was the treasurer from 1997 to 2001 and was described on their web-site as the architect of first permanent EARLI office. In 2011 I was President of the EARLI Conference in Exeter, the first time it had been in the UK. This was a conference of 1,800 participants, the largest and most prestigious educational research conference outside of the USA (in the opinion of many). In addition I have served in other roles within EARLI and the International Society of the Learning Sciences:

2017 - date Co-ordinator of EARLI SIG 26 Argumentation, Reasoning and Dialogue 2013- 2017 Co-Founder and Co-ordinator of Educational Theory EARLI SIG (SIG 25)

2009-2011 Ex-Officio member of EARLI Executive as 2011 Conference Chair

2009 Scientific Committee of EARLI 2009 Amsterdam

2008 Scientific Committee of International Conference of the Learning Sciences Utrecht

2005-2006 Member of a working group on a new EARLI conference for Practice-Based research.

2001-2003 Co-ordinator for Learning and Instruction with Computers SIG of EARLI

2001 Member of the International Programme Committee of the First European CSCL Conference in Bergen

2000-2001 Member of the International Committee for the 9th EARLI conference in Fribourg Switzerland 2001.

1997-2001 Elected Secretary/Treasurer of EARLI

Membership of professional bodies

British Psychology Society, Chartered Psychologist (Awarded 2019) European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction British Educational Research Association
International Society of Learning Sciences

American Education Research Association Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain

Advising government agencies

In 2018 I helped evaluate doctoral programmes in educational science in Estonia

In 2017 I helped evaluate teacher education and educational science provision in Estonia

In 2017 I reviewed research centre proposals for the EC H2020

In November 2015 I was invited as an expert ‘rapporteur’ to spend one week in Brussels helping to review Horizon 2020 bids on science education (SEAC).

In 2008 I was invited to consult on the definition of the research challenges of the ICT theme under the EC 7th Framework Programme for Research Technology & Development 2007- 2013 on Technology Enhanced Learning 2008-9.

In 2008 I was a member of the Expert Advisory Group of the Beyond Current Horizons project to advise the UK DCSF on educational futures.

In 2004 I was invited to advise the QCA on ICT in the Early Years

Keynotes and invited talks on international conferences

2020 Keynote on teaching thinking and creativity. Sichuan University. (online)

2020 Keynote (joint with Martin Dougiamas, founder and ceo of Moodle) on the Future of Education at the online SHAPE conference.

2019 Keynote on Dialogic Education at conference on Dialogic pedagogy, creativity and learning at the University of Bergen June 3-4,

2018 Keynote on Dialogic Education. Hong Kong (The 10th Workshop of Knowledge Management & E-Learning May 15th)

2015 Keynote at ELSIN 2015. What is dialogic and how can we measure it?

2014: Literacy Research Association, Florida, December, keynote on Dialogic Literacy

2014 Keynote. Bakhtin and the Internet Age. Opening Keynote at the Perspectives and Limits of Dialogism conference. Hamilton New Zealand, January.

2009 Naples. Keynote at Civitas Educationis: Interrogazioni e sfide pedagogiche. Technology Citizenship and Infinite Responsibility. (20th Nov)

2009 Padua. Keynote: International Conference on Philosophy for Children (ICPIC). What does it mean to teach thinking? Philosophy for Children as an example of dialogic education. (3rd June)

2007 Keynote at Monterrey (Mex), for UNESCO during the World Forum of Cultures: Dialogic, Education and Technology: Expanding the Space of Learning. Launch of my new book of same title.

2005 Plenary keynote at the CSCL conference in Taiwan. Dialogic and CSCL.