The staff and students in Education conduct research in a range of areas, and this blog offers them opportunities to share this informally. If you read on you will see contributions from research staff such as those in our research centres, reflections on our taught programmes from both students and staff, and posts from our students and visitors on learning that goes well beyond the university itself. If you would like to contribute a blog post please contact your programme leader. We look forward to continuing to build this blog as a living archive of educationally interesting posts.