Pedagogy, Practice and Scholarship Group

The Pedagogy, Practice and Scholarship Group supports our University Teachers to make the most of scholarship opportunities that enhance our teaching and create disciplinary knowledge through a diverse range of specialisms and methods. The group aims to celebrate the excellent scholarship that already enriches our teaching, and to focus on how we can support individual specialisms, foster collaborations inside and beyond the school, and strengthen links to practice.

The group’s outputs reflect the diverse range of themes, specialisms and interests of the membership. Mapping the group’s work reveals the following thematic fields: building performance, climate, design, history & theory, inclusivity, material cultures, participation, pedagogy, and placeshaping. These themes are connected via the overarching ambition to develop an integrated teaching approach.

Scholarship outputs are just as varied as our interests and can include exhibitions, publications, presentations, portfolios, design projects, research, buildings, workshops, and public engagement activities. These activities need critical reflection to make our activities relevant and transferable to other teaching contexts in other schools of architecture and beyond.

The PPS Group is characterised by the diversity of research methods used by its members in their scholarship. As a discipline, architecture sits at the intersection of multiple disciplines - science, social science, humanities, and design - meaning that architectural research represents an enormous range of possible inquiries. This is reflected in the wide range of research methodologies and methods employed in the diverse interests and specialisms of the PPS Group.