Tracey works on the OU's Retention Project with Alan Woodley, head of IET's Student Research Centre. An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice , with Sage publishers. Professor Marshall Gregory from the USA, a long-term friend of the research group, is the third, overseas, Editor. We are delighted to be able to help raise IET's international profile yet further. This perhaps goes some way to repaying our colleagues for their faith in the HERG and continued support of our work.
Work starts now to prepare the first 'Call for Papers'.
The first issue will be handed over to Sage at the end of the year and published in June 2002. The establishment of the School is geared to boost the reputation of the OU's research, enhance the quality of its research, and increase postgraduate research student numbers, as well as raising external research income. The new Research School web site has been launched as an informative entry point for both internal and external research enquiries. The former Research Degrees Centre at Walton Hall acts as the school's base. A qualitative, ethnographic-type investigative approach will be adopted.