#rEDBright - summary of a research lead conference by a faux research lead!
I have a confession to make. Despite this being my third ResearchEd event, I am not a research lead (don't tell Tom Bennett), yet I keep crashing these research lead events because they are just so good that I know they will benefit me. When I started my masters a year or so ago, I found a passion and interest for doing research (and it occurred to me that my education truly had been wasted on my younger self). It awoke in me an interest to read and write and research and hypothesise, and then I had to stop my masters studies and I found ResearchEd instead, which is trying to find ways in which teachers, educators, all people in schools, can become research engaged. And I think this is important. I am not sure I am in a context where suggesting that a research lead should be appointed would be approved. And yet. I still feel this desire to pursue this and find out more about it and read the work of other research leads. It is interesting, inspiring and exciting, and to pa