Rate My Professor Kate Mawson

Dr Kate Mawson is a Principal Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University, where she serves as a methodological expert in close-to-practice research within the S3 Methods Hub and as a member of the Education Policy and Practice Research Group. Holding a Doctor of Education, she is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and a Founding Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching (FCCT). Mawson brings significant teaching experience from schools and Russell Group universities, with a focus on the professional development of teaching-focused staff in higher education institutions. Previously, she was a Fellow at the University of Warwick's Center for Teacher Education from August 2014 to September 2017. She provides consultancy services through Nottingham Trent University to enhance practitioner engagement in educational research and offers doctoral supervision.

Her research specializations encompass the identities of researching practitioners, practitioner research as a methodological approach, increasing pupil literacy in science, adaptive teaching, and doctoral supervision. Mawson is a published author in these fields and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Innovation in Education, having co-edited Research Intelligence for the British Educational Research Association. Key publications include 'Enhancing practitioner research in school settings: insights from close-to-practice partnerships' (2026), 'Supervising the professional doctoral student: Less process and progress, more peripheral participation and personal identity' (2017), 'Teacher-as-Researcher: Legitimate Peripheral Participation in Research Culture' (2017), and contributions to edited volumes such as 'Introduction to Section 4: Research Knowledge, Quality, and Ethics in Practitioner Research' (2025) and 'Introduction to Section 2: Power, Positionality, and Identity in Practitioner Research' (2025). She has been invited to deliver talks at international events on writing for dissemination and close-to-practice research, contributing to practitioner-researcher communities.