Centre for Advanced Scholarship in Management Education
A hub for interdisciplinary scholarship, support and learning disruption.
The Centre for Advanced Scholarship in Management Education (CASME) is an interdisciplinary space through which to explore the future of teaching and scholarship in management education. Utilizing systematic reviews, audits of best practice, primary research, workshops and innovation events, CASME considers the changing nature of learning.
Established in 2020, the centre provides evidence on what works in higher education from the perspective of lecturers, learners and local communities.
Key themes
Hope, justice and fairness in higher education
This theme tackles both general trends in the context of higher education and classroom specific challenges around topics such as diversity and belonging. It includes traditional scholarship interests in education about inclusion, equity and diversity in higher education generally, as well as addressing the specific responsibilities of business and management school education. While this theme is concerned with students, work in this area also considers what it means to survive and thrive in challenging environments when it comes to the teaching components of a HE career in business schools. The theme incorporates scholarship on digital technologies in innovative ways, where this is connected with inclusion, universal design for learning, and accessibility.
Material pedagogy and creativity
Our material pedagogy and creativity theme examines the experience of education and considers innovative practices around sensory and affective techniques, joyful education and playful learning. This concentrates not only on learning as cognition in need of constructive support, but also gestalt and sensory approaches to the psychomotor and affective domains of learning techniques and responsiveness. The theme incorporates scholarship on the use of technologies in innovative ways, where this is connected with in-person learning.
Praxis in pre- and post-experience management education
This theme is about the theory and practice of scholarship in higher education. It is about critical exploration of learning and teaching across a range of traditions and contexts with a view to shaping what we know and how we teach. This theme expands on the practice, expectations and design principles of adult and self-directed learning (andragogy and heutagogy) in diverse learning contexts. The theme includes the use of digital technologies and online learning, where this is connected with professional praxis and effective engagement.
Get involved
We regularly release working papers, systematic reviews and short films on the work of the centre, including free events on advanced teaching and learning.
If you would like to know more or get involved then please do get in touch. We welcome enquiries about associate membership from those who actively engaged in advancing scholarship in learning and teaching.