Rate My Professor Kate Mawson

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.