Sally Bethell is a senior lecturer at Cardiff Metropolitan University (CMU) who has been involved in Education for many years. She has a special interest in Initial Teacher Education and evidence-informed practice. As the lead for mentoring across the PGCE programmes she was instrumental in developing the professional learning for senior mentors and mentors in schools to support student teachers’ ‘clinical practice’. This is a foundational aspect of student teachers’ training at CMU.
Now as a researcher involved in a funded Welsh Government research project (EREiS project), she has been investigating how schools develop and embed research and enquiry to support individual school improvement and professional learning. This work has involved collaboration with a team of researchers at CMU, a number of secondary schools in the South-East of Wales, the University of South Wales, and project partnerships from across Wales. Now in her third year as a researcher, with the EREiS project, she is contributing to the final submission which aims to identify underlying principles and case studies for embedding research and enquiry at a teacher, school, and systems level.
Sally was formally a schoolteacher, as a physical education specialist. She has also contributed to undergraduate physical education programmes, and now supervises Masters and Doctoral candidates (which she loves!).