Workshop series

We’re pleased to announce that, in 2025, MenTRnet will be running two five-week workshop series, in association with IATEFL Research SIG. Both workshop series willl be completely free to join. 

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Workshop information

Teacher-Research for Professional Development 2025

📢 Registration now open

Our second free 2025 workshop series – the IATEFL ReSIG / MenTRnet Teacher-Research for Professional Development workshop series – runs from 29 September to 31 October. This is for teachers or student-teachers of English or other subjects who wish to begin researching their own classrooms. Led by Rubén Mazzei and Mariana Serra, the workshop series will show participants how to adopt an Exploratory Action Research approach to investigating classroom issues, featuring content from this book, which intending participants are invited to look at in advance. You can also join the Teacher-Research for Professional Development Facebook group and/or the Teachers Research! Facebook group to get updates. The workshop series features a weekly online meeting (recorded for those unable to attend), online resources, and ongoing mentoring.

Registration is now open at this link: https://canvas.instructure.com/enroll/G344W3    

Mentoring Teacher-Research 2025

📢 This workshop series has now ended but will be repeated in April–May 2026

The first of our 2025 workshop series – the IATEFL ReSIG / MenTRnet  Mentoring Teacher-Research workshop series – ran from 19 April to 24 May and was devoted to teacher-research mentoring. Led by Seden Eraldemir Tuyan, with a team including Ravi Chakrakodi, Ana Garcia Stone, Mariana Serra and Richard Smith, the workshop series was intended for those who have started or are hoping to start to mentor teachers or student-teachers to research their own practice. We welcomed novice mentors but also returning participants, as a major purpose of the workshops was to (continue to) build our community of mentors of teacher-research worldwide. If you’re interested, please also join the MenTRnet Facebook group or MenTRnet‘s discussion list, which will feature updates about future workshops The Mentoring Teacher-Research workshops feature content from this book, which you might like to browse to get an idea of the kind of activity involved.

Both workshop series are experientially based, involving weekly input sessions and discussions using Zoom and Canvas, as well as weekly tasks to complete. Certificates are awarded to those who complete the series by submitting a plan of action soon after the endpoint in each case.

Supported by a grant from the University of Warwick and the Economic and Social Research Council (grant reference ES/X004635/1)