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	Academic programs Built Environment and Engineering Business Creative Industries Education   Overview   Staff   Research Courses Health Humanities Program Information Technology Law Science QUT International College		[Print-friendly version] Centre for Learning Innovation The Faculty of Education has a strong research culture driven by a commitment to innovation, enhancing educational professional practice and engaging with real-world issues. The Faculty has implemented leading innovations in research training, and has attained a critical mass of educational researchers who attract many competitive and contracted research grants. The Doctor of Education, Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Education (Research) courses offer a variety of research options allowing researchers to make an original contribution to their area of expertise . The Faculty offers a range of postgraduate research programs with quality supervisors affiliated with our four schools: Cultural and Language Studies in Education Early Childhood Learning and Professional Studies Mathematics, Science and Technology Education. The Faculty is leading the way in education research with many successes in Australian Research Council (ARC) grants for major research projects as well as many commercial research projects. In 2007 the Faculty was Australia 's top-performing education faculty for Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grants for six projects worth $1.5 million, a success attributed to our research centre, the Centre for Learning Innovation. The Centre for Learning Innovation manages research in the Faculty and is home to more than 50 active researchers, 190 doctoral students and 25 research masters students. It provides support for competitive research grants, publications and commercial research tenders. The Centre is committed to innovative and high-quality research directed towards: meeting educational needs in local, national and global contexts fostering positive social and economic change providing leadership across the full range of education professions developing innovative solutions to educational problems conducting transdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research. The aim of the Centre is to become a leader in collaborative research with the education professions and a recognised innovator in educational research both nationally and internationally. A variety of research is conducted with clusters of researchers focusing on: early years mathematics curriculum literacy learning for professional futures. Other research interests in the Faculty include knowledge in maths, science, engineering and technology; cognition and creativity; creative workforce; cultural transformations; development and disability; indigenous capacity building; literacy; and scholarships of teaching in higher education. For more information on the Centre for Learning Innovation visit www.cli.ed.qut.edu.au.