Research in Maritime Institutes

Professor Malek Pourzanjani, Dr. Sue Lewey
Faculty of Technology, Southampton Institute

Pourzanjani

Lewey

Abstract

Increasingly maritime institutions are seeing the benefit of research programs that underpin their education and training programs. Research can be conducted for its own end, but is far more beneficial to an institution when it informs and supports the teaching.

Maritime research can take two main forms: subject based research into specific maritime issues, e.g. Ship safety, or, pedagogic research into the ways of delivering educational and training material, e.g. distance learning packages. As well as helping the teaching programme, research can be seen as a development activity, benefiting individual teaching staff.

Developing research strategies in existing maritime institutions can present economic and cultural problems. This paper will present various models for developing research programs in maritime institutions.