We believe that to equip students for an ever changing, infinitely complex and uncertain world we need to pay particular attention to the skills of enquiry – the package of critical and creative thinking skills and behaviours purposeful or playful curiosity that enables us to find, explore and resolve academic, professional and other day to day problems.

Enquiry is the basis for all research and scholarship in the disciplines but it is also the key learning process in knowledge–rich, inventive and adaptive work environments. Enquiry connects the academic and professional or vocational worlds of learning. By studying how people learn through processes of enquiry, and how higher education teachers support and encourage enquiry-rich learning, we believe that we can help students develop in ways that will enable them to be even more successful in their future careers.