Professor Boud is interested in how people learn and what can be done to foster their learning. This has taken him to a variety of settings in adult, higher and professional education and prompted an examination of many practices and processes. This has ranged from new forms of curriculum design (problem-based learning, negotiated learning and work-based learning) to learning practices (use of reflection, reciprocal peer learning) and assessment (self-assessment, sustainable assessment). A continuing theme of these explorations has been the role of the learner and how learning might be fostered. This has taken Professor Boud to developing models for learning from experience and the role of reflection in learning, and to examining the role of those who intervene in learning whether or not they are identified as teachers.

Currently, Professor Boud is interested in innovations in assessment practice, the role of assessment for long-term learning and the implications of the digitisation of learning.

Grants (with various others)
Australian Research Council:
"Uncovering Learning in the Workplace"
"Beyond training and learning: Integrated development practices in organizations"
"Determining elements that underpin learning of child-witness interviewing"

National Teaching Development Grants::
"Improving the use of learning contracts"
"Effective peer teaching and learning"
"Reciprocal peer learning"
"Student assessment for learning in and after courses"
"The roles and practices of Australian Honours programs"
"Building local leadership for research education "
"Improving assessment: understanding educational decision-making in practice"
"Work-based assessment of teamwork: an inter-professional approach"
"Feedback for learning: closing the assessment loop"