After a lengthy period teaching in Scottish secondary schools, Louise Campbell joined the University of Dundee as a Lecturer in Education in 2018.  

She has taught across a range of modules and programmes, both undergraduate and postgraduate, as well as undertaking various leadership roles.

She is Academic Lead for Initial Teacher Education.

Between 2023 and 2025 she was Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead for the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law.

Between Spring 2022 and Summer 2023, Louise worked with the General Teaching Council for Scotland, supporting the teaching profession’s understanding of and engagement with the General Teaching Council for Scotland’s Professional Standards. She was also responsible for accreditation of teacher education programmes. During this time, she was involved with a range of policy initiatives affecting Scottish education, including:

• The Hayward Review of Qualifications and Assessment
• The Scottish Government’s National Advisory Group for Research in Scottish Education
• The Scottish Government’s Learning for Sustainability Refreshed Action Plan Leadership Group
• The Scottish Government’s Learning Together Steering Group
• Education Scotland's Children's Rights and Participation Network
• Education Scotland's Strategic Framework for Parental Involvement, Parental Engagement, Family Learning and Learning from Home

She has been external advisor to the Teaching Council (Ireland), for their accreditation of a suite of teacher education programmes at University College Cork.

She is currently External Examiner for the University of Glasgow's M.Educ. Year 5 courses.

She is also a member of the editorial board for 'Improving Schools'.

Louise undertakes both empirical research and conceptual/philosophical work that focuses on education policy and the professional learning of teachers across various domains. Recent research projects include:

• Critical analysis of supranational education policy for system reform.
• Theorising and framing authentic teacher participation in education policy development (with colleagues from the University of Aberdeen and the University of Glasgow).
• A national research project investigating how the Scottish Health and Wellbeing curriculum is taught across initial teacher education programmes (in partnership with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh).
• A longitudinal project to track student teachers' pedagogical development in relation to health and wellbeing through their initial teacher education and induction years (in partnership with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh). 
• Participatory research, working with a group of colleagues, to investigate experiences of moving from the professional practice environment into the higher education sector. 

Louise's research interests focus broadly on educators' professional development and the influences on their pedagogies, including relevant policy.

She is open to supervision enquiries from doctoral candidates with an interest in:

• The influence of policy on teachers' practice
• Teachers' identity formation
• Professionalism / professional values
• Pedagogies relating to 21st century skills/transversal competencies
• Learning for Sustainability 
• Learning environments