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This article has explored how cultural, social and institutional factors impact on the working lives and identities of teacher educators in Scotland. The author found that four groups constitute the bulk of the academic staff populating the departments and schools of education in Scotland. These four distinctive groups include former college staff, longstanding university staff, newly appointed university staff, and temporary university staff. For each group, there is a range of factors that will have shaped their professional identity as well as a number of choices or decisions they have made that will also play a significant part.

The need for capacity-building in teacher education in the UK has been raised as a serious issue by a number of commentators. This paper provides an analytical account of an initiative conducted by the Teacher Education Group (TEG) to build research capacity in teacher education. With reference to a review of the national contexts for research in the UK and research on teacher educators, the article argues that, in order to build research capacity initiatives we need to provide motivation and new types of networking opportunities for researchers, as well as developing their expertise.