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Parental attitudes to the changing role of primary schools in British Society
Schools' role in British society is changing. Rather than being viewed simply as spaces of education for children, contemporary policy developments such as the Extended Services... -
Global uncertainties and support for Islamic militancy - female madrasas in P...
This research programme will advance theoretical understanding of how religious beliefs get radicalised and whether state law enforcements agencies can counter these processes... -
Increasing student competence and confidence in algebra and multiplicative re...
This project seeks to increase student engagement and achievement in mathematics education by focusing on the two topics at Key Stage 3 (KS3) that are central to the current... -
Transnational Policy Learning: A comparative study of OECD and EU education p...
Many scholars of education policy have drawn attention to the emergence of a global education policy agenda, driven by the need for increased competitiveness, skill development... -
SynergyNet: Supporting Collaborative Learning in an Immersive Environment
This interdisciplinary work will develop software to run and evaluate an exciting and innovative 'Interactive Immersive Classroom' called 'SynergyNet'. Critically, whilst... -
Reasoning skills and reasoning strategies in developmental dyscalculia
Educational neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field, informed by educational theory and neuroscience. Educational neuroscientists employ electrophysiological and brain... -
Literacy attainment, data and discourse from the mid-19th century to the pres...
Literacy Attainment Data and Discourse is an ESRC Fellowship which will collect literacy attainment data from three contrasting historical periods and explore variations in... -
Effecting principled improvement in STEM education: Student engagement and le...
Many students in secondary school find physical science and mathematics uninteresting and difficult to learn with understanding. This leaves important gaps in their education... -
Becoming literate in faith settings: Language and literacy learning in the li...
This is a 42-month project, from September 2009 to February 2013. The aims of the research are to examine the scope and nature as well as what it means in children's lives to... -
Professional development consortium in modern languages
The decline in popularity of Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) in England is well-documented, with many areas for improvement in the teaching of the subject identified (OFSTED,... -
Effects of input on early word learning
This study is designed to provide an ecologically valid test of the role of input characteristics on infant word form recognition, the first step in word learning. The input... -
Developing Media Literacy: From Research to Practice
This project is a programme of knowledge exchange activities following on from a recently completed ESRC-funded research project 'Developing Media Literacy: Towards a Model of... -
Discourse processing in poor comprehenders: An eye movement study
These data are from an eye movement experiment examining the effect of semantic typicality and distance on online anaphor resolution during reading in children, and the extent... -
Children's embodied social capital and (dis)ability: connecting micro- and ma...
The research explores how broader-scale patterns of exclusion and inclusion are (re)produced, contested or transformed via young people's everyday practices, which construct... -
Learning from the expert: Can observing the oculomotor behaviour of expert fa...
Face matching is crucial to tasks such as checking passports at border control, searching CCTV footage for suspects of a crime and trying to identify people who have been... -
Global Partnerships as sites for mutual learning: teachers' professional deve...
Since 2000 schools in England have been actively encouraged by the government to establish a Global School Partnership. Some small-scale studies have shown that the impact of... -
Science aspirations and career choice: Age 10-14
There is now considerable evidence that children's attitudes to school science in the UK begin to decline from year age 10 onwards. Moreover, by age 14, the majority of students... -
Embedding quantitative methods in social science teaching
This project investigates how quantitative methods (QM) can be embedded into substantive subject modules in undergraduate sociology. Hitherto most social science research... -
Personal Inquiry (PI): Designing for Evidence-based Inquiry Learning across F...
The aim of this project is to support children aged 11-14 in coming to understand themselves and their world through a new approach of scripted inquiry learning. With the aid of... -
Early childhood development: Identifying successful interventions and the mec...
A key aim of this research is to identify cost-effective and sustainable interventions to promote early childhood development. We will implement two interventions in rural...