CREST Funded Projects

Research projects in education covering all stages from early years to post-compulsory

Research in Education, Leadership and Social Justice

  1. UKRI ESRC, The School Meals Service Past (SMS), Present – and Future?
  2. UKRI ESRC, Academic (un)belonging and the neoliberal university: A comparative institutional case study of postgraduate researchers’ experiences at two English universities
  3. BAICE, The status of Comparative International Education (CIE) in Education Studies degrees
  4. BERA, The impact of COVID-19 on access and (in) effective support of the school food voucher scheme
  5. World Food Programme, Leveraging on the linkages between social protection and school feeding programmes in Eastern Africa
  6. British Council, UK-Brazil Partnership, Sustainable and Healthy Food Environment for Children: the potential of school meals
  7. Birmingham City Council, Birmingham Children’s Partnership (BCP): Ethnographic research
  8. GENIUS, Secondary school food policy approaches across the UK
  9. SES, The status of Comparative International Education (CIE) in PG Education degrees
  10. Researching Stigmatisation and Discrimination of People who Experience Gambling Harms in Great Britain’ – Funded by Gamble Aware
  11. Conspiracy theory beliefs and subclinical psychotic-like experiences’ – Funded by a Lord Paul Fellowship
  12. That’s nothing, have you seen this one? : A mixed methods investigation of harmful [mis]information through the normalisation and exchange of explicit violent content via social media’ – Funded by Facebook Research.

Research in Digital and Lifelong Learning Contexts

  1. Co-created Interactive Courseware (Erasmus+), 01.01.20 – 31.12.22.
  2. TEFL-ePAL (Erasmus+), 01.01.19 – 31.3.22.
  3. Zikamob (British Council Newton Fund), 01.01.18 – 31.12.21.
  4. Sustaining Education through COVID-19 (Department for International Development), 01.03.20 – 31.07.20.
  5. DFE Memorandum of Understanding for Faith Schools: a gateway to inequality? (Khalsa Academies Trust), 01.02.21 – 31.05.21.
  6. Tech for Teachers (Digital Poverty Alliance), 01.03.22 – 01.17.23.
  7. Multiply project, GCSE resits in FE.
  8. Artificial Intelligence on FE and Vocational Education – Teaching and pedagogy

Research in Childhood, Families, Diversity and Inclusion

  1. British Council ‘Inclusive Education in Indonesia: Sharing Practices, Building Partnerships, and Supporting Pre-service Teachers’. 2023-present day.
  2. UUKI funded by Research England. ‘Inclusive Education in Ukraine: exploring crisis possibilities, co-developing practice and supporting teachers’. 2023-present day.
  3. CREST funded. ” What I really think about sitting straight, golden time and reward charts”: Gathering 4-year-olds views on behaviourist pedagogy in reception. 2023-present day.
  4. CREST funded. The impact of undertaking the Early Childhood Graduate Practitioner Competencies – student and professional partners stories and reflections. 2023- present day.
  5. Birmingham City Council. Birmingham Children’s partnership ethnographic project. 2023-present day.
  6. Department for Education. Black Country Early Outcomes project evaluation. 2019-2020.
  7. Derby County Council. 2019-2020 TALK Derby project evaluation. 2019-2020
  8. Social Mobility Commission. Against the Odds: achieving greater progress for disadvantaged pupils at progress 8 funded by the Social Mobility Commission. 2019-2020
  9. Department for Education. The Early Years Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) partnership evaluation. 2019-2020
  10. Big Lottery. Headstart project. 2017-2020

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