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Postgraduate Symposium Series – South Coast: Practical Issues in Conducting Educational Research

  South Coast Symposium: Dr. Barbara Crossouard, University of Sussex     This event is now fully booked. To be placed on the waiting list, please email [email protected]. ...

Exploring Recruitment, Retention and Region: the new three ‘R’s’ challenging schools in England

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email [email protected] for details of how to register onsite. It has been widely argued that teacher retention and...

Researching our Early Years Curriculum: Policy, Practice and Professionalism

          A BCF Event for schools, colleges, universities and early years settings Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email...

Gender-related violence and young people: Critical responses in research and practice

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email [email protected] for details of how to register onsite. 'Sexual and gendered violence is a continuing...

Opportunity – Director of the Centre for Education Improvement Science

The UCL Institute of Education is launching a flagship research centre – the Centre for Education Improvement Science – to lead path-breaking research on educational system improvement. It is...

Writing for academic journals

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email [email protected] for details of how to register onsite. This event is aimed at independent researchers who...

Writing a world-leading (four star) publication

Highlights from the first 1,000 ºÚÁÏÍø911 Blog posts

The idea that research could be described as ‘4*’ came from the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF). Four-star research is 'world-leading in terms of originality, significance and...

The Matthew effect at election time

The Matthew effect is an expression that has been coined to summarise the parable of the talents found in Matthew’s gospel (Matthew 25:14-30), which suggests that the rich get richer while the...

Assessing the manifesto commitments on assessment: progress, improved accountability, or continuous assessment

Educationists and teachers have long complained of policy overload, particularly during the Gove years when schools suffered a ‘policy epidemic’ with changes to assessment and the...

The politics of mental wellbeing and education

Social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB) in schools has, over the past decade, emerged as part of a broader mental health agenda, shaped and driven through versions of childhood located in notions of...

Responding to disadvantage within English schools: a collaborative future

For the last ten years, researchers in the Centre for Equity in Education have been asking why, despite continuous reforms, the most vulnerable children and young people in the English school...

Challenges to Eastern European Roma and their teachers in the UK

The Roma are amongst Europe’s most disadvantaged groups, facing high levels of prejudice and discrimination. The largest population of Roma is in Eastern Europe; particularly Romania and...