January 2026 - July 2026
Research Projects
NEET Narratives and Youth Re-Engagement: A Social Media Analysis from a Digital Community on Reddit
This study examines how young people who self-identify as NEET in the UK make sense of learning, work, and employability.
Interdisciplinary hub to promote developmental recovery for infants
November 2025 - December 2026
This hub focuses on promoting optimal outcomes for infants who have had significant adverse early life experiences and whose cognitive, social and emotional development may have been impacted as a result.
Mapping participatory co-design in digital education: A systematic scoping of practices and principles
November 2025 - November 2026
This study investigates participatory ‘co-design’ practices for digital education in the UK.
Motivation, Engagement and Achievement in Arabic as an Additional Language: An Empirical Investigation in UK Secondary Schools
October 2025 - September 2026
This study examines the motivational profiles of UK secondary school learners of Arabic across its multiglossic forms.
NetZeroED
July 2025 - June 2026
In collaboration with the DfE, school partners and a Youth Advisory Board, this project addresses the question: How can curriculum designers provide better Net Zero education for the next generation?
Widening access to international student mobility
June 2025 - December 2026
The fellowship seeks to learn from national contexts outside the UK to help widen participation to short-term international student mobility
Communicating mathematically in algebra
May 2025 - May 2026
Communicating mathematically in algebra is an online professional development programme focused on exploring the opportunities and challenges associated with the language around key concepts in algebra.
SUPPORT: Scalable, Unified Practices for Preventing Vicarious Trauma in Academic Researchers
May 2025 - April 2026
Researchers often engage with sensitive topics.
Evaluating speech, communication, and language support at the 2- 2½ year Healthy Child review (ESCALATER)
May 2025 - November 2027
The ESCALATER Project aims to gain a comprehensive understanding of how health visiting services are identifying and supporting children’s speech language and communication needs including the tools and interventions they use and the effects these have on services, families and children.
From Policy to Practice: Understanding Teachers’ Experiences with Student Learning Outcomes-Based Education
May 2025 - April 2026
This project explores how SLO-based education reforms are understood and implemented in Pakistan, focusing on policy, curriculum, and teachers’ classroom experiences in KP and ICT.
Developing a Socially Sensitive Research Approach to Higher Education Aspirations: Exploring the Hopes and Aspirations of British Sixth Form Students of Pakistani and Bangladeshi Heritage
May 2025 - April 2026
This project centres the voices of British Pakistani and Bangladeshi students and their families, exploring how they imagine, hope for, and navigate pathways to university together.
Does higher education politicise today’s students?
May 2025 - October 2028
Through a longitudinal study of UK undergraduates, the project will explore the impact, if any, of higher education on students’ political views, knowledge and behaviour.