November 2025 - December 2026
Research Projects
Interdisciplinary hub to promote developmental recovery for infants
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.
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.
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.
Belonging in education: co-designing an evidence-informed model of practice
April 2025 - March 2026
Building on previous work, this project focuses on progressively working towards building more equitable and inclusive education systems, where belonging is the guiding principle.
Intergenerational Mobility and Higher Education Internationally: a comparative perspective
March 2025 - November 2025
This research aims to further our knowledge of how higher education can, more effectively, operate as an engine for social mobility by learning from the successes and failures of social mobility policies in different higher education systems across the world.
Teacher and community perspectives: missing links in language planning and policy in multilingual settings
January 2025 - December 2025
This project supports multilingual education in Pakistan by exploring how teachers and communities shape language policy and improve learning for marginalised children in diverse contexts.
Knowledge exchange about education & training for sustainable global health
January 2025 - July 2026
Health is a basic human right.