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.
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.
LangQuest-PK: Adapting a Teacher Self-Audit Tool to Support Language-Rich Early Years Practice in Pakistan
September 2025 - August 2026
There is growing evidence that high-quality teacher-child interactions are central to children’s early learning, and supporting these may be an effective and sustainable way of improving children’s outcomes in low-income or resource-constrained contexts.
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.
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.
Same But Different: Systems Of Smoothing Noun Entropy In Communication
January 2025 - January 2028
This project aims to explore how grammatical gender systems in language play a critical role in reducing the unpredictability of nouns.
Knowledge exchange about education & training for sustainable global health
January 2025 - July 2026
Health is a basic human right.
EnteR: Enhancing Teacher Readiness
January 2025 - December 2026
How can we assess and develop professional attributes for teaching in Australian schools?