May 2025 - April 2026
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SUPPORT: Scalable, Unified Practices for Preventing Vicarious Trauma in Academic Researchers
Project background
Researchers often engage with sensitive topics.
Are we singing in tune?
May 2025 - July 2025
This knowledge exchange project explores the best ways of researchers and teachers working together to investigate the use of songs for teaching languages in primary school.
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.
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.
Exploring the impact of role models on the sense of belonging of medical students who identify with sexual and/or gender minority identities at UK medical schools: an intersectional approach
January 2025 - July 2025
Exploring how LBTQIA+ identifying medical students who hold other minority identities at medical school experience role models to mediate their sense of belonging.
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.
Co-designing AI for Education
January 2025 - October 2025
This project will develop collaborative design (co-design) methodologies that can support the elicitation of student voice in response to the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education.
Exploring ‘Tech for Good’ in education: practitioner experiences of developing socially impactful technology
January 2025 - March 2026
This study investigates the “Tech for Good” landscape in Education.
Exploring generational differences in the use of gender-inclusive language amongst medical students and staff in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
October 2024 - October 2025
This study aims to explore how gender-inclusive language (e.
Motivation, Engagement and Achievement in Arabic as an Additional Language: An Empirical Investigation in UK Secondary Schools
October 2024 - September 2025
An empirical study into the motivation, engagement and achievement of learners of AL2 in UK secondary schools.