January 2022 - November 2023
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The Responsible Knowledge Exchange, Engagement and Impact (RKEEI) Framework
The Responsible Knowledge Exchange, Engagement and Impact 2021-24 (RKEEI) project has brought together KEEI professionals and researchers in a series of workshops and interviews to conceptualise and support responsible knowledge exchange, engagement and impact practice and to co-create a resource and framework to support responsible KEEI practices.
International Mobility and World Development
January 2022 - May 2025
This project examined how international mobility shaped development outcomes across societies.
EsCo: Establishing a collaborative relationship for research on school mathematics teaching with linguistically disadvantaged learners
January 2022 - June 2023
Learners of mathematics who are linguistically disadvantaged for a variety of reasons, including impoverished socioeconomic status, continue to be educationally disadvantaged and at considerable risk of school failure and early dropout.
Future of Care
November 2021 - October 2024
National charity, Become, is working with the Rees Centre to develop a new tool to measure the success of care leavers.
FoSTER Project: Frameworks of School-support for Teachers’ Engagement with/in Research
November 2021 - July 2022
This research project seeks to understand the breath and scope of the ways that schools support teachers to engage with and in research in the UK and Ireland.
Evaluation of the expanded duties of virtual schools
October 2021 - March 2025
This project will focus on the evaluation of two new policy initiatives announced in Summer 2021, with the Rees Centre being commissioned as the Department for Education’s research partner.
LANGUAGES: Comparing language use and instruction across contexts
September 2021 - September 2025
LANGUAGES aims to systematically conduct comparative European classroom studies (in Norway, France and the UK) to gain new insights into current language instruction and promising initiatives, as well as possible solutions to problems with classroom interaction, inclusion and identity, in order to provide quality education for future multilingual, global citizens.
Edtech usage index: Tracking digital education trends in the UK
April 2021 - May 2023
This project developes a UK EdTech usage index and analyses shifting trends in edtech usage.
Attachment and trauma awareness: good practice in local authorities
March 2021 - February 2022
It is increasingly understood that traumatic experiences in childhood can have a profound and long-lasting impact on a young person’s ability to engage successfully in school.
Higher education pathways for young people with a social worker
March 2021 - June 2024
This project will use linked national administrative datasets to build a rich picture of progression into higher education for young people in England who were allocated a social worker at any point after the age of 11.
Cultural artefacts and belonging: A case study of displaced and refugee young people and families in Ukraine
February 2021 - February 2022
The project is looking at how displaced and refugee children and young people use their cultural and linguistic heritage in the transformation of their sense of themselves.
Emptiness and educational imaginaries in small or isolated rural communities that experienced permanent school closures
January 2021 - December 2021
This project, led by Professor Alis Oancea and involving Dr Mariela Neagu and Arzhia Habibi, pilots digital and remote ethnographic educational research in rural areas affected by demographic change where permanent school closures occurred.