October 2019 - September 2023
Project Library
Excluded Lives
The Political Economies of School Exclusion and their Consequences: Policy recommendations
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed stark inequalities in our society, not least in school education.
Concepts of care for separated migrant children
October 2019 - October 2022
This study, led by the Open University, will investigate the care of separated child migrants who arrive in the UK.
Empowering Staff to Enhance oral language in the early years
October 2019 - October 2020
Early language skills are one of the strongest predictors of later outcomes, particularly literacy.
Rethinking Capacity Building: Ethnographic portraits of East African sciences
October 2019 - December 2020
In Kenya and Uganda many doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers are part of complex transnational research and training networks set up to build research ‘capacity ‘in African universities.
Academic Publishing Practices: Perspectives from Ghanaian Universities
September 2019 - July 2020
This collaborative GCRF-funded project brings together the University of Oxford and the University of Ghana to explore academic publication practices in a range of applied and interdisciplinary fields.
Education partnerships for development: Sustaining teacher quality in context
September 2019 - February 2021
The project set out to establish a proof of concept for investigating teacher education in Bhutan, India, Mexico, Moldova and Papua New Guinea, as these countries make progress towards the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 Ensuring inclusive, equitable and good-quality education and lifelong learning for all.
Foreign language learning and its impact on wider academic outcomes: A rapid evidence assessment
September 2019 - March 2020
The primary aims for this REA are to understand what is known from the literature about the ways in which foreign language proficiency affects wider academic attainment, as well as the comparative effectiveness of different forms of foreign language teaching, including the use of the foreign language as the medium of instruction.
The Automated Test of Language AbilitieS – ATLAS
August 2019 - August 2020
We have developed a short, but reliable, oral language assessment for children (The Automated Test of Language AbilitieS – ATLAS), which comprises 4 subtests (expressive vocabulary, receptive vocabulary, sentence repetition and listening comprehension).
Global Teacher Education Consortium
August 2019 - October 2019
The Global Teacher Education Consortium (GTEC) is designing a global research agenda to investigate the impact of teacher education policies in 16 countries.
IB Critical Thinking
June 2019 - June 2020
The Diploma Programme (DP) is a two-year programme offered by the International Baccalaureate Organisation as a high school exit qualification for 16- to 19-year-old students in over 150 countries.
Regional Adoption Agencies: an evaluation
April 2019 - December 2021
Local authority adoption services are being replaced by larger regional adoption agencies (RAAs) covering several local authorities.
Care leavers’ transition into the labour market in England
March 2019 - November 2021
This will be the first large scale, national statistical research to be undertaken in England to look at the relationship between care leavers’ participation in education, employment, training or being NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) at age 21, and their earlier individual experiences of care and education (before age 16 and after age 16).