January 2018 - January 2018
Completed Projects
Refugee and asylum-seeking children and young people
Education of refugee and asylum-seeking children
Dr Ellie Ott holds a TORCH Knowledge Exchange Fellowship ‘Our Narratives: The Education of Unaccompanied Migrant Young People’.
Reading Together: Effectiveness of an Enhanced Book-Gifting Intervention
January 2018 - January 2021
Reading Together is a reading programme that has been co-designed by Queen’s University Belfast and the Rees Centre.
Shared Training and Assessment for well-being (STRAWB)
October 2017 - July 2019
This pilot study was run by researchers from the Rees Centre (Nikki Luke and Valerie Dunn) and the University of Sussex (Robin Banerjee and Helen Drew) to test a new package called STrAWB (Shared Training and Assessment for Well-Being).
Educational Attainment and Progress of Children in Need and Children in Care
September 2017 - October 2020
Latest publication – Education and Care, A resource for young people is based on interview findings from this study.
Alex Timpson Attachment and Trauma Awareness in Schools Programme
June 2017 - June 2022
This Programme worked with over 300 schools across 26 local authorities in England.
How do we know if children’s social care services make a difference? Developing an outcomes framework
March 2017 - July 2019
The study aims to develop an outcomes framework for children’s social care services (CSCS) based on the views of those who plan, deliver and use these services, as well as the existing evidence base.
Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme (DfE)
January 2017 - November 2020
The Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme was launched by the UK government’s Department for Education (DfE) to test innovative ways of supporting vulnerable children and young people with investment of up to £200m.
Exclusion of Looked After Children from English secondary schools
January 2017 - January 2019
This study is exploring reasons for fixed term exclusions, outcomes by the age of 16 and the perspectives of excluded looked after young people, their foster carers, social workers and designated teachers.
Outcomes of Open Adoption in Australia
October 2016 - October 2022
The project is a collaboration between the University of Oxford UK and Barnardos Australia.
Evaluation of Siblings Together Buddy Project
February 2015 - December 2016
Researchers from the Rees Centre carried out a mixed methods evaluation of the Buddy project.
Evaluation Co-ordinator for Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme (DfE)
October 2014 - October 2016
Unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people: educational provision
October 2014 - October 2016
Dr Ellie Ott is leading research on the educational provisions offered to UASC in England and the forms of provision in high-income countries that are associated with improved outcomes (eg education, health and employment).