Researchers Awarded Sustainable Development Goals Impact Fund
Department researchers have been awarded a grant from the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Impact Fund, supported by University of Oxford’s ESRC Impact Acceleration Account.
Professor Rebecca Eynon has received funding for the project Enabling Inclusive and Equitable Classrooms through Responsible Uses of EdTech for Young People with SEND.
The project partners with the National Association for Special Educational Needs.
Rees Centre researchers, Alice Tawell and Teresa Williams, will co-lead a 12-month project aimed at accelerating the impact of previous Rees Centre and Excluded Lives research.
Their project, Belonging in Education: Co-Designing an Evidence Informed Model of Practice, will focus on relational practice and school exclusion, bringing together a network of practitioners, system leaders, and academics. It will engage experts from education, children’s social care, special educational needs and disabilities, and youth justice to drive meaningful change.
Alice and Teresa: “We are thrilled to have received funding from the SDG Impact Fund to develop a Belonging in Education Network and co-design an evidence informed model of practice, based on relational practice principles, to promote equity, inclusion, and belonging in schools.
“At the heart of this work is our commitment to co-design and we are excited to work with our external partners, and with children, parents and carers who have been supported by local authority children’s social care services to develop workable solutions to current education policy and practice challenges.”
The project partners are the Local Government Association, Association of School and College Leaders, National Association of Head Teachers and Anewarc Consultancy.
