Research Projects

Recent projects include:

• 2022-2025 Investigating the recruitment and retention of ethnic minority teachers, and its relationship to school outcomes, ESRC
• 2022-2024 Evaluation of Code Club by Raspberry Pi Foundation, RPF
• 2022-2025 Evaluation of Early Years Conversation Programme, EEF
• 2022-2024 Evaluation of Pupil Premium using household income, DfE 
• 2022 - Open access lesson plans to enrich supplemental instruction for primary grade students at-risk of reading failure, ESRC
• 2022 - 2025 Comparative analysis of teacher policies, ESRC 
• 2021 - 2022 Glasses in Glasses, Funded by Department for Education
• 2021 - 2022  Using Research Learning Communities to improve the outcomes of looked after children. Funded by What Works for Children’s Social Care
• 2021 - Using Models to Inform Educational Policy, Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council Impact Acceleration Account 
• 2020 - 2023 Professor Chris Brown has been successful in securing an Erasmus + project on Evidence-Informed Practice for School Inclusion. Funding is for €369,288,00 (total for the partnership)
• 2020 Raising Achievement of Pupils with English as an Additional Language
• 2019 - Evaluation Panel, Youth Endowment Fund
• 2019 - SafePod, ESRC
• 2019 - 2022 EdTech TestBed, NESTA
• 2019 - 2022 The role of schooling in the cognitive and wider development of children in the province of Punjab (Pakistan) and State of Gujarat (India): Routes for sustainable education, British Academy)
• 2019 - 2020 Developing an evidence kit for policy-makers, Research England
• 2019 - 2020 Improving the pathways for evidence, Nuffield Foundation
• 2018 - 2021 Understanding the complex determinants of teacher shortages: an integrated approach
• 2017 - 2020 Evaluation of Meols Cop Feedback, Educational Endowment Foundation
• 2017 - 2020 Life Course Dynamics of Educational Tracking (LIFETRACK), NORFACE
• 2017 - 2020 Evaluation of Sound Training, Sound Training
• 2017 - 2019 Fair admission to universities in England: understanding and improving policy and practice, Nuffield Foundation
• 2017 - 2019 Evaluating the fairness of admissions to UK higher education, ESRC
• 2017 - 2019 Alternative, emerging and cross-border HE provision and its relationship with mainstream HE, ESRC/HEFCE
• 2017 - 2018 Evaluation of effective outreach to HEIs, Durham University
• 2017 - Evaluation of UK Space Agency Principia programme, UK Space Agency
• 2016 - 2019 Task contingent units of personality and adaptive performance, Australian Research Council Discovery project
• 2016 - 2018 The use of contextual data in undergraduate admissions, ESRC
• 2016 - 2018 The kinds of poverty in schools and their impact on student progress, ESRC
• 2016 - 2017 The public benefit of the National Pupil Database
• 2016 - 2017 Philosophy for children: North Yorkshire, SAPERE
• 2016 - 2017 Effective pedagogy at the primary phase
• 2016 - 2017 Comparative segregation study in Brazil, Santander
• 2015 - 2019 Evaluation of Academies Programme, National Literacy Trust
• 2015 - 2018 Evaluation of writing about values, Educational Endowment Foundation
• 2015 - 2018 Evaluation of Maths Counts, Educational Endowment Foundation
• 2015 - 2017 Mapping contextualised admissions in Scotland, Scottish Funding Council
• 2015 - 2017 UK - Clinical Aptitude Test (UK-CAT) - Capacity Building Grant: Developing and implementing dynamic testing within the UKCAT
• 2014 - 2017 The non-cognitive impacts of Philosophy for Children, Nuffield
• 2013 - 2017 Evaluation of Children’s University, Educational Endowment Foundation