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About our work

The following areas illustrate our commitment to and enactment of our vision.

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Inequalities, Health and Wellbeing

  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • SEND and inclusion
  • Poverty, social inequality, and marginalisation 
  • Differential educational attainment
  • Neurodiversity
  • Diversity and intersectional identities in education
  • Place based solutions

Early Years, Families, and Communities

  • Early reading
  • Outdoor learning
  • Parenting and upbringing
  • Educational trajectories and transitions
  • School-family-community links
  • Community partnerships
  • Community education and community schooling
  • Play in the early years
Read our blog on the impact of our reading group
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Transformative Education

  • Teaching and learning across school subjects
  • School priorities including attendance, attainment, exclusions
  • Raising aspiration, educational opportunity, and transformative education
  • Curricula and pedagogical development, enrichment, and enhancement
  • Teaching, learning, and support in higher education
  • Innovative and creative pedagogy
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Education for sustainability
  • Access to education

Teacher Education & Professional Learning

  • New and existing practice in Initial Teacher Education (e.g, mentoring, ITAPs, subject specialisms)
  • Professional development and CPD
  • Learning in, and with, partnership(s)
  • Teachers as researchers
  • Developing educational leaders
  • Transitioning to HE from other educational settings
  • Teacher recruitment, retention, and wellbeing
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Adolescent children in discussion with lead and one child raising their hand to ask a question

Philosophy, Values, Ethics, & World Views

  • Philosophy of education
  • Aims of higher education
  • The place of faith schools
  • British values
  • Worldviews
  • Moral education