About our work
The following areas illustrate our commitment to and enactment of our vision.
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
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
Philosophy, Values, Ethics, & World Views
- Philosophy of education
- Aims of higher education
- The place of faith schools
- British values
- Worldviews
- Moral education