Research
Research projects in the Centre for Teachers and Teaching Research.
Sponsored projects
Our portfolio includes:
- Impact of offsite Planning, Preparation and Assessment (PPA) on teacher retention, Education Endowment Foundation
- Grassroots Evaluation, Youth Endowment Fund and the Education Endowement Foundation
- Evaluation of Early Career Support Pilots, Education Endowment Fund
- Retention of Teachers from Minority Ethnic Groups in Disadvantaged Schools, British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant
- Evaluation of SMART Spaces, Education Endowment Fund
- Evaluation of KEEP Teaching: Physics Teacher Retention Project, Education Endowment Fund
- Student Grouping Study, Education Endowment Fund
- Investigative Research into Alternative Education, Department for Education.
Seed funded projects
In the academic year 2021/2022 we are seed funding eight research projects which support the centre's aims:
- More than ‘mixed-attainment good, ability grouping bad’: The perspectives of trainee teachers towards grouping in the primary classroom – Josh Franks, Giddeon Sappor
- Teachers’ Mathematical Digital Competencies (TeachMDC) – Eirini Geraniou, Nicola Bretscher and Jeremy Hodgen as research mentor
- Race and the geographies of educational spaces: Engaging with PGCE students lived experiences of race and racism in London – Lauren Hammond, Emma Jones, Alison Wiggins, John Morgan
- Understandings of social justice in secondary science education among ITE students and their university tutors – Wilton Lodge, Michael Reiss, Marian Mulcahy
- Sustainability Across Subjects (SAS) – David Mitchell, Alison Kitson, Alexis Stones, Emma Newall
- Teachers and Citizenship Knowledge (TACK) – Hans Svennevig, Hugh Starkey, Lee Jerome, Jeremy Hayward, Alex Elwick, Gemma Gronland
- Minority ethnic PGCE student teachers’ racialised experiences while learning to teach and the implications for retention – Alison Wiggins, Antonina Tereshchenko, Cara Olga, Balbir Kaur
- COVID-19: Trainee TEACHers’ challenges and barriers to mental health and WELLbeing support (C19 TEACH WELL) – Keri Wong, Eleanor Kitto.
Collaborations and related projects
Contact us
Centre for Teachers and Teaching Research (CTTR)
Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
University College London
20 Bedford Way
London WC1H 0AL
email: ioe.cttr@ucl.ac.uk