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Research in the Department of Learning and Leadership.
Our main aim is to contribute new ideas and knowledge that have the widest possible impact in order to enhance education as an academic discipline, and as a field of practice and policy. As a large department our research is wide-ranging and varied but includes two main areas:
- Learning and the processes of teaching
- Leadership and learning.
Within these two areas we carry out research funded by a range of funders including research councils, charities, governments and non-government organisations.
Examples of our work include seminal work on early years education, how evidence informs policy and practice, literacy teaching and learning, whole curriculum study, including school subjects and areas of the curriculum such as creativity.
Research projects
- Action Against Stunting Hub: Early Childhood - Education and Cognition workstream
- Can maths apps add value to learning?
- Competitive effects of free schools on student outcomes in neighbouring schools
- COVID Social Mobility and Opportunities Study (COSMO)
- A duty of care and a duty to teach: educational priorities in response to the Covid-19 lockdown
- East London Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Health Promotion and Education Intervention Programme
- Enhancing teacher decision making for children with autism using machine learning
- Food banks in schools: exploring the impact on children’s learning
- 'Intractable' schools: can an Ofsted judgement prevent sustainable improvement?
- Personalised stories
- Student to degree mismatch: the role of schools, and the impact of disruption from COVID-19
- Transforming early years education
- Using a learning outcomes focus to develop the education of children with special educational needs
- Youth Mental Health First Aid Evaluation: Helping Hands for Mental Health
Seminar series
The Department of Learning and Leadership (DLL) hosts a research seminar series where invited speakers present work relevant to the department’s areas of expertise
The department also hosts the Educating Teachers Matters seminar series with the Centre for Teachers and Teaching Research. The series explores core issues in innovating teacher education for higher education institutions and their provider partners.
Professor Phil Jones from the department is also a co-organiser of The Spaces Between: Equity, Voice, Agency, and Care Practices Involving the Arts and Arts Therapies seminar series led by UCL Grand Challenges.