About the centre
The International Literacy Centre (ILC) brings together literacy researchers, practitioners and teacher educators with an interest in developing an interdisciplinary research agenda that can tackle the most pressing questions in literacy pedagogy, policy and practice from the early years and across the life course.
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Research, consultancy and other projects
Our projects develop through strong relationships with practitioners, educators, publishers, communities, families, third-sector organisations and policymakers.
Aims
- Create a vibrant and distinctive interdisciplinary research culture at IOE that supports innovative and methodologically rigorous thinking in literacy research.
- Deepen local, national and international partnerships that sustain literacy learning and teaching in the early years and across the life course, paying attention to the diverse ways in which literacy is embedded in the social world.
- Bring evidence to bear in public and professional debate on literacy education, literacy policy, and practitioner education.
- Work for the public good by sharing expertise amongst our stakeholders.
ESRC Education Research Programme 2021-26
A cohort of projects that explore teaching and learning with a focus on teachers, their recruitment, retention and professional development; uses of technology that enrich teaching and learning.
Reading Recovery
Reading Recovery is an accredited school-based literacy intervention for five- to six-year-olds who are the lowest attaining in reading and writing.
News
IOE research in collection of landmark educational studies
Several studies from IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, feature in the British Educational Research Association (BERA)’s ‘50@50’ portrait of 50 years of impactful educational research.
21 Feb 2025
Working with parents and teachers in the nursery classroom to give the best start in writing
An IOE project led by Dr Sinéad Harmey collaborated with families and their nursery school in East London to create strategies that develop children’s writing skills from an early age.
29 Jan 2025
IOE academic publishes book on learning to read in non-traditional contexts
Dr Sinéad Harmey, an Associate Professor in Literacy Education at the International Literacy Centre, has co-edited the book “Teaching Literacies in Diverse Contexts”.
12 May 2023
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Department of Learning and Leadership
IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
University College London
20 Bedford Way
London WC1H 0AL
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