Education
Our work on enhancing literacy pedagogy through a focus on what works for whom, and under what conditions.
Researching education during COVID-19
Research evidence to support primary school inspection post-COVID
Informing discussion on how Ofsted inspections might best resume at an appropriate time, given the extensive disruption COVID has brought and continues to bring to English primary schools.
31 Mar 2022
Building a more resilient education system post-COVID
COVID has highlighted significant weaknesses in how the education system in England is currently managed and resourced. We need to build a more resilient education system post-pandemic.
17 Dec 2021
Schools engaging with families and communities during COVID
During the COVID pandemic, schools have found new ways of working with children and, crucially, their families.
17 Dec 2021
During COVID, a research team based at the ILC conducted four rapid turnaround projects, exploring how primary schools and their communities were reacting to school closures, and the wider impacts COVID was having on children, parents and school staff.
Two projects were conducted with emergency funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
One additional project was funded by the DfE, and one by the trade union, UNISON.
The projects were conducted between May 2020 and November 2021. While primary schools were enormously resourceful in finding ways to respond to the challenges COVID posed locally, policymakers struggled to make good decisions at a national level. The incapacity of policymakers to draw on practitioner knowledge at a time of crisis hampered system functioning.
The projects suggested a need to rebalance how practitioner, research and policymaking communities interact. Read about the findings, download policy briefing notes, reports and publications from the pages below.
- Primary Education during COVID:
- Project 1: “A duty of care and a duty to teach: educational priorities in response to the COVID-19 crisis”
- Project 2: “Learning through disruption: rebuilding primary education using local knowledge”
- Project 3: Mitigating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on primary and lower secondary children during school closures
- Project 4: The role of Teaching Assistants during the COVID crisis
ESRC Education Research programme 2021-2026
ESRC Education Research Programme
A cohort of projects that explore teaching and learning with a focus on teachers, recruitment, retention and professional development, uses technology that enrich teaching and learning.
2020: Funder Froebel Trust.
Dr Sinead Harmey, Dr Bernardita Munoz-Chereau and Professor Gemma Moss conducted a rapid evidence review for the Froebel Trust on Translational Research. This investigation explored the processes involved in successful research ‘translation’ and the key features or characteristics of academic work that have been translated and used in education settings. A framework is provided to support researchers to make their research more accessible and support the development of successful partnerships.