IOE Impact Stories 2024

Professor Lynn Ang introduces IOE Impact Stories 2024 and Dr Zoë Gallant reflects on her experience with the IOE Early Career Impact Fellowship.

Letters from the Global South (LFTGS) aimed to get more people from different backgrounds to learn about and engage with climate policy.

A UCL researcher has engaged with autistic young people, their families, and clinicians to develop better strategies to tackle a major challenge: how to sleep well.

Cultures of Decolonisation has helped researchers to reflect on their practices, leading to a widely used report pointing out challenges and practical steps to effectively embed decolonising research.

“Reading about other people’s negative experiences of employment validated what had happened to me.” – Rose Matthews, autistic activist.

Building upon “Can I Physics? Yes You Can!” project, this fellowship project has helped teachers to understand and address the barriers to learning physics that many young people experience.

IOE researchers sought to ensure that research evidence helped make sense of the pandemic as it unfolded, and that the lived experience of teachers was brought to the attention of policymakers.

Research can help to identify where there are issues with the provision of inclusive education for children with disabilities, and to develop solutions.

IOE researchers have paved the way for a profound shift in understanding of how educational interventions can better support all young people to engage with STEM.

Some trans and non-binary (TNB) people decide to become parents, but little research has explored experiences within TNB parent families. IOE research has helped to address this gap in understanding.

Most pupils who take the 11+ exam fail, but little is known about how they make sense of this experience, and its impact upon them. This project sought to plug this gap.

Many eligible young people fail to take advantage of Access Arrangements. IOE research has highlighted the problem and developed guidance to help more young people benefit from the provision.