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Latest research news
Our researchers are involved in over 250 projects at any time. These announcements highlight findings from recent reports, policy briefings, articles published in peer-reviewed journals, and more.
UCL-led unit providing evidence to shape policy to improve child and family health
The Children and Families Policy Research Unit provides high-quality evidence to guide wide-ranging policy decisions that have implications for the health and wellbeing of children and their families.
‘Stuck’ schools: the detrimental consequences of failing Ofsted inspections
Why do some schools continuously fail to improve after Ofsted inspections, and what will unstick them from their under-performance predicament?
Grade expectations: students’ perceptions of national examinations in England
Recommendations to foreground the human side of assessment in policy narratives in order to change views of what education means.
Unlocking universities’ powerful climate action potential
Universities hold significant power to address climate challenges via teaching, research, community engagement and increasing public awareness. UCL research identified 5 conditions for transformation.
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- Active travel: walking and cycling journeys improve health
- Arts-in-nature practice and children's mental health
- Decision-making skills and problematic eating behaviours
- Too much emphasis on maths in the National Curriculum?
- Understanding how we can raise attainment in maths
- Combatting youth image-based sexual harassment and abuse
- Evidence to support primary school inspection post-Covid
- Building a more resilient education system post-Covid
- Schools engaging with families and communities during Covid
- Why school plans for recovery from COVID must be locally led
- Autistic youth's experiences of lockdown and reopening
- Learning after lockdown
- Funding for schools serving high poverty communities
- Families and food in hard times
- Why some do and don't participate in informal STEM learning
- Supporting increased and wider participation in STEM
- What makes minority ethnic teachers stay or leave?
- Improving minority ethnic teacher retention in England
- Transforming early childhood services in England
- Primary assessment in turbulent times
- Resetting educational priorities in challenging times
- Inequality in access to grammar schools
- School absences and pupil achievement
- Between-class attainment grouping and educational inequality
- Raising standards in Holocaust education
- University applications and actual achievement
- Higher standards of medical training for better patient care