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Research Group: The Centre for Educational Policy

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The Centre brings together colleagues working in all areas of policy-related research with specialisms including leadership, school improvement and effectiveness, sociology of education and work, and academic ethics. They seek to influence the development of policy across a wide spectrum of educational contexts and sectors including schools, further education and higher education at the micro, meso and/or macro level.

Bringing ideas together

CEP includes members who have particular strengths in areas including teacher effectiveness, school leadership and improvement, instructional leadership, graduate employability and the labour market, lifelong learning, academic ethics, and student engagement. A wide range of perspectives on policy are incorporated within the Centre including effectiveness approaches based mainly on quantitative methods and policy sociology drawing on both socio-political analysis and qualitative methods.

Centre members have attracted external funding from a range of sources including government agencies, charitable trusts and research societies, and research councils. Their wider policy and scholarship contributions include consultancy for government in the UK and internationally, editing journals, serving on editorial boards, and leadership roles within research societies.

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List of related projects to The Centre for Educational Policy
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Authorship integrity in humanities and social science journals Active
The impact of marketization on student attitudes and approaches to higher educationActive
Knowledge creation in higher education studies: an intergenerational analysis.Active
Development of the OECD Teaching and Learning International Study questionnaire as part of the Questionnaire Expert Group. Active
Critical policy sociology analysis of HE marketizationActive
A study of chains of academiesActive
Graduate employability in contextActive
Women professors as intellectual leaders. Funded by the Leadership foundation for higher educationActive
Measuring and evaluating learning gainActive
Developing a meta-analysis of school improvement strategiesActive
Recognising and rewarding academic citizenshipActive
Analysis of improving schools in coastal areas, using secondary dataActive
To design, develop and pilot a travelling Physics laboratory, the ‘Lab in a Lorry’ Dormant
5. Analysis of factors influencing student satisfaction and engagement for the Higher Education Academy, using PRES and PTES datasetsDormant
Case studies for Excellence in CitiesDormant
The experience of returned VSO volunteers in the education sectorDormant
An intervention aimed at developing pupils social and emotional development with a view to combatting bullying Dormant
How the presentation of data affects its interpretability and utilityDormant
0-7 multi-agency working: a pilotDormant
Research on the Impact of Federations of schools for the National College for School Leadership Dormant
Value for Money in SchoolsDormant
An evaluation of the School-to-school partnership programme for Southampton City Council, where highly effective primary schools support less effective schools. Dormant
Curriculum 2000 evaluation: analysis of key skills dataDormant
Leading for equality in schools Dormant
Post-16 progression and its problemsDormant
Research alternative accountability systems and write RS policy on how accountability should and does affect STEMDormant
7. A mixed methods study on collaboration in a competitive environment, using the theory of coopetition to interrogate networking and competition in the sixth form college sector. Dormant
Understanding non-participation in education and training in one local authority - DormantDormant
Investigating secondary schools’ use of pupil attainment data.Dormant
10. A study of school networks in rural areas, using a reanalysis of case study data and follow-up interviews and analysis of NPD data for the qualitative component. Dormant
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