Research projects
Current projects
| Project title | Aim/findings | People and Partners | Funder |
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| A Review of School Governance | To be confirmed | Business in the Community | |
| School Governing and Performance | To be confirmed |
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CfBT Education Trust |
| Postgraduate students' and tutors' knowledge, perceptions, and beliefs about feedback provision: A multiple case study across the disciplines | The project aims to investigate the cognitive dimension of feedback provision (both teacher/student cognition) within Master’s programmes belonging to three different academic disciplines. The outcomes are expected to contribute to our understanding of feedback provision and to impact on research and assessment practices in UK and overseas higher education institutions. | Higher Education Academy | |
| Feedback provision and the development of language awareness in pre-service EFL teachers: A cognitive dimension | To be confirmed | To be confirmed | |
| Public Pedagogy and Citizen Media | To be confirmed | University of Bath Relays at Watershed |
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| Study on the impact of non-formal education in youth organisations on young people's employability | Date for completion: January 2013 | European Youth Forum | |
| Review of credit accumulation and transfer policy and practice in the UK higher education sector | Date for completion: January 2013 | Higher Education Academy | |
| Scoping project (for Badminton England) to model junior elite sports academy provision. | To produce a model of good practice for implementation in Badminton England's sport plan. Preliminary findings will be reported in October 2012 followed by a presentation at the National Badminton Centre to all key stakeholders. | Badminton England | |
| ESRC Rising Powers - Global Challenges and Social Change Initiative Network | The aim of the network is to explore the likely futures for education, well being and human security as new economic conditions emerge in Brazil, Russia and South Africa. This Network will focus on the reciprocal, and as yet not fully understood, relationships, between economic growth, education and well being which may well be understood differently in different economic and cultural contexts. |
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ESRC |
Recent projects
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| Taking turns: encouraging mutual engagement between International and Home students in small group learning discussions | Date of completion: 2011 to 2012 |
Higher Education Academy | |
| Conceptions of effort in year 8 students, their parents and teachers at a school in Somerset | 12 month exploratory qualitative study that aims to understand different conceptions and perceptions of effort held by Year 8 students, their teachers and parents. It investigates the ways in which school grading policy and guidelines inform the assessment of effort; to help develop teachers' capacities to design appropriate assessment strategies for effort. | British Academy | |
| Disability Data Collection for Children’s Services - Preparing for the 2011 School Census | Concluded that disability cannot be identified without reference to impact and therefore requires data collection from both parents and children. A toolkit was designed that incorporates a national questionnaire for use with parents and a suite of five flexible tools for use with children. |
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ESRC |
| FACE - Review of the Growing Schools Initiative | Working with FACE and the network of organisations involved in the Growing Schools Initiatives, this project will provide advice and guidance on future focus and priorities, especially in relation to the Every Child Matters agenda. |
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Farming and Countryside Education (FACE) |
| Implementing education quality in low income countries | Research aimed to generate new knowledge to assist governments in low income countries, DFID and the international development community to implement initiatives that will improve the quality of education in ways that wil benefit the poorest people in the world and will improve gender equity. |
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Department for International Development (DFID) |
| Re-thinking the needs of International Students' critical perspectives on the internationalisation of UK Higher Education Institutions | Inspired by the current fervour to ‘internationalise’ among UK HE Institutions and, in particular, the unprecedented growth in the enrolment of students from outside the UK, an ESRC seminar series was organised. | ESRC University of Birmingham |
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| The effectiveness of a programme for CPD leaders in the SW region | North Somerset Council | ||
| The international review of school governance | CfBT Education Trust | ||
| Development of teaching practices in nursing education through 'practice-developing research' |
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University College Sealand | |
| Disability participation and voice | This research concluded that disability cannot be identified without reference to impact and therefore requires data collection from both parents and children. | ESRC | |
| Evaluation of the effectiveness of a programme to re-integrate ethnically mixed students in Mostar | To evaluate the effectiveness of a programme which brings together Bosnian, Croat and Serb students in ethnically mixed teaching groups rather than the divided groups in which teaching normally takes place in Mostar. The initiative, located at Mostar Gymnasium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, is supported by the International Baccalaureate organisation and the United World Colleges and is aimed at promoting the re-integration of students following the conflict of the 1990s. Date of Completion: 2009 |
CfBT Education Trust | |
| Evaluation of the pilot of a Welsh Baccalaureate qualification | The National Assembly for Wales funded the development of a new post-16 programme known as the Welsh Baccalaureate Qualification; developed and piloted by the Cardiff-based Welsh Joint Education Committee (WJEC). Three cohorts of a total of 31 schools and colleges were involved, with students who begun the two year programme in each of September 2003, September 2004 and September 2005. The University of Bath team were Internal Evaluators for the project, providing on-going formative evaluation and reporting on a regular basis to the WJEC Welsh Baccalaureate Project Team and to the Welsh Assembly. The second phase of the evaluation focused on Higher Education recognition, evaluation of models for delivery of the qualification at Advanced and Intermediate levels post-16, and evaluation of the more recently introduced Foundation level and Key Stage 4. |
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National Assembly for Wales Welsh Joint Education Committee Welsh Assembly Government Welsh Joint Education Committee |
| External evaluation to the AstraZeneca Science Teaching Trust | The AstraZeneca Science Teaching Trust is a charitable trust that promotes the professional development of Foundation, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 teachers and subject leaders, poviding new ideas, teaching methods and resources to help improve the way children learn science. |
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AstraZeneca Science Teaching Trust |
| 'Virtual Campus for a Sustainable Europe' - an examination of the effectiveness of an e-learning initiative | The Virtual Campus for a Sustainable Europe [VCSE] is an EU-funded consortium of Universities that have constructed a cross-institutional e-learning initiative to teach about sustainability issues. Bill Scott was one of two invited external evaluators to this initiative. Bill's speciality relates to the ‘sustainable Europe’ element of this work, and he contributed to the project's thinking about how sustainability could be incorporated into programmes and degrees, as well as writing a formal external evaluation for the EU. |
EU | |
| Disability data collection for children's services | The project involves a national trial using two approaches to collecting data - a questionnaire for parents and carers, and activities to collect pupil views on barriers and supports to learning. | Department for Children, Schools and families (DfCSF) | |
| Learning across boundaries: levering out the findings of research | This small project was designed to assist in the process of levering out the knowledge from two ESRC TLRP projects. |
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ESRC |
| Student placements and their impact on learning and employability | Pilot study exploring the impact of extended work placements on student learning in different groups of learners across disciplines in the University. |
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University Teaching and Development Fund |
| Teacher professional development in relation to sustainable development education | Government Office funded a consortium of local authority and NGOs to run a series of conferences for teachers and school leaders across the South-west. |
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Government Office for South West |
| V-ResORT: Virtual resources for online research training | Project addresses the need to build capacity in UK research and to develop research skills training that acknowledges educational research as a complex, dynamic and diverse process. |
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Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) |
| Young people's contemporary thinking on Education for Sustainable Development | Reengague is a project run by a group of young people brought together with British Council and Defra funding through the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust. Alan and Bill were external advisors to this initiative which involves working with the young people in the group and their Wiltshire Wildlife Trust co-ordinator, reacting to their ideas and proposals and providing specific salient research and evaluation advice so that they could help youth groups across the county, and the youth services team at County Hall, to bring a greater focus on sustainability to their on-going activities. |
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Wiltshire Wildlife Trust: Wiltshire Young People's Environment Group |
| An evaluation of the Cornwall pilot School Improvement Partners Scheme | Further evaluation of the Secondary School Improvement Partners (SSIPs) scheme in Cornwall, which used current or recently retired Cornwall secondary school head teachers as SIPs. | Cornwall Local Authority | |
| Chinese learners' perceptions and construction of British academic culture |
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| Educational relationships and their impact on poverty |
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| Explore underlying reasons for anomalies in B&NES SAT results in England - focus on KS2 and KS3 |
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| Facilitating father development work practice in early years learning |
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| Global corporate strategy and the future of skills |
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| Knowledge transfer partnership with Tribeca |
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| Learning in and for interagency working |
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| Learning in and for interagency working: multiagency work in Northern Ireland |
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| Primary school composition and student progress |
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| Strategic review of sustainable development in higher education teaching in England |
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| ICT developments to enhance community participation of people with learning disabilities |
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| The impact of new health imperatives on Schools | Completed in 2009 | ESRC |
