Research Projects
School Of Education
Research Groups
- Assessment, Evaluation and Educational Effectiveness
- Durham University Evidence Centre for Education (DECE)
- Educational Psychology
- Higher and Further Education
- International and Comparative Education
- Pedagogy and Curriculum
Research Projects
- A scoping analysis of school exclusions in England, funded by York University pump priming grant (£1K)
- Closing the educational attainment gap for disadvantaged children: exploring the potential of place based, multi-agency interventions
- DevalSimWeb
- Developing a Critical Appraisal diagnostic tool for improving critical reading among doctoral researchers in the Social Sciences (£3,200), funded by the Advanced Social Science Collaboration, University of Birmingham
- Evaluation of “Family Lives: Parent Child Home Programme"
- Evaluation of EdTech Innovation Testbed
- Examining the role of schooling in the cognitive and wider development of children in the province of Punjab (Pakistan) and State of Gujarat (India): Establishing routes for sustainable education
- First Encounters With Quantum Computing: Can Games Teach Quantum Reasoning?
- Identifying the most promising parental involvement interventions that raise pupil attainment in school- a systematic review of evidence, funded by the Nuffield Foundation (£51,296)
- LGBTQ+ Teachers and Changing Curriculums
- Rapid review of parental involvement interventions for pre-school and primary school-aged children (£9,000)
- Review of arts education and its impact on the cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes of school-aged children (£17,030)
- Review of the impact of attitudes and aspirations on educational attainment and participation for Joseph Rowntree Foundation (£20K)
- Scaling up Grade 1 assessment & monitoring in Lesotho
- School break
- Secondary data analysis of the supply and retention of teachers in Wales, funded by the General Teaching Council (£15k)
- Systematic review of factors that drive post-16 participation of ethnic minority groups (£25k), funded by the DfES
- Systematic review of international intervention studies and UK-based values and aspirations literature (£39k), funded by the DfES
- Systematic reviews in education: methodological challenges (£3k), funded by York University pump priming grant
- What Makes Effective Area-based Reform In Education?
CURRENT PROJECTS
- Building an intercultural pedagogy for higher education in conditions of conflict and protracted crises: Languages, Identity, Culture
- DASCHE: Development, Assessment and Validation of Social Competences in Higher Education
- Developing an evidence kit for policy-makers
- Development of the Teaching and Learning Toolkit , the EEF Database and NPD Analysis and Data Archive 2018-2021
- Durham Commission on Creativity
- EasyPeasy Evaluation
- Engineering research evidence into use, Durham University Seedcorn funding (June 2019)
- Evaluating the fairness of admissions to UK higher education
- Evaluating the impact of student bursaries
- Evaluation of ABRA
- Evaluation of Literacy for Life Programme
- Evaluation of Meols Cop High School Feedback Project
- Evaluation of ReflectED
- Evaluation of the Impact of the Creativity Commission Report
- Evaluation of Writing about Values
- Gender, young people and schooling: Pathways for challenging gender norms (NINE DTP Fellowship)
- Girls Into Physics: Parent And Carer Project (Phase I)
- Here To Stay? Identity, Belonging And Citizenship Among Eastern European Settled Migrant Children in the UK
- Improving Basic Education in Grade 1 in Lesotho: Pilot
- Improving the breadth of science practical work undertaken in schools
- Improving The Pathways For The Uptake Of Robust Evidence
- Indicators for GCED and their Impact on Young People’s Attitudes and Conflict in Society (Global Citizenship)
- IntRef Project: Intercultural Reflection on Teaching
- Northern Power: Making Engineering and Physical Sciences Research a Domain for All in the North of England
- Notions of Creative Thinking in Higher Education in Different Disciplines
- PACT Evaluation
- Prospective Report on the Future of Assessment in Primary and Secondary Education
- Research into non-cognitive and KS2 attainment impacts of philosophy for children
- RICH-Ed: Resources for Interculturality in Chinese Higher Education
- Task Contingent Units of Personality and Adaptive Performance
- The Chequered History of British University Engagements with Chinese Language Studies: Intercultural Failure or Success
- The TRECA Study : TRials Engagement in Children and Adolescents
- Understanding the complex determinants of teacher shortages: an integrated approach
PAST PROJECTS 2012 and prior
- 11+ Test Exclusive To The Grammar Schools
- 5-14 Science and Maths Report
- A rapid review of evidence of literacy ‘catch-up’ during transition to secondary school (£13,686),
- An Evaluation Of Targeted Mental Health in Schools
- An Evaluation of the STAR programme
- Aurora Project - University of Yale
- BECTA3: Innovative ICT - engagement, inclusion and interaction
- Building Capacity In Visual Methods
- C2k, Western Education & Library Board
- CADATS, MISC Local Authority
- Cambridge Primary Review North East and Cumbria Regional Network
- Campaign for Learning, Phase 4
- CAPES (Brazilian Government Funding) An investigation into the social learning of co-operation in children: cognitive, cultural and social differences
- Data Rich Resources to Promote
- Developing the use of visual representations in the primary classroom
- Educational Accountability
- Entrance Test Development
- Entrance Tests
- European Policy Network on School Leadership
- Evaluation Of Every Child Counts
- Evaluation Of Next Practice Model
- Evaluations of National Ratings
- Exploring and evaluating the use of configurational methods in large n contexts: transitions in the English and German educational systems
- Grammar Schools In England
- Impact study of school inspections
- Improving Learning for Disadvantaged Learners
- Improving the Primary-Secondary Transition
- Increasing Student Competence and Confidence in Algebra and Multiplicative Reasoning
- IPIPS
- KTP - Fife Council
- Mathematics Masterclasses Programme
- Mobile
- MU-Map - Mapping University Mathematics
- NHS & Durham University: Spread and Embed: Investigating the adoption, transmission and evolution of healthcare processes
- North East Story Telling
- Nuffield Parental Involvement Intervention
- OSCA
- P-SCALES
- Plausible Estimation
- PREMA
- PREMA2
- Private Tuition Pilot Evaluation
- Promoting Equality in Digital Literacy
- Provision of an Irish Medium Version
- RDI In Quantitative Synthesis
- Reasoning from Evidence
- Researching Multilingually
- Restorative Approaches Evaluation
- Rural schooling and the micro-politics of community> A study of two English, rural villages and their schools
- Santander Mobility Grant
- Science In Primary Schools
- Scoping review on the formal links between affective and academic outcomes (£4,000), funded by TeachFirst
- SMART-HESTEM
- Social class bias in selection
- Strategies for Improving Learning
- Students Academic Ability Evaluation System
- Supporting Equality in Science Technology and Math
- SynergyNet
- Thinking about Learning: Learning to Learn in...,
- Understanding Scientific Evidence
- Whole Schools Approach Evaluation
- Working Memory And Learning In School
PAST PROJECTS 2013
- Annual provision of education data summaries for Castle Vale pupils ages 5-18 (£5,000)
- Developing a Diagnostic Chemical Knowledge Test
- IBAR
- Mind the Gap: Research and Development
- Switch On
- Teach First Evaluation
- Toolkit for Higher Education Access: A series of systematic reviews
- Writing Bundle: An evaluation of Grammar for Writing
PAST PROJECTS 2014
- Accelerated Reader
- Anglican School Partnership
- CUREE Response to Intervention
- Curriculum Centre Word and World Reading
- Development of professional skills via participative EVALuation and SIMulation using Web tools
- DIY Evaluation Guide Version 3
- Fresh Start
- Future Foundations Summer School
- INCENSE - Influencing Policy and Practice
- LEGO
- Mapping transformation: contemporary art as a learning metaphor
- Mind the Gap: Evaluation
- Physical Activity and Well-being in Schools
- The research design basis for undergraduate quantitative methods (QM) teaching
- Toolkit for Higher Education Access 2
- Writing Bundle: Calderdale Excellence Partnership
- Writing Bundle: Discover
PAST PROJECTS 2015
- Arts Education Literature Review
- Cross Age Peer Tutoring
- Development of the Teaching and Learning Toolkit
- Developmental Trajectory of Trust (and Mistrust) through Childhood into Adulthood
- Evaluating teaching development in HE: towards impact assessment toolkit
- Evaluation of a randomised controlled trial of ‘SAPERE: Philosophy for Children’
- First Steps in Computer Science
- IEREST: Intercultural Education Resources for Erasmus Students and their Teachers
- SHINE
- Travelling Ahead
PAST PROJECTS 2016
- Evaluation of Youth United Social Action Trial
- Human Cloning and Stem Cell Research through the Medium of Law
- IAA - Parliamentary Constituency Kit
- Independent evaluation of SHINE on Manchester schools
- Mapping and Evaluating the use of contextual data in undergraduate admissions in Scotland
- Project Based Learning
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Addressing Methodological Challenges, with particular reference to survey data
- School Leadership Toolkit for Accelerating Achievement (SLT4AA)
- Standard Deviation as an Outcome of Interventions: A Methodological Intervention, Education Endowment Foundation
- Teen Sleep Research Pilot
- Third Space Learning
- Toolkit Impact in Chile
- Training female STEM teachers in rural and deprived areas
- Uncovering the determinants of the discovery, utilisation and transmission of information through social learning and innovation in young children
PAST PROJECTS 2017
- A systematic review of the international literature on effective professional development interventions for groups of welfare professionals
- An Evaluation of progress towards an evidence based teaching system, including DfE’s role in facilitating progress
- British Council Ukraine Exploratory Grant
- Critical Analysis of the Higher Education Green and White Papers (2015-2016): Student Representation and Response
- Establishing a Baseline of Children Starting School and Monitoring Progress in the First Year in Primary Schools of the Western Cape, South Africa
- EUROMEC: European Identity, Culture, Exchanges and Multilingualism
- Evaluation of UK Space Agency Principia Programme
- Improving the educational outcomes of children in Russia and South Africa
- IPIPS Brazil
- Low Attainment in Mathematics an Investigation Focussing on Year Nine Students in England (IMAP)
- Pedagogical Application of New Developments and Approaches
- Research Capacity Building and Development of Teacher Knowledge Bases in Science Education
- Research into the non-cognitive impacts of Philosophy for Children (P4C)
- Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language: the Body, Law and the State
- Smoking prevention in young people: a cluster randomised controlled trial of implementation intentions
- Teen Sleep Pilot Evaluation
- The Trust Map
- UKCAT Research Capacity Building
PAST PROJECTS 2018
- A narrative approach to improve citizens' ageing and well-being (2018)
- Development of the Teaching and Learning Toolkit and NPD Analysis and Data Archive Support
- Evaluating the use of contextual data in undergraduate admissions
- Evaluation of Calderdale : Improving writing quality, using SRSD and memorable experiences
- Evaluation of Children's University social action trial
- Evaluation of Mead Maths Count
- ICCAMS2: Increasing Mathematical Competence and Confidence at Key Stage 3
- Independent Evaluation Of The Maths Champions Programme
- Monitoring Practical Science in Schools and Colleges
- Promoting Civic Engagement Via Exploration Of Evidence Challenges for Statistics Education
- The kinds of poverty in schools and their impact on student progress
- Transforming the pedagogy in STEM subjects
- Tutor Trust Project Evaluation