@bathspa_ife

Innovative practice

Transforming lives

Social justice

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Risk and resilience

Playful relationships

Life-long learning

Influencing policy

Institute for

EducationValues

Our Journey

Centre for Research into Inclusion and Vulnerable Learners (CRIVL) to

Centre for Research into Equity Inclusion and Community (CREIC)

inclusive, supportive , developing research capacity

Understanding the journey to and through ‘Access to HE Diplomas’ for adults with a Service background

Dr Mel Macer

WHY? Decline in numbers of Access students with a service background Prevent any disadvantage in knowledge of and engagement with AHED due to Service background

This research has developed evidence-based recommendations, to:

– Improve provision of AHED-related IAG to those with Service background

– Prevent any disadvantage in knowledge of and engagement with AHED due to Service background

• Report to be launched in November 2016

•Youth work, community work and informal education •Participatory Action Research Projects•Youth Led

Young people, participation and informal learning

Laura Green (Education Studies)

Project TechLaura Green & Dana Ruggiero

Phase 1• Social action video game

design• Young people in school

exclusion unit

Phase 2• Narrative game design• Young men in prison

The Degree apprenticeships project

Is this ‘higher technical’ or ‘technical higher education?’Who is involved?Who are these programmes for?

Life Long Learning Daniel Bishop and Jim Hordern (Education Studies)

Degree apprenticeships projectFunded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation

Initial findings • Meeting the requirements of major employers • Targeting high achieving school leavers (Aerospace and Construction) and

some existing employees (Construction)• Challenges to expanding degree apprenticeships beyond a certain

volume (employer demand, higher education systems, careers guidance, public confidence)

: AerospaceConstruction

Transforming Lives Project

Viki Bennett and Hilary Smith

• Mature female learner participants

Reflexivity Social Mobility Impact

Vulnerable Learners: Inclusion, Risk and Resilience

Dyslexia and Multilingualism: Big Lottery 2012 Tilly Mortimore and colleagues in partnership with the British Dyslexia Association

Dyslexia and Apps use 2015

Autism, life long learning and independence (2016) Dana Ruggiero, Tilly Mortimore in partnership with Fosseway Trust

Expertise:

Dyslexia, autism, Special educational needs policy and practice, multilingualismExpertsLouise Hamilton; Helen Curran; Mary Dooley

Impact

Vulnerability : Risk and Resilience

Helping to support international practice: Europe, India, South Africa

International links: New Zealand; USA

ERASMUS PICA project

Social Justice, Diversity and EducationGhazala Bhatti

• Language, Identity and Diversity- BSU and the College of William and Mary, USA.

• Education for Democratic Intercultural Citizenship- Erasmus project 2016-2019 involving 7 European universities (Masters level collaboration)

• Working with creativity, cultural literacy and issues of equity – local and global perspectives

Exclusion, attachment and behaviour Richard Parker

• Government policy; school responses, national and local organisations for mental and emotional health

• BME; children in care; LGBT; • service children; multi-agency

working• Somerset Emotion Coaching &

Attachment Research (CRECY)• Nottinghamshire online

counselling bid• Linked to Education studies

module Building Bridges

The role of the SENCo at a time of policy reform; the 1st year post implementation

Emerging themesThe SENCo as an advocate for:ParentsChildrenColleaguesPolicyImmediate engagement with policy.Creative problem solvers ‘filling the gap’

SENCo

Enablers

Response to policy

Barriers

Role in school

Phd Project: Helen Curran

Year 6 Transition Year 7

Shaun Taylor: Ist year PHD project

Is social class an issue within the transition process?

Does it affect parents’ and children’s expectations?

How do schools match their provision of assistance to parental and pupil expectations?

Equity and Social Justice

Our mixed methodologies

Statistical analysis

Action Research

Quantitative intervention

Narrative

Ethnography

Interview

Case study

Video and textual media analysis

Lifelong Learning

Risk and Resilience

Social Justice