Projects (41)

SHEroic Journeys: Vietnamese Women's Eco-Trekking Tales for Climate Action Jun 28, 2024 - Nov 30, 2025

Coastal Connections: Youth for Climate Action May 21, 2024 - Jul 31, 2024
This project aims to facilitate interactive climate-focussed workshops for youth, which builds upon previous research undertaken in the School of Education as part of an Erasmus+ project: Young Citizens for Change: Developing Environmental Activism i... Read More about Coastal Connections: Youth for Climate Action.

QR-GCRF 20.21: Facilitating interactive co-created digitally-based participatory research into the impacts of climate change on communities in rural Vietnam. Jun 1, 2021 - Jul 31, 2021

HIKE: Arts-based intervention for children's PSE Mar 1, 2023 - Feb 29, 2024
Early childhood education is foundational for life-time success in many profound ways. During the Covid pandemic, the support of young children’s developmental milestones, normally occurring in nursery settings, was patchy, at best, due to lockdown d... Read More about HIKE: Arts-based intervention for children's PSE.

QR - GCRF - PPF12 - Understanding the transformational potential of Community Engagement Projects within a South African educational landscape Dec 1, 2019 - Nov 30, 2020
South Africa is the most unequal country in the world (Gini Index, 2019; Palma Ratio, 2019; World Bank, 2019), operating in great complexity resulting from an apartheid legacy. Such inequality, and the resulting poverty and disadvantage cannot be add... Read More about QR - GCRF - PPF12 - Understanding the transformational potential of Community Engagement Projects within a South African educational landscape.

Unity in the community (Borashabaa) Ideas Fund Jan 1, 2023 - Dec 31, 2023
Ideas fund project working with Borashabaa (local community group) to support wellbeing via ESOL classes

ASCENTS 1-2-1 Jan 1, 2023 - Dec 31, 2025
A previous RCT pilot study (Sharpe, Abrahams & Fotou, 2017) found that academically asymmetrical paired mentoring intervention (the one-to-one pairing of undergraduate STEM students with disadvantaged Year 11 students) had a statistically significant... Read More about ASCENTS 1-2-1.

Echoes of the Past: Scarborough's Lost Aquarium Feb 1, 2024 - Jan 31, 2025
Scarborough’s underground aquarium, demolished in 1968, was a once-spectacular building that has now been lost to residents and visitors of the town, but remains a haunting example of intangible cultural heritage, surviving through local newspaper ar... Read More about Echoes of the Past: Scarborough's Lost Aquarium.

Office for Students PG Conversion Course Funding Sep 1, 2023 - Aug 31, 2025
Artificial intelligence and data science postgraduate conversion course scholarship funding..

Children and young people's understandings/interpretations and uses of culture in Hull Oct 16, 2017 - Jan 31, 2025
The main aim of the research is to develop a sense of how children and young people understand, and make use of, the complex and invariably understood concept of ‘culture’ in the context of Hull, UK City of Culture 2017. The study is underpinned by t... Read More about Children and young people's understandings/interpretations and uses of culture in Hull.

Young Citizens for Change: developing environmental activism in young people through creative citizen inquiry May 1, 2021 - Jul 31, 2025
ERASMUS Strategic Partnerships for Creativity: Youth
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Young Citizens for Change: developing environmental activism in young people through creative citizen inquiry

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The majority of young people feel th... Read More about Young Citizens for Change: developing environmental activism in young people through creative citizen inquiry.

DEveloping TEachers’ Critical digital liTeracies Sep 1, 2019 - Aug 31, 2025
The project aims to raise awareness amongst educators and support them in developing critical digital literacy skills in relation a range of pedagogical competencies within the context of the school setting. This will involve reconceptualising the no... Read More about DEveloping TEachers’ Critical digital liTeracies.

Supporting Educator's Pedagogical Application of 360 video (SEPA360) Sep 1, 2019 - Aug 31, 2025
The use of 360 video is growing in popularity but there are few resources to supports its application and wider adoption in University. This Erasmus+ project brings together five European universities who will work collaboratively to explore the most... Read More about Supporting Educator's Pedagogical Application of 360 video (SEPA360).

Advance HE Mar 1, 2022 - Feb 28, 2023
The principal aim of the project is to collate 6/8 case studies authored by strategic leaders and AHE accredited CPD leads in order to evidence how the Professional Standards Framework (PSF) can be utilised in institutional initiatives designed to ac... Read More about Advance HE.

Unity for All Nov 1, 2021 - Oct 31, 2022
Our main focus is to bring people together as a community to help promote mental wellbeing for all. The project involves developing a safe community space where community members have ownership, feel valued and have their needs met. Here, we will pro... Read More about Unity for All.

Inspiring European Citizenship through Educational Technology Oct 1, 2017 - Jul 31, 2024
This project targets a number of cross-sectoral European priorities such as social inclusion, open and innovative practices in a digital era and promoting the acquisition of skills and competences to inspire European Citizenship through the innovativ... Read More about Inspiring European Citizenship through Educational Technology.

Youth-led Adaptation for climate change challenges in Vietnam: social action, inter-generational and inter-cultural learning Mar 20, 2020 - Jan 31, 2022
The Challenge

Rising sea levels and the increased intensity and magnitude of precipitation linked to climate change, place the Red River Catchment in Northern Vietnam on the front line of climate emergency. Whilst intense rains, localised flooding... Read More about Youth-led Adaptation for climate change challenges in Vietnam: social action, inter-generational and inter-cultural learning.

Building a Research Infrastructure for School Teachers Sep 1, 2019 - Aug 31, 2025
Every day, teachers around the world make decisions about how to help learners and need easy to access and up to date evidence to inform those decisions, because as Barber and Mourshed pointedly state, “the quality of an education system cannot excee... Read More about Building a Research Infrastructure for School Teachers.

Global Competence in Teacher Education Sep 1, 2019 - Aug 31, 2025
In a shrinking, more connected world where we all face common challenges, such as those posed by economic recessions, conflicts or climate change, the acquisition of Global Competencies has become increasingly important (OECD, 2018 & 2009; EU, 2018;... Read More about Global Competence in Teacher Education.

Researchers: Status of English in South Asia Basic Education Nov 1, 2021 - Mar 31, 2022
The British Council’s work in English for Education Systems (EES) aims for transformational change in English language policy and practice. We believe that better teaching and learning of English increases academic and career opportunities and enable... Read More about Researchers: Status of English in South Asia Basic Education.