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Dr Erin Dysart, has published an opinion piece in TES with colleagues from The University of Sheffield, York City Council and the national Day Nurseries Association. It argues that funders should support the development and evaluation of educational interventions which take in to account local context. Many interventions are evaluated on a large-scale basis (usually...
ICY Researchers Dr Erin Dysart and Dr Aimee Code talk about their work on Early Talk for York and the use of the WellComm Toolkit: Early Talk for York is a whole-systems approach set up by the City of York Council in 2018 to enhance children’s speech, language and communication. It utilises a step approach...
Dr Anne Luke, Lecturer in Childhood Studies, writes about the second part of her exploratory project on children and the arts in Cuba and the UK, when she welcomed two arts professionals from the Granma province of Cuba to Leeds University. After my visit to the Granma province of Cuba in June 2023, the second...
The impact of Covid-19 and the Cost of Living crisis on Early Years On 29th February 2024, Prof Louise Tracey was a guest speaker at Westminster Insights’ Early Years Digital Inspections Conference organised by the Knowledge Exchange Group. She presented on the topic Addressing the Impact to Early Developmental Goals as a Result of the...
Trauma-informed circus practice Over March-July 2024, Dr Lou Harvey and Dr Kim Petersen have been running a pilot project on The affordances of trauma-informed circus practice to support children's connection and communication, with researcher Hannah Wainwright and academic colleagues from PCI, Psychology, Medicine and LCS. This has run in partnership with Circus Leeds and a...
IAA Grant for Active Travel Project Dr Peter Hart has been awarded a £15k Impact Acceleration Account award for a joint project with Dr Morgan Campbell (School of Earth & Environment). In 2022 they co-produced and delivered a tool kit with young people in Leeds and Dr Kate Cameron (School of Music) to capture young...
Young People’s Right to Privacy and the Home School Partnership Dr Peter Hart was invited to join an international group of scholars at the German Education Research Association, GERA, at their largest conference in March. In a working group with other academics researching in the area of home school partnership, he considered how these can...
EAL in the Mainstream Classroom Research published by the Education Endowment Foundation indicates that the EAL in the Mainstream Classroom programme may give a small boost to the GCSE science results of pupils for whom English is an Additional Language (EAL). The programme, developed by Challenge Partners, is designed to provide professional development for teachers...
Latin America in the School of Education: a Research Showcase/ América Latina en el departamento de educación: una muestra de investigación On Wednesday 15th November 2023 Dr Anne Luke held an event to showcase the work and work in progress on Latin America that is underway in the School of Education at the University of Leeds. This bilingual...
Our team consists of three Laidlaw scholars, Fatima Malik (left) and Helen Henwood (right) from the University of Leeds, and Amber Wong (middle) from the University of Hong Kong. During this summer, we attempt to develop a reading scale for boardgames, an idea extended from the “Connecting and Comprehending through Play” project led by...