Research

 

Our collaborative & interdisciplinary research aims to:

• Explore learning and human development in diverse & rapidly evolving digital societies while responding to neurodiversity, specific learning needs and well-being across multiple contexts;
• Promote equality and human rights for children and youth across family, educational, policy, legal and off-/ online community settings;
• Foster employability, capacity building and sustainable development in underprivileged communities and areas affected by poverty, conflict or disaster in close dialogue with local youth and policy makers.

Current and recent projects:

• Pilot study of the Communication Friendly Home-Based Settings Programme | School of Education | University of Leeds 2022-25, Education Endowment Foundation, PI: Louise Tracey, Co-I: Erin Dysart
• Efficacy trial of Concept Cat | School of Education | University of Leeds 2022-25, Education Endowment Foundation, PI: Louise Tracey, Co-I: Erin Dysart
• Evaluation of Let’s Talk Bristol: Bristol Early Language (BEL) Recovery Programme | School of Education | University of Leeds 2023-24, Bristol City Council, PI: Erin Dysart, Co-I: Louise Tracey
• Efficacy trial of the 5Rs approach to GCSE Maths resits | School of Education | University of Leeds 2021-24, Education Endowment Foundation, PI: Louise Tracey, Co-I: Erin Dysart
• Research to support School Library Services (SLS) | School of Education | University of Leeds 2024, Association of Senior Children's Education Librarians (ASCEL) and Arts Council England, PI: Lucy Taylor, Co-I: Paula Clarke
• Books, bags and boxes: a study of the role and impact of the Leeds School Library Service | School of Education | University of Leeds 2023, United Kingdom Literacy Association, PI: Lucy Taylor, Co-I: Paula Clarke
• Connecting and Comprehending Through Play | School of Education | University of Leeds 2023, GamesInLab, PI: Peter Hart, Co-I: Paula Clarke
•  Young People & Active Journeys in Leeds | School of Education | University of Leeds 2022, Leeds City Council / Yorkshire Sport Foundation, PI: Peter Hart, Co-I: Morgan Campbell
• Impact of Covid on Key Learning and Education (ICKLE), 2020-21, URKI/ ESRC COVID-19 Rapid Response funding, PI: Hannah Nash, Co-Is: Paula Clarke, Cat Davies, Matt Homer, Rachel Mathieson
• Early education for young deaf children and their caregivers in Ghana, 2019-21, British Academy Early Childhood Education Programme, supported under the Global Challenges Research Fund, PI: Ruth Swanwick
• Communication for Children with Hearing Impairment to optimise Language Development (Comm4CHILD), 2019-22, EU Horizon 2020, Co-I: Ruth Swanwick
• Social exclusion in adolescence, 2019-22, Australian Research Council, Co-I: Gill Main
• REACH (Reading for CompreHension) Primary, 2019-20, Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), PI: Paula Clarke
• A systematic review of early interventions for parents of deaf babies, 2019-20, NIHR: Research for Patient Benefit, Co-I: Ruth Swanwick
• Barriers to Attendance, 2019, Leeds City Council, PI: Gill Main
• Fostering effective parent-practitioner partnerships in Character Education, 2018-19, ESRC/LSSI Impact Acceleration Account (IAA), PI: Mark Pike
• A Different Take, 2018-19, ESRC/LSSI Impact Acceleration Account, PI: Gill Main
• Improving educational and social outcomes for deaf children of Roma families in the UK, 2018, ESRC/LSSI Impact Acceleration Account, PI: Ruth Swanwick
• Fair Shares and Families: Children’s perceptions of material resource distributions and decision-making within families, 2016-18, ESRC, PI: Gill Main