Education and Childhood Research Group (ECRG)

By Dr Will Grant, Associate Director of the School of Arts, UWE Bristol, and ECRG member This blog post is a brief, informal introduction to the report School Art: Where Is It? (Fursman, Grant, & Wild 2024), which I recently co-authored with colleagues from UCL and Birmingham City University. The report revisits work undertaken by … Continue reading "School Art: Where Is It? A (re)exploration of the visual arts in secondary schools"

This blog was originally featured on UWE Bristol’s Research and External Engagement blog on 21 March 2025. Date: Friday 11 April 2025Time: 14:30–16:30Venue: Room 2X242, Frenchay Campus Education and Childhood Research Group (ECRG) is proud to present a thought-provoking and vital discussion on race, assessment, and higher education. Join us on Friday 11 April 2025, 14:30 to 16:30, for … Continue reading "Addressing the awarding gap: A research event with Dr Paul Campbell"

By Alpesh Maisuria, Professor of Education Policy and ECRG Leader Co-hosted by: All-Party Parliamentary Group for Schools, Learning and Assessment & All-Party Parliamentary Group for Parents Chair: Peter Swallow MP Date: 23 March 2025 Today I attended an APPG event that launched of the ParentKind/NEU The Missing Chapter Report in Parliament, which will soon be … Continue reading "Parent poverty: The missing chapter in the Government’s Child Poverty Strategy"

Dr Tim Clark (UWE Bristol/ECRG Strand Lead) and Professor Tom Dobson (York St John University) originally featured on the Society for Research into Higher Education blog. Arts-based research (ABR) encompasses work which draws on aspects of visual, literary or performative arts as ‘methodological tools… during any or all phases of research’ (Leavy, 2018). There has … Continue reading "Going against the grain? Arts-based research and the EdD: resistance, activism and identity"

Schools, Learning and Assessment APPG meeting with Becky Francis, February 2025. Source: X @Appg_Schools By Professor Alpesh Maisuria Speaker: Professor Becky Francis CBE, Chair of the Curriculum and Assessment Review Discussant: Sarah Kilpatrick, National Education Union President APPG Chair: Peter Swallow MP Date: 25 February 2025 Today, I attended the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Schools, Learning and … Continue reading "All-Party Parliamentary Group for Schools, Learning and Assessment: Curriculum and Assessment Review Update"

Thursday 16 January 2025 saw the successful launch of a children’s exhibition at Bristol Cathedral, funded by a Higher Education Impact Fund (HEIF) bid and also the Early Childhood Research Group (ECRG), who funded the event’s refreshments, with a focus on the understanding of the value of tolerance and how this could be applied to … Continue reading "Successful launch of the ‘Tolerance’ children’s exhibition at Bristol Cathedral"

On 15 January 2025, ECRG hosted Dr Roi Silberberg, Director of School for Peace – Wahat al-Salom – Neve Shalom, for a research seminar. In the seminar, he explained the School for Peace (SFP) approach to fostering dialogue between Jews and Palestinians during conflict. Rooted in social justice pedagogy, this method emphasizes identity exploration, power … Continue reading "Dialogue in times of war: The School for Peace method and social justice pedagogy in education"

On Monday, 14 October 2024, the Secondary PGCE Programme launched a week of university-school partnership activities focused on oracy: how to promote oracy skills among teachers and young people, and how to use pedagogy which generates rich classroom talk. This week of lectures, reading, discussions, observations and cooperative learning tasks coincides with the release of … Continue reading "Montpelier High student group, Tackling Diversity in Teaching, give PGCE Secondary students a masterclass on diversity and oracy in the classroom"