Stephen Gorard

@sgorard.bsky.social

I want to make education research better, to improve educational decision-making. Director of Evidence Centre for Education: https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/evidence-centre-education/

And what a waste of public money on initiatives by BA, Nuffield, ESRC and others to extend and improve research methods skills. Then and now: Twenty years of education research methods use in the United Kingdom - Smith - British Educational Research Journal - Wiley Online Library

New free open access paper. How the range of education research expertise has narrowed over 20 years in UK. So-called mixed methods appears to be dying. Most people only know how to do so-called qualitative work. What a shame.

And what a waste of public money on initiatives by BA, Nuffield, ESRC and others to extend and improve research methods skills. Then and now: Twenty years of education research methods use in the United Kingdom - Smith - British Educational Research Journal - Wiley Online Library