ESRC Education Research Programme

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We are committed to asking new questions about how research, policy and practice can come together to empower educators and create meaningful change #edresprog

Steph Ainsworth highlights in Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social what schools can do to improve teacher well-being, and how the system needs to change, if enduring effects are to follow. schoolsweek.co.uk/how-can-scho... The project was one of the nine in the ESRC Education Research Programme.

How can school leaders support teachers to thrive?

Our research explored what can be done to support staff in a rewarding but challenging profession

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Just published on the @beranews.bsky.social blog, some reflections on why influencing policy and practice is less straightforward than the "impact" narrative would have us believe. Gemma Moss finds "knowledge exchange" is a more useful approach. See if you agree - bit.ly/43D0SSe

Beyond research findings: The value of knowledge exchange

All researchers are motivated by the desire to create new knowledge, to reframe the terms in which a particular topic is understood or suggest new insights that could be acted on in the real...

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As important and hard-hitting as 'Adolescence' is, it is art, fiction. As our @erpioe.bsky.social Digital Citizenship work shows, the realities are more complex, and young people need to see how to make positive change, not just more scaremongering by adults www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04...

I’m a teacher and mother of white British teenage boys – Starmer’s Adolescence plan is a mistake

The acclaimed Netflix drama has provoked nationwide debate, but the PM’s plan to screen it in classrooms has met fierce resistance

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