Schools and education organisations to benefit from £50,000 university research fund

Schools and education organisations across the country have won a share of £50,000 from Leeds Beckett University to find out what really works to improve the lives of children and young people.

The Carey Philpott Partner Research Fund was established by the Carnegie School of Education at Leeds Beckett, and was open to applications from all of its partner schools, networks and community-based organisations with an education focus, of which there are more than 1,000 nationwide, to develop practice-based research within their organisation.

Five awards of £10,000 have been announced for the academic year 2017-18, with successful bidders being supported by a researcher within the university who is an expert in the project’s field.

Each organisation will also become part of the Carey Philpott Partner Research network and will benefit from sharing outcomes of all research projects in the scheme.

Rachel Lofthouse, Professor of Teacher Education at Leeds Beckett University, explained: “We are thrilled to announce the five successful projects which will support educational decision-making and create positive impacts for children and young people, professionals and communities.

Researchers from the Carnegie School of Education look forward to sharing their expertise, but just as importantly, to learning alongside the practitioner researchers who get engaged in each setting. The successful projects have strong thematic links with our research expertise and will help us to continue to learn from the educational issues and practices in diverse contexts.”

Bids were invited around five research areas, and the successful projects are: Tribe Arts; Alive and Kicking Theatre Company; Leyburn Primary School and Yorkshire Collaborative Academy Trust (YCAT); ImpactEd, in partnership with Bright Futures Educational Trust; and Victoria Academies Trust.

The organisations’ projects are now underway and will continue until the end of this academic year, 2018.

The projects are now underway and will continue until the end of this academic year, 2018.

Project results will be made publicly available following their successful completion.