School of Education

Our research projects

• Academic acculturation through international education: The British Higher Education (HE) experience
• Accelerating the impact of the Online Arabic from Palestine (OAfP) language course
• Arts of Inclusion (TAI): Examining the Role of Performing Arts for Peace Education in Conflict, The
• Art of Transdisciplinary Research Communications: Sustainable Futures in Writing, The
  • Writing and representing innovative research, across disciplinary and cultural contexts, for international audiences
• Assess@Learning
  • Investigating the implementation of digital formative assessment practices in schools in Estonia, Finland, Greece, Spain and Portugal
• Assessing older adults’ nutritional and wellbeing outcomes associated with ageing in place with supported food accessibility: A mixed-methods, biopsychosocial analysis
• ASSIST Global
  • How feasible is it to translate and adapt a UK Smoking Intervention for use in Lower and Middle Income Countries where adolescent smoking remains a public health concern
• Better Start Blackpool – Activate and Community Development Research
• British Council Programmes in Scotland: an Impact Study
• Building capacity of Vietnam schools to implement fundamental and comprehensive reforms
  
  • Building school capacity to enable implementation of whole system reform in Vietnam
• Building capacity to use arts-based methods for non-communicable disease prevention in Malawi and Tanzania
• Building Connections: Community-Based Phytostabilisation/Remediation in southern Africa
• Building Futures: Aspirations of Syrian Youth Refugees and Host Population Responses in Lebanon, Greece & the UK
• Building Research Collaboration with India and Kyrgyzstan to explore the role of universities in developing skills for smart cities
• Building Sustainable Futures in Africa: Using Capacity-Strengthening Activities to Design and Pilot Methods for Cross-Disciplinary Research
• CSPE Mitigating the implementation gap in environmental initiatives through community engagement, The
• CAMAU: Progression and Assessment in the Curriculum for Wales
  • Progression in learning: co-constructing assessment in Curriculum for Wales
• Can dual apprenticeships create better and more equitable social and economic outcomes for young people? A comparative study of India and Mexico
• Capacitating student aspirations in classrooms and communities of a high-poverty region
  • Expanding conceptions of disadvantaged students’ aspirations for the future
• Case Study of Developmental Leadership in the Philippines: Educational Experiences, Institutions and Networks
• Centre for Sustainable, Healthy, Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (CSHLH)
• Challenging the Translingual Turn: Student-Teachers' Perceptions, Practices and Networks
• Character Scotland Evaluation: Evaluation of the effects of a series of Character Scotland pedagogic interventions and resources
• Children’s Literature and International Safe Spaces: Toolkit development for third sector partners working with displaced children
• Children’s Literature in Critical Contexts of Displacement: Exploring how story and arts-based practices create ‘safe spaces’ for displaced children and young people
  • Contexts of complex emergency require cultural interventions: picturebooks provide safe spaces to start to rebuild and transform communities
• Children's Neighbourhoods Scotland
• Children's Voices Capabilities Research Tool/ARC Accelerator participant, The
  • a short animation to explain the Children’s Voices research approach to participating children and young people
• Counter-mapping for peri-urban social justice: accounting for spatial narratives of community resistance and dispossession in urban transition
• Culture for Sustainable and Inclusive Peace (CUSP) - Development Award
• Culture for Sustainable and Inclusive Peace (CUSP) Network Plus
• Developing inclusive lifelone learning policies and practices in the Global South
• Developing Politically Literate Young Citizens in Scottish Education: Barriers and Opportunities
  • Preparing Scotland's future citizens: an exploration of Modern Studies teachers' preparedness for political theory
• Development of an Online Programme for Teachers of Gifted Students in Regular Classrooms
• Development of middle leadership in schools in Wales: a desktop study, The
• DISCUSS
• Diversifying Justice
  • Participatory, arts and community-based research on domestic abuse, diversity and justice
• Don't Waste Our Future
• Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises
  • What can other cities learn about peacebuilding from educational, cultural and learning policies and practices that transformed the city of Medellin?
• Effect of English-only instruction on skill formation and labour market readiness of young Malawians, The
• Empirical and normative aspects of inequality in access to education at different stages of development
• Employability in programme development (EPD): Establishing a labour market to higher education feedback loop drawing on local labour market intelligence
  • The EPD project seeks to establish a feedback loop from the labour market to HEIs in order inform programme and course design to best support the employability of future graduates.
• EU's Role in the Implementation of the SDGs in Asia Pacific, The
• Evaluation of Glasgow Science Centre CONNECT programme
  • Glasgow Science Centre – Connecting with the wider community
• Evaluation of Glasgow Science Centre J.P. Morgan Foundation Initiative - STEM Futures
  • Glasgow Science Centre working with partners to promote access to STEM-related careers
• Evaluation of Inclusion Plus
  • This project evaluated the Inclusion Plus public social partnership and its impact on school exclusions in Dundee, Scotland
• Evaluation of RAiSE; Raising Aspirations in Science Education
  • RAiSE empowers primary teachers to deliver engaging STEM learning experiences
• Evaluation of the FAST (Families and Schools Together) Programme in Scotland
• Evaluation of the SSERC Primary Cluster Programme in Science and Technology
  
  • Effective professional learning for primary STEM teachers
• Examining Gender in Higher Education
• Exchanging knowledge with policymakers and marginalised youth
• Exploring the contexts of early childhood education for children with disabilities in Charadzula "Tiphunzile" - "let us learn"
• Film Education in Libraries
• Forecasting Coastal Erosion
• GALLANT: Glasgow as a Living Lab Accelerating Novel Transformation
• Gendered Journeys
  • Gender inequality in STEM in the Rwandan and Indian context
• Geothermally Sourced Combined Power and Freshwater Generation for Eastern Africa
• Groundwork and preparation for a research study to adapt, develop and test the implementation effectiveness of ‘A Stop Smoking In Schools Trial’ (ASSIST) in low and middle income settings
• Healthier Scotland, A
• Hidden Environmental Histories of the River Clyde, The
  • will map the legacies of empire and industry on the Clyde and its communities in terms of contemporary environmental and social injustices
• Higher Education and Innovation
• How do adjusted offers impact University Experiences?
• Idioms of Distress, Resilience and Well-Being: Enhancing understanding about mental health in multilingual contexts
• Impact of language: a cross-border collaboration for the design, development and promotion of an online Palestinian Arabic course, The
• Implementing a Translingual Approach in a Trilingual Environment (Kazakhstan)
  • Explores the transformative potential of translanguaging in a trilingual context
• Is it Possible to Decommodify Education? Evidence and Lessons from the Chilean Education Market Reform
  • Analysis of the Chilean education market reform adoption and impact
• Indigenous engagement, research partnerships, and knowledge mobilisation
• Insurance role of education in pastoralist communities, The
• Inter4Ref – Interpreters for Refugees
• Kitchen Life: Towards Clean Cooking Services in Bangladesh and Malawi
  • Interdisciplinary pilot on sustainable cooking and health, explored through kitchen life in Malawi and Bangladesh
• Language, livelihoods and well-being in multilingual countries: Reaching the research-frontier with secondary data for Ghana
  • We examine how language skills affect earnings, health and other life-outcomes in Ghana, a multilingual country in Sub-Saharan Africa
• LETAE - Reinforce the Labour Efficiency of Tertiary Adult Education at Universities
• Local challenges, global imperatives: cities at the forefront to achieve Education 2030
  • Analysis how cities conduct educational planning and management to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4
• Local, place-based, and community-driven approaches to peacebuilding
  • Collaborative development of local, place-based and community-driven peacebuilding approaches
• Long-term and residual impact of Link Community Development's school performance review work in Malawi and Uganda
• Mental health and wellbeing of international doctoral students in the UK: An investigation of supervisors’ understanding and existing support provision
• MIDEQ: Migration for development and equality
• Moon in narrative, metaphor and reason: A multilinguistic perspective, The
• National and Subnational Approaches to Regulating Private and Vocational Education and Training: Comparative Insights from Asia and Africa
  • Analysis of governance and regulations of TVET in Africa and Asia
• New Scots refugee integration delivery project
• Open the Doors
• Participatory Futures
• Partnership to ensure the sustainability of a public health palliative care project in Bangladesh through community theatre
• Political Economy of Education Systems in Conflict-Affected Contexts, The
• Poor among the pastoralists: The importance of bad luck for inequality
• Precarious work and future careers in the context of the gig economy in South Africa and China
  • Learning from the last crisis (2008/2009) to help manage the fallout from the latest crisis (2020/2021)
• Professional Learning Communities (PLC) in the Global South: a Systematic Literature Review
• ReCULM – Working supportively with refugees
• Regulating Public-Private Partnerships, governing non-state schools: An equity perspective
  • Regulation of PPPs for education provision from an equity perspective
• Representing literacies in times of precarity using Glasgow ‘Big Data’: Turning research data into interactive and engaging social objects for the public (with MakLab)
• Researching and supporting the ‘Every Dundee Learner Matters’ educational strategy
  • Using school collaboration and enquiry to improve all learner outcomes
• Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language, the Body, Law and the State
• Role of Music Practices for Peace Education in Conflict (MuPPEC), The
• SCDE Attainment Challenge Project: Developing pedagogies that work for Pre-Service and Early Career Teachers to reduce the Attainment Gap in Literacy, Numeracy
• School Improvement Partnership Programme: Using collaboration and enquiry to tackle educational inequality
• Scottish Network for Able Pupils (SNAP)
• Social and Scientific Innovation to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
• Social justice dispositions informing teachers’ pedagogy in advantaged and disadvantaged secondary schools
  • Reconciling teachers’ social justice beliefs and their practice
• Strengthening the Regional Engagement Role of Universities in Africa and Asia
• Strengthening Urban Engagement of Universities in Asia and Africa (SUEUAA) 
• Strengthening Young Leadership Capacity for Zimbabwe’s Creative and Cultural Tourism Economy
• Support for developing collaborative action research / self-evaluation at St Kentigern’s High School in the context of the Attainment Challenge
  • Supporting inclusive school-self evaluation in the context of the Attainment Challenge
• Tackling Fake News via Fake People: Co-creating a toolkit to help young people recognise fake news
  • Can you trust what you read online?
• Talent Development: learning from cross-sectoral research
• Teacher2020
• Teaching for Digital Citizenship: Digital ethics in the classroom and beyond
• Towards maximising international PhD students’ experience in the UK
• Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures
  • Reimagining education’s role in climate action, decent work and sustainable cities
• Urban Big Data Centre
• UNESCO Chair Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts (RILA)
• VisNET: Virtual in situ networking to reinvent the rules of international collaborations and reduce gender differences in academic careers
• Vocational institutions, undergraduate degrees: distinction or inequality
  • New forms of distinction in higher education with implications for higher education’s equity function
• Walk the Global Walk
• Waste Stories
  • using the affective power of story-making to try to change people's relationships with waste and the resources that end up in the waste stream
• Wayfarers: confronting the past through history and traditional music education in schools
• Welcoming Languages: Including a Refugee Language in Scottish Education
  • Teaching Arabic as a 'refugee language' to education staff in Scotland
• White Water Writers
  • Publishing a novel in a week
• Whose crisis? The global COVID-19 crisis from the perspective of communities in Africa
• Widening Regional Engagement of HE and TVET
• Workers by Self-Design: Digital Literacies and Women's Changing Roles in Unstable Environments
• YoMo: Youth Mobilities in Public and Digital Spaces
• YOUNG_ADULLT
• Youth-led Peace: Inclusion of Youth in Peace Processes