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Validation of secondary pupil attitudes survey: Technical Report 2025/1 (2025)
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Lee, G. C.-Y. (2025). Validation of secondary pupil attitudes survey: Technical Report 2025/1. Observatory for Mathematical Education

This technical report describes the validation of a survey of secondary school pupils’ attitudes towards mathematics. The survey will be used in a 7-year longitudinal study of pupils in England which is being conducted by the Observatory for Mathemat... Read More about Validation of secondary pupil attitudes survey: Technical Report 2025/1.

Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in UK and Africa Case Study Cocreation Workshop Report (2025)
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Ochang, P., Eke, D., Stahl, B., Cameron, H., Buckley, M., Poder, I., & Rodrigues, R. (2025). Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in UK and Africa Case Study Cocreation Workshop Report. ESPRC and RAI UK

The University of Nottingham hosted a co-creational workshop from 29th to 31st January at the Jubilee Hotel & Conference facilities, bringing together participants from the RAISE project’s case studies across the UK and Africa. The workshop focused o... Read More about Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in UK and Africa Case Study Cocreation Workshop Report.

Participation, diversity and inclusion in cultural and creative industries (2025)
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Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, & McCabe, H. Participation, diversity and inclusion in cultural and creative industries. Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology

UK creative industries can feature inequality and lack diversity. How can participation be increased?

Triple Threats: Co-ordinated and collective actions to address health, work and climate concerns (2025)
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Ahmed, S., Ayangunna, R., Barrow, J., Jackson, B., Ojo, T., Ojo, K., Parker, P., West, P., & Wright, N. (2025). Triple Threats: Co-ordinated and collective actions to address health, work and climate concerns. https://figshare.com/articles/preprint/Triple_Threats_Co-ordinated_and_collective_actions_to_address_health_work_and_climate_concerns/28315241: Rights Lab Survivor Research Advisory Board, University of Nottingham

The paper explores three priority threats upon health and work, resulting from climate change identified through a series of collaborative workshops with lived experience survivors of modern slavery. Areas highlighted which require collaborative acti... Read More about Triple Threats: Co-ordinated and collective actions to address health, work and climate concerns.

Public Participation in Policymaking (2025)
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Evans, J., Davies, C., & Mutibwa, D. H. (2025). Public Participation in Policymaking. Economics and Social Science Research Council and MHCLG

Involving the public in local government decisions fosters democratic participation and ensures that citizens influence policies that affect their lives.

This document by John Evans and Ceri Davies (National Centre for Social Research) and Daniel... Read More about Public Participation in Policymaking.

A constant dance: a study of values-based leadership in Multi-Academy Trusts (2025)
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Greany, T., & Bernardes, E. (2025). A constant dance: a study of values-based leadership in Multi-Academy Trusts. Whole Education

This research explores how leaders in five Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) are working to develop their organisations in ways which enhance their ability to deliver a ‘whole education’ for both staff and students. The five case study trusts - Anglian, Li... Read More about A constant dance: a study of values-based leadership in Multi-Academy Trusts.

Community engagement with English devolution (2025)
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McCabe, H. Community engagement with English devolution. Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology

Successive governments have promoted greater devolution in England, but challenges remain about community engagement with the policy and local decision-making.

Forging Local Coherence: LocalEd project evaluation report (2025)
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Greany, T., & Cousin, S. (in press). Forging Local Coherence: LocalEd project evaluation report. Association of Education Committees

The LocalED project (2022 - 2024) was designed to test new locality models for the English school system led by local authorities, combined authorities and school led partnerships. Each of the nine localities involved focussed on one of three ‘pilot’... Read More about Forging Local Coherence: LocalEd project evaluation report.

LGBT+ Welfare and Assets in Great Britain (2024)
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Matthews, P., Barnett, C., Formby, E., Gregory, L., Lambert, P., & Mann, S. (2024). LGBT+ Welfare and Assets in Great Britain. Nuffield Foundation

This project aimed to understand the experiences of LGBT+ people when they access social security benefits. We use LGBT+ as an umbrella term to describe all people who are not heterosexual and/or not cisgender.

This mixed-methods research used se... Read More about LGBT+ Welfare and Assets in Great Britain.

The Researching the Arts in Primary Schools Project (2024)
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Thomson, P., Hall, C., & Maloy, L. (in press). The Researching the Arts in Primary Schools Project. arts primary.com: Freelands Foundation

Arts-rich primary schools are highly diverse. There is no one way to be arts-rich. However, there are patterns across the schools that can inform other schools and the school system more generally.

Arts-rich schools offer art and music to all chil... Read More about The Researching the Arts in Primary Schools Project.

Ethics in modern slavery research: Review of the current landscape and evaluation of research ethics appropriateness (2024)
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Asquith, W., Jackson, B., Hutchison, K., Stalford, H., & Bracaj, E. (2024). Ethics in modern slavery research: Review of the current landscape and evaluation of research ethics appropriateness. Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre (MSPEC)


There are increasing calls for researchers, research organisations and funders active in the field of modern slavery and human trafficking (MSHT) research to reflect on their own practices of engagement and co-production. Momentum has built on this... Read More about Ethics in modern slavery research: Review of the current landscape and evaluation of research ethics appropriateness.

Improving prisoner death statistics: policy brief October 2024 (2024)
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Tomczak, P., & Mulgrew, R. (2024). Improving prisoner death statistics: policy brief October 2024. University of Nottingham

Prisoner mortality rates are up to 50% higher than rates in the community, forming a global human rights and health equity concern, and producing tremendous harms and costs. In 2023, a UN Special Rapporteur warned that ‘prisoners are … dying needless... Read More about Improving prisoner death statistics: policy brief October 2024.

Unlocking the full potential of restorative justice: Lessons for a thicker peace in Colombia’s transitional justice framework (2024)
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CLAMP, K. (in press). Unlocking the full potential of restorative justice: Lessons for a thicker peace in Colombia’s transitional justice framework

This policy brief critically examines the role of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) in Colombia as a mechanism for restorative justice within the broader framework of transitional justice established by the 2016 Peace Agreement. The JEP’s stru... Read More about Unlocking the full potential of restorative justice: Lessons for a thicker peace in Colombia’s transitional justice framework.

Small and medium enterprises will use generative AI. But how can they be helped to implement it properly? (2024)
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Ochang, P., Eke, D., Stahl, B., Buckley, . M., Poder, I., & Hughes, J. (2024). Small and medium enterprises will use generative AI. But how can they be helped to implement it properly?. ESPRC and RAI UK

Generative AI is changing the way our economies and businesses operate, and SMEs could be receiving more benefits from this transition. Over the past 12 months in the Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in UK and Africa (RAISE) project we have been wo... Read More about Small and medium enterprises will use generative AI. But how can they be helped to implement it properly?.

Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in UK and Africa (RAISE) : First Virtual Human Centric Design Workshop Report (2024)
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Ochang, P., Stahl, B., Eke, D., & Cameron, H. Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in UK and Africa (RAISE) : First Virtual Human Centric Design Workshop Report. ESPRC and RAI UK

On the 1st of July 2024, the Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in the UK and Africa (RAISE) project hosted its inaugural workshop, bringing together small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the United Kingdom and Africa. The workshop focused o... Read More about Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in UK and Africa (RAISE) : First Virtual Human Centric Design Workshop Report.

Educational research and the quality of successful school leadership (2024)
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Day, C., Ylimaki, R., & Gu, Q. (2024). Educational research and the quality of successful school leadership. UNESCO

This paper outlines the International Successful School Principalship Project’s (ISSPP)contribution to the 2024/5 UNESCO Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report on leadership and education which examines: i) the requirements of good leadership in e... Read More about Educational research and the quality of successful school leadership.