All Outputs (164)

The benefits of Art, Craft and Design education in schools: A Rapid Evidence Review (2022)
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A twenty year evidence review of published research looking at the benefits of school art craft and design education.

Covid-19, Vulnerability and the Safeguarding of Criminally Exploited Children (2022)
Report

This is the third briefing from research investigating the impacts of Covid-19 on child criminal exploitation and County Lines. Findings indicate that restrictions introduced in response to the pandemic have hindered the ability of youth workers to s... Read More about Covid-19, Vulnerability and the Safeguarding of Criminally Exploited Children.

Rights Lab Ecosystems and the Environment Programme Submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children (2022)
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Rights Lab Ecosystems and the Environment Programme Submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children. May 2022.

European Sectoral Social Partners in education promoting quality of academic teaching and management (2022)
Report

Colour-evasiveness and higher education: Synthesis of literature on race and widening access (2022)
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Widening access policy and initiatives in English higher education (HE) have largely been colour evasive rather than colour-focused. The paper draws attention to the literature - empirical work on widening access specifically - to understand the sil... Read More about Colour-evasiveness and higher education: Synthesis of literature on race and widening access.

Policing County Lines: Impact of Covid-19 (2022)
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The second briefing from ongoing research indicates that restrictions introduced in response to Covid-19 have forced adaptations in the methods used by County Lines drug supply networks and have impacted upon the ways law enforcement work to detect a... Read More about Policing County Lines: Impact of Covid-19.

Making Landscape Decisions to Meet Net Zero Carbon: Pathways that consider ethics, socio-ecological diversity, and landscape functions. (2022)
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Landscapes are an integral part of the net-zero challenge; not only are they carbon stores but they constitute the environments upon which humans develop their livelihoods, interact and shape their cultures. This report focuses on three key landsc... Read More about Making Landscape Decisions to Meet Net Zero Carbon: Pathways that consider ethics, socio-ecological diversity, and landscape functions..

From Pollution To Solution: a global assessment of marine litter and plastic pollution (2021)
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Outcome from working on the United Nations Environment Programme Advisory Group with the aim to address the UN Environment Assembly’s adopted resolution (UN/EA.4/RES.6) on Marine Plastic Litter and Microplastics by recommending indicators to harmonis... Read More about From Pollution To Solution: a global assessment of marine litter and plastic pollution.

Woodhill. A short film (2021)
Report

Tracing the Review: Developments in Youth Justice in Northern Ireland 2011-2021 (2021)
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This report traces the development of youth justice policy in Northern Ireland since the publication of the Youth Justice Review (YJR) (2011). The report has been jointly commissioned by four organisations who work with and advocate on behalf of chil... Read More about Tracing the Review: Developments in Youth Justice in Northern Ireland 2011-2021.

PISA: Engagement, Attainment and interest in Science (PEAS) (2021)
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The way in which science is taught can influence how interested, engaged and informed students are. Teachers are responsible for the delivery of curriculum content as well as shaping views towards, beliefs about and ‘trust’ in science. Different inst... Read More about PISA: Engagement, Attainment and interest in Science (PEAS).

Policymaking in disruptive times: the development and impact of School Trust-designed policies on teacher and student outcomes (2021)
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Research funded by the ESRC IAA and conducted by the University of Nottingham in collaboration with the Confederation of School Trusts, has tracked the leadership of 14 School Trusts from some of the most deprived areas in the Northern region of Engl... Read More about Policymaking in disruptive times: the development and impact of School Trust-designed policies on teacher and student outcomes.

Modern slavery, environmental degradation and climate change: present and future pathways for addressing the nexus: Roundtable Report (2021)
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Modern slavery, environmental degradation and climate change: present and future pathways for addressing the nexus (2021)
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Roundtable Report based on the findings of an event hosted by the Rights Lab, Delta 8.7 and funded by WWF U.S. to support the development of a collaborative action plan to support efforts for the antislavery and environmental communities to work toge... Read More about Modern slavery, environmental degradation and climate change: present and future pathways for addressing the nexus.

(Re)constructing school readiness from Chinese young children's perspectives: Interim Report (2021)
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This interim report presents the ongoing progress of a collaborative project between the Centre for Teacher and Early Years Education (CTEY), UCL Institute of Education and the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University (BNU), which aims to (re)... Read More about (Re)constructing school readiness from Chinese young children's perspectives: Interim Report.

Public health messaging by political leaders: a corpus linguistic analysis of COVID-19 speeches delivered by Boris Johnson (2021)
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This study analyses the language of speeches about COVID-19 delivered by Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 3rd March 2020 and 5th April 2021. We use transcribed speeches to construct a digitised body of texts called a... Read More about Public health messaging by political leaders: a corpus linguistic analysis of COVID-19 speeches delivered by Boris Johnson.

(Re)constructing school readiness from Chinese young children's perspectives (2021)
Report

This interim report presents the ongoing progress of a collaborative project between the Centre for Teacher and Early Years Education (CTEY), UCL Institute of Education and the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University (BNU), which aims to (re)... Read More about (Re)constructing school readiness from Chinese young children's perspectives.

A Systematic Review of Parent-child Reading in Early Childhood (0-6): Effects, Factors, and Interventions. (2021)
Report

NatureScot Research Report 1269 - Using peatland surface motion (bog breathing) to monitor Peatland Action sites (2021)
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Interferometric satellite radar (InSAR) provides a means of measuring peatland surface motion continuously and is not limited by scale or cloud cover. Previous InSAR investigations demonstrate the potential for InSAR to quantify surface motion and he... Read More about NatureScot Research Report 1269 - Using peatland surface motion (bog breathing) to monitor Peatland Action sites.

Digital Health and Safety Risk Library Use Case (2021)
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This report presents the work undertaken during the Phase 2 –from June 2020 to June 2021 – of the BIM Risk Library Use Case of the Discovering Safety programme. Continuing with the work reported in the BIM Risk Library Final Report (Phase 1), the new... Read More about Digital Health and Safety Risk Library Use Case.