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Education and social research projects
Delivering real-world impact on a global scale.
Components
Researchers at ESRI are delivering innovative projects which contribute to positive change in communities across the world; from teaching refugee populations in Lebanon about fire safety, to developing new maths education techniques across Europe and combatting loneliness in young people in the UK.
Take a look at some of our projects, below.
Children and childhood
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Voices of the Future
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The Emergence of Literacy in Very Young Children
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The Sensory Nursery
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Moving with light and line
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2-Curious continuing professional development
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2-Curious: More than words
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Exploring place-related methodology
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How do families experience our museums?
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Affecting Space
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The odd project
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Becoming a Problem
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Manchester Art Gallery
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Toddlers, Tech and Talk
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Digital and innovative pedagogies
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Using digital technology to improve learning
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Realistic Mathematics Education
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Gamifying CLIL
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Tim Peake primary schools
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Inclusive Mathematics Teaching
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Forces in Translation
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Education and global futures
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Belonging and learning
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Teaching ethical global issues
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Embedding a Democratic Culture in Teacher Education
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Voices of the Future
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Literacy and language
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Evaluation of City Play
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The Emergence of Literacy in Very Young Children
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Voices of the Future
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Toddlers, Tech and Talk
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Mathematics education
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Forces in Translation
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Inclusive Mathematics Teaching
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Realistic Mathematics Education
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Making maths
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Teacher education
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Dyslexia support
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Whole-school special educational needs review
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Theory and methodology
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Addressing problem behaviour
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Listening-2
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Local alternatives
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Getting to 0% Gender Based Violence in South Africa
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Urban Fire Risk Education And Gender In Informal Settlements
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Youth and community
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Partispace and PartiBridges
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Loneliness Connects Us
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Creative Margins
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Graphic Lives
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Social haunting and ghost labs
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Loneliness and Young People
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Other Projects
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Street Child World Cup
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The Manifold Lab
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Listening-2
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Listening in and out of more-than-human worlds
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Remixing Thick Time
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Inheriting the anthropocene
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Algorithmic contingencies
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Mapping spatial practices and social distancing in smart schools
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The odd project
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Addressing problem behaviour
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Previous projects
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Completed projects
- Local Alternatives: Sensing, thinking, and making with young people in the Anthropocene David Rousell, Liz de Freitas, Michael Gallagher, Laura Trafi-Prats, Riikka Hohti & Hannah-Lee Chalk, with Z-arts, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester Museum. Manchester Met Research Accelerator Grant (Research and Knowledge Exchange) 5K (2019)
- Remixing Thick Time David Rousell, Liz de Freitas, Maggie Maguire, with Whitworth Young Contemporaries (2019)
- Teaching for sustainable development through ethical global issues pedagogy: Participatory research with teachers Karen Pashby (MMU) & C.I.Louise Sund (Mälardalen University), British Academy £36K (January 2018 - December 2018)
- Clinical supervision at Grenfell. Deborah James. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea £2.3K (August 2018 – December 2018)
- How do families experience our museums? Abi Hackett, Christina MacRae & Lisa Procter. Humber Museum Partnership £12K (2016 - 2018)
- ITE4I Yvette Solomon & Peter Hick. National Council for Special Education, Ireland €173K (September 2015 - June 2018)
- The Dyslexia support project Dominic Griffiths, Kath Kelly, Sarah McNicol, & Peter Hick. The Department for Education/British Dyslexia Association £67K (April 2016 - March 2018)
- Productive Margins: Regulating for engagement Gabrielle Ivinson with Morag McDermont, Bristol and Cardiff. ESRC/AHRC £2.4M c£30K brought to MMU with Ivinson’s appointment. (Sep 2013 - Mar 2018)
- Graphic Lives: Telling Bangladeshi migrant women’s stories through graphic narratives Sarah McNicol. Heritage Lottery Fund £23K (February 2017 - January 2018)
- Evaluation of Tim Peake primary project Su Corcoran & Sarah McNicol. ESERO-UK £10K (October 2017 - January 2018)
- The listening body: Sound art as a pedagogy of sensation. David Rousell, Michael Gallagher & Mark P. Wright with Z-arts, Biosocial Research Lab and Leverhulme Artist in Residence. £5K (2018)
- Co-Lab: Connecting community art, activism and research to address global environmental challenges. David Rousell with Umbrellium Design (London) & Purpose Climate Lab (London). $1000 (2018)
- The cluster-based approach to school improvement planning. Moira Hulme, Emilee Rauschenberger & Ben Haines. Education Achievement Service of South East Wales £20K (2018)
- Creative Margins: Building capacity to widen participation in arts spaces and practices Gabrielle Ivinson. AHRC £30K (2017 - 2018)
- Oubliette: A mathematical adventure Ricardo Nemirovsky. Manchester Metropolitan University (2017 - 2018)
- The Loneliness project Janet Batsleer, James Duggan & Sarah McNicol, in partnership with 42nd Street, Manchester and The Co-operative Foundation £59K (2016 - 2018)
- Learning Games Nicola Whitton & Sarah McNicol. Erasmus + £8.4K (2016 - 2018)
- InforMath: Mathematics to enrich learning experiences in science and art museums. Ricardo Nemirovsky. National Science Foundation US$1.5m (2013 - 2018)
- Evaluation of the CityVerve schools innovation project. Cathy Lewin. CISCO £2K
- Song lines to impact & legacy: Creating living knowledge through working with social haunting Geoff Bright & Sarah McNicol, with Unite Community & Co-op College, World Association of Community Broadcasters. AHRC £100K (February 2017 - December 2017)
- Listening in and out of more-than-human worlds Michael Gallagher & Mark Wright, Artist in Residence. Leverhulme Trust £15K (February 2017 - November 2017)
- Artist in residence. Michael Gallagher. Leverhulme Trust £15K (2016 - 2017)
- Partispace: Spaces and styles of participation Janet Batsleer, Alexandre Pais, Harriet Rowley & Geoff Bright. Horizon 2020 European Commission c. £200K PIs: Dr Andreas Walther and Dr Axel Pohl, Goethe University of Frankfurt, involves 8 European countries. (February 2015 - December 2017)
- Sci-napse Nicola Whitton & Cathy Lewin. EEF/Wellcome Trust £325K (2015 - 2017)
Stockport family innovation programme: Project evaluation James Duggan, Harriet Rowley & Joanna Dennis. Stockport MBC/TNS BMRB/DfE £90K (2015 - 2017)
- Investigating the impact of a Realistic Mathematics Education approach on achievement and attitudes in Post-16 GCSE resit classesSue Hough & Yvette Solomon.Nuffield Foundation£82K (December 2014 - November 2017)
- Erasmus Mundus. E. de Freitas. European Commission. Visiting Academic Grant, University of Torino, Italy. €1.3K (April 2017)
Community Up: Exploring school-community relationships. (Research consultancy) James Duggan. Achieve Together/Teach First. £5K (2016)
- Early career researcher development project: working with social haunting Geoff Bright with Unite Community and Co-op College. AHRC £55K (2015 - 2016)
- The impact of educational comics Sarah McNicol. The Wellcome Trust £5K (November 2014 - May 2015)
- Investigating the expectations and attitudes towards postgraduate taught (PGT) STEM study, and post study outcomes from the perspective of students’, universities and employers to support and sustain PGT growth in the UK.Harry Torrance, Yvette Solomon and David Lambrick. HEFCE £63K (January 2014 - December 2015)
- Design Research Get Lost: an asset-based approach to support young people to self-organise. James Duggan. AHRC £15K (2015)
- Book Trust: Schools Library Pack Evaluation. Sarah McNicol & James Duggan. School Book Trust £25K (2015)
- Sans Duty – Making tax visible James Duggan. Communities and Culture Network Seed Fund £4K (2014 - 2015)
- Mathematics in teaching practice Yvette Solomon. Norwegian Research Council £110K (2012 - 2015)
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Research networks and collaborative opportunities
Explore our research networks and collaborative opportunities at Manchester Met:
- Arts Based Methods is a series of free workshops and seminars exploring research methods.
- The Summer Institute in Qualitative Research showcases the latest trends in theory and methodology, led by a panel of leading international theorists.
- Maths Education and Contemporary Theory is a world-leading international conference.
- The Manifold Lab works across the boundaries of science, art and the social to generate multi-sensory engagements with learning and behaviour.
External collaborations
- Creative Margins - The network responds to the Culture White Paper’s (CM 9218) expectation that all museums, theatres, galleries, opera houses or arts groups that receive government money “should reach out to everyone, regardless of their background”.
- International Institute of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- WalkingLab - performing lines and research creation, as well as archiving the activities of researchers studying walking methodologies.
- Laboratory of International Assessment Studies - A network that aims to support the international debate on the international assessments.
I think collaboration between charities and universities is under-utilised and really, really useful because it genuinely brings together the kind of skill sets we wouldn't necessarily have. There will be lots of areas for collaboration with Manchester Met around how we're using arts and creativity, so it's very exciting.
I think collaboration between charities and universities is under-utilised and really, really useful because it genuinely brings together the kind of skill sets we wouldn't necessarily have. There will be lots of areas for collaboration with Manchester Met around how we're using arts and creativity, so it's very exciting.