ESRI collaborators
ESRI research collaborators since 2000.
Main groups of sponsorship
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Research Council Funding
- Arts Council England: Representing and Sharing Experiences of Dementia Through Comics
- Arts Council England: Methods of Information Learning within a Gallery Context (via BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art)
- Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC): Odd: feeling different in the world of education
- Arts & Humanities Research Council and Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF/AHRC): Belonging and Learning: Using co-produced arts methodologies to explore youth participation in contexts of conflict in Kenya, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
- Arts & Humanities Research Council and Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF/AHRC): Questioning the form
- Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC): Creative Margins: Building capacity to widen participation
- Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC): Taking Yourself Seriously
- Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC): Songlines to Impact & Legacy: creating living knowledge through working with social haunting
- Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC): Productive Margins: regulation for engagement
- Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC): Games and Social Change: In-between Screens, Places and Communities
- Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC): The Secret Life of Objects: an artist residency in an early years classroom
- Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC): Opening the “unclosed space” Multiplying Ghost-Labs as intergenerational utopian practice
- Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC): Lived Practices of Anger
- Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC): Early career researcher development project: working with social haunting
- Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC): Servicing Utopia: Critical Considerations for Social Change through Accessible Design
- Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC): Design Research Get Lost: An asset-based approach to support young people to self-organise
- Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC): Storying School Toilets
- Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC): Catalab
- British Council: Using Drama Strategies to teach English Language and European Values through Shakespeare
- Council of Europe: Social Inclusion
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC): Productive Margins: regulation for engagement
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC): The role of celebrity in young people’s classed and gendered aspiration
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC): Hands off Sport Coaching: the politics of touch
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC): Taking Part? Research Capacity Building in the Third Sector
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC): Addressing ‘problem behaviour’ in the early years: an innovative film resource
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC): Un-easy childhoods: innovating theory, practices and ethics through interdisciplinary research
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC): Educational Futures: the theory, methods and ethics of futures-oriented research in education
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC): The Impact of 14-19 Reforms on Career Guidance in England
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC): Becoming a Problem: How Children Acquire a Reputation as “Naughty” in the Earliest Years of School
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC): ESRC Meta Review of Education
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC): ESRC Review of ESRC Investment in Education
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC): Touchlines: The Problematics of ‘Touching’ between Children and Professionals
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC): Grammaticisation in Early Mark Making: a multimodal investigation
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC): Children and Adolescents as Language Brokers
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC): Investigating Effective Strategies for Maths Teaching at Key Stage 3
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC): The Transition from Student to Primary Teacher of Mathematics
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC): Investigating Early Professional Learning
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC): Student Writing Workshop
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC): BERA Multidisciplinary Development Programme for Doctoral Students Engaged in Educational Research
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC): Innovation, Change, Teacher Discourse: towards a research based professionalism?
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC): Imagining Sheffield: Family Walks in the City
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC): Global Education Policy: Understanding the origins, impact, and international diffusion of Teach First
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC): 2-Curious: More than words
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC): Affecting Space: an interdisciplinary ethnography at Manchester Art Gallery
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC): Sans Duty - Making Tax Visible
- Norwegian Research Council (NRC): Mathematics in Teaching Practice
- Norwegian Research Council (NRC): Kindergarten Knowledge Centre for Systemic Research on Diversity and Sustainability
Norwegian Research Council (NRC): Inclusive Mathematics Teaching: understanding and developing school and classroom strategies for raising attainment
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada): Future literacies in secondary school English: Reading and writing speculative fiction
Swedish Research Council: Teaching Equity and Justice Issues Through a Critical Lens
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Foundations and Charitable Trusts
- Action for Children: Action for Children’s Prison Work in Mother and baby Support Units
- Achieve Together/Teach First: Community Up: Exploring school-community relationships
- Barclays Community Sports Sponsorship (in partnership with The Football Foundation and Groundwork): Barclays Spaces for Sport Project (Phase 1)
Barclays Community Sports Sponsorship (in partnership with The Football Foundation and Groundwork): Barclays Spaces for Sport Project (Phase 2)
The Book Trust: School Library Evaluation Pack
British Academy: The Emergence of Literacy in Very Young Children: place and materiality in a more-than-human world
British Academy: Teaching for Sustainable Development Through Ethical Global Issues Pedagogy: Participatory research with teachers
British Academy: Revisiting ‘Blair’s Babies’ in new Times: contemporary female subjectivities from New Labour to the Coalition
British Academy: Re-engaging Street-connected Young People with Education in Kenya
Urban Fire Risk Education and Gender in Informal Settlements
City in the Community: Evaluation of City Play
City in the Community: Evaluation of City Play – Year 2
Co-operative Foundation: Peer Research: youth loneliness in the UK
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation: Imaginative Journeys: Museums Education Project (Phase 1)
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation: Imaginative Journeys: Museums Education Project (Phase 2)
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation: Young Children in the Art Gallery
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation: Birth to Three Training Matters
Froebel Trust: Listening-2: Investigating sensory-motor learning in two-year olds
Gatsby Charitable Foundation: Developing Mathematics Through Contexts (DmtC)
Global Challenges Research Fund QA: Developing a Theory of Change for the Professional Development of Teachers in Kenya
Guinness Trust: Surviving Your Teenager
Japan Foundation: Voices from Fukushima
JISC: Alternate Reality Games
JISC: The Recognition of ICT Skills of Staff (tRISSt)
JISC: The Implementation and Use of <Hairdressing-training.com> (via City College, Manchester)
Joseph Rowntree Foundation: Inside Exclusion: learning partnerships outside mainstream education (via University of Manchester)
Leverhulme Trust: Listening In and Out of More-than-human Worlds
Leverhulme Trust: Artist in residence
Mentoring and Befriending Foundation: Evaluation of the 14-19 IAG Peer Mentoring Pilot Programme 2010
National Science Foundation: InforMath: Mathematics to enrich learning experiences in science and art museums
Nesta: Taking a Leap: young people and risk taking
Nesta: Space Collaborator
Nuffield Foundation: Puppets: Promoting Engagement and Talk in Science (the PUPPETS project)
Nuffield Foundation: Investigating the impact of a Realistic Mathematics Education approach on achievement and attitudes in Post-16 GCSE resit classes
Royal Society of Arts: Consultancy report on RSA ‘Social Brain and the Curriculum’ seminars
Royal Society of Arts: Manchester Curriculum Research Design Project
School Book Trust: Book Trust: Schools Library Pack Evaluation
Sports Coach UK: Professionalism in coaching
UfI (via Learning and Skills Research Centre): On-line assessment in the Learning & Skills Sector: LSRC/UfI Extension
VSO: Research and Professional Development for UK Voluntary Workers Overseas
The Who Cares? Trust: Time for Children
The Wellcome Trust: Sci-napse (with EEF)
The Wellcome Trust: An Evaluation of the Creative Science Initiative
The Wellcome Trust: The impact of educational comics
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Educational Sponsors
- Academies Partnership in Supporting Excellence in Cross-disciplinary research (APEX): Forces in Translation: dialogues between craft, anthropology and mathematics
- Ambition School Leadership: Literature review and comparative analysis exploring the role of the subject in subject leadership
- Association for the Study of Primary Education (ASPE): Building Research in Primary Schools
- Australian Association of Environmental Educators (AAEE): Co-Designing a Climate Change App with Young People, Educators and Community
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta): New Models of Learning Provision for KS3 and 14-19
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta): Impact 2008: Personalising Learning (via University of Nottingham)
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta): Web 2.0. Technologies of Learning at KS3 and 4 (via University of Nottingham)
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta): Secondary Pupils and E-Learning (Becta and GTC)
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta): ’Test Bed’ Evaluation
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta): Personalised Learning (consortium with Nottingham Trent University)
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta): The Broadband Project (via Nottingham Trent University)
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta): The Broadband Project: Continuation (via Nottingham Trent University)
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta): Gridclub (Evaluation of the Gridclub ‘fun’ educational website)
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta): Synoptic Evaluation of the National Grid for Learning (NGFL) roll out of Pathfinders
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta): Home School Links
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta): ImpacT2 (via University of Nottingham)
- BELMAS: The Leadership Challenges of Collaborative School Improvement: Knowledge building and impact
- British Educational Research Association (BERA): BERA Commission on Poverty and Policy Advocacy
- CAPE UK (Creative Partnerships in Education): Connecting Communities Race Equality Grant
- Creativity, Culture and Education (via OU): Evaluation of the Nature and Impact of the Creative Partnerships Programme on School Ethos
- Curious Minds: 2-Curious: Arts Pilot Project
- Dean’s Development Fund: Developing the Teaching and Learning of Composing for all in the 21st Century
- Department for International Development (DfID) (via Manchester Development Education Project): Evaluating The Global Dimension in ITT Project
Department for Education (DfE): Evaluation and support implementation of the speech/language and communication pathway across GMCA
Department for Education (DfE): Communicating Matters 3 - 5
Department for Education (DfE): Evaluation of the Reddish Vale Childcare for Teenage Parents Pilots
Department for Education (DfE): Birth to Three Matters: Training of Trainers
Department for Education (DfE): Birth to Three Matters: FE/HE and Awarding Bodies Training
Department for Education (DfE): Evaluation of Schools Whiteboard Expansion (SWE) Teachers’ Perceptions of Continuing Professional Development
Department for Education (DfE): The Dyslexia/Specific Learning Difficulties Support Project Evaluation
Department for Education (DfE): The Dyslexia/Specific Learning Difficulties Support Project Year 2: seeking out dyslexia-friendly practice
- Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership: Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership Evaluation
- Education Achievement Service: EAS Research Programme: The Cluster-Based Approach to School Improvement Planning (South East Wales)
- Education Achievement Service: EAS Support for Newly Qualified Teachers Evaluation
- Education Endowment Foundation: A Review of the Recent Evidence About Digital Technology and its Impact on Learning and Teaching
Education Endowment Foundation: Realistic Maths Education in Key Stage 3
Education Endowment Foundation: Sci-napse
Education Endowment Foundation: Whole school SEND Review Process Evaluation
Empower Schools Alliance: Developing NQTs
Empower Schools Alliance: Developing Research Active Staff
Empower Schools Alliance: Strengthening the Power of Staff Voice
EPalatine (Learning and Teaching Support Network): Authentic Approaches to developing Young People’s Composition Skills
ERASMUS+: Gamifying CLIL within a mathematics context
ERASMUS+: Learning Games
ERASMUS+: PARTIBRIDGES: building the bridges around youth participation [V2]
ERASMUS+: Technologically Enhanced Language Learning Pedagogy (TELLP)
ESRERO-UK should be under Education Sponsors
European Educational Research Association (EERA): Talking Space, Place and Social Justice
EU (via European Schoolnet): European Schoolnet Validation Networks of Excellence (Valnet)
EU (via European Schoolnet): Evaluation of e-Skills for Jobs 2014, 2015 and 2016
EU (via European Schoolnet): Evaluation of e-Skills Week
EU (via European Schoolnet): Scientix 2 & 3
EU (via Sussex University): Internet-based Assessment
Faculty of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University: A Study of the Professional Formation of ‘Novice’ Graduate Leaders of Early Years Practice
Futurelab: Beyond Current Horizons
General Teaching Council: Developing Pedagogies with E-learning Resources
Greater Merseyside and West Lancashire Lifelong Learning Network: Evaluation of the Greater Merseyside and West Lancashire Lifelong Learning Network
Griffin Schools Trust: Change Management Across a Twelve-school Trust
Griffin Schools Trust: Developing Research Active Staff
Griffin Schools Trust: Engaging Staff Voice Across a Twelve-school Trust
Griffin Schools Trust: Examining School Cultures & Strategies Across a Twelve-school Trust
Higher Education Academy (HEA): Educating Employable Global Citizens
Higher Education Academy (HEA): Pathfinder
Higher Education Academy (HEA): Promoting Cohesion, Challenging Expectations: Educating the teachers of tomorrow for race equality and diversity in 21st century schools
Higher Education Funding Council for England: Investigating the Educational Impact of Building a New Manchester Met Campus in Hulme
Higher Education Funding Council for England: Investigating the Expectations and Attitudes Towards Postgraduate Taught (PGT) STEM Study in Engineering
Highlands College: Joint Action Research Project
Knowledge Transfer Partnership: Quick Controls 2 (with Innovate UK)
Learning and Skills Council: Evaluation of the Eleven Increased Flexibility Projects
Learning and Skills Development Agency: The Impact of Different Modes of Assessment on Achievement and Progress in the Learning and Skills Sector
Lancaster University, Faculty Research Fund: How can digital technologies contribute to the development of teachers’ successful inclusive pedagogies: A pilot study
Manchester Metropolitan University: 2-Curious: Big Life CPD Network (with Big Life)
Manchester Metropolitan University: Building Theoretical Literacy Through Collaborative Text Augmentation Software
Manchester Metropolitan University: Developing research into values education across formal and non-formal educational settings
Manchester Metropolitan University: Local Alternatives: Sensing, thinking, and making with young people in the Anthropocene
Manchester Metropolitan University: Oubliette: A mathematical adventure
Manchester Metropolitan University: The Sensory Nursery: The life-world of two-year-olds in nursery school (Martenscroft Longitudinal Study)
Manchester Metropolitan University: Whose values? The discursive construction of the civic role of teachers in Teacher Education Programmes
National College for Teaching and Leadership: Evidence-based Teaching: Advancing capability and capacity for enquiry in schools
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Local Education Authorities and Councils
- Bolton LEA: Evaluation of the Bolton Curriculum ICT Centre’s Learning for Change Networks Project
- Bolton LEA: Evaluation of External Partnership
- Bradford City Council: Chattering Nineteen to the Dozen (CND)
- East Bolton Regeneration Partnership: East Bolton Regeneration Community Evaluation Project
- Knowsley MBC: Evaluation: The accelerating improvement in Knowsley
- Knowsley MBC: Young Men’s Health
- Manchester City Council: Evaluation of the Aiming High for Disabled Children’s Short Breaks Initiative
- Manchester LEA: EAZ Excellence in Cities Evaluation
- Manchester LEA: Wythenshawe EAZ Evaluation
- Manchester Local Education Authority: EAZ Excellence in Cities Evaluation
- Manchester Local Education Authority: Evaluation of the Aiming High for Disabled Children Short Breaks Initiative
- Manchester Local Education Authority: Primary Graduate School, Wythenshawe
- Manchester Local Education Authority: Wythensawe EAZ Evaluation
- Merseyside Health Action Zone: Value Added by HAZ funding to Healthy Schools Schemes
- North Lincolnshire Local Authority: Evaluation of Discovery
- Reddish Vale Early Years Centre: Family Support Service
- The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea: Clinical supervision at Grenfell
- Scottish Executive: Evaluation of Electronic Whiteboard Pilot in Edinburgh
- Schools Sponsorship: Developing a Research Agenda (Didsbury Road Primary School)
Schools Sponsorship: Educational Leadership and Management CPD (Swinton High School)
Schools Sponsorship: Supporting Research Activity in Schools (Alexandra Park Primary School
Schools Sponsorship: Supporting Research Activity in Schools (Gatley Primary School)
Stockport MBC: Evaluation of Stockport’s NWDA-funded Project Activity
Stockport MBC: Extending CPD Partnership Accredited Learning
Stockport MBC: Stockport Family Innovation Programme: Project evaluation (with TNS BMRB & DfE)
Stockport MBC: Stockport Family Model: a restorative approach
Stoke-on-Trent LA: Raising Attainment in Key Stage 1 in Stoke-on-Trent
Sure Start: Evaluation of North Staffs Sure Start Wave 5 Home Visiting Services (Staffordshire Primary Care Trust)
Sure Start: Evaluation of Skelmersdale SureStart (Sure Start Skelmersdale)
Sure Start: Evaluation of Sure Start Lightbowne & Harpurhey (Sure Start Lightbowne & Sure Start Hurpurhey)
Sure Start: Evaluation of Sure Start St Helens - Phoenix (St Helens Primary Care Trust)
Sure Start: Parr Sure Start Programme: an evaluation (St Helens Primary Care Trust)
Sure Start: Researching New Fatherhoods in Stockport (Sure Start Stockport)
Sure Start: Sure Start Central Link (NCH (National Children’s Hospital) North West)
Sure Start: Sure Start: ‘Excluded’ Perceptions - Phase B (Sure Start Manchester)
Sure Start: Sure Start Happy Elephant (The Children’s Society, St Helen’s)
Sure Start: Sure Start Health Visiting Services in Tameside (Sure Start Ashton)
Sure Start: Sure Start: Practitioner Perceptions - Phase A (Sure Start Manchester)
Sure Start: Sure Start: Reaching the most vulnerable in the community (Sure Start Manchester)
Trafford Learning & Skills Council: Sustaining Progression post-16
Various LEAs: Early Excellence Centres Evaluation
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Other Sponsors
- Association of Senior Children’s and Education Librarians (ASCEL): Developing Principles for Working with Young People in Libraries
- BBC: Learning Lives
- BBC: Spark Teacher Research
- The Big Life Company: Training and Evaluation of Asset Based Approaches
- British Council: Using Drama Strategies to Teach English language and European Values Through Shakespeare
- CISCO: Evaluation of the Cityverve schools innovation project
- College of Emergency Medicine: Effectiveness of Medical CPD
- Council of Europe: Social Inclusion
- Department of Health: National Evaluation of the Primary School/Primary Care Health Links Initiative
- Equalities Challenge Unit: Ethnicity and Gender in Differential Degree Attainment
- Heritage Lottery Fund: Graphic Lives: telling Bangladeshi migrant women’s stories through graphic narratives.
- Humber Museums Partnership: How do families with under fives experience museums?
- Innovate UK: KTP 11051 MMU and Quick Controls 2: Developing a grammar product based on the novel pedagogy of procedural priming?
- Lottery Funding: Bridging Loneliness: Gaddum Centre Young Carers Platform (National Lottery Community Fund)
- Lottery Funding: Graphic Lives: Telling Bangladeshi migrant women’s stories through graphic narratives (Heritage Lottery Fund)
- Manchester City Art Gallery: Evaluation of the Clore Art Studio, Manchester City Art Gallery
- The Manchester Museum: Alchemy - Enquire
- Multiverse/TTA (via University of Leciester): Tackling Racism on School Placements
- Performing Arts Learning and Teaching Innovation Network (PALATINE): Sound2Game
- Performing Arts Learning and Teaching Innovation Network (PALATINE): Teaching Post Modern Theatre
- Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain: A Project of Applied Philosophical Inquiry into Conceptualisations of Doctoral Work Across Institutions
- Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain: A Project of Applied Philosophical Inquiry into how Doctoral Supervisors Conceptualise Writing at Doctoral Level
- The Portico Library: Review of the Portico Library’s Internal Evaluations of the Portico
- Promethean via IoE Promethean Centre of Excellence: Synoptic Evaluation of ActivXpression interactive devices for assessment
- Research Development Fund: Getting to 0% Gender Based Violence in South Africa: Community led learning and pedagogies of conflict
- RKE Impact: Song Lines on the Road, Dance Steps on the move
- Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA): Consultancy report on RSA ‘Social Brain and the Curriculum’ seminars
- Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA): Manchester Curriculum Research Design
- Siemens/Lego: Manchester Education Toys Project
- Sports Coach UK: Professionalism in Coaching
- Street Child United: Exploring the Impact of the Street Child World Cup on the Young People who Participate, their Communities, and the Organisations Supporting them
- Toolkit: Evaluation of WhatWasWalton
- Umbrellium Design (London) & Purpose Climate Lab (London): Co-Lab: Connecting community art, activitism, and research to address global environmental challenges
- Yorkshire Sculpture Park: Research Evaluation Contract
- Z-arts: The Listening Body: Sound art as a pedagogy of sensation