Research Projects
Director: Professor Harry Torrance
New Funded Projects beginning 2009-2010:
Project Title: Promoting cohesion, challenging expectations: educating the teachers of tomorrow for race equality and diversity in 21st century schools
Project Directors: Peter Hick, Lorna Roberts, Rowena Arshad
Amount: £30,000
Funder: Higher Education Academy (Escalate)
Duration: March 2010 - July 2011
Project Title: Educational Futures: the theory, methods and ethics of futures-oriented research in education
Project Director: Prof Keri Facer
Amount: £14,765
Funder: ESRC (seminar series)
Duration: October 2009 - January 2011
Project Title: The Secret Life of Objects: an artist residency in an early years classroom
Project Director: Dr Christina Macrae
Amount: £24,735
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council
Duration: November 2009 - September 2010
Project Title: Investigating the educational impact of Birley Fields
Project Directors: Professor Keri Facer, Professor John Schostak, Dr Lorna Roberts
Amount: £25,000
Funder: HEIF/MMU
Duration: September 2009 - July 2010
Project Title: Evaluation of External Partnership
Project Directors: Prof Harry Torrance, Dr Lorna Roberts
Amount: £5,000
Funder: Bolton Local Authority
Duration: July 2009 - October 2009
Continuing projects 2009-10:
Project Title: Taking Part? Research Capacity Building in the Third Sector
Project Director: Dr Carol Packham
Amount: £335,000
Funder: ESRC/Barrow Cadbury Trust
Duration: September 2008 - August 2013
Project Title: Action for Children's Prison Work in Mother and baby Support Units
Project Directors: Karen Browne, Dr John Powell
Amount: £30,000
Funder: Action for Children
Duration: February 2009 - February 2012
Project Title: Evaluation of the Nature and Impact of the Creative Partnerships Programme on School Ethos
Project Directors: Prof Keri Facer, Dr Nicola Whitton
Amount: £17,500
Funder: Creativity, Culture and Education (via OU)
Duration: May 2009 - December 2010
Project Title: Researching New Fatherhoods in Stockport
Project Directors: Prof Liz Jones, Dr Rachel Holmes
Amount: £19,650
Funder: Stockport Sure Start
Duration: June 2009 - June 2010
Project Title: Manchester Curriculum Research Design
Project Director: Prof Keri Facer
Amount: £19,770
Funder: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts
Duration: May 2009 - March 2010
Project Title: Sure Start: Reaching the most vulnerable in the community
Project Director: Dr John Powell
Amount: £59,000
Funder: Sure Start Manchester
Duration: 2007 - 2010
Project Title: Synoptic Evaluation of ActivXpression interactive devices for assessment
Project Director: Dr Cathy Lewin
Amount: £25,000 + £25,000 in kind
Funder: Promethean via IoE Promethean Centre of Excellence
Duration: March 2008 - December 2009
Project Title: Technologically Enhanced Language Learning Pedagogy (TELLP)
Project Director: Dr Gee Macrory
Amount: £121,636
Funder: EU/Comenius
Duration: November 2007 - October 2009
Project Website
Project Title: Secondary Pupils and E-Learning
Project Director: Dr Cathy Lewin
Amount: £45,000
Funder: Becta and GTC
Duration: January 2007
- August 2009
Project Title: Evaluation of Discovery
Project Director: Dr Cathy Lewin
Amount: £13,600
Funder: North Lincolnshire Local Authority
Duration: September 2008 - July 2009
Project Title: Rethinking Learning in Galleries
Project Director: Prof Keri Facer
Amount: £2,500
Funder: Arts Council England North East (via BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art)
Duration: May 2009 - June 2009
Project Title: The Impact of 14-19 Reforms on Career Guidance in England
Project Directors: Dr Helen Colley:, co-applicant Dr Cathy Lewin
Amount: £79,906 (80% FEC)
Funder: ESRC
Duration: January 2008
- May 2009
Project Title: Effectiveness of Medical CPD
Project Directors: Prof Tony Brown, Prof John Schostak
Amount: £12,000
Funder: College of Emergency Medicine
Duration: September 2007 - April 2009
Recently completed projects:
Project Title: Beyond Current Horizons
Project Director: Prof Keri Facer
Amount: £24,750
Funder: Futurelab (from DCSF funding)
Duration: November 2008 - May 2009
Project Title: Sure Start: 'Excluded' Perceptions (Phase B)
Project Director: Dr John Powell
Amount: £14,596
Funder: Sure Start Manchester
Duration: March 2008 - March 2009
Project Title: Alternate Reality Games
Project Director: Dr Nicola Whitton
Amount: £50,000
Funder: JISC
Duration: April 2008 - March 2009
Project Title: Partners in Learning Evaluation
Project Directors: Prof Bridget Somekh, Dr Nicola Whitton
Amount: £120,000
Funder: Microsoft
Duration: January 2006 - December 2008
Project Title: ESRC Meta Review of Education
Project Director: Prof Harry Torrance
Amount: £10,000
Funder: ESRC
Duration: September 2008 - December 2008
Project Title: Taking a Leap: young people and risk taking
Project Director: Dr Heather Piper
Amount: £29,430
Funder: Nesta
Duration: December 2007
- December 2008
Project Title: Impact 2008/Personalising Learning
Project Director: Dr Peter Hick
Amount: £10,800
Funder: Becta via University of Nottingham
Duration: October 2007 - October 2008
Project Title: New Models of Learning Provision for KS3 and 14-19
Project Directors: Dr Cathy Lewin, Dr Nicola Whitton
Amount: £140,000
Funder: Becta
Duration: September 2007 - August 2008
Project Title: Web 2.0 Technologies of Learning at KS3 and 4
Project Director: Dr Cathy Lewin
Amount: £56,300
Funder: Becta (via consortium with University of Nottingham)
Duration: September 2007 - August 2008
Project Title: Sustaining Progression post-16
Project Director: Dr Helen Colley
Amount: £13,000
Funder: Trafford/Learning & Skills Council
Duration: February 2008 - July 2008
Project Title: Evaluation of the Greater Merseyside and West Lancashire Lifelong Learning Network
Project Director: Dr Helen Colley
Amount: £19,961
Funder: Greater Merseyside and West Lancashire Lifelong Learning Network
Duration: August 2007 - March 2008
Project Title: Review of ESRC-funded Research in Education
Project Director: Prof Harry Torrance
Amount: £10,000
Funder: ESRC
Duration: November 2007 - February 2008