ESRI collaborators

ESRI research collaborators since 2000.

Main groups of sponsorship

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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