This event is part of the School of Education's 'Bristol Conversations in Education' research seminar series. These seminars are free and open to the public.

Hosted by: Centre for Multilevel Modelling (CMM)

Speaker: Gemma Moss, Professor of Literacy, Director, International Literacy Centre, UCL Institute of Education

In this webinar, Gemma Moss will reflect on the opportunities and challenges posed by working across the boundaries between research, policy and practice in education in pursuit of change. The presentation will draw on two examples: a project initiated by Harvey Goldstein, which led to BERA convening an expert panel on assessment to work on an alternative to SATs (Moss et al, 2021). And research into primary schools’ responses to education disruption during COVID conducted between May 2020 and Sept 2021with ESRC funding.

The two examples are linked by a recognition that the high stakes accountability culture that dominates the English school system constrains the way the system identifies researchable questions and thereby limits identification of and potential responses to issues of concern. By reflecting on the ways in which each of the projects above tried to engage a range of stakeholder groups in thinking differently about the topics under discussion, the webinar will consider how the education field in England currently conceptualises research engagement, and whether and in what ways this might need to change as stakeholder networks themselves become increasingly dispersed and fragmented.

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