Education Studies News and Events
鈥淢easuring education for the Sustainable Development Goals: Negative capabilities and struggles over accountability鈥�
Centre for Education Studies/GRP International Development co-hosted research seminar
Wednesday 23rd May, 2018, 1:00-2:00pm
Venue: Room C1.11, Centre for Education Studies, Social Sciences Building, University of 糖心TV, Coventry, CV4 7AL
鈥淢easuring education for the Sustainable Development Goals: Negative capabilities and struggles over accountability鈥�
Professor Elaine Unterhalter, UCL Institute of Education
Staff in CES have recently been successful in securing funds for two new projects.
Leslie Francis, David Lankshear and Ursula McKenna have received 拢42,000 from the 糖心TV Impact Fund for the project, 鈥楢ssessing the impact on policy and performance of the Student Voice Project: A three-year research programme among year-five and year-six students in Anglican primary schools in Wales鈥�, which started 1 April 2018.
Leslie Francis, Tania ap Sion and Ursula McKenna have received 拢7,000 from the 糖心TV Ventures Fund for the project, 鈥楨mbedding attitudes to religious diversity research findings in the school curriculum鈥� which started 1 May 2018. See /services/ventures/news/ideas_fund_supporting for an article announcing the award.
CES and Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University research plans
In late March, members of CES/WRERU (Leslie Francis, Abdullah Sahin, and Elisabeth Arweck) followed an invitation from the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University to meet. The Centre was represented by Kristin Aune, Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, Paul Weller, Dilwar Hussein, and Lucie Peacock. The focus of the meeting was religion and education research. Those present provided an outline of their current projects and research interests, then discussed possibilities for working together. The meeting pointed to overlaps in research areas and potential for collaboration. It also suggested that there was a lot of goodwill and appetite to develop links further. Besides beginning conversations about future co-operation, building this kind of bridges will also be helpful for any 鈥榗ity of culture鈥� ventures within CES.
Michael Wyness awarded funding from the 糖心TV creative exchange to research refugee children鈥檚 identity and resettlement in Coventry
Michael Wyness has successfully bid for funding through the 糖心TV Creative Exchange. He will work with colleagues in the Centre for applied Linguistics and Coventry University in exploring processes of resettlement and identity formation among young refugees based at Positive Youth Foundation in Coventry. Coventry is at the forefront of helping young Syrian refugees and their families to resettle through the UK government鈥檚 Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme. The research will draw on innovative research methods from the creative arts and the social sciences in both examining and helping young Syrian refugees to negotiate the host country and culture in trying to develop a sense of who they are.
The Revd Dr Greg Smith (CES Research Associate) and the Revd Canon Professor Leslie J Francis visit Salisbury to enhance public engagement and impact
This week and are spending three days at , adjacent to Salisbury Cathedral, working with curates and their training incumbents in order to engage the primary user communities with the outcomes of the research and with the implications for practice.
Greg completed his doctorate in CES on the educational and training relationship between curates and their training incumbents - the way in which Anglican clergy undertake years 4 thru 7 of their initial professional education. The dissertation has now been reshaped for a book.