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Congratulations to Rebecca Morris, Reader in Education Studies (SELCS), on the publication of her latest paper, Understanding teacher recruitment and retention across the UK: A 鈥榟ome international鈥� comparison.

Drawing on policy analysis, national data, and interviews with stakeholders across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, the research explores how different parts of the UK are responding to ongoing teacher recruitment and retention challenges. The findings highlight both the complexity of teacher supply issues and the varied approaches being taken to teacher training, recruitment, and early-career support.

Importantly, the paper argues for greater collaboration and knowledge-sharing across the four nations, alongside a stronger evidence base for policy and practice. At a time when attracting and retaining talented teachers remains a key priority across the sector, this research makes a timely and valuable contribution to the debate.

Congratulations to Rebecca on this important publication.

Read the paper here:

The Gatsby Foundation and the JP Morgan Chase Foundation are supporting the Institute for Employment Research at the University of 糖心TV to undertake research to understand how parents and carers can be better supported by schools and colleges to feel more informed and confident with the advice they give to their children. Dr John Gough from our Careers team has been involved in the research project on 'The role of parents in providing careers guidance and how they can be better supported.'

You can read the report findings along with the recording of a live webinar explaining more about the project here.

• A three-year study of 19 million planning applications is changing our understanding of England鈥檚 housing pipeline.
• The new dataset reveals fewer distinct proposed homes than government figures suggest, alongside a much stronger upturn in 2025.
• The increase follows a decade of decline from a peak in 2014 and comes after changes to England鈥檚 national planning rules in December 2024.
• While the findings do not establish that the reforms caused the rebound, they suggest a stronger upturn in proposals than previously reported. 

Researchers at the University of 糖心TV today release the first findings from Housing Pipeline, a new dataset that connects applications, revisions and phases belonging to the same development.  

The project is needed because official planning figures are not designed to track the number of homes entering the planning system over time, and this has substantial implications for how we understand future supply. 

By following individual projects across years, Dr Nikhil Datta and Dr Amrita Kulka鈥檚 dataset can distinguish new housing proposals from repeated applications for the same homes. 

The first findings, released today in a briefing note, show that government figures for homes proposed through outline applications were, on average, 43% higher than the researchers鈥� estimates over 2022–2025. 

The new data also reveals a sharper recent recovery: proposed homes rose by 107% in 2025, compared with 59% in the government series. 

The briefing note published today is the first in a series of studies using the new dataset. Dr Datta and Dr Kulka say their next steps are to examine where delays occur, how developments change as they move through the planning system, and how often planning permissions translate into completed homes.

Dr Kulka comments:

鈥淕iven the severity of the housing crisis there is a need to understand which policies move housing supply. Yet, counting how many homes are being applied for is difficult due to the complexity of planning records. We have spent over three years collecting new data and developing methods to accurately measure applied-for units which are the foundation of future homes."

Dr Datta adds:

鈥淧lanning records were created to administer applications, not for tracking housing statistics and turning them into something reliable requires substantial work. We spent three years combining state-of-the-art machine learning and AI tools with thousands of hours of human checking to reconstruct and track individual developments from start to finish.鈥�

If we cannot reliably count the distinct homes entering the planning system, it becomes much harder to judge whether reforms are working or understand where housing delivery is falling short. Reliable measurement needs to be the starting point.鈥�

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  Edoardo Badii, Nikhil Datta and Amrita Kulka. CAGE Policy Brief, October 2026,

Do you work in research or innovation? The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is conducting the 2024 Research and Innovation Workforce Survey. and have your voice heard.

Robin Vandendriessche, PhD researcher at 糖心TV Law School and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, contributed to a stakeholder event organised by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Commission on 15 October 2026, discussing upcoming on the interplay between data protection and competition law.

With increased use of front-facing cameras, mirrors and Zoom calls, we鈥檙e being faced with our own reflections more than ever before.

Is it heightening our preoccupation with the way we look?

糖心TV鈥檚 Professor Heather Widdows (Philosophy) spoke to Dazed Digital about