Current and recent projects
‘Beatbullying’ Evaluation
Beatbullying has developed a range of bullying prevention programmes designed to empower children and young people, and to provide opportunities for them to take action themselves to bring about positive change in their schools and in the wider community. At its heart is a peer mentoring programme, involving intense training in listening, mentoring, and cyber mentoring. The programme aims to combine an effective peer support strategy within schools and online.
UNICEF Rights Respecting Schools evaluation
Within the UNICEF Rights Respecting Schools (RRS) Award pupils learn responsibilities according to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and how to use this understanding as a guide to living. The aims of the scheme include giving children and young people far more say about issues that affect them as individuals and collectively. It provides an approach that helps schools develop the culture to support this pupil participation. The project is a 3 year evaluation of this scheme, involving 12 case study schools (and is now to be extended to include a greater number of case study schools).
Hangleton & Knoll Project
The purpose of the evaluation process is: to evaluate the effectiveness and impact of activities provided by the Hangleton and Knoll Project; and to develop H&K’s capacity and capability to undertake effective monitoring and evaluation processes. The activities are aimed at young people who are considered to be ‘at risk’ of being involved in ant-social behaviour activities. The project involves holding focus group with young people who have participated in the activities as well as with those who have not participated in the activities to explore their lack of interest.
Brighton and Hove Community Service Pilot
This research adopts a narrative approach to the evaluation of the Community Service initiative in Brighton and Hove, to involve young people in making direct and positive contributions to improve their community. The pilots of this initiative explore what works in achieving universal or high levels of Community Service among 14-16 year olds. The aim of the evaluation is to assess the delivery, implementation and implications of the CS programme, and include case studies of the experiences of the young people engaged in the initiative.
Body and Soul
This is a pilot project supporting a larger proposal. It focuses on the learning lives of creative people who teach, using narrative approaches to develop ‘portrayals’ of creative practitioners to understand the relationship between their creative and pedagogic practices.
Quality Education Project
This is a four country study of quality in education in Sub-Saharan Africa. We have now finalized the evaluation of the Quality Education Project, and the full text is published on two education web-sites; on the Education web-site: www.reddbarna.no/edu and on the Quality Education website: www.reddbarna.no/qep.
Widening Participation and its Communities
This research, supported by HEFCE, is based in Hastings, and is part of a larger project in five constituencies selected on the basis of low levels of young participation in HE in urban, rural and coastal areas. The aims of the study are to provide all parties with a better understanding of the social, economic and cultural factors that might lie behind the low participation rates in each community, in order to establish what might be done to improve them, and to commit institutions to embedding strategic activity that will widen participation across the areas studied.
Evaluation of Brighton and Hove Adult Learning Strategy 2007- 2010
This is a qualitative review of the Adult Learning Strategy carried out with members of the Adult Learning Group, partner colleges and community partners in the city. It determined progress in the provision of learning opportunities, inclusive learning, information, advice and learner support, joint planning, support for high quality provision, and maximising funding opportunities.
AHRC Funded Cultural Geographies of Counter-Diasporic Migration
The Second Generation Returns ‘Home’”, with the University of Sussex (Professor Russell King) (£440,000) Goodson (2006-2009).
ESRC-TLRP research project
Exploring development of life narrative methodology to support naturalistic learning during an individual’s lifetime in informal settings (£300,000) Goodson (2004-2008).