The CfEY Youth and Education Podcast

In this episode of The Youth and Education Podcast, CfEY Associate Alix Robertson chairs a roundtable discussion on the 'digital divide', with a panel of guests.

In the episode of The Youth and Education Podcast, CfEY Associate Alix Robertson interviews Behaviour and Education Specialist Adele Bates.

In the episode of The Youth and Education Podcast, CfEY Associate Alix Robertson interviews Professor Becky Francis, CEO of the Education Endowment Foundation.

In this episode, Dr Sam Baars, Director of Research and Operations at The Centre for Education and Youth, shares with Phil Yeeles a selection of research that he has been reading lately. This episode focusses on area-based inequalities. Sam and Phil talk about the different ways in which researchers classify areas, the factors that drive young people to move out of the areas they grew up in, and t...

In the episode of The Youth and Education Podcast, CfEY Associate Alix Robertson interviews Dr Hilary Leevers, CEO of Engineering UK.

In the episode of The Youth and Education Podcast, CfEY Associate Alix Robertson interviews Tim Oates CBE, Group Director of Assessment Research and Development at Cambridge Assessment.

In this episode of the Youth and Education Podcast, CfEY Associate Alix Robertson interviews Professor Samantha Twiselton OBE, Director of Sheffield Institute of Education at Sheffield Hallam University. Alix and Sam discuss: The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on this year’s cohort of trainee teachers The challenges of not having time to learn in school...

#043 Research Roundup – Vanessa Joshua: Racism and education In this episode, Vanessa Joshua, Trainee Associate at the Centre for Education and Youth, shares a selection of research that she has been reading lately with Phil Yeeles. This episode focusses on racism. In light of research findings and current events, Vanessa and Phil talk about...

In this episode, CfEY Associate Alix Robertson interviews Henry Greenwood, Founder and Managing Director of the Green Schools Project, an organisation that supports schools to set up and run student-led environmental projects that benefit their communities.

In this episode Kate Bowen-Viner, Senior Associate, and Phil Yeeles, Researcher at CfEY, discuss a selection of research on domestic abuse at university.

In this episode, CfEY Associate Alix Robertson interviews Carly Waterman, Headteacher of Lodge Park Academy; Leora Cruddas, Chief Executive of the Confederation of School Trusts; and Eleanor Bernardes, Head of Development and Opportunities at Aspire AP about the impact of the coronavirus crisis on the education system.

CfEY researchers Phil Yeeles and Abi Angus tackle the topic of Sex and Relationships Education.

In this episode, CfEY Associate Alix Robertson interviews Director Cressida Brown about her perfomance of Shakespeare's Macbeth at The Globe theatre this year, which is specifially designed for audiences of young people.

In this episode Kate Bowen-Viner, Senior Associate at the Centre for Education and Youth, shares a selection of research that she has been reading lately with Dr Sam Baars. This episode focuses on menstruation in school and period poverty. In light of research findings, Kate and Sam debate whether public discourse on period poverty and menstruation in school is too focused on school attendance. In...

In this episode Dr Sam Baars, our Director of Research, pins down our elusive Chief Executive Loic Menzies for his first ever podcast interview. They discuss the changes that CfEY and the education sector as a whole have been through over the last ten years, and the role that the ‘think and action-tank’ plays today.

In this episode Phil Yeeles, Junior Researcher at LKMco, shares a selection of research that he has been reading lately with Dr Sam Baars, our Director of Research. This episode has a critical conceptual focus: Sam and Phil discuss the ideological implications of youth social action as an uncontested ‘good’, the consequences of perpetually silent ‘zero-tolerance’ classrooms, and what different vis...

In this episode, Iesha Small chairs a panel at the recent festival of education entitled ‘We need to stop talking about social mobility’ with James Turner, Emmanuel Akpan-Inwang, Dr Tony Sewell CBE and Karen Iles.

In this episode, Amanda Spielman, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Ofsted, chats to Anna Trethewey and Iesha Small of LKMco as they quiz her on her time at Ofsted and the lessons she has learnt on her journey to become HMCI. In this episode Amanda, Iesha and Anna discuss: How to affect change on a...

In this episode, Alix Robertson, Junior Researcher at LKMco, shares a selection of research that she has been reading lately, with Dr Sam Baars, Director of Research. Sam and Alix look at an article from The Guardian in March, which reports on the 2018 findings of an annual survey into the reading habits of 2,000 British 0- to 17-year-olds. They also discuss ‘Reflecting Realities’, a survey of eth...

In this episode, Ellie and Sam discuss research they’ve been reading up on lately including pieces looking at the impact of studying and working abroad during higher education and whether all groups of students have equal access to these opportunities. Then, turning from higher education to the Early Years, they explore two recent pieces of research on: different approaches for teaching children m...

In this episode, Abi explores a selection of recent and not-so-recent research that we’ve been reading in the last few weeks with Dr Sam Baars, Director of Research at LKMco. Sam and Abi look at a study from last year which looks at young people in care and their experiences of care review meetings. They...

In this episode, Iesha speaks with Natalie Perera - Executive Director and Head of Research at Education Policy Institute about school funding and the implications of National Funding Formula for schools.

In this episode, Sam and Iesha talk through three pieces of research that hold particular interest for them: Capturing the Voices of Children in the Education Health and Care Plans: Are We There Yet? (published April 2018) Olympia Palikara, Susana Castro, Carolina Gaona and Vasiliki Eirinaki (School of Education, University of Roehampton) Mental Health of...

In this episode, Sam and Iesha talk through the findings of our recent report for the Department for Education which looked at school cultures and practices that support the attainment of disadvantaged pupils. We discuss what we mean by ‘school culture’, how we can measure it, and the elements of culture that seem to stand out in schools where disadvantaged pupils do particularly well.

In this episode, Sam and Iesha continue their discussion about the early phases of conducting a research project. Their discussion focuses on research design, conducting a literature review and establishing research questions. They also talk about the ‘nuts and bolts’ of a research design, including choosing quantitative or qualitative methods and evaluate the benefits of both.