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The programme will enhance research-based practice in teaching and learning in order to produce significant improvements in outcomes (broadly conceived) for learners. Its remit covers learners of all ages across a wide range of educational and training contexts, including pre-school, primary and secondary school, FE, HE, community, adult and continuing education, and the many forms of professional, industrial and commercial learning.

The programme is funded by the HEFCE, DFES, Scottish Executive, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Executive and managed by the ESRC. It fosters partnership between practitioners and researchers in undertaking research and ensuring that it has an impact. Its core objectives are to:

• enhance learning across a range of ages and stages in education, training and lifelong learning
• develop the capability for transforming the knowledge base relevant to learning into effective and efficient teaching and training practices
• enhance the UK capacity for research-based practice in teaching and learning
• promote and extend multidisciplinary and multi-sector research in teaching and learning.   

Further information

contact: Professor Andrew Pollard, Institute of Education 
email: a.pollard@ioe.ac.uk  
tel: + 44 (0)20 7957 9581
web: http://www.tlrp.org/
 
ESRC contact: liz.grassby@esrc.ac.uk - tel: 01793 414697

TLRP projects:

Phase I

• Consulting Students about Teaching and Learning: Process, Impacts and Outcomes
  Prof J Rudduck, University of Cambridge
• Improving Incentives to Learning in the Workplace
  Prof HN Rainbird, University College Northampton
• Towards Evidence-Based Practice in Science Education
  Prof R Millar, University of York
• Understanding and Developing Inclusive Practices in Schools
  Prof M Ainscow, University of Manchester  

Phase II

• Sustainable Thinking Classrooms
  Prof C McGuinness, Queen's University Belfast
• Early Career Learning at Work: LINEA (Learning During the First Three Years of Postgraduate Employment)
  Prof M Eraut, University of Sussex
• Enhancing Teaching-Learning Environments in Undergraduate Courses
  Prof D Hounsell, University of Edinburgh
• Home-School Knowledge Exchange in Primary Education
  Prof M Hughes, University of Bristol
• Improving the Effectiveness of Pupil Groups in Classrooms
  Prof P Blatchford, Institute of Education, University of London
• Interactive Education: Teaching and Learning in the Information Age
  Prof R Sutherland, University of Bristol 
• Learning How to Learn - in Classrooms, Schools and Networks
  Prof M James, Institute of Education
• The Role of Awareness in Teaching and Learning of Literacy and Numeracy in Key Stage 2
  Prof T Nunes, Oxford Brookes University
• Transforming Learning Cultures in Further Education
  Prof J Bloomer, University of Exeter; University of Leeds  

Phase III

• Enhanced Competence-Based Learning in Early Professional Development
  Mr J McNally, University of Stirling
• Enhancing the Quality and Outcomes of Disabled Students' Learning in Higher Education
  Prof M Fuller, University of Gloucestershire
• Enhancing 'Skills for Life': Adult Basic Skills and Workplace Learning
  Prof A Wolf, Institute of Education University of London
• Learning as Work: Teaching and Learning Processes in the Contemporary Work Organisation
  Prof A Felstead, University of Leicester
• Learning in and for Interagency Working
  Prof H Daniels, University of Birmingham
• Learning Lives: Learning, Identity and Agency in the Lifecourse
  Prof G Biesta, University of Exeter
• Learning to Perform: Instrumentalists and Instrumental Teachers
  Dr J Mills, Royal College of Music
• Literacies for Learning in Further Education
  Dr R Ivanic, University of Lancaster
• Impact of Policy on Learning and Inclusion in the New Learning and Skills System
  Prof FJ Coffield, University of Newcastle
• The Social and Organisational Mediation of University Learning
  Prof J Brennan, Open University
• Understanding the System: Techno-Mathematical Literacies in the Workplace
  Prof C Hoyles, Institute of Education, University of London
• Vicarious Learning and Case-Based Teaching of Clinical Reasoning Skills
  Dr R Cox, University of Sussex  

Research Capacity Building Network

• Research Capacity Building Network
  Professor G Rees, University of Cardiff  

Scottish Extensions

• 5-14 Mathematics in Scotland: The Relevance of Intensive Quantities
  Prof C Howe, Strathclyde University
• INTERPLAY: Play, Learning and ICT in Pre-School Education
  Dr L Plowman, University of Stirling
• Understanding and Enhancing Learning in Community-Based Further Education
  ProfJ Gallacher, Glasgow Caledonian University
• Supporting Group Work in Scottish Schools: Age and the Urban/Rural Divide
  Mr D Christie, University of Strathclyde      

Career Development Associates

• The Effectiveness of Problem-Based Learning in Promoting Evidence Based Practice in Nursing Education
  Mr M Newman, University of Middlesex
• The Historical, Political and Pedagogic Significance of Pupil Voice
  Ms J Flutter, Homerton College, University of Cambridge  

Research Training Fellowships

• From Black Boxes to Glass Boxes: The Application of Computerised Concept Mapping in Schools
  Mr R Bevan, University of Cambridge
• Learning Scientific Concepts in Small Groups in Authentic Classrooms at Key Stage 1 
  Mr S Hodgkinson, University of Brighton
• Lessons for Learning: Using Research Lesson Study to Innovate and Transfer Metapedagogy
  Mr P Dudley, University of Cambridge
• Provision for Gifted and Talented Pupils at Secondary Transfer
  Miss J Brookes, University of Bristol
• Using Research to Enhance Professionalism in Further Education
  Mr M J Goodham, University of Leeds