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Through our Small Grants Fund, Â鶹ÒùÔº awards funding annually to research on a different, pressing theme each year, with the intention that each project will:
The value of each individual award is up to £5000.
This year the theme for proposals was “Education in a digital age: perspectives from policy and practice”
The 2023 funding was designed to allow awardees to explore different aspects of the way in which digital technology and practices are changing education with a particular emphasis on how this impacts on practitioners and policy-makers.
We are delighted to announce the winners of this funding are:
Congratulations to the funding recipients and thank you to all who applied.
Professor of Education at University of Brighton
Michael Jopling is Professor of Education at the University of Brighton. He writes about and researches issues including education policy, vulnerable families and young people, collaborative school leadership and improvement, and (post)digital...
Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin
Dr Carina Girvan works at the intersection of education and computer science, focusing on the use of emerging technologies in education. She is interested in the potential of these technologies to transform education, enabling teaching and...
Associate Professor of Sociology of Education at University of Southampton
Dr Achala Gupta is Associate Professor in Sociology of Education at the University of Southampton. She is Director of Internationalisation (Research) and Co Director of the Centre for Research in Inclusion at the Southampton Education School. Dr...
Lecturer at University of Oxford
Lulu Shi’s research focuses on digital education from a sociological perspective. Her work investigates the role of EdTech firms – who can be seen as the architects behind the technology – in shaping education by considering the...