Centre for Research on Education and Social Justice (CRESJ)

Leader: Professor Vanita Sundaram

The Centre for Research on Education and Social Justice (CRESJ) undertakes multi-method research that explores social justice in education.

Welcome

We pursue research regarding social justice and education in the UK and internationally. We investigate perceptions of fairness; differential rates of access and achievement that apply across individuals and social groups; and, explore learning and teaching.

Events

Wed

Oct

Planning for Technology Enhanced Lessons in Secondary Schools in England

Zoe Handley will talk about her proposal for a project looking at developing new models of how teachers develop their knowledge and make decisions about how to use technology to support learning.

Wed

Nov

‘Your future self will thank you!’: Creating future childhood memories in ‘time-capsule’ activity books for children

Clementine Beauvais will ask, 'Some activity books for children require them to curate their own childhood memories for their future adult selves. What do those books tell us about our representations of childhood and childhood memories?'

Study with us

We offer research degrees (PhD, MA by research) and we also offer our MA in Global and International Citizenship Education and our MA in Social Justice and Education.

Research projects

Research themes

People

Focus on

Three new reports explore inequality in HE

Posted on Monday 12 December 2022

Researchers in the Department's Centre for Research on Education and Social Justice have released three reports in recent weeks focusing on inequality in different aspects of higher education.

Social class still a barrier to progress, study shows

Posted on Monday 10 October 2022

Research by CRESJ's Dr Daniel McArthur and Dr Katharina Hecht, of Northeastern University in Boston, has shown that class background remains a barrier to accessing opportunities in later life, even among those who are successful.

Study casts doubt on benefits of grammar teaching in helping children learn to write

Posted on Friday 4 March 2022

Lessons on grammar are a key feature of the national curriculum taught in England’s primary schools, but they don’t appear to help children to learn to write, new research reveals.

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