Manchester Institute of Education blog
Catch up with news, reports of progress, profiles of our researchers and occasional polemics.
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Lower attainers and post-16 transitions in core city regions: common goals, different landscapes?
21 March 2019
City regions are increasingly seen as having an important role to play in addressing skills-related challenges. Arguing that the current, centralised system is not best placed to ensure that local skills systems match the needs of local learners and the local economy, combined authorities have been calling for greater devolution of skills policy, particularly further […]
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With school in mind: understanding the links between children’s mental health and their academic attainment
13 December 2017
Research on ‘developmental cascades’ helps us to understand how children’s development in different areas is related over time. One area of heightened interest in recent years has been the relationship between mental health and academic attainment. In the study described below, we were particularly interested in gender differences. We know that there are gender differences […]
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Introducing Professors Linda Evans and Pamela Qualter
7 December 2017
This semester, the Manchester Institute of Education welcomes two new Professors of Education, Linda Evans and Pamela Qualter. Michael Wigelsworth and Steve Courtney asked the new appointees some questions to get to know them: (1) What made you apply for a Chair at the Manchester Institute of Education? Linda Evans: I jumped at the chance of working […]
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Anarchist Tendencies in Distributed Leadership?
21 November 2017
Helen Gunter reflects on her journey from Jurassic Management through to anarchist thinking.
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Developing an educational equity toolkit – Professor Carlo Raffo
22 September 2017
The challenge It is known that poverty is associated with poor educational attainment. Technical responses to this have included performance management, data gathering, a marketplace of school choices, and more vocational options on the school curriculum. Technical responses ignore wider influences, however, such as public spending cuts and students’ own values. How can urban schools […]
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The SAGE Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy – new book release!
20 September 2017
Staff linked to the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology programme within MIE have just completed editing the fourth edition ‘The Sage Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy’.
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Welcome to the Manchester Institute of Education research blog
19 September 2017
The Manchester Institute of Education, formed in 2013, has forged a national and international reputation for research and professional collaboration in the fields of educational equity and disadvantage, mental health and applied psychology, and critical pedagogies, in schools, and higher education. Over 60 academic staff and 160 postgraduate research students work across four research groups. […]
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