Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR)

We are an interdisciplinary research centre, committed to using research to inform national and international public policy debate and to support professional practice. As well as conducting research, we organise seminars and research meetings, and run innovative policy-relevant teaching programmes. We are also interested in promoting and supporting research by, and in collaboration with, our students.

Scholarship in CPPR draws on a range of humanities and social science perspectives and methodologies. With particular strengths in sociology and applied philosophy, our work critically analyses and illuminates policy processes and effects in a range of global and local contexts and policy and practice settings. These include education, health and social care, youth work and the cultural sector.

Our research is organised around four overlapping programmes of research and knowledge exchange:

Equality and social justice
Knowledge, values and ethics at work
Governance, accountability and public service quality
Children, youth and society

Members

Freya Aquarone

Postgraduate research student

L. Philip Barnes

Emeritus Reader in Religious and Theological Education

Nuala Burgess

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Peter Burgess

PhD candidate

Bob Burstow

Visiting Research Fellow

Simon Christmas

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Alan Cribb

Professor of Bioethics and Education

Antonia Dawes

Lecturer in Social Justice

Louise Doherty

Research Associate

Jenny Driscoll

Senior Lecturer in Child Studies Programme Director, MA Child Studies

Maren Elfert

Lecturer in Education and Society

Imogen Feld

Visiting post-doctoral fellow

Liz Fouksman

Lecturer in Social Justice

Sharon Gewirtz

Professor of Education

Billy Holzberg

Lecturer in Social Justice

Yen-Hsiang Huang

PhD candidate

Aisha Hutchinson

Lecturer in the Social Sciences

Chae-Young Kim

Visiting Research Fellow

Philip Kirby

Lecturer in Social Justice

Gerard Lum

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Education Management

Meg Maguire

Professor of Sociology of Education

Pat Mahony

Visiting Professor

Ayo Mansaray

Lecturer in Sociology of Education & Policy

Charlotte McPherson

Research Associate

Francesca Meloni

Lecturer in Social Justice

Mili

Postdoctoral Fellow in Education

Polly Mitchell

Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Bioethics and Public Policy

John Owens

Lecturer in Ethics and Public Policy

David Pepper

Lecturer in International Education

Duna Sabri

Visiting Research Fellow

Diego Santori

Senior Lecturer in Education and Society

Beatrice Szczepek Reed

Head of School and Professor of Language and Education

Anwar Tlili

Senior Lecturer

Emma Towers

Teaching Fellow in Education Policy

Thornchanok Uerpairojkit

PhD candidate

Alice Weavers

PhD candidate

Christopher Winch

Professor of Educational Philosophy and Policy

'But why is that better?'

''But why is that better?' An investigation of what applied philosophy and ethics can bring to quality improvement work in healthcare'.

Opportunity, equality and agency in England's new VET landscape: a longitudinal study of post-16 transitions

How England's vocational education and training (VET) system could better support the school to work transitions of young people who don’t go to university.

Teacher standing at the front of a class

Sustaining teacher quality and retention post-pandemic

This project examines the impact of the substantial changes and sustained disruption caused by Covid-19 to the development of secondary school teachers.

We're trying to do things differently: the challenges of relationships and recognition in higher education

Students and staff from King's Social Sciences BA turn the research lens back on their own world and explore the challenges of trying to do things differently.

Hearing the voice of the child through the storm of the pandemic: the impact of Covid-19 measures on the detection of and response to child protection concerns
Driscoll, J., Hutchinson, A., Lorek, A., Kiss, K. & Kinnear, E., 15 Apr 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: International Journal of Children's Rights. CHIL-1198R1 . Research output: Contribution to journal - Article - peer-review
"A long, long journey: adopting a children's rights-based approach to child protection programming in rural communities in Uganda."
Driscoll, J., 31 Mar 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: International Journal of Children's Rights. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article - peer-review
Talking it better: conversations and normative complexity in healthcare improvement
Cribb, A., Entwistle, V. A. & Mitchell, P., 15 Mar 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Medical Humanities. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article - peer-review
The Importance of Our Wild Stories: The Citizen Enquiry into Youth Work in the Time of COVID-19
Batsleer, J., Amin, H., Beever, E., de St Croix, T., Jones, K., McVeigh, G. & Smith, C., 15 Jan 2021, In: Youth and Policy. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article - peer-review
Autonomy and Expertise in the English Workplace
Winch, C. & Addis, M., 5 Jan 2021, In: Journal of Vocational Education and Training. p. 2-21 19 p. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article - peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2020.1869808
The influence of teacher habitus on the university applications of moderately-attaining students
Burgess, N., 3 Jan 2021, In: British Journal of Sociology of Education. p. 1- 30 30 p., DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2021.1889358. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article - peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2021.1889358
Including older academics in the English university: a matter of social justice
George, R. & Maguire, M., 21 Dec 2020, In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article - peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2020.1858980
Made to measure: the ethics of routine measurement for healthcare improvement
Mitchell, P., Cribb, A. & Entwistle, V. A., 20 Dec 2020, In: Health Care Analysis. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article - peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-020-00421-x
The role of para social workers in rural communities in Uganda: strengthening community resilience for the protection of children
Driscoll, J., 20 Dec 2020, In: Child Abuse Review. 29, 5, p. 416-432 Research output: Contribution to journal - Article - peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2656
Comparative VET European research since the 1980s: accommodating changes in VET systems and labour markets
Winch, C., Clarke, L. & Westerhuis, A., 14 Dec 2020, In: Journal of Vocational Education and Training. p. 1-21 22 p. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article - peer-review

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CPPR Lunchtime Seminar Series

Our lunchtime seminar series allows our academics and guest speakers to share their work and research.

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Radical Education Group

The Radical Education Group (REG) is for anyone and everyone with an interest in radical education. We meet monthly to discuss issues of radical educational theory and practice, and the challenges involved in bringing about radical educational change. For further information about REG please contact: Freya Aquarone: freya.aquarone@kcl.ac.uk, Nuala Burgess: nualaburgess@gmail.com, or Peter Burgess: peter.burgess@kcl.ac.uk

Theory and Methods Workshops

This group provides an opportunity for CPPR doctoral students and staff to come together in an informal and supportive atmosphere to grapple with methodological and theoretical issues of common interest. Each meeting is usually based on a methodological or theoretical topic or the ideas of one thinker. A relevant text is circulated in advance, with the participants taking turns to choose the reading and introduce the topic or thinker and possible themes for discussion. As far as possible we aim to choose texts and themes that have widespread relevance and significance. For further information, please contact: Alan Cribb: alan.cribb@kcl.ac.uk, or Sharon Gewirtz: sharon.gewirtz@kcl.ac.uk