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

L. Philip Barnes

Emeritus Reader in Religious and Theological Education

Nuala Burgess

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Bob Burstow

Visiting Research Fellow

Alan Cribb

Professor of Bioethics and Education

Tania de St Croix

Lecturer in the Sociology of Youth and Childhood

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

Sharon Gewirtz

Professor of Education

Eleanor Gurney

Lecturer in International Education

Aisha Hutchinson

Lecturer in the Social Sciences

Chae-Young Kim

Visiting Research Fellow

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

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

Professor of Language Education & Head of School

Anwar Tlili

Senior Lecturer

Emma Towers

Teaching Fellow in Education Policy

Thornchanok Uerpairojkit

PhD student

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' is a research project funded by a Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award in Humanities and Social Science.The project is running for five years, from 2018–2023.

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Rethinking youth work impact

A three year ESRC-funded research project led by Dr Tania de st Croix. The project investigates how impact tools and processes are experienced and enacted by young people and practitioners in youth work settings.

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Opportunity, equality and agency in England's new VET landscape

This five-year ESRC-funded study is investigating how England’s vocational education and training (VET) system can better support the school-to-work transitions of the 50 per cent of young people who don’t go to university.

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The History of Educational Planning in Developing Countries Through the Lens of the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP)

This study traces the history of educational planning in developing countries through the lens of the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP).

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Affordability and Non-Perfectionism in Moral Action 14 September 2019

Professional identity and epistemic stress: complementary medicine in the academy 06 September 2019

What does 'quality' add?: Towards an ethics of healthcare improvement. 16 September 2019

Managing ethical uncertainty:: implicit normativity and the sociology of ethics 30 August 2019

Defining what is good: Pluralism and healthcare quality 06 September 2019

Child Protection With Muslim Communities: Considerations For Non-Muslim-Based Orthodoxies/Paradigms in Child Welfare and Social Work: Child Protection with Muslim Communities 20 July 2019

The Rights of Children in the Child Protection System: a case study in ambivalence? 01 October 2018

Perspectives on safeguarding and child protection in English schools: the new educational landscape explored 01 January 2019

Children's rights and the protective care continuum 01 July 2019

Introduction: Becoming a religious education teacher 01 January 2005

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CPPR Lunchtime Seminar Series

A new set of lunchtime seminars is coming up for the academic year 2019/20.

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Higher education: driver of the Sustainable Development Goals?

17 June 2019/This presentation, with speaker Tristan McCowan, analyses various models of the university, and assesses current threats from marketisation, status competition and unbundling. This event has now passed.

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'Juniority' and the Chinese Communist Youth League’s Abortive Adaptation

12 March 2019/Addressing Communist Youth League (CYL) cadres in 2003, Chinese President Hu Jintao called them to “work hard to keep the party assured and the youth satisfied”. In addition to indoctrinating, mobilizing, preparing young people for party membership and offering a career avenue for aspiring cadres, the former Chinese leader instructed the League to engage and respond to the needs and demands of its youth constituency as a means of cultivating support for the communist regime. Speaker: Dr. Konstantinos Tsimonis/(Lau China Institute, King's College London). This event has now passed.

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Radical Education Group: Aziz Choudry

11 March 2019 /The Radical Education Group is a group of postgraduate and post-doctoral students and academics at King’s College London/ This seminar was led by Aziz Choudry, author of Learning Activism (University of Toronto Press, 2015).