Do you have a research project that we can help with?
You might be a charity in need of data to underpin one of your campaigns, a local authority or academy trust looking to get a better understanding of your position, or an organisation hoping to evaluate your work in education.
Or you might be planning your own research project and need some support working with government datasets, such as the National Pupil Database.
We can provide anything from short data summaries to publication-ready reports, or we can work with you to provide data processing, analysis and expert advice.
Much of our work uses the National Pupil Database, and we are also expert users of other large-scale education datasets, including post-16 Individualised Learner Records, the School Workforce Census, Higher Education Statistics Agency datasets and linked datasets such as Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) and Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (ECHILD).
Examples of commissioned projects we have completed are:
- work for the Bank of England on trends in the study of economics
- a report for Action for Children summarising the educational outcomes of children referred to social services
- an evaluation of the impact of The Access Project tuition
- a report exploring a psychometrically principled approach to producing KS2 maths sub-domain scores
- data processing and analysis for a study examining the raising of the participation age in England
